Cornell Community Conversation on Race and Labor in America- Discussion of "13th", the documentary | Cornell University Diversity and Inclusion

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 1:00pm

The Cornell University Community (Faculty, Staff, and Students) and Cornell Alumni are invited to a discussion of Director Ava DuVernay's award-winning documentary, 13th. All community members are invited to watch the film (available for free streaming on Netflix and Youtube ) prior to the discussion. Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa of Cornell University’s ILR School/Law School and Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin of the University of California, Irvine School of Law will lead the discussion.

Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa is a 2020 recipient of the Faculty Champion Award from Cornell University, a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools, Dr. Ajunwa is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Law, Labor Relations, and History Department of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School (ILR), and an Associated Faculty Member at Cornell Law School. She is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. Dr. Ajunwa’s research interests are at the intersection of law and technology with a particular focus on the ethical governance of workplace technologies. Her research focus is also on diversity and inclusion in the labor market and the workplace. Dr. Ajunwa’s forthcoming book, “The Quantified Worker,” which examines the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment and anti-discrimination laws will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is also faculty in the Stem Cell Research Center; Gender and Sexuality Studies Department; Program in Public Health; and the Department of Criminology, Law, & Society. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center. She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies. Professor Goodwin has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and University of Virginia law schools.

The conversation will discuss the film along with the following articles:

Michele Goodwin: The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration

Ifeoma Ajunwa and Angela Onwuachi-Willig: Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated on the Labor Market