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This event is co-sponsored by Woodsworth College and its Alumni Association:
"Collective Memory and Civic Repair: Stories of Hope for Policing in Four Cities"
This talk explores collective memories, current interactions, and expectations for the future of policing. Drawing on interviews conducted in four North American cities, this talk explores how people experience policing, their hopes for safety and security, and narratives of law and legality. We will gain insights into how policing is suffused with moral grammars, expectations, and everyday sense of justice that people draw on for recognition, reform, and aspirations for civic inclusion and civil repair.
The in-person lecture will be followed by light refreshments.
Ron Levi is Distinguished Professor of Global Justice at the University of Toronto, where he is Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Sociology, with cross-appointments in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts & Science. He is also a Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Ron’s research focuses on competitions, claims, and ideas about justice and legality, particularly during disrupted, unsettled, or violent times. In recent years, Ron has taught courses on events and turbulent times; police violence in global affairs; the sociology of atrocities; law, politics and globalization; justice measurement; and the sociology of law.
Ron recently served as Secretary of the Law and Society Association, and as Chair of the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association. He has received the Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize at the University of Toronto, and was named Chevalier in l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. In 2022, he received the Global Educator Award from the University of Toronto.
