Workshop with A. Naomi Paik (Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago)

Thursday, March 5, 2026, 12-1:30pm

Maryland Hall 114

This workshop will offer an informal space of discussion and collective thinking on the concept and practice of abolitionist sanctuary, which combines sanctuary's radical hospitality and community defense that is needed right now with abolition's organizing to dismantle life-annihilating systems and build life-affirming worlds in their place. We will have the opportunity to think through the histories and theories undergirding abolitionist sanctuary, as well as its practices in organizing and movement spaces. 

A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (UC Press, 2020) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017).  

Co-sponsored by the Chloe Center and CRAAV, as part of the Spring 2026 series Critical Carceral Studies: Toward Abolition and Liberation.