Social Sciences Webinar | Restorative Justice Practices Within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm
5 August 2025
Welcome from the Chair
We are excited to invite you to a webinar led by the University of New Mexico and MDPI's open access journal Social Sciences (ISSN: 2076-0760), which will provide you with guidance on how to submit manuscripts to Social Sciences that promise to have a high impact on the scholarship in your research area.
We will provide this workshop in the context of our call for apers for a special issue at Social Sciences entitled, “Restorative Justice Practices in Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm”. This special issue is informed by restorative justice practices, the scholarship of feminist decoloniality, and the histories of higher education and the arts. We locate discussions of universities confronting their past within social movements for educational equity and the arts, and the agency of creators and learners who demand their rightful place.
Articles in this special issue examine the experiences of groups that have been marginalized in higher education and the arts. Authors argue that complex legacies of harm, such as race, culture, citizenship, state and tribal sovereignty, globalization, and disability, require both personal and institutional reflexivity to unveil multidimensional experiences of perpetrators and survivors. We aim to publish the work of those charting a way forward to move beyond acknowledgment to correcting harm in higher education and the arts. It is our hope that this authors’ webinar will support contributors in this task.
Date: 5 August 2025
Time: 5:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 a.m. MDT
Webinar ID: 891 1354 5300
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chairs
Department of Sociology & Criminology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Dr. Assata Zerai serves as the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion (VPEI) and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico (UNM). At the helm of the Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Zerai’s dynamic experiences and strong record of leading, planning for, resourcing, and documenting the impact of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, have expanded UNM’s diversity programming and strategy diverse.
Keynote Speakers
College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Teresa Y. Neely, MLS, Ph.D., (her, hers, she), is Professor of Librarianship, and assessment librarian in the College of the University Libraries and Learning Sciences (College), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Dr. Neely is responsible for providing leadership and planning for assessment in all aspects of the College. She has worked in academic research libraries for more than 25 years and is the author/co-editor of seven books and conference proceedings, and numerous scholarly and peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, and a white paper. Her most recent publications include In our Own Voices, Redux: The Faces of Librarianship Today (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), co-edited with Jorge R. Lopéz-McKnight; and, “I AM My Hair, and My Hair is Me: #BlackGirlMagicinLIS,” a chapter in Pushing theMargins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS (Library Juice Press, 2018. Edited by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho, this book is also the 2019 winner of the ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement in Women and Gender Studies Librarianship.
Department of Anthropology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Mariann Skahan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. In her dissertation, Language Education and Revival on the Jicarilla Apache Nation, Skahan focuses on the impact of historical and current language and educational policies on heritage language use for the Jicarilla Apache community. The dissertation offers a critical analysis on the impact of Native American educational policies and examines current community-based initiatives to de-colonize past educational trauma. Ms. Skahan brings her prior experience working in higher education where she managed student programs supporting underserved/underrepresented populations and improving the matriculation of women in STEM. Ms. Skahan is passionate about educational access and equity for all constituent.
UNM Political Science, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Professor Kathy Powers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is interested in the nature of institutional authority as well as institutional change and effects. Much of her present research focuses on the design of international institutions and law with respect to human rights, restorative justice, trade, and war. Specifically, she examines the institutional and legal determinants of transitional justice in the form of global reparations efforts following mass human rights violations, the international legal personality of international organizations, and how regional economic institutions that transform into military organizations impact war.
Division of Student Affairs, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Ms. Pamela Agoyo (Cochiti, Ohkay Owingeh, Kewa Pueblos) is the Director of American Indian Student Services and Special Assistant to the President for American Indian Affairs at The University of New Mexico. In a career that has primarily focused on student affairs and student development, Ms. Agoyo has served The University of New Mexico in a number of capacities including: Director of Student Union Recreational Services, Recruitment Specialist for the Office of Admissions & Outreach Services, Director of Minority Recruitment and Retention, Scholarship Outreach Coordinator for the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, and Interim Co-Director of the Office of Advising Strategies. She is also the founding Faculty Advisor for UNM’s Alpha Pi Omega Sorority, Inc and Beta Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, the founding and previous Executive Director of the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education (NINLHE), and a former Special Education Teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Prof. Dr. Daniel McCarthy is currently a Professor in Criminology in the Department of Sociology/Co-Director of the Centre for Criminology. He specializes in research in areas of policing, inter-agency working, and more latterly in the area of prison/family effects and incarceration. Prof. Dr. McCarthy also has interests in cross-national research, including emphasis on public attitudes to policing and punishment.
Registration
This is a FREE webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic or institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
Unable to attend? Feel free to still register; we will inform you when the recording is available.
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST / MDT |
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Prof. Dr. Assata Zerai Chair Introduction |
5:00 - 5:10 pm / 9:00 - 9:10 am |
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Prof. Dr. Teresa Neely, Ms. Mariann Skahan, Prof. Dr. Kathy L. Powers & Ms. Pamela Agoyo Introducing the call– Restorative Justice Practices Within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm |
5:10 - 5:50 pm / 9:10 - 9:50 am |
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Prof. Dr. Daniel McCarthy Peer Review Process & the Rationale for OA |
5:50 - 6:10 pm / 9:50 am - 10:10 am |
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Q&A |
6:10 - 6:25 pm / 10:10 - 10:25 am |
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Prof. Dr. Assata Zerai Closing of Webinar |
6:25 - 6:30 pm / 10:25 - 10:30 am |
Relevant Special Issue
Guest Edited by: Prof. Dr. Assata Zerai, Prof. Dr. Teresa Neely, Dr. Kathy Powers, Ms. Mariann Skahan, & Ms. Pamela Agoyo
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Crime and Justice".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2025
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