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Contact: Niall O’Murchu, WWU associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, (360) 650-2144. 

BELLINGHAM – The Center for Law, Diversity & Justice at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies will host its Hate and Bias Crime Lecture Series this winter starting Jan. 26; all presentations are free and open to the public.

The winter schedule for the lecture series is as follows:

Tuesday, Jan. 26: “The New Hate Crimes Law,” Fairhaven College room 101f, Noon-12:50 p.m. Speaker: WWU Instructor Bern Haggerty.

Bern Haggerty is a practicing lawyer, having served as a law clerk for the chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court and as senior assistant attorney general in the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office. He currently serves as a staff attorney for the Lummi Victims of Crime Civil Legal Program. He also serves on the Washington State Bar Association’s Character and Fitness Board, which hears disputed applications for admission and reinstatement to the State Bar.

Thursday, Feb. 4: “A Public Sociology of Hate Crime,” Biology Building room 212, 2-3:50 p.m. Speaker: Ryken Grattet, professor of Sociology, University of California at Davis.

Grattet will discuss recent scholarship on hate crime law and describe the ongoing process by which the legal concept of hate crime has expanded, elaborated, and “settled” within social movements, legislatures, courts, and law enforcement agencies.  He will also relate some of the experiences, successes, and impediments he has encountered in trying to contribute sociological scholarship to public and policy discussions about hate crime in California.

Wednesday, Feb. 17: “Challenging Canadian Multiculturalism: The Community Effects of Hate Crime,” Fairhaven College Auditorium, noon-1:20 p.m. Speaker: Barbara Perry, professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Perry has written extensively in the area of hate crime, including two books on the topic: “In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crime;” and “Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader.” She has just completed a book manuscript for University of Arizona Press titled “The Forgotten Victims: Native American Victims of Hate Crime,” based on interviews with Native Americans. She is also completing a British Home Office project on anti-racism programming in England and Wales. She continues to work in the area of hate crime, and has begun to make contributions to the limited scholarship on hate crime in Canada, where is particularly interested in anti-Muslim violence and hate crime against Aboriginal peoples.

For more information on the Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Center for Law, Diversity & Justice’s Hate and Bias Crime Lecture Series, contact Niall O’Murchu, WWU associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, at (360) 650-2144.

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