Events
Chicano Latino Research Center
Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Humanities 2, Room 259Crossings Film Series Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present "Crossings," a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, "Io sto con la sposa," winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films […]
Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what […]
The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Steve Kurtz Presented by the Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research In two Ted-style talks, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) help close UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship by discussing what they see as some of the […]
The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFocusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as […]
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Humanities 2, Room 259Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
Film Screening: “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels” (Non-citizenship series)
Del Mar TheatreThe Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present an event in the series on Non-citizenship Historians and filmmakers Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University join UC Santa Cruz's David Anthony and Greg O'Malley in a conversation about forced migration at this free, public screening of "Ghosts of Amistad: In […]
Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThe Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture.. Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship […]
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other institutions (for example, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other academic units), and the relationship between research and society. This event is open to UC Santa […]
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between migration studies and refugee studies? When do forced migration and labor migration overlap and when are they different? Who is a "migrant," "refugee," "citizen," and […]