Events
Sawyer Seminar
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 […]
Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel
Charles E. Merrill LoungeIn this seminar, Urayoán Noel will discuss his critical work on the nexus of creative expression and political activism, from the 1960s to the present. He is interested in the subversive power of media, performance, and especially of English-Spanish-Spanglish language play, which cuts across different Latina/o/x constituencies. One dimension of his research involves the use […]
Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang (Non-citizenship Series)
Stevenson Event CenterEvent Videos: Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Guy Standing from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Alejandro Grimson 2.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: Biao Xiang from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: This symposium explores how global labor mobility […]
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 […]
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 […]
New and Emerging Terms in Migration Studies: A Seminar with Nicholas De Genova
Charles E. Merrill LoungeInspired by Nicholas De Genova, et. al's “New Keywords: Migration and Borders”, the International Organization for Migration's Key Migration Terms, and recent debates regarding the distinction between "refugee" and "migrant," this one-day seminar explores key and emerging terms in migration studies and the growing gap between vocabulary and lived reality. It kicks off Borders and Belonging, a series of events […]