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SUMMARY:Working for Dignity: A Community Discussion on Raising the Minimum Wage
DESCRIPTION:This event launches the final report from the Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County\, produced by UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, and a community conversation on economic justice. The event will include a panel discussion on the state-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour\, featuring local workers and small business owners\, community organizations\, and experts on the minimum wage. A wide range of community groups working on issues such as affordable housing\, wage theft & legal services\, paid family and sick leave\, voter registration\, and immigration reform will be on hand with information about services – and how you can get involved in the fight for economic justice. Refreshments provided and translation available. \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, the Economic Justice Alliance\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, SC Day Worker Center\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nQuestions? Email smckay@ucsc.edu\n  \n\nTrabajando por la Dignidad: Una conversación comunitaria sobre el aumento del salario mínimo\n7:00-9:00 PM | Noviembre 19\, 2015\nMuseo de Arte y Historia\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA \nGratis y abierto al público \nEste evento iniciará una conversación con la comunidad sobre la justicia económica y lanzará el informe final del Trabajo por la Dignidad: Estudio de Trabajadores con Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz\, producido por el Centro de Estudios Laborales UCSC. El evento incluirá un panel de discusión con los trabajadores locales y los propietarios de pequeñas empresas\, organizaciones comunitarias\, y expertos en el salario mínimo sobre la campaña a nivel estatal para aumentar el salario mínimo a $15 la hora. Un amplio gama de grupos comunitarios trabajando en varios temas como la vivienda asequible\, el robo de salarios y servicios legales\, el registro de votantes\, y la reforma migratoria estarán a su disposición con la información sobre servicios– y cómo usted puede participar en la lucha por la justicia económica. Refrescos y traducción disponible. \n¿Preguntas? Ponganse en contacto con Steve smckay@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-for-dignity-a-community-discussion-on-raising-the-minimum-wage-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
DESCRIPTION:This community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project – Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project’s website and feature workers\, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage theft. Community organizations will also be on hand to discuss new\, monthly wage and hour clinics that can help those who have experienced wage theft to act. The event will conclude with a community dialog about workplace conditions and violations and what you can do.\n  \nCo-sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, and the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County. \nFor more information\, contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu or the California Rural Legal Assistance: (831) 724-2253. \nFree and Open to the Public\nTranslation available\nRefreshments provided
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wage-justice-fighting-wage-theft-in-our-community-3/
LOCATION:Civic Plaza Community Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T210000
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SUMMARY:Working for Dignity: The Santa Cruz County Low-Wage Worker Study\, Photo Exhibit\, and Community Dialog
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 7\, 2015 • 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.\nMuseum of Art and History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\nFree Public Event\n \nThis campus-community event will showcase the findings of a year-long research and multi-media project on workers and working conditions in low-wage jobs in Santa Cruz County. We will unveil a new public digital exhibit and website featuring stories told by local workers\, as well as the results of the large-scale survey and interview project carried out by UC Santa Cruz students. Workers and students will also share their stories and art work. The event will conclude with an open community dialog on issues facing low-wage workers in our County and possible steps forward. \nSponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Everett Program\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Division of Social Sciences\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, and the Museum of Art and History. \nRefreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. \nFor more information click here or contact Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) and Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu)\n  \n\n  \nTrabajando para la Dignidad\nUn Estudio de Trabajadores de Bajos Ingresos del Condado de Santa Cruz\nLanzamiento de una página de internet\, exhibición de fotografía\, y una discusión entre la comunidád\n  \nJueves\, 7 de Mayo 2015\nGRATIS\nabierto al publico\n  \nEste evento de la escuela y la comunidád va exhibir resultados y multimedia de un estudio de un año. El estudio demuestra los resultados de una investigación estudiando los trabajadores de bajos ingresos y sus condiciones de trabajo en el condado de Santa Cruz.  Vamos a mostrar una nueva exhibición pública y una página de internet con la presentación incluyendo cuentos digitales contado por los trabajadores locales. También vamos a revelar los resultados de la encuesta y las entrevistas elaboradas por estudiantes de UCSC y California Rural Legal Assistance\, Inc.  Trabajadores e estudiantes también van a compartir sus cuentos\, testimonios\, y su arte.  El evento va a concluir con una discusión comunitaria sobre los problemas que los trabajadores de bajos ingresos enfrentan en nuestro condado. Finalmente el evento va a concluir con una discusión sobre estos desafíos y algunas recomendaciones para el futuro. \nApoyado por el UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Everett Program\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Division of Social Sciences\, UC Humanities Research Institute\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, Santa Cruz Day Worker Center\, Museum of Art and History. \nPara mas información\, por favor contacten a Alina Fernandez (aifernan@ucsc.edu) o Steve McKay (smckay@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/working-for-dignity-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
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SUMMARY:Sanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh\, Cambodia\, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
DESCRIPTION:Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book\, Made in Bangladesh\, Cambodia\, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries\, which earned rave reviews from leading experts. It is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies\, labor studies\, South and Southeast Asian studies\, international trade\, and political science\, as well as those engaged in program design and evaluation of projects focused on labor rights. This study is critical for non-governmental organizations with a thematic focus on the garments and textiles industry\, labor rights\, human rights\, and international trade policy\, as well as for private sector organizations focused on improving labor conditions around the world. \nPrior to joining the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley\, Sanchita Banerjee Saxena was the assistant director of Economic Programs at the Asia Foundation\, where she coauthored The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Policy Options and Opportunities for Asia\, served as a consultant to the Asia Foundation on various economic projects\, and was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Saxena holds a PhD in political science from UCLA. \nCo-Sponsored by the Anthropology and Economics Departments along with the Center for Labor Studies and the Interdisciplinary Development Working Group
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanchita-saxena-made-in-bangladesh-cambodia-and-sri-lanka-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 201
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SUMMARY:Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
DESCRIPTION:Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers\, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad\, Lora Bartlett argues\, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. \nHighly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to retain educators\, approximately 90\,000 teachers from the Philippines\, India and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators’ perspective\, these instructors are excellent employees—well educated and able to teach shortage subjects like math\, science and special education. Because they depend on the school system for their visas\, they are cooperative with authority. But all of this comes at a price. As Bartlett shows\, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Framing teachers as stopgap\, low status workers\, schools may cultivate a high turnover\, low investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts. \nLora Bartlett is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz and author of Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor (Harvard Press). An interview with Lora appeared in Education Week last month.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lora-bartlett-migrant-teachers-how-american-schools-import-labor-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T123000
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SUMMARY:Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race\, Immigration\, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century\, focusing on the interplay of colonialism\, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial checkpoints in American society. This talk will illustrate how the geo-political imperatives of U.S. imperial expansion repeatedly collided with domestic practices of racial exclusion forcing American policymakers to recalibrate the administrative boundaries of the national polity to address the status of colonial migrants. Contestation over the socio-legal status of Filipinos in the United States offers important insights into the contingent and contested nature of America’s ascriptive hierarchies and the interlocking politics of immigration\, race and U.S. statecraft. \nRick Baldoz is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Oberlin College. He is the author of the award winning book\, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America\, 1898-1946 (NYU Press). He is currently working on a book project about the 1965 Hart Celler Immigration Act\, examining this historical legislation against the backdrop of Cold War politics\, anti-colonial upheaval\, and domestic civil rights mobilization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-baldoz-the-strange-career-of-the-filipino-national-race-immigration-and-the-bordering-of-u-s-empire-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
DESCRIPTION:Jane McAlevey’s first book\, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)\, published by Verso Press\, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada\, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU\, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of the only successful multi-union\, multi-year\, geographic organizing campaigns for the national AFL-CIO (in Stamford\, Connecticut). She has led power structure analyses and strategic planning trainings for a wide range of union and community organizations and has had extensive involvement in globalization and global environmental issues. She worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center as an educator (and as Deputy Director) in her early 20’s. McAlevey is a contributing writer at The Nation Magazine. \nJane will discuss the lessons learned from ten years of building strong local unions that win collective bargaining and political gains based on deep and extensive membership involvement\, particularly in the context of the right-to-work state of Nevada and in the face of intensive union-busting efforts of for-profit hospital employers. She will shed light on the ongoing debates over how to rebuild union power in the face of austerity\, growing inequality\, and Conservative parties’ attacks on the basis of union organizational security. \nFor a sense of Jane’s take on these matters\, see her interview with Laura Flanders or visit janemcalevey.com. Copies of Jane’s book will be available at the talk for $20. \nBook talk co-sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies. \nFor Information about access\, please contact Steve McKay at smckay@ucsc.edu. For information about the Sociology Colloquium Series: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jane-mcalevey-beating-attack-on-workers-by-building-high-participation-unions-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131028T180000
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SUMMARY:Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
DESCRIPTION:More Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices\, exploitation\, and unsanitary kitchens—affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? In her book\, Behind the Kitchen Door\, Saru Jayaraman tries to answer these questions by following a group of restaurant workers\, among the 10 million – many of whom are immigrants and people of color – who make up the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce. Whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food\, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern\, affecting our health and safety\, as well as our local economies. \nMs. Jayaraman’s talk will be followed with a Q&A session with the author along with Gretchen Regenhardt\, attorney and representative of the Watsonville-based group\, California Rural Legal Assistance\, which is launching a survey and research project on low-wage restaurant workers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. \nSaru Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley.  She is also co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United)\, a national organization with 10\,000 members across 26 cities\, which organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice\, conducts research\, partners with responsible employers\, and launched cooperatively-owned restaurants. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher\, MSNBC\, NBC Nightly News\, and PBS\, among others. \nCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance\, founded in 1966 as a nonprofit legal services program\, now has 21 offices\, providing more than 40\,000 low-income rural Californians with free legal assistance and a variety of community education and outreach programs. \nCo-Sponsored by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems\, the Sociology Department\, the Chicano Latino Resource Center\,  Oakes College\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. \nFor more information\, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/behind-the-kitchen-door-2/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\, UCSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131021T123000
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SUMMARY:Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
DESCRIPTION:Based on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico\, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns\, ease entry into the fruit vending business but also facilitate exploitation. Furthermore\, these social networks do not always function as effective conduits of information because its members\, due to feelings of shame or embarrassment\, often fail to add to the existing body of knowledge. As a result\, international migration patterns\, job placement\, and exploitative practices do not change or improve for subsequent migrants. This creates a cycle in which social networks become stagnant and successively fail to function as effective conduits of information and resources in ways that might help network members equally and in the aggregate. \nRocio Rosales is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA in 2012 and received her A.B. in Sociology (cum laude) with a certificate in Latin American Studies from Princeton University. Her dissertation\, “Hidden Economies in Public Spaces: The Fruit Vendors of Los Angeles\,” examines the social and economic lives of a group of undocumented Latino street vendors. Her research interests include international migration\, informal work\, immigrant and ethnic economies\, Latinos/as in the US\, qualitative methods and urban ethnography. Her work has been funded by the American Philosophical Society (2011)\, John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation (2010)\, Ford Foundation (2005-2008)\, and the SSRC Mellon Mays Foundation (2003-2012). Her research appears in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and in Ethnic and Racial Studies (forthcoming). \nLecture presented by the UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series and the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. \nFor more info\, go to: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com/.\nFor info about access to College 8\, contact: Barbara Laurence\, balauren@ucsc.edu.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rocio-rosales-2/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130321T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Reading and Conversation with Saru Jayaraman: Behind the Kitchen Door
DESCRIPTION:Behind the Kitchen DoorHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions—discriminatory labor practices\, exploitation\, and unsanitary kitchens— affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman\, who launched the national restaurant workers’ organization\, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City\, Washington\, D.C.\, Philadelphia\, Chicago\, Los Angeles\, Houston\, Miami\, Detroit\, and New Orleans. \nBlending personal narrative and investigative journalism\, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop\, grill\, sauté\, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political\, economic\, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals\, like Daniel\, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house. \nIncreasingly\, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic\, fair-trade\, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food\, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern\, affecting our health and safety\, local economies\, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people\, many immigrants\, many people of color\, who bring their passion\, tenacity\, and vision to the American dining experience\, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation’s second-largest private sector workforce—and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door. \nSaru JayaramanSaru Jayaraman is cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California\, Berkeley. \nFor more information\, please contact smckay@ucsc.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by CASFS (Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems)\, UCSC Center for Labor Studies\, Slow Food\, and ROC (Restaurants Opportunities Centers).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-reading-and-conversation-with-saru-jayaraman-behind-the-kitchen-door-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T190000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Laborers in the Bracero Program\nThe UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez\, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine\, will return to UC Santa Cruz on January 23\, 2013\, to present his award-winning documentary Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program. Dr. Gonzalez was a participant in the Working Group’s workshop in October 2012. Harvest of Loneliness explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942-1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program (click here to read a short interview with Dr. Gonzalez and documentary filmmaker Vivian Price. You can also explore the film’s website). This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and El Centro: Chicana/o-Latina/o Resource Center. \nThe film screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Dr. Gonzales.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentary-film-screening-and-discussion-with-professor-gilbert-gonzalez-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091007T190000
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SUMMARY:A Reading by Monique Truong
DESCRIPTION:The University of California\, Santa Cruz Center for Labor Studies Presents\nIn Collaboration with UCSC’s Living Writers Reading Series:\nA Reading by Internationally Acclaimed Novelist Monique Truong\n  \nMonique Truong is the author of the “poetically rendered and literally savory” 2003 novel\, The Book of Salt\, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who worked for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris during the 1920s and 30s\, and his previous life in Vietnam. Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the U.S. at the age of six. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. The Book of Salt among other honors received the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize\, the Stonewall Book Award-Gittings Literature Award\, and the Young Lions Fiction Award\, and was given an Award of Excellence from the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University. Truong is also the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose\, with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi\, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Truong’s new book\, Bitter in the Mouth\, will be published by Random House in 2010. \nThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President\, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities. \nThe UCSC Living Writers Reading Series is hosted by the Creative Writing Program of the Literature Department. In addition to the Miguel Contreras Fund\, this event was generously supported by a Diversity Fund Grant from the UCSC Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor\, and by Poets & Writers\, through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, and co-sponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the East Asian Studies Studies Program\, the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund. \nFor more information or accommodations\, contact the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, ihr@ucsc.edu\, (831) 459-5655. For maps\, maps.ucsc.edu. \nClick here to view the event poster as a PDF.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-by-monique-truong-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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