September 2020
Migration Seminar Series – “Crossing U.S. Borders”
Panelists Adam Goodman (Assistant Professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago), "Deportation without Due Process: The American Way" Nicole Ramos (Refugee Program Director, Al Otro Lado) with Moderator Rachel Ida…
Find out more »October 2020
Migration Seminar Series – “Providing Legal Services to Women and Children Seeking Asylum in Detention”
A group of second and third year law students along with the Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School will describe their volunteer work at the South Texas Family…
Find out more »“Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y Megaproyectos en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexico/Indigenous Rights and Megaprojects in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico”
About the speaker: Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez is a Mexican human rights defender and member of the Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory, in the Santa…
Find out more »Migration Seminar Series – “Trends in Immigration Reform”
This panel will bring together scholars and practitioners to engage the issue of contemporary immigration reform. Specific topics include the current state of public opinion on immigration policies, the shifts in practices in immigration court…
Find out more »“Frontiers, Conservation and Armed Conflict in the Colombia Amazon”
Presented by: Professor German Palacio. Professor Palacio is fall 2020 UW Tinker Visiting Professor. Dr. Palacio teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, campus Amazonia (in Leticia). He has a PhD from Florida International University-Miami.…
Find out more »Migration Seminar Series – “Transnational Migrations to the Americas and Venezuela”
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Find out more »“Women’s Voices. New Approaches to Mexico’s Human Rights Crisis”
Presented by: Lucía Melgar (@luciamelp) is a cultural critic and professor of literature and gender studies. After completing her PhD in Chicago and teaching at Princeton University, she returned to Mexico, where she has combined…
Find out more »Migration Seminar Series – “Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Migration”
TBA Panelists Monika Gosin, Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William & Mary Jeffrey Kahn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Davis Ida Marie Savio Vammen, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Danish…
Find out more »November 2020
“Covid in Brazil: political and institutional effects”
Presented by Jean Vilbert: Jean Vilbert holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in Laws (Fundamental Rights). He used to serve as a judge in Brazil, but then he decided that he would seek further education and…
Find out more »Migration Seminar Series – “South-South Migration”
TBA Panelists Megan Sheehan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Saint Benedict, Saint John’s University; “Urban Encounters: Migrant Settlement in Santiago, Chile” Cristián Doña-Reveco, Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Office of Latino/Latin…
Find out more »“SUGAR MACHINE: Medical Technologies and Plantation Legacies in the Caribbean Diabetes Epidemic”
Amy Moran-Thomas Presented by: Amy Moran-Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Professor Moran-Thomas is interested in questions of ecological change and ethnographic approaches to science, technology, and chronic conditions. She received a PhD in…
Find out more »Migration Seminar Series – “Wisconsin/Milwaukee Ties”
TBA Panelists Jesús Salas: Activist, ShopTalk speaker for the Wisconsin Humanities Council's Working Lives Project, former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Moderated by Rachel Bloom-Pojar, CLACS Fellow and Associate Professor…
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