Race & Immigration: Critical Perspectives and Future Directions
Agenda
April 7, 2016 The Commons, Spooner Hall | |||
| 6:30pm | Opening reception | ||
| 7:30pm | Watch Video of Evening Reception and Keynote (1:22:44) Welcome Carl Lejuez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas Introduction Lourdes Gouveia, University of Nebraska Keynote Address
Response David Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas | ||
April 8, 2016 Malott Room - 6th Floor, Kansas Union | |||
Watch Video of Welcome and Opening Remarks (12:44) | |||
| 8:45am | Welcome Steven Maynard-Moody, Professor in School of Public Affairs & Administration and Director, Institute for Policy & Social Research, University of Kansas | ||
| 9:00am |
Opening Remarks Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, University of Kansas | ||
| 9:15am |
Intersections between Race and Immigration I Watch Video (1:08:04) Neoliberal Transitions and the Race-Immigration Nexus Nazli Kibria, Professor, Boston University ‘Race-ing’ Immigration and Citizenship: Life along the Racialized Documentation Status Continuum [contact for presentation] Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor, SUNY Moderator and discussant Ebenezer Obadare, Associate Professor, University of Kansas | ||
| 10:15am | Break | ||
| 10:30am |
Intersections between Race and Immigration II Watch Video (1:07:45) The Whitening of Ethnic Immigrants to the U.S.: 1840-1924 Lynn Davidman, Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas Gendered Color Lines: The Effects of Skin Color on Immigrants’ Employment Andrea Gomez Cervantes, doctoral student, University of Kansas ChangHwan Kim, Associate Professor, University of Kansas Moderator and discussant Kelly H. Chong, Associate Professor, University of Kansas | ||
| 11:45am |
Lunch and Keynote Address Watch Video (1:26:33)
Response Bill G. Staples, Professor of Sociology and Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, University of Kansas | ||
| 1:30pm |
Race and Immigration across Contexts I Watch Video (1:11:17) Immigration Advocacy and Racial Formation in New Destination States Hana Brown, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University Central Americans En Route: Documenting Racialized Rightlessness and (Im)migrant Non-Belonging in Mexico's Border Passage Yajaira Padilla, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas Moderator and discussant Cecilia Menjívar, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Directer, Center for Migration Studies, University of Kansas | ||
| 2:30pm | Break | ||
| 2:45pm |
Race and Immigration across Contexts II Watch Video (1:34:24) Xenophobia and the Makwerekweres: Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Cape Town’s Informal Economy Abel Chikanda, Assistant Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas Sticky Boundaries: Do Immigrants Feel Discriminated Against in Europe due to their Religion or Race? René Flores, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Michigan Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Borders, Conflict and identity/ties Cécile Accilien, Associate Professor and Director, Haitian Studies, University of Kansas Moderator and discussant Victor Agadjanian, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Directer, Center for Migration Studies, University of Kansas | ||
| 4:30pm | Closing Remarks Watch Video (5:46) Sara Thomas Rosen, Interim Provost, University of Kansas | ||
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