Spring 2009 speaker list

A great list of visiting scholars and brown bag presentations compiled by Pilar. The fun starts tomorrow when Bill Fletcher presents at the Havens Center....

• Feb 25, Wednesday – 4pm
  Bill Fletcher, American Federation of Gov’t Employees “Strangers in a Strange Land: African American-Immigrant Tensions and the Potential for Utility in the 21st Century
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building


• Feb 27, Friday – 12:15pm
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporic Return Migration in Contemporary Vietnam”
  Sociology of Economic Change and Development – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• March 10, Tuesday – 4pm
  Ethel Brooks, Department of Sociology Rutgers University “Production, Reproduction and Citizenship in Transnational Perspective”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 5243 Humanities


• March 24, Tuesday – 4pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University “Latino Political Incorporation and an Emerging Democratic Majority? Latinos in the 2008 Presidential Election”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham Hall


• March 25, Wednesday – 4pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University “Immigration and Its Discontents: Evaluating the Cultural, Political and Economic Arguments about Latin American Immigration on Their (De)Merits”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• March 25, Thursday – 12:30pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 7, Tuesday – 4pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico, “The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Changing Settlement Patterns and Cultural Identities”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 8, Wednesday – 4pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico, “The Dominican Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 9, Thursday – 12:30pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Social Science


• April 13, Monday – Noon
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporas and Economic Transformation: Ethnic Returenees in Vietnam 1988 to 2008”
  Race and Ethnicity Training Seminar – 3470 Social Science


• April 14, Tuesday – 4pm
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame, “The Tejano Diaspora in Action: Texas, Wisconsin, and the Civil and Labor Rights Movement of the 1960s”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 15, Wednesday – 11am
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 5243 Humanities


• April 15, Wednesday – 4pm
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame, “The Jury Right in Comparative Context: Reconsidering Hernandez v. Texas”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 7200 Law School


• April 28, Tuesday – 4pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University, “Coming Home to Roost: Rethinking Diaspora and Cultural Remittances”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 29, Wednesday – 4pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University, “Caribeño Counterstream: Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban Diasporas on the Move”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 30, Thursday – 12:20pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• May 1, Friday –
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporic Return Migration in Contemporary Vietnam”
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies Forum –


• May 4, Monday – Noon
  Robert Courtney Smith, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY, “Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn…But Check His Papers”
  Race and Ethnicity Training Seminar – 3470 Social Science