2009-2010 Perspectives on Immigration

All talks will start at 12:30 PM, 135 East 22nd Street, room 308

Talks will be approximately 45 minutes, to be followed by questions and discussion.
Open to the entire Baruch College community.


November 23
ROB SMITH
School of Public Affairs
Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn... But Check His Papers

December 1
GERTRUD HÜWELMEIER
Philipps-Universität Marburg
The globalization of religion:
Mobile people and traveling spirits?
(Please note: This talk will be at 4:00,
in the Vertical Campus, room 8-210)

December 14
JEAN MICHEL LAFLEUR
Visiting Scholar, School of Public Affairs
Should emigrants vote in their home country?
Insights from the Mexican and Italian Cases

February 8
JOHN CASEY
School of Public Affairs
Open Borders:
Absurd Chimera or Inevitable Future Policy?

February 22
KEN GUEST
Sociology and Anthropology, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Chinatown Buses, All-You-Can-Eat Buffets and an
Expanding Transnational Labor Migration Circuit

March 1
VILNA TREITLER
Black & Hispanic Studies, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Work from “The Ethnic Project”

March 16
ELS DE GRAAUW
Political Science, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Voices from the Margins: Nonprofits and the Politics of
Immigrant Incorporation in San Francisco
(Please note: This session meets on Tuesday)

April 12
ISOLINA BALLESTEROS
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Conceptualizing “Immigration Cinema”

April 19
SHOBA NAIR
Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Affairs
TBA

Perspectives on Immigration is sponsored jointly by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Affairs. Please contact Jonathan Engel at the School of Public Affairs with any questions, (jonathan.engel@baruch.cuny.edu)