IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Henry Reichman: Academic Capitalism and the Future of Academic Freedom. In the wake of the 2016 election, challenges to academic freedom have intensified, higher education has become a target of attacks by conservatives, and issues of free speech on campus have grown increasingly controversial. In his recently published […]
The Public Interest Law Program at UCLA School of Law is hosting a virtual event on Professor Victor Narro's new book The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity on Wednesday, April 20 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Book description: Labor and immigrant rights activist Victor Narro believes there is a spiritual core within social justice activism […]
Please join us for a Book Talk with Dr. Cranford, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and author of Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (Cornell University Press, 2020) on April 21nd, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. Home care is a window into the complexity of inequality. Drawing from Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding […]
Tuesday, April 26th 11am PDT On Campus and Virtual Lydeen Library, UCLA Rolfe Hall 4302 This book talk will feature: La Izquierda Mexicana del Siglo XX, a chronology of three books (Book 1, Chronology; Book 2, Social Movements; Book 3, Arts and Humanities), which is an essential mural for acquiring a global vision of the presence […]
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time) 10383 Bunche Hall In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Allan Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts […]
