Join us to celebrate the 60-year legacy of non-violence and activism by Reverend James Lawson Jr. with the conferral of the UCLA Medal by Chancellor Gene Block. Rev. Lawson Jr. is known for his work in the civil rights movement along with his close friend and colleague, Martin Luther King Jr. He helped lead the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike and […]
Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today’s globalizing economy, workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an […]
Since 2014, three institutions of higher learning, one each from the United States (UCLA), South Africa (University of the Free State) and the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit) have convened yearly to exchange, engage and research diversity, inclusivity, equity and other cleavages at the university and its production of an educated body. Our conference and collaboration explores, […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Timothy A. Wise about his new book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food, New Press. Join author, Timothy A. Wise on a worldwide journey to understand the continued prevalence of hunger amid plenty. If the world now has record levels of […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Paul Apostolidis about his new book: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity. As unauthorized migrants, day laborers are subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment when they work and search for jobs. Yet these extremely marginalized migrants also epitomize struggles that apply throughout our […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: Rebecca Galemba and her talk on Un-Just Wages: Wage Theft and Day Labor in Colorado. The DU Just Wages Project, led by Professor Galemba, recently released results from a two year qualitative and quantitative study on wage theft experienced by day laborers in the Denver metro area. From 2015-2017, she led […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: Fernando Tormos-Aponte and his talk on"The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico." On September 20th, 2017, Hurricane María made landfall on Puerto Rico. With sustained winds of 250km per hour, the storm accomplished the unthinkable: making the economic outlook of Puerto Rico for the foreseeable future […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Abigail L. Andrews about her new book: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals […]
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 […]
IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Laura Velasco about her new book: Migración, trabajo y asentamiento en enclaves globales. Indígenas en Baja California Sur Este libro analiza las condiciones de vida de trabajadores inmigrantes en territorios que constituyen enclaves globales, tanto agrícolas como turísticos de élite en el estado mexicano de Baja California. Las […]
