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 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 […]

  "From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered. In an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve their lives, and they’re often […]

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In Conversation with Aarti Namdev Shahani about their new book, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares. The American political discourse is constantly calibrating its interpretation of what it means to be American. Coming from an undocumented family herself, writer Aarti Shahani has spent her life navigating the shifting tides of […]