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 […]