Sawyer Seminar Events
April 22, 2022
Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo, Friday, May 19, 2017, 4:00-5:30pm, Humanities 1, Rm 210
March 17, 2017
In this public forum, the CLRC's Mellon fellows share their work and close our 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship.
The Fluidity of Status: Non-citizenship, Deportation, and Indentured Mobility: A Conversation with Tanya Golash-Boza and Rhacel Parreñas, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 6:30-8:30pm, Museum of Art & History (705 Front Street)
December 22, 2016
In this free, public conversation, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) address some of the most pressing subjects related to migration in our time: deportation and unfree labor. Doors open at 6:30pm and their presentations begin at 7:00pm. A Q&A moderated by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (UC Santa Cruz) follows.
The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 12:00-2:00pm, Humanities 1, Rm 210
December 20, 2016
In this free, public seminar, part of our Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship, Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) and Rhacel Parreñas (University of Southern California) lead a discussion on deportation, incarceration, gender, human trafficking, labor migration, and global apartheid.
Poetics of Non-Citizenship: A Seminar with Urayoán Noel, Friday, March 10, 2017, 10:00am-12:00pm, Charles E. Merrill Lounge, UC Santa Cruz
December 18, 2016
As part of UC Santa Cruz's Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship, self-described “stateless poet” Urayoán Noel discusses the nexus of creative expression and political activism from the 1960s to the present. This seminar is free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance to receive precirculated readings.
Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale: A Symposium with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang, Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 12:00-5:30pm, Stevenson Event Center, UC Santa Cruz
December 13, 2016
In this half-day symposium, part of UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship, Guy Standing (School of Oriental and African Studies), Alejandro Grimson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín), and Biao Xiang (University of Oxford) share their work on labor mobility and precarity in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Rethinking Labor Migration and Precarity: A Seminar with Guy Standing, Alejandro Grimson, and Biao Xiang, Monday, February 6, 2017, 12:00-2:00pm, Humanities 1, Rm. 210, UC Santa Cruz
December 12, 2016
Guy Standing (School of Oriental and African Studies), Alejandro Grimson (Universidad Nacional de San Martín), and Biao Xiang (University of Oxford) lead a seminar on labor migration, globalization, and precarity as part of UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship.
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret, Friday, December 2, 2016, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 2, Rm 259
August 1, 2016
Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat as part of UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship.
Ghosts of Amistad: Screening and Q&A with Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer, Thursday, October 27, 2016, 7:00-8:30pm, Del Mar Theatre (1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz)
July 29, 2016
As part of "Non-citizenship," UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, the CLRC and Institute for Humanities Research present a free, public screening of the award-winning documentary, "Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels" (2014, dir. Tony Buba), and welcome co-producers and historians Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University to Santa Cruz.
Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia, Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00-2:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
July 26, 2016
In this roundtable, Philip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer of St. John's University and Greg O'Malley of UC Santa Cruz discuss how scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences can share our research with people beyond the university.
Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion, Thursday, October 6, 2016, 6:30-8:00pm, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (705 Front Street)
July 24, 2016
Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, opens UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship with a keynote address on citizens, migrants, and the rise of the worker citizen.
Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson, Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 2:00-4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
July 23, 2016
Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, fields questions about institution building and the relationship of the university to other institutions.
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson, Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 11:00am-1:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
July 22, 2016
Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, inaugurates UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship with a seminar on the convergence and divergence of citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies.
