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Spring 2015 News

This spring, the seeds of our Undergraduate ResearchApprenticeship Program blossom with Working forDignity, we honor the memory of Lionel Cantú, wewelcome Lázaro Lima and his new biography of SoniaSotomayor, y más...

Working for DignityPhoto Exhibit, Website Launch, &

Community Dialogue on Low-wageWork in Santa Cruz County

The CLRC, Center for Labor Studies, and California RuralLegal Assistance, Inc. are proud to unveil the findings ofour two-year-long research and multimedia project on

The Feminist Architecture ofGloria E. Anzaldúa:

New Translations, Crossings,and Pedagogies in

Anzaldúan ThoughtApril 10-11, 2015

Humanities 1, Room 210, &Humanities Lecture Hall

The culmination of a year-longcelebration of the life andwork of Gloria E. Anzaldúa,this free, public conferencebrings together scholars whoare engaging Anzaldúa'stheories of subjectivity andagency. View the conferenceschedule.

"My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro, Noël

Sullivan, and the Negotiationof a Catholic/Mexican/Queer

IdentityTuesday, April 21, 2:00pmHumanities 1, Room 520

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low-wage work in our community. This free, publicevent takes place Thursday, May 7, 2015,7:00-9:00pm, at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art andHistory (705 Front Street) and will featurepresentations by students and local workers.

LALS Spring 2015 DistinguishedSpeaker: Lázaro Lima

The CLRC and Latin American and Latino StudiesDepartment welcome Lázaro Lima, E. Claiborne RobinsDistinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the Universityof Richmond, as our third and final DistinguishedSpeaker of 2014-15. Professor Lima discusses his newbook, Losing Sonia Sotomayor: An American Life afterMulticulturalism (Arte Público Press, 2015), onWednesday, May 13, 2015, at 5:00pm in the Charles E.Merrill Lounge.

Lionel Cantú Memorial Award

In this free, public lecture,Ernesto Chávez, AssociateProfessor of History at theUniversity of Texas, El Paso,and Visiting Researcher at theUCLA Chicano StudiesResearch Center, readsexpressions of devoutCatholicism and queer codesin the early- andmid-twentieth-century lettersof Mexican-born, silent screenactor, Ramón Novarro, andBay Area arts philanthropist,Noël Sullivan.

Queer Hemisphere:A Workshop/Taller

May 13-15, 2015UC Santa Cruz

Queer Hemisphere, a projectto reorient queer studies andqueer theory in the Américasalong a hemispheric axis,aims to create a conversationamong advanced graduatestudents, faculty, andindependent scholars/culturalworkers about queerness and


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In honor of Lionel Cantú (1965-2002), former AssistantProfessor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, the CLRC andSociology and Latin American and Latino StudiesDepartments welcome applications from UCSC graduatestudents working in Latino sociology, migration studies,transnational/cross-border studies, and/or gender andsexuality studies, particularly with a focus on gay menand masculinity. Applications are due [email protected] by 5:00pm on Wednesday, May 6,2015.

Announcements

Call for Abstracts: "The Postcolonial Government ofCitizenship and Migration," a workshop exploring howcitizenship is inherently bound to the production ofbelonging and the formation of inside/outsider status,to be held at the University of Sheffield (UK) on June 15,2015. Direct inquiries and abstracts to Joe Turner nolater than April 15, 2015.

Call for Papers: "Complicating the Politics ofDeservingness: A Critical Look at Latina/oUndocumented Migrant Youth," a special issue ofAssociation of Mexican American Educators Journal. Direct questions, manuscripts of no more than 7000words, and 100-word cover letters to Dr. GenevieveNegrón-Gonzales by April 15, 2015.

Call for Abstracts: "Honoring Our Intersectionality, OurMigration Roots/Routes," Mujeres Activas en Letras yCambio Social 2015 Summer Institute, to be held July29-August 1, 2015, at the University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, USA. In honor of the intersectionality of

other forms of sexual alterityand diversidad sexual. Formore information about thefirst taller, [email protected].

Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront

the US-Mexico BorderWednesday, May 20,

12:00-1:30pmCharles E. Merrill Lounge

Ana Elizabeth Rosas, AssociateProfessor of Chicano/LatinoStudies and History at UCIrvine, discusses her new bookon the gendered decisions andrelationships driving theexperience of mid-twentieth-century Bracero families.

Chicano LatinoResearch Center

Cross-border PerspectivesLinking the Americas


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our lives and our whole selves, the 2015 MALCS SummerInstitute invites proposals that showcase the work we asactivists, artists, community members and scholarscreate. 250-word abstracts should be emailed here byApril 19, 2015.

Call for Articles: "Undocumented Immigration: Effectsof Policy on the Experience of Illegality," a special issueof the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the SocialSciences, edited by Roberto G. Gonzales (HarvardUniversity) and Steven Raphael (University of California,Berkeley). Prospective contributors should submit a CVand abstract of no more than 2 pages, along with up to2 pages of supporting materials (e.g., tables, figures,pictures), here no later than 5:00pm EST on May 15,2015.

Call for Papers: Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, ananthology edited by Catherine Ceniza Choy (Universityof California, Berkeley) and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu(University of California, Irvine). Building upon "AtlanticWorld" scholarship, the editors call for a "Pacific World"framework to understand the gendered connectionsbetween the lands, people, cultures, and environmentsin and bordering the Pacific Ocean. Cover page,500-word abstract, and essay (10,000 words maximum)are due to Drs. Choy and Wu by July 15, 2015.

If you would like the CLRC to help publicize an event,call for papers or applications, or a research oremployment opportunity for scholars in Chicano, Latino,Latin American, or migration studies, please email us.

Banner photo, "Poppies, Coyote Ridge, San Jose,California," by Catherine S. Ramírez. To see more

photos by CLRC affiliates and friends, please visit ourphoto gallery.

Catherine S. Ramírez, DirectorAlina Ivette Fernandez, GSR

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