Events
CRSC organizes events several times a year. Check here for all of our current and past events.
Previous CRSC Events
Paradoxes of Recognition: Eritrean Migrations in an Anti-Refugee World
January 24, 2024
Date: Wed, Jan 24
Time: 12 pm -1:50 pm
Location: University of California Irvine, SBSG 1321
Dr. Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. She studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage with colonial, post colonial, and neo-colonial policies and embedded histories in Italy within efforts to redress multi-modal violence.
CRSC Scholars are Keynote Speakers at UC Santa Barbara
May 20, 2023
UC Santa Barbara
CRS scholars Yến Lê Espiritu, Lan Duong, and Ma Vang will be keynote speakers at UC Santa Barbara, an event sponsored by the UCSB Graduate Student Symposium. We will speak about our work, Departures, and look forward to being in communitity with folks at UCSB!
Date: May 20th
Place: UCSB
A CRSC Collaboration with UCHRI: Refuge in Words
February 1–2, 2023
On Zoom
Please join the critical refugee studies for a UC Book Talk on Feb. 1. This is part of UCHRI’s 2022-23 initiative, Refuge and Its Refusals, which considers refuge and its discontents in the self-understanding of the humanities alongside the contributions of refugee scholars and refugee scholarship to the history and futures of the humanities.
Learn more about our book Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386389/departures
Please note: Zoom Webinar Registration is required.
Register here: https://uchri-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E7FdAE8gRxSfWtdrsiTHrg
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT OF DEPARTURES: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL REFUGEE STUDIES
October 28, 2022
Vroman’s Bookstore
CRSC is a Proud Co-Sponsor of UCLA’s Book Talk with Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
April 26, 2022
Fowler Terrace, UCLA
Join us for a Book Talk and Celebration of Prof Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's new book Archipelago of Resettlement (UC Press, 2022) at UCLA!
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
400-600PM
Fowler Museum Terrace, UCLA
RSVP here: https://ucla.in/3u9kR82
Featuring
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
Author & Assistant Professor, Departmentof Asian American Studies
with discussants: Keith Camacho, Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, & Loubna Qutami
Professors, Dept of Asian American Studies, UCLA
A Celebration of Amerasia Journal’s Special Issue on Critical Refugee Studies
April 8, 2022
on Zoom
Join us for an online celebration of Amerasia Journal's special issue on Critical Refugee Studies edited by Yến L Espiritu and Lila Sharif
Jennifer Mogannam, Ma Vang, Kit Myers, Yazan Zahzah, Son Ca Lam, Tamara Ho, Cecilia M. Tsu, Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Thúy Võ Đặng, Tú -Uyên Nguyễn, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, Dena Al-Adeeb, Amira Noeuv, and Mary Hazboun (cover artist)