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)
Networked Refugees: A Book Celebration
February 9, 2022
on Zoom
Please join us for a moving celebration of Nadya Hajj's new book Networked Refugees (UC Press). This event will include Profs Yen Le Espiritu, Nadya Hajj, Isis Nusair, and Lila Sharif.
Wednesday Feb 9 at 2p CST / 12p PST / 3p EST
Via Zoom.
To register and obtain the zoom link, please visit
https://go.illinois.edu/NetworkedRefugees
The book is available open access via UC Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/.../9780520383241/networked-refugees
Sumud & Sanuk: A Critical Refugee Studies Virtual Conference
November 19–20, 2021
A Book Celebration for Professor Ma Vang!
October 21, 2021
Virtual Zoom Event
Join the Critical Refugee Studies Collective on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 4 PM PST to celebrate the publication of Dr. Ma Vang's book titled “History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies.” The event will feature a reading from the author and the following discussants: Professor Anita Casavantes Bradford, Professor Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and Professor Aline Lo.
CRSC Summer Graduate Student Writing Retreat
July 14–16, 2021
Virtual
A Literary Event with Author Jessica Goudeau
May 13, 2021
Save the Date! We are hosting a virtual literary event facilitated by Professor Nigel Hatton and featuring Jessica Goudeau, author of “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America.”
UC Merced Conference on Secrets and Stories
November 15–16, 2019
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