Archive: Events
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Keys to Revitalization: Organizing Black Workers and Communities in the South
On April 28-29, 2014, the Kalmanovitz Initiative convened a gathering of labor, civil rights, and community leaders to discuss and plan a new way forward in organizing Black workers and communities in the South.
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Fighting Trafficking through Rights Work: A Roundtable Discussion of Denise Brennan's Life Interrupted
Please join us on Friday, April 25 for a panel discussion featuring Professor Denise Brennan, our Kalmanovitz Initiative faculty fellow and professor of anthropology at Georgetown University, on how immigration reform and basic rights work across labor sectors will help prevent trafficking into forced labor.
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Living in a Precarious World
In response to the rise of precarity, artists, journalists, activists, and academics have debated the larger stakes and implications of this new “precariat.” The 2014 Lannan Spring Literary Symposium and Festival, “Living in a Precarious World,” will explore these questions through commentary, fiction, poetry, and interactive performance.
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The Exit Zero Project: Deindustrialization and Social Class in Chicago
Join us for a film screening and discussion of The Exit Zero Project with Christine Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. The Exit Zero Project uses personal stories told across multiple generations to explore the lasting social and environmental impacts of deindustrialization in the former steel mill communities of Southeast Chicago.
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The Employee: A Political History
Please join us on Friday, November 8th at 4:00 PM in Healy 105 for a book discussion featuring Jean-Christian Vinel, Professor of History at Universite Paris-Diderot and author of The Employee: A Political History. Melvyn Dubofsky, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton, will offer comments.
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A Discussion with Bill Fletcher, Jr. on "They're Bankrupting Us!" and 20 Other Myths about Unions
Please join us for a discussion with Bill Fletcher, Jr. about his recent book “They’re Bankrupting Us!” and 20 Other Myths about Unions.
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Beyond Gay Marriage: Race, Class and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement
The over-arching goal of the discussion is to shed light upon other intersectional issues that are not regularly at the fore-front of the LGBTQ Rights Movement, but do have a great toll on our LGBTQ population globally. These intersections include socio-economic status/class, ability, immigrant status, race, and gender-related issues (to name a few).
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State of the Black Worker in America
This conference delved into the history of black workers and their organizing efforts; the current state and vision of black leadership within unions; innovative and cutting edge black led organizing going on across the country; and, a gender-based analysis of black organizing.
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Ex‐Braceros Speak Out for Dignity & Justice for Immigrants
Please join us in ICC 108 at 7:00 pm for a screening of The Harvest of Loneliness, a documentary film on the history and impact of the Bracero Program, followed by a panel discussion with members of the caravan and a cultural performance.
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Save the Date! A Conference on the State of the Black Worker in America
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Black Labor Scholars Network are pleased to ann
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