On October 23, 2009, CCIS Director John Skrentny will participate in the Multiethnic/Multicultural South Korea Workshop at UC Berkeley. This event is hosted by the Center for Korean Studies and is co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation.

On October 15-16, CCIS Director John Skrentny will present at the conference “Entre discrimination et reconnaissance: Ce que racialiser veut dire” at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, France (co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University)

CCIS Associate Director David FitzGerald spoke at Southern Methodist University today.  His lecture was titled “Emigrant Citizenship in the Westphalian Age.”

CCIS Director John Skrentny participated in “Obama’s Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics” working group at the Russell Sage Foundation.  He focused on immigration reform efforts in the Obama administration.