Events
Alongside developing innovative research, CCIS endeavors to develop greater public engagement with migration studies through comprehensive outreach and education. CCIS has frequently hosted migration workshops and conferences, and has maintained a longstanding research seminar series. Open to the campus and the general public, the series continues to provide the opportunity for Visiting Fellows, Guest Scholars, UCSD faculty, and outside guest speakers to present and receive feedback on their most recent work.
Write-on-site for Migration Scholars
Spring: Weekly, every Wednesday 10am-12pm
Location: RWAC424
For: Graduate Students, Visiting Scholars, Lecturers, and Faculty who study migration
Participants should bring a writing project. First five minutes will entail sharing your writing plans for the session, followed by silent writing
Coffee, tea and snacks provided, or BYO lunch
Panel & Walk-Through: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 2:00pm-3:30pm
This will be an In-person event
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Building, PEB/RWAC 104
Description: Over the last two years a team at UV Irvine has focused on documenting and (re)writing our migration stories as individuals impacted by exclusionary immigration policies. Drawing on Healing Methodology we investigate the legal violence produced by immigration policies through various forms of art-making such as collaging, collaborative poetry, scrapbooking, among others. We have developed an art exhibit featuring our work; details are available here. Join us to view our art exhibit and reflect together.
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Exhibit: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 to Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Location: UCSD Arts and Humanities Building Lobby
Workshop: Crafting Belonging, Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12:30pm-2:30pm
This will be an In-person event
Location: UCSD Craft Center
Description: Workshop for students, faculty, and staff to create artwork reimagining exclusionary migration policies and to share stories through healing methodologies. Further details above under Panel and Walk-through: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit.
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Seminar: Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University.
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
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Seminar: State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
Friday, May 9, 2025 12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Maria Cristina Garcia, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University
This event Will Not be recorded
Location: Zoom
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Conference: UCSD Emerging Scholars of Borders, Displacement & Migration
Friday, May 23, 2025 10:00am-5:00pm
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Bldg, 7th floor. Room PEB721
Description: This workshop, organized by the UCSD Global Borders Initiative, International Institute, Human Rights and Migration Program, and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, seeks to create an interdisciplinary space for emerging scholars of borders, displacement, and/or migration to share and receive feedback on their research and get to know one another as well as faculty at UCSD.
