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Cambio Center News - September 2014
In this newsletter: Cambio Center 10th Anniversary Activities, Cambio de Colores 2015, Updates from Fellows, Conferences, and Upcoming Events
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Cambio Center 10th Anniversary Activities
The Cambio Center is celebrating 10 years of research and outreach on Latinos and changing communities. To celebrate and share our experiences over the past 10 years, the Cambio Center will be showcasing its research in public seminars, displaying pieces of its history at Ellis Library, and meeting to build our agenda for the next 10 years. Stay tuned for details!
Cambio de Colores 2015 Conference
Scheduled to be in Kansas City, the 2015 conference is currently being organized by the Planning Committee. Contact DeColores@missouri.edu if you would like to help organize the conference.
Updates from Cambio Center Fellows
Emily Crawford - Educational Leadership and Policy
Analysis
Dr. Crawford was recently awarded a Research Board grant to study how secondary school educational leaders (broadly defined, e.g.
teacher leaders, administrators) and stakeholders (e.g. counselors)
interact within the school ecology (i.e. a 'sphere of leadership’) to
encourage students from newly arrived immigrant families to persist in
school. The title of the study is
"Spheres of Leadership: School Leadership and Connection in
Communities with New Immigrants."
Lisa Dorner - Educational Leadership and Policy
Analysis
Dr. Dorner will be presenting at Immersion 2014: Mainstreaming Access
to Multilingual Communities (Fifth International Conference on
Language Immersion Education). Her talk on Oct. 17, 2014 is titled:
From global jobs to safe spaces: The diverse discourses that sell
multilingual schools in monolingual spaces
Dr. Dorner worked with Rachel Pinnow and Kim Song (UMSL) to create a
shared UM system, online graduate-level seminar course called
Bilingual Education. Dr. Pinnow is teaching it this
fall semester for the first time.
Upcoming Conferences
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Midwest FOCO Conference
Latinas and Latinos in the Midwest: Past, Present, &
Future
October 23-25, 2014, UMKC, Kansas City
Register at
http://tinyurl.com/NACCSmwFOCO
The conference theme – Latin@s in the Midwest: Past, Present, and
Future -- recognizes the rich historical and growing presence of
Latin@s in this region. Our goal is to promote awareness and further
develop knowledge and analysis of historic, current, and future
developments that impact the Latin@ population. Of particular interest
is the need to strategize for collective empowerment and leadership of
Latin@s in the Midwest and to support collaboration between community
leaders and scholars.
See flyer for details.
Latinos in 2050: Restoring the Public Good
October 30-November 1, East Lansing, Michigan
Register:
http://www.jsri.msu.edu/events/25years/registration
The Julian Samora Research Institute will celebrate its 25th
anniversary as a Latino-focused research institute by hosting a
nationwide conference on Latino communities. Nationally-known and
emerging scholars and researchers will present and participate in
panel discussions on:
- health disparities,
- business ownership and entrepreneurship,
- service delivery gaps, and
- other critical topics and issues.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming webinar highlighting America's Hispanic Children: Gaining Ground, Looking Forward, a new report issued by the Child Trends Hispanic Institute with
support from the Televisa Foundation. September 25, 1-2pm
ET.
With more than 22 statistical charts, the report provides a
comprehensive portrait of Hispanic children across six areas:
demographics, economics, family, education, health, and media use. It
documents important areas where Hispanic children are gaining ground,
especially in education, and examines challenges such as high rates of
poverty, some troubling health indicators, and high rates of teen
childbearing among the country's 17.5 million Hispanic children
and youth. Register Here.
An Afternoon with Award Winning Playwright Caridad Svich
A Colloquium Event Sponsored by the Department of Theatre
When: Thursday, September 25, 2014, 12:30pm to
1:30pm
Where: The Corner Playhouse, Fine Arts Annex (located
at the corner of University Ave. and Hitt St.), University of Missouri
This colloquium will discuss the following:
- Feminism in Performance
- Classical Adaptation for the Stage
- Digital Media and Performance
- Biculturalism
- Construction of Identity
- The Orphan Sea, a new, commissioned play*
Questions about this event? Please contact Rachel Bauer, production dramaturg for THE ORPHAN SEA. (reb445@mail.missouri.edu)
Advocating to Protect Unaccompanied Children in Your
Community
Friday, September 26, 2014
2:00-3:30 pm Eastern / 11:00 am -12:30
pm Pacific
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) invites
immigrant and social justice advocates, legal service providers, faith
leaders, community organizers, and others working with immigrant
families to this free webinar.
As unaccompanied children relocate from the Southern border to reside
with family members across the United States and await their
immigration hearings, communities are eager to respond. This webinar
will provide updates on where the children are living, their impact on
local communities, and steps you can take to welcome them.
Register by clicking here
International Migration Review: 50th Anniversary Symposium
International Migration Scholarship in the 21st Century:
Critical Issues, Critical Questions
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 9:30am – 5:15pm
One New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004
For 50 years, the International Migration Review (IMR) has led social science research and analysis in the
field of international migration, population dynamics, ethnic group
relations and refugee movements. To
celebrate IMR‘s 50th Anniversary and the
forthcoming release of IMR‘s Special Golden
Anniversary Issue, CMS invites you to join authors, editors,
members of the IMR Editorial Board and
other scholars for an all-day symposium to discuss
persisting and emerging topics and trends in the field
of international migration. Learn more:
http://cmsny.org/events/imr50th/
Live webcast will be available at http://cmsny.org/events/IMR50th/.
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