Speakers, Panels, and Films
2016-2017 Events
Crimmigration Law Lecture Series
Over the Spring 2016-Fall 2016 year, we are thrilled to partner with the DU Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship and the Center for Multicultural Excellence to host a year-long “Crimmigration Law Lecture Series.” Over the course of these two semesters, we have had or will have ten outstanding crimmigration scholars visit to share their latest work on race and crimmigration with us, our students and colleagues, and members of the DU and Denver communities. Below is a list of the upcoming lectures for the Fall 2016 term. The past lectures of Spring 2016 can be located in the past events section below.
Mass Deportation and Global Capitalism
October 14, 2016
Lecture by Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor, University of California, Merced Department of Sociology
Noon, Anderson Academic Commons 290
Workshop by Amada Armenta, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Professor Golash-Boza.
5:30, Room 165
Lessons From Arizona
November 11, 2016
Lecture by Ingrid Eagly, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Law School
Noon, Room 165
Workshop by Annie Lai, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law, and Todd Miller, Journalist and Author of “Border Patrol Nation,” Moderated by Professor Eagly
5:30, Room 165
Past Events
2015-2016 Events
Crimmigration Law Lecture Series
Crimmigration and Race
March 3, 2016
Lecture by Kevin Johnson, Dean, University of California, Davis School of Law
Noon, Anderson Academic Commons 290
Workshop by Yolanda Vázquez, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, and Linus Chan, Visiting Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota. Moderated by Dean Johnson.
5:30, Moot Court Room
Crimmigration Detention
April 19, 2016
Lecture by Jennifer Chacón, Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Noon, Moot Court Room
Workshop by Mariela Olivares, Associate Professor Howard University School of Law. Moderated by Professor Chacón.
5:30, Sturm Hall 251
Analyzing the Law Through a Racial Justice Lens
RPL is co-sposoring this series of events, lunch time lectures with follow up small discussion groups. Learn more here
Book Launch: Crimmigration Law
RPL is co-sponsoring a book launch for Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, whose new book “Crimmigration Law” was just released.
Monday, Nov. 16, 2015
11:45-1:00
Room 255, SCOL
Learn more here
2014-2015 Events
Panel: Does Equal Protection Law Protect The Privileged?
January 28, 2015, 4pm-6pm
Professors Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver), Beto Juárez (Denver), Tom Romero (Denver), and Aya Gruber (Colorado)
This panel features law faculty discussing the leading cases that have effected a sea change in Equal Protection doctrine over recent years, changing it into a tool for defending privilege.
View the recording here.
Keynote Lecture: Angela Harris, U.C. Davis School of Law
February 12, 2015, 4:30pm-7pm
Keynote address on Equal Protection Doctrine with reception to follow.
View the recording here.
Panel: Lessons From Amendment 46
March 10, 2015, 4:00pm
This panel features local activists discussing lessons learned from the defeat of Colorado anti-affirmative action amendment 46 in 2008, with special focus on how messaging affects public reactions to affirmative action policies.
Keynote Lecture: Angela Onwuachi-Willig, University of Iowa College of Law
April 21, 2015, 4:15pm Reception, 5:30pm Lecture
Keynote address on critiques of mainstream affirmative action discourse.
Analyzing the Law Through a Racial Justice Lens
RPL is co-sposoring this series of events with the DU ACLU and BLSA chapters, and the Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness. The series includes four lunch lectures by RPL faculty and four follow-up small group discussions throughout the semester. Each lecture will dive into a different pressing legal matter and how that area of law relates to racial justice. Interested students will be placed into follow-up discussion groups of 5-8 students with a professor.
Prof. Robin Walker Sterling, “Ferguson Follow-Up”
February 2, 2015, Room 180
Profs. Lisa Graybill & Alexi Freeman, “Race, Communication, & Mass Media”
February 18, 2015, Room 180
In collaboration with the Critical Cultural Studies Lecture Series, with guest CU-Boulder Ethnic Studies Prof. Daryl Joji Maeda
Prof. Nancy Ehrenreich, “Race and Reproductive Rights”
March 4, 2015
Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, “Race and Immigration”
March 25, 2015
Other Events
Film Screening: No Sanctuary
February 23, 12:00 in Room 270
Film about the impact of private prison corporations on the growth of immigration detention. The 30-minute screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Profs. Lisa Graybill and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández.
Learn more here
2013-2014 Events
Ian Haney López, “Dog Whistle Politics”
April 22, 2014
RPL hosted a lunch and lecture with Professor Ian Haney López, John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, open to the entire DU community.
Osagie Obasogie, “Blinded by Sight”
February 27, 2014
RPL hosted a faculty luncheon with Professor Osagie Obasogie, University of California-Hastings College of the Law, on the connection between the doctrinal and empirical aspects of Race in the Law. Co-sponsored by the office of the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship.