The Future of the Rule of Law and Human Rights in China:
Chen Guangcheng in conversation with Jerome A. Cohen
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
RSVP to cps@newschool.edu
The University in Exile event features Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist lawyer recently permitted to leave China who is currently a visiting scholar at New York University School of Law, and Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law and co-director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University School of Law, who was active in securing Chen Guangcheng’s release. Event is free and open to the public.
Food and Immigrant Life:
The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor, and Recreating Home
29th Social Research conference
Thursday and Friday, April 18 and 19, 2013
The New School (for locations and full details, visit www.newschool.edu/cps/food)
The 29th Social Research conference will examine the complex relationships between food, migration, and immigration. Food scarcity is not only at the root of much human displacement and migration—the food industry also offers migrants an entry point into the U.S. economic system while simultaneously confining migrants to low wages and poor, sometimes unsafe, work conditions. In addition, food is a primary vehicle for migrants to maintain their cultural identity, which is so important to displaced peoples. The conference is an opportunity to firmly place issues of immigration and food service work in the context of a broader social justice agenda and to explore the central role food plays in expressing rich cultural heritage.
The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program presents this, the 29th Social Research conference, in collaboration with the Writing Program, India China Institute, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Center for New York City Affairs, Global Studies Program, Gender Studies Program, and International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC).