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UC San Diego Seminar Series

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Winter Quarter 2007
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Tuesday, January 23 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

THE TRANSFORMATION OF ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS INTO PLACES OF LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION
Jan Rath, Director, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam ______________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, January 31 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

HEALTH OF HISPANICS IN THE U.S.: What We Can Learn from Looking at Mexico and the U.S. Combined
Rebecca Wong, Demographer, University of Maryland
This is a joint seminar with Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies ______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, February 6 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

MEXICAN NEW YORK: An Ethnography of Mexican Immigrants in a Non-Traditional Destination
Robert Smith, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/CUNY ______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, February 27 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

WEIGHING THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF MEXICAN IMMIGRATION: The Mexican American Perspective
Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCSD, Visiting Research Fellow, CCIS ______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday, March 13 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

“OAXACANS LIKE TO WORK BENT OVER”: The Naturalization of Social Suffering Among Indigenous Migrant Farmworkers
Seth M. Holmes, M.D./Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC San Francisco
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All events (unless otherwise noted) will be held in Conference Room 115 on the first floor of the Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building, UCSD campus. Refreshments follow the seminar presentation.  For directions go to http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/directions.htm or call (858) 822-4447.  Parking permits can be purchased at the information booth on North Point Drive (north end of campus).  Visitors may also use metered parking spaces (max. 2 hours) in the north side parking lot. Papers presented at previous CCIS seminars can be downloaded from http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/working_papers.htm

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