Arts & Lectures "Global Movements for Social Justice"

Global Movements for Social Justice

Thursday, October 14, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (PST)

Reserve Your Ticket to Global Movements for Social Justice  

• Location: Zoom Webinar.
• Admission: Free/Donation
  

The past year has forced us to think differently about how our choices directly impact those around us. It challenged our perceptions of safety, risk, and uncertainty. Nevertheless, amidst a global pandemic, nationalistic politics, racist policies, and climate change, marginalized, oppressed, and displaced peoples around the globe continue to pursue justice. While these movements for justice may at times appear fragmented, they are all part of a larger movement for dignity. 

This event aims to provide a platform to draw parallels for local, regional, and global voices and movements for social justice. California, San Marcos, and CSUSM are embedded in larger structures of power that provide frameworks to analyze historical and contemporary patterns of injustice and empowerment. The panelists provide diverse academic, institutional, and civil society perspectives that synthesize how local and global dynamics playout in local lives. The engaging and empowering format emphasizes recognition and dignity; but also acknowledges bias, marginalization, violence, and other limits to identification, association, and mobility.  

Dr. Antonio De La Garza will share unique perspectives on the intersection of migration and gender in the US/Mexico borderlands. Henry Edward Frank will share American Indian views from Northern California. Dr. Darren Byler’s expertise on the ongoing struggles for the Uyghur people in Western China will enlighten the audience on how this group of indigenous Chinese continue to pursue dignity in the face of an authoritarian regime. 

Students, faculty, administrators, researchers, activists, and other members of local, state, national, and global communities stand to benefit from this unique event that confronts history and the world that we live in today. Struggles of justice and dignity do not occur in isolation, but rather, they are all part of a larger global movement to enact a world where many worlds are possible. Ultimately, it will challenge everyone to evaluate their own identities and roles in shaping a future that is more just for all.

Panelists

Anthropologist Dr. Darren Byler is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of a forthcoming ethnography titled Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021) and a narrative-driven book titled In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021). His current research interests are focused on infrastructure development and global China in the context of Xinjiang and Malaysia. 

Dr. Antonio Tomas De La Garza is an Associate Professor of Communication at California State University San Marcos. His research explores how the US/Mexico borderlands anchors discursively produced violence against queer and trans immigrants. He is a member of the Contra Viento Y Marea Collective, where he engages in resilience building and aid work for refugees stranded at the US Mexico Border.  Recent examples of his work include, ¿No Olvidado? 21st-century U.S. military violence and the politics of remembering missing migrants along US-Mexico Borderlands in Border-Lines: A Journal of the Latino Research Center; and A Critical Eulogy for Roxsana Hernandez in QED: A Journal of Queer World Making.

Mr. Henry Frank is originally from Humboldt County and he currently lives in Marin County. He uses his art to make the Native American and currently/formally incarcerated visible. Specifically, visible as a human being and contributing member of society. His connection and coexistence within the natural world, his heritage, his culture and experience inspires and shapes his artistic expression. Mr. Frank draws from his childhood, his spiritual practice, his incarceration, and living as a Native American in today’s society. Art has been his therapist, his freedom, his connection with his heritage and a tool for introspection.

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ZOOM WEBINAR. OCTOBER 14, 12:00 PM/NOON (PST). ADMISSION: FREE/DONATION.