The consequences of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—and its uncertain future—is the subject of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

Antman, Chapin and Sepúlveda

The event—titled “Brain Drain Through Deportation? The Consequences of DACA”—features three experts and is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus. Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions. The event is free and open to the public. The panelists are:

• Francisca Antman, associate professor of economics
• Violeta Chapin, clinical professor of law
• Enrique Sepúlveda, assistant professor of ethnic studies

Antman will summarize results from her research on the impacts of DACA on the schooling and labor-market outcomes of likely beneficiaries. The DACA program covers undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children; these immigrants are sometimes called “dreamers.”

Chapin will discuss undocumented/DACA students in American colleges today, how DACA helped raise those numbers, and some of the history of state bills to allow undocumented students to get in-state tuition.

Sepúlveda will speak about “how DACA is part of a larger set of issues impacting Latinx students/youth, immigrant or not, and what this means for my work as an educational anthropologist and ethnic studies professor.”

The event is sponsored by the  (CARTSS) and the College of Arts and Sciences. 

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another. This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social-sciences faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. 

Related Articles

Economic development is the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

The event, titled “The Opportunities and Challenges of Economic Development,” features three experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus. Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions. The panelists are:

• Andy Baker, professor, political science, and director of the Program on International Development
• Jennifer Fluri, associate professor, geography 
• Keith Maskus, professor of distinction, economics

Jennifer Fluri, Andy Baker and Keith Maskus

Maskus will discuss recent global trends in economic development, asking why the process has been so successful in some countries and so stalled in others, including among the major advanced economies. He will also address how economists think about the social problems that often accompany rapid development and what policies might effectively address them. 

Baker will present some of the benefits and costs of economic growth. He will present the human-development approach, which is an alternative vision of developmental goals that favors the expansion of human choice over increased productivity or the preservation of traditional cultures.

Fluri will discuss gender and economic development programs with a focus on the business of international development and post-conflict/disaster development. 

The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the  (CARTSS) and the College of Arts and Sciences. The event is organized by the Program on International Development at the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science.

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another. This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social-sciences faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. 

Related Articles

The role of social media in protests, concepts of privilege and protest in sports, and ways protesters can be most effective will be discussed by a trio of experts at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder next month.

The event, titled “Beyond #Protest,” features three experts and is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 1, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus. Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions. The panelists are:

• Nicholas Villanueva, director of critical sports studies and lecturer in ethnic studies
• Lorecia Kaifa-Aliya Roland, associate professor of anthropology
• Mathieu Desan, assistant professor of sociology

Roland plans to discuss social media's role in facilitating a broad range of protest movements, including the NFL controversy about players “taking a knee” during the national anthem, Charlottesville, and the counter-movements to each. “I will raise these issues to highlight the distinction between ‘protesting against’ and ‘mobilizing for’ in order to enact tangible change.”

Villanueva will discuss privilege and protest in sport, he said, adding: “Sport is a microcosm of U.S. society, where the ideals of sport are conflated with a national identity, and ignores that sport is an arena of white privilege.”

Desan will discuss “how (not) to think about the effectiveness of protests, particularly in the context of the rise of the far right.”

The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the  (CARTSS) and the College of Arts and Sciences. 

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another. This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social-sciences faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. 

Related Articles

Disaster preparedness is the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

The event, titled “Disasters: Can We Be Prepared?” features three experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 26, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus. Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions. The panelists are:

• , Department of Economics

• , Department of Women and Gender Studies

• , and Department of Sociology

Peek will discuss the complexity of preparing at different levels—ranging from the individual to the societal. She will also emphasize the importance of preparedness for the most vulnerable members of our communities. Flores will discuss the principles and challenges of using insurance to manage catastrophic risk. David will address gender inequalities at various stages of disaster.

The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the (CARTSS) and the College of Arts and Sciences. 

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another. This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social-sciences faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. 

Related Articles

How and whether constitutional democracies can balance challenges to public safety and their commitment to individual rights is the topic of a presentation this month by political scientist Ira Katznelson at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

Ira Katznelson

The event titled “Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom,” will occur on Thursday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus.

Katznelson is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University.

His most recent books are Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns (with Andreas Kalyvas), and When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.

Katznelson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is president of the Social Science Research Council and past president of the American Political Science Association.

The event, which is free and open to the public is sponsored by the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder  (CARTSS) and the .

Related Articles

Carballo and Shin

Taxes, tariffs and trade, three things frequently in the headlines now, are the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

The event, titled “Taxes, Tariffs and Trade,” features two experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, March 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the  on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus. Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes each and then answer questions. The panelists are:

• Jeronimo Carballo, Department of Economics
• Adrian J. Shin, Department of Political Science

Panelists will discuss various aspects of international trade agreements, including their history, how firms influence trade and tariffs, and the extent to which taxation, global migration and right-wing populism will affect the future of trade agreements.

The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Center to Advance the Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) and the College of Arts and Sciences. 

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another. This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social science faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. 

Related Articles

How small cultures and small communities survive in an increasingly globalized world is the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder.

The event, titled “Small Culture, Small Community: Survival in the Global Economy,” features three experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder campus.

From left to right, Rachel Boll, Carew Boulding and Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Each faculty member will speak for about 15 minutes each and then answer questions. The panelists are:

• , Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
• , Department of Political Science
• , Department of Linguistics

Panelists will discuss how globalization affects small communities around the world. Topics include how Bolivia responds to the impact of globalization on its culture and environment; how the languages of several small communities in Cameroon have been affected by political, religious and military pressure; and how the deaf community has been challenged by modern technology.

With respect to the deaf community, Boll noted that with the advent of video technologies, deaf people can communicate easily with each other, including at a national level; news travels fast through national video networks.

But in the past, there were strong local deaf clubs where deaf people could meet face to face. Many deaf clubs have closed, and deaf people congregate more informally, reducing the sense of a larger community, Boll said. 

In the example of Cameroon, Frajzyngier said it is unusual for small communities to have preserved their languages while under linguistic pressure. Usually, small linguistic minorities in Europe and the United States abandon their languages and adopt the dominant language of the country, he said.

The cases when there is no language replacement are sometimes associated, “and rightly so, with nationalistic movements, as was the case in 18^th and 19^th century Europe,” Frajzyngier said.

Cameroon has about 250 languages belonging to different linguistic families. But languages die infrequently.

“The four groups I will discuss each had a different reaction to foreign invasions,” Frajzyngier said. “Some changed religion, and others didn’t, and yet each preserved its language.” Frajzyngier will discuss underlying reasons.

The Social Sciences Today Forum, a series during the school year, is designed to help the public gain broader perspectives and deeper understanding of human society and how individuals relate to the community and one another.

The Social Sciences Today series has focused on Ferguson, Mo., domestic violence, Ebola, aging, “language wars,” inequality, immigration, natural disasters and “outsourcing.”

This forum brings the knowledge and expertise of social science faculty to the greater community and allows the community to ask questions of leading scholars. The event is free and open to the public.

Related Articles