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“Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Promotes Literacy Learning in Transnational Families” – Thursday, March 30th at 4pm

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Kate Vieira, “Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Promotes Literacy Learning in Transnational Families”
Thursday, March 30, 2017 – 4:00pm
Denney Hall 311

Kate Vieira, “Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Promotes LiteracyD Learning in Transnational Families,” A Lecture in Literacy Studies, Co-sponsored by Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy and Latina/o Studies in observance of Cesar Chavez Day
his talk will tell the story of how families separated across borders write — and learn new ways of writing — in pursuit of both love and money. Over the last decade, global economic inequity has resulted in a rapid increase in labor migration. According to the UN, 244 million people currently live outside the countries of their birth. The untold drama behind these numbers is that labor migration often separates parents from children, brothers from sisters, lovers from each other. Migration, undertaken in response to problems of the pocketbook, also poses problems for the heart.

LASER Presents William “Memo” Nericcio – Thursday, March 9th at 12pm & Public Lecture: Sex, Eugenics, the Prison, & Film Theory at 2:20pm

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Meet & Greet Pizza Luncheon
with Dr. Willam “Memo” Nericcio

Latinx Digital Humanities Scholar; Director of MALAS, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts  and Sciences, San Diego State University; & author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive   Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America

Thursday, March 9, 2017 | Hale Hall | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Public Lecture: Sex, Eugenics, the Prison, & Film Theory

Probing the Political/Semiotic Contours of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men

Thursday, March 9, 2017 | 2:20-3:40 p.m.
Gateway Film Center House | 1 University District, | 1550 N. High St.

William Nericcio, born in 1961 at Mercy Hospital, Laredo, Texas, is a Latinx (Chicano) Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University where he directs M.A.L.A.S, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences program, an eclectic West Coast cultural studies hive. A 1980 graduate of St. Augustine High School (where he somehow survived being “raised by nuns”), Nericcio graduated with a degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984 and completed his MA (1987) and PhD (1989) in Comparative Literature at Cornell University – among other noteworthy achievements there, Nericcio was a special research and teaching assistant for the late great Mexican novelist and public intellectual Carlos Fuentes, and studied with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Ariel Dorfman.  Nericcio is the author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the “Mexican” in America (UT Press, 2007), and is the final stages of writing his next eye-candy filled study, Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race, also with the UT Press.

Sponsored by LASER, The Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment and Research