Jennifer Warlick, Ph.D.

Extra Credit

• Monday, February 4, 2008: “Uprising of ‘34” (1995, 90 min.)4:30 - 6:00 Hesburgh Center Auditorium C-100
  Filmmakers: Judith Helfand, Susanne Rostock, George Stoney
  In 1934, the same year as the massive Teamster strike in Minneapolis, Southern textile workers led a nationwide walkout by half a million people?the largest single-industry strike in US history. Some mill workers were murdered, thousands more were blacklisted, and many were so intimidated that "union" became a dirty word in Southern communities for decades to come. A thoughtful exploration of the paternalistic relationship between mill management and its employees, the dynamics between black and white workers, and the impact of the New Deal on the lives of working people, the film is intended to spark discussion on class, race, economics, and power issues still vital today.
  Speaker: Dan Graff, Labor Historian and Director of Undergraduate Studies in History
• Monday, February 11, 2008  3:00-4:30pm - 101 DeBartolo Hall   Residential Segregation and Inequality in Educational Attainment.   Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern Univeristy.
• Wednesday * February 13 * 5:00- 6:15 pm  Health Care in America
  Speaker: William Evans, Department of Economics and Econometrics
  Coleman-Morse Lounge
• Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:00-9:00 pm - 126 DeBartolo Hall La Rue Cases Nègres: Sugar Cane Alley Guest Speaker: Allison Rice, ProfessorEuzhan Palcy’s acclaimed 1995 film is a moving story about a boy who is born into the underclass of cane cutters in rural mid-twentieth century Martinique.  Based on the novel by Josèf Zobel.
• Friday, February 22, 3:00 p.m. "Solidarity in Pursuit of Authentic Human Development,"  Lacey Haussament, MPH Candidate 2008, Rollins School of Public Health.  She is speaking on the quality of health care services in internally displaced people's camps in northern Uganda.  She graduated Notre Dame with a B.S. in biology in 2003 and currently serves as a board member of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.

   

• Thursday, March 13, 2008.  7:00p.m. Eck Visitors Center Auditorium. Redifining (Black) America: Socio-Economic Variance in the Black Community.
• Friday, March 14, 10:40-12:10, Jordon Auditorium, George Borjas, Kennedy School at Harvard University, lecture on immigration for Ten Years Hence series (Mendoza College of Business)
• Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:00 p.m. 210 McKenna Hall Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration LawsKevin R. Johnson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Davis
• March 27, 131 DBRT, 7:00 p.m.   "Can the Unions Organize Again? What Will It Take to Make Wal-Mart a Union Shop". Nelson Lichtenstein, pre-eminent historian of American labor and Professor of History at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will deliver the Higgins Labor Research Center's annual McBride Lecture on Thursday evening, March 27 (exact time and place to be determined).
• Crossroads Gallery, Free admission Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm beginning February 18, 2008 to April 25. Public parking is available. 217 S Michigan St , "Journeys of Migration " An exhibition from Institute for Latino Studies
• Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 p.m., 136 DeBartolo A panel discussion of Implications of Immigration for South Bend featuring local religious, legal, educational, and healthcare service providers.

• April 2, Carey Auditorium-Hesburgh Library, 7p.m.  The Street Children of Kinshasa  The documentary provides an overview of the important historical facts about the DRC as well as the serious health crisis that the DRC is currently facing. The film will be followed by a discussion hosted by the director. In the spirit of the National Child Abuse Prevention Month of April, come out to watch and discuss this situation that has been overlooked by the international community.

• Monday, April 7, 2008: “These Hands” (1992, 45 min.)4:30 - 6:00 Hesburgh Center Auditorium C-100
  Director: Flora M'mbugu-Schelling; in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles.  The camera acts as a compassionate witness to a day in the life of Mozambican women working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam. Most of the women are refugees who spend their days painfully and painstakingly, manually mining gravel from the scarred landscape to be used for concrete and urban building projects. The film has an almost meditative quality as these women, lowest in the ranks of the global economy, share endless work, collaborative childcare, and singing and dancing at the end of a day's work.
  Speaker: Ivy Wilson, Assistant Professor of English

• Tuesday, April 8, Dillon Hall 24-hour lounge, 6 p.m. Panel Discussion on homelessness, Professor Benedict Giamo, American Studies, and residents and staff from the Center for the Homeless.  Pizza served.

• Tuesday, April 29, 7:30 pm, 208 DeBartolo Hall, Poverty alleviation through Microfinance in Rural Maharashtra, India

• Biraj Solanke, with her husband, founded the Majalgaon Vikas Pratishthan in 2003 to reach out to the under privileged women and children in Majalgaon taluka in Beed district in the state of Mahrashtra, India. In the last 4 years the institution has set up more than 450 Self Help Groups which provide micro-finance to the women. The institution has helped more than 10000 families double or triple their incomes and helped many women to become small entrepreneurs. She will be talking about her experiences with the microcredit lending and its effects on poverty alleviation.

• Immigration Film Series at Saint Mary's College

• Vander Vennet Theater is in the basement of the new student center, building #11 on the map.

• Tuesday, February 19, 7 p.m., Vander Vennet Theatre, "Wetback" -- this film follows several immigrants from Central America on an extraordinary and dangerous journey to North America.  The film begins in Nicaragua and takes the viewer on a journey through five borders and many other dangerous obstacles: lack of traveling documents, tightening border controls, Mexican gangs, and US vigilante groups.
• Tuesday, March 18, 7 p.m., Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall, "De Nadie" -- during a perilous journey through Mexico, impoverished Central Americans put their last money, dignity, health and life on the line.  The film follows a number of refugees in a South-Mexican refugee center, from which they hitch illegal rides on freight trains to the northern border.
• Thursday, March 27, 7 p.m., Vander Vennet Theatre , "The Guestworker" --  the story of Don Gonzales Moreno, a 66-year old Mexican farmer coming to the US since the 1960s through the 20-year old US Guest Worker program.  We follow him through one grueling season, learning about one man's life and the little-known guest worker program.