HRRN Events

[Human Rights Research Network]

Monday November 16 All-Campus Read Speaker Sonia Nazario, author
Enrique’s Journey

Sponsored by the English Department, Lloyd International Honors
College, Housing and Residential Life, the UNCG Graduate Student
Association, and Friends of the Library.

* 3 pm Student Talk: Cone Ballroom in the Elliot University
Center
* 4 pm Book Signing: pre-function room of the lobby
* 7 pm to 10 pm Community Talk: Science Building Auditorium

Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social
issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles
Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most
intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration. She has won
numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, her story of a
Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled
“Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the
Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for
International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. She is now at
work on her second book. She began her career at the Wall Street
Journal, where she reported from four bureaus: New York, Atlanta,
Miami, and Los Angeles. In 1993, she joined the Los Angeles Times.
She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in
Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Wednesday November 18: Beijing Bicycle Petty Science Building Room 136

Co-Sponsored by the International Studies Program Asian Studies Film
Series
Discussants: James Anderson (Department of History) and Susan Walcott
(Department of Geography)
“Beijing Bicycle revolves around a seventeen-year-old boy Guei (Cui)
from the countryside who came to Beijing to seek work. He finds a job
with a courier company, which assigns him a brand-new bicycle. After
it is stolen one day, the stubborn Guei goes on a search for his
missing bicycle. At the other end of the city, Jian (Li) is a
schoolboy who buys Guei's stolen bicycle from a second-hand market.
When Guei's search brings the two boys together, more than the
ownership of the bicycle is brought into question. The film explores
the theme of youth as well as several social issues, including class,
youth delinquency, theft, and rural-urban socio-economic divisions and
change.” Official Movie Site:http://www.sonyclassics.com/beijing/index-
poped.html
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Wednesday December 2: Democracy’s Fourth Estate: Globalization,
Immigration and the Media
Discussants: Jordan Green (Yes! Weekly); Tina Firesheets (News &
Record); Adolfo Briceno (Que Pasa); and Stephen J Sills (Department of
Sociology)



On Sunday, September 9, 2007, just two days before the anniversary of
9/ 11, The Greensboro News and Record published a large photograph of
a Muslim wearing a burqa. The image was enhanced with fire behind her
and blood pooling below. Above this striking photograph were the
words, “A New Face of Terror.” The media through its choice of images,
news stories, sensational writing style, and editorial stance has
great power to socialize, to distract, to politicize, to inform, and
even to misinform. The media provides the venue for the debate on
global migration, but also plays a part in shaping this discourse.
This final discussion in our series will bring together local
journalists and scholars to discuss the depiction of neo-liberal
globalization and international migration in the local press.


Stephen J. Sills, PhD
Organizer - Human Rights Research Network
http://groups.google.com/group/UNCG_HRRN
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
320 Graham Building
PO Box 26170
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
http://www.uncg.edu/~sjsills/
sjs...@uncg.edu