Events

This is the first in the 2024-2025 academic year's series of events examining race, ethnicity, and immigration. Authors Dr. Andy Clarno and Dr. Michael De Anda Muñiz will discuss their book, Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago.

Imperial Policingexamines the role of local law enforcement, federal immigration authorities, and national security agencies in upholding Chicago's highly unequal social order. Collaboratively authored by the Policing in Chicago Research Group, Imperial...

Information Session: Cal-in-Sacramento Fellowship & Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellows in Government Service | September 17 | 6:00-7:30 p.m. | 119 Philosophy Hall

Speaker: Megan Collins, Institute of Governmental Studies

Sponsor: Institute of Governmental...

Enjoy sweet and savory bites and toast to the new year while catching up on summer adventures with fellow IGS affiliated faculty, graduate students, student assistants, staff, and fellows. We'll also hear from IGS co-directors Cristina Mora and Eric Schickler about the exciting year of events and programs we have in store!

This talk traces the under-explored development of rights of mankind in the early Space Age and its role in what I call the colonization of humanity: the reconstruction of human beings as a human race embodied and extended through outposting. Codified in the Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967 to inhibit states’ militaristic colonization of space, these rights redefined humanity as a spacefaring race, from the free exploration and use of outer space as the “province of mankind” to the designation of astronauts as “envoys of...