Immigration and Citizenship Law - Speakers and Events

January 20, 2021 (12-1pm MT). Citizenship: from the past to the present. Panel discussion with professors Lucy Chester, Honor Sachs, Seema Sohi, and Ming H. Chen on the meaning of the 14th amendment and its implications for US citizenship.  Contact Professor Chester for details here; join by zoom. Note: Professor Chen’s immigration law class will be viewing a related documentary after the panel discussion; please let her know if you’re interested in joining – spots may be limited.

January 26, 2021 (4:30pm MT). Book Release: Border Thinking. In this book reception, authors Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepulveda III will share perspectives on how Latinx youth experience belonging across borders. Hosted by CU Boulder Latin American Studies. Zoom link available upon registration here.

February 22, 2021 (5-6:30pm MT). Lecture on Access to Justice for Immigrants. UCLA Professor Ingrid Eagley and RMIAN Attorney Ashley Harrington will present their research and experiences on national and local representation for immigrants. This lecture is dedicated to Breanna Boss CU Law '21. Register here. 

March 2, 2021 (12:30-1:30pm MT). MESA Works-In-Progress Workshop. CU Professor Fernando Riosmena will present "Worlds in Motion: A re-appraisal of Thinking on and Empirical Evaluation of Migration Theories." CU Professor David Cook-Martin provide commentary to kick off group discussion. To request the paper and receive the zoom link, please RSVP via email to Ming Hsu Chen. UPDATE: Please note changed date.

March 13, 2021. CU’s Office for Outreach will feature Professor Chen on citizenship as part of their CU on the Weekend Lecture Series for Spring 2021 at 3 PM ET/2 PM CST/1 PM MST/12 PM PST. Registration opens January 4 here.

April 1, 2021 (12-1pm MT). MESA Works-In-Progress Workshop. CU Postgraduate Research Fellow Hunter Knapp will present "Structural Racism in Agriculture." To request the paper and receive the zoom link, please RSVP via email to ming.h.chen@colorado.edu

April 6, 2021 (12-1pm MT). Hate Crimes and Anti-Asian Violence: A Conversation about Critical Race Theory and Feminist Perspectives on Legal Strategies. Speakers Zeyen Wu, Assistant US Attorney; Jennifer Ho, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of CHA at CU Boulder; Nhu Minh Le, Victim Assistance Director at the Asian Pacific Development Center. Hosted by CU APALSA and co-hosted by White House Initiative on AAPIs. UPDATE: To receive follow up information and resources, please email apalsa@colorado.edu or submit your contact information here.

April 8-9, 2021. Byron White Center's Rothgerber Conference on CItizenship. Thursday night will include a performance by MOTUS Theater (5-6:30pm MT). Friday will include a fireside chat with author Ming Hsu Chen in conversation with Hiroshi Motomura on Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford Press 2020). It will be followed by a full day of exciting panel discussions with nationally known speakers conducting work on citizenship (9-4pm) and postconference discussion on next steps in small groups (4-5pm MT). More details and conference registration for all three events here. For additional questions, please contact Melissa Schenter.  UPDATE: A summary of the key ideas and conversations from the day is here.

• Thursday Apil 8 MOTUS Undocumonologues. UPDATE: Video here.
• Friday April 9 Pursuing Citizenship conference. UPDATE: Video here and here.
• Friday April 9 Reception and postconference discussion of next steps.

April 30, 2021 (1-2:30pm MT). CU Population Center's Migration Primary Research Area meeting. To RSVP and receive zoom link, please contact Fernando Riosmena.

May 4, 2021 (12-1pm MT.). MESA Works-In-Progress Workshop, in collaboration with CU Law Faculty Workshop. Professor Ming Chen & Daimeon Shanks will present "Regulatory Dysfunction in Immigration Law." To RSVP and receive zoom link, please contact Ming Hsu Chen. 

Mesa works-in-progress series are quarterly events to present scholarship to local immigration scholars (TBD). To indicate your interest in presenting a paper or serving as a discussant, please contact Fernando Riosmena, University of Colorado Boulder, Jesse Acevedo, University of Denver, or Edelina Burciaga (University of Colorado Denver.)

September 3, 2020. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era Book Launch. Professor Ming H. Chen in conversation with Helen Thorpe. Boulder Bookstore (5-6pm). Tickets for this online event cost $5, with a $5 coupon provided during event to purchase books at boulderbookstore.net. 

September 16, 2020. Join Rep. Joe Neguse on September 16th at 5pm to celebrate National Citizenship Day! Panelists CO State Senator Julie Gonzales, Denver Office of Immigrant Affairs Atim Otii, Attorney Cristina Uribe Reyes and Professor Chen will discuss what it means to be a U.S. citizen. Register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-national-citizenship-day-ticket....

September 17, 2020. Colorado Law Talk: Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era by Professor Ming H. Chen (5:30-6:30pm). Virtual event. Co-sponsored by Byron White Center Constitutional Day. Free with registration. For more information and to register, click here.

September 17, 2020. Stories from our Undocumented Neighbors with Motus Theater's "Undocumonologues" Online via the Boulder Public Library (7-9pm). Autobiographical monologues by Motus UndocuMonologists Victor Galvan, Armando Peniche, Tania Chairez (read by Professor Aviva Chomsky), and Alejandro Fuentes-Mena (read by Professor Natalia Molina). Register here. 

September 19, 2020. The DOIRA, CIRC, and Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains are excited to share the #AmericaIsHome Citizenship Filing Fee Scholarship to help Denver residents that meet income requirements pay the $725 in fees associated with their Citizenship application. REGISTER NOW for the September 19, Virtual Citizenship Workshop. Limited spots are available. For information or questions, call (720) 319-7034. To volunteer, visit: http://bit.ly/DOIRA-Volunteer. Follow their Facebook event.

October 6, 2020. The Party of Practicality: An Innovative and Pragmatic Conversation on Immigration. A pre-election conversation with Congressman Joe Neguse, Professor Mary Mendoza, Professor Tomas Jimenez. Moderated by Patty Limerick. Sponsored by Center for the American West and CU Latinx Law Students. Register here. 

October 7, 2020. CU Law Panel discussion with Immigration Practitioners: Judges and Attorneys from EOIR Immigration Court. Zoom link here. For more information, contact Emma Carroll.

October 8, 2020. Professor Ruben Rumbaut will be delivering the Menken Distinguished Lecture at the CU Institute for Behavioral Science on Thursday October 8 from 5-7pm Mountain Time. For more information about the speaker and the talk, see https://behavioralscience.colorado.edu/upcoming-events. For the zoom link and password, contact ibs-contact@colorado.edu. Presented by the CU Population Center and the Institute of Behavioral Science's Population Program.

October 20, 2020. The Mini Law School series at CU Law will feature a lecture on "Immigration Law: A Reform Agenda for the 2020 Election and Beyond" with Professors Violeta Chapin and Ming Chen. Click here for more details and to register for this event.

October 26, 2020. Welcoming Strangers, Building Community -- A Conversation about Hospitality and Citizenship with Sarah Jackson, Executive Director of Casa de Paz and Professor Ming H. Chen will be discussing their books at a DU Law event from 4-5pm. Register here. For more information, contact Cesar Garcia Hernandez.

October 26, 2020. James Walsh, Political Science, CU-Denver will be sharing his work-in-progrses about the history of Irish immigrants in Leadville, Colorado. He will be discussing efforts to build a public memorial honoring the 1500 Irish immigrants buried in the community, and parallels with current immigration issues including exploitation of immigrant labor, xenophobia, and practices of resistance. For precirculation of the paper and the zoom password, please contact Edelina Burciaga.

October 30, 2020. Q&A with RMIAN Attorneys. Curious about what it's like to work in immigration law in the current social and political climate? Join ILPS for a virtual discussion with attorneys from the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network.

November 4, 2020. CU Clinical Professor Violeta Chapin will give a virtual lecture in the Race and the Law series titled "When Cruelty Becomes Ordinary." Register here.

November 6, 2020. Fall Faculty Colloquium Series: Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández will discuss his new book “Migrating to Prison”.  Click here for the Zoom link.

November 13, 2020. The Party of Practicality: An Innovative and Pragmatic Conversation on Immigration. A post-election conversation with Congressman Joe Neguse, Professor Mary Mendoza, Professor Tomas Jimenez. Moderated by Patty Limerick. Sponsored by Center for the American West and CU Latinx Law Students. Register here

November 17, 2020. Private Rights, Public Accountability: Tort Litigation & Immigration Policies sponsored by Strum College of Law at the University of Denver.

December 5, 2020. TEDx Mile High Vision Conference (5-8pm MT online). Professor Ming H. Chen will present "Finding Yourself on the Citizenship Spectrum." Other speakers include a criminal justice reformer and an undocumented poet/spoken word performer. Register for free on eventbrite and find more details here.

January 21, 2020. Mesa Works-In-Progress with Professor Christina Sue (12:30-2pm at University of Colorado Law School, Wolf Building 202). For a copy of the paper and to reserve lunch, contact Fernando Riosmena, CU.

January 28, 2020. Migrating to Prison (New Press 2019) Official Book Launch at DU Sturm Hall of Law (12 noon at DU Law room 1650). Contact Cesar Garcia Hernandez.

February 5, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Fernando Riosmena, Associate Professor of Geography and Associate Director of the CU Population Center, "Climate Migration at Height & End of the "Great Mexican Emigration Era"" (4:40-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For Professor Riosmena's paper, click here. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

February 6, 2020.  The Transnational Migration speaker series presents “But where are you from, from?” lessons for Critical Democracy from Transnational Youth (5:00-6:15 p.m., EDUC 334).  Dr. Thea Abu-El Haj will speak on transnational citizenship.  

February 7, 2020. A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Legal Profession. Join Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court and a panel of leading APA attorneys in Colorado for a discussion over lunch at the History Colorado Center 1200 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 (12-2pm). Registration link here. For questions, contact Sumi Lee, APABA President and Kenneth Shiau, CU APALSA.

February 7, 2020. DU Law Review Symposium "Immigration Law in Shifting Times." 8-5pm. For more information, contact Elena Engel and Prof. Garcia-Hernandez.

February 12, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Kristen Carpenter, Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of CU Law's American Indian Law Program "Decolonizing Indigenous Migration" (4:40-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

February 19, 2020. CU Boulder DACA Roundtable: Professor Roberto Gonzales, Professor of Education (3-4pm, Wolf Law 330). Co-sponsored by CU Immigration and Citizenship Law Program and CU Sociology Department. Contact David Aragon. 

February 19, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Roberto Gonzales, Professor of Education "Lives Still in Limbo: DACA and Undocumented Students" (4:40-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For Professor Gonzales's paper, click here. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

February 26, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Carolina Nunez, Professor of Law "Illegitimacy 2.0" (4:30-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For Professor Nunez's paper, click here. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

March 4, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor, Vice Dean, Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar "Rejecting Citizenship" (4:30-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

March 11, 2020. CU Law Citizenship Colloquium: Professor Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science "Toward White Protectionist Citizenship?" (4:30-5:30, Wolf Law 306). Open to faculty, staff, and students. For more information, contact Professor Ming H. Chen.

August 15-16, 2019. Asylum Training (CLE credit available) at Colorado Law. Co-sponsored by ICLP. For more information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com or contact Megan Hall.

September 17, 2019. Citizenship Day panel discussion and release of USCCR Report on Voting Rights and Civil Rights Implications of the Naturalization Backlog. Wolf Law 204 (12-1pm). Lunch will be served. Contact Hunter Knapp. Sponsored by the Immigration Law and Policy Society.

September 19, 2019. Mesa works-in-progress series. Professor Jesse Acevedo, DU Political Science (12-1:30pm at DU Sturm Hall 286) presenting "Migrant Remittances and Support for Military Coups in Latin America." Lunch will be served. Contact Lisa Martinez to RSVP and to request the paper. Note: for those coming from off-campus, a limited number of parking permits are available.

September 25, 2019. Todd Miller, author of Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World, will speak at DU's Crimmigration Law & Policy Series from 12-1pm at the University of Denver, Room 165. Lunch will be provided. Contact Cesar Garcia Hernandez.

September 27-28, 2019. Migrahack at the University of Denver. This event will be hosted in the Anderson Academic Commons, Room 290, starting at 10am on Friday, September 27th through 5pm the follow day. Contact Lisa Martinez or register here.

October 14, 2019. Andrea Velasquez speaking on "Unintended Consequences of Immigration Enforcementat" CU Boulder Institute for Behavioral Science (12pm, IBS 155).

October 18, 2019. Aaron Bobrow-Strain will speak about his book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez at University of Colorado Boulder Latin American Studies Center (Guggenheim 205) at 3:30pm. Contact Joe Bryan.

October 21, 2019. Gabrielle Oliveira, from Boston College, will join us for a talk from 5:00-6:30pm at the CU School of Education room 220. She is the author of Motherhood Across Borders, on Mexican transnational mothers. Co-sponsored by the CU Immigration and Citizenship Law Program. Contact Andrea Dyrness.

November 7, 2019. David Cook-Martin from CU Sociology presenting work-in-progress in CISN's Mesa Roundtable (12:30-1:45pm at University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science). Lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by the CU Immigration and Citizenship Law Program. Contact Fernando Riosmena to RSVP and receive paper.

November 15, 2019. Ming Hsu Chen from CU Law presenting her book, Unequal Citizenship: Immigrants and Integration in the Enforcement Era, in CU Law Faculty Colloquium (12-1pm, Wolf Law 480).

November 15-16, 2019. CrossBorder art exhibit at CU Boulder (3:30-7pm) and Counterpath in Denver (6-9:30pm). Contact Edelina Burciaga.

November 16, 2019. Cesar Garcia Hernandez will be speaking at the TEDxMileHigh gathering about how the United States built the world’s largest immigration prison system—and how we can abolish it (Bellco Theater in Denver).

November 22, 2019. Colorado Scholars Strategy Network Op-ed Writing Training at DU Anderson Academic Commons (10-12pm, 12-2pm optional writing). Contact Edelina Burciaga for details or register here.

December 7, 2019. Cesar Garcia Hernandez will read from his book Migrating to Prison at BookBar in Denver, 7pm. Contact Cesar Garcia Hernandez.

September 2018

September 4 (noon). Immigration Law and Policy Society welcome back event for CU Law students. Lunch will be served. Location TBD. Contact ILPS President Zak New.

September 17 (noon). “From Family Detention to Family Separation and Back” panel presentation featuring immigration attorneys at the Texas border (Denver University Sturm College of Law, room 165).  Speakers will be: Efrén Olivares, Director of Racial and Economic Justice at Texas Civil Rights Project; Carlos M. García, Partner, García & García Attorneys at Law; and Anita Maddali Ortiz, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University Law School.  Moderated and hosted by Prof. Cesar Garcia Hernandez, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Livestream crimmigration.com.

September 22. AILA Naturalization Drive at the Justice For All Center (2525 W. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80219). 8:30 am volunteer training, with sign-ups from 9am to 1:00 pm; 11:00 am - 3:30 pm. Volunteer sign up here: http://bit.ly/citizenshipvolunteersseptember

October 2018

October 2.  Immigration Policy Town Hall, co-sponsored by ILPS and other student groups. Fleming Law Building, Room 156, 6:00 - 8:00 pm.  Speakers:  Senator Matt Jones; House Majority Leader K.C. Becker; Representative Jonathan Singer; Nikhil Mankekar, Chair of the City of Boulder Human Relations Commission; Laurel Herndon, Executive Director, Managing Attorney Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County; Erika Blum, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition; and Juan Juarex, Northern Colorado Immigrants United.  Contact:  Ryan Thompson.

October 5. We will also be hosting with LLSA the IACHR vigil that will honor the lives of those who disappeared or died while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the families who continue to search for answers about their whereabouts.12pm law school courtyard. 

October 9. Book reading by Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in an American Classroom.  Location:  Chautauqua Community House at 7:30 pm. Purchase tickets online ($12).

October 10.  Violeta Chapin, CU Clinical Professor of Law, will discuss Immigrants in America at the Museum of Boulder. Doors open: 5:30pm. Event begins: 5:45pm.  Tickets Available Online and at the door: $10 Museum Members | $15 General Admission.

October 12.  AILA Colorado Chapter Conference at Denver University Sturm College of Law. Registration online. Contact Prof. Cesar Garcia Hernandez.

October 18.  Ming Chen, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law, will address Constructing Citizenship for Non-Citizens as part of the CU Institute of Behavioral Science seminar series.  Location: CU Boulder IBS 155B, 12:30 - 1:30 pm. Co-sponsored by the Colorado Immigration Scholars' Network Mesa works-in-progress series. Contact Prof. Fernando Riosmena.

October 19. Catherine Bowman, CU Boulder, will present J-1 Summer Work Travel Program in the Context of the Fissured Workplace as part of the Colorado Immigration Scholars' Mesa works-in-progress series (12-1:30 at DU Korbel Latin American Center); Jessica Garick will be responding. Contact Prof. Rebecca Galemba.

October 26-27. Migrant Illegality across Uneven Legal Geographies - the second part in a two-part symposium that seeks to bring an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how illegality is experienced across geographic contexts for undocumented immigrant communities, at Brown University. Contact Prof. Edelina Burciaga.

October 30.  Efforts to Resist Immigration Detention will be discussed during a Crimmigration Law & Policy Event at the Denver University Sturm College of Law.  Laura Lunn, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, will discuss representation of families and mentally ill individuals; Elizabeth Jordan, Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, will share her advocacy on behalf of physically disabled people; and Brandt Milstein, Milstein Law Office, will address a pending forced labor challenge to an Aurora private prison’s standard operations.  Location:  DU Sturm College of Law, Room 125, 12 Noon - 1:00 pm; Free and Open to the Public; lunch will be provided.  Contact Prof. César García Hernández.

November 2018

November 5-6. Colorado Scholars Strategy Network Conference on Immigration and Public Health at CU Denver/Denver University. Contact Profs. Whitney Duncan, Rebecca Galemba, Sarah Horton.

November 9. Mesa works-in-progress series from 12-1:30 at DU Sturm College of Law Room 499 (CU Denver Professor Edelina Burciaga presenting “Communal (il)legality: Undocumented young adults navigating belonging in Atlanta, Georgia"; response from Bertha Bermudez Tapia). Contact Prof. Cesar Garcia Hernandez for details.

November 13-14.  2018 Diversity & Inclusion Summit, UMC The theme of this year's University of Colorado Summit is "Intent vs. Impact: Improving Inclusive Interactions."  The two-day program offers varied and exciting topics, including a DACA and ASSET panel on Wed 11/14 (UMC Room 415, 10:00 - 11:15 am) featuring CU Professors Ming Hsu Chen and Edelina Burciaga, Vice Chancellor David Aragon and representatives from CU Denver and CU Colorado Springs.  Check out the full Diversity & Inclusion Summit Program here.  

November 15.   Private Immigration Practice in the Trump Administration, 12 Noon - 1:00 pm, Room 305, the Immigration Law & Policy Society will be holding a panel event where local private immigration practitioners will discuss how immigration practice has changed since the beginning of the Trump Administration. Lunch will be provided!

November 16.  Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) is hosting a Commenting Parting:  FAC, 5:30 - 8:30 pm, Schaden Commons Cafe.  Please join ILPS, APALSA, BLSA, NALSA, OUTLaw, and the Juvenile and Family Law Club to comment on a rule recently proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (food and alcohol provided).

December 2018

December 6 Roundtable on Pathways to Citizenship at CU Law (Wolf Law 480, 12-1pm). Confirmed speakers: Edelina Burciaga, CU Denver; Cesar Garcia Hernandez, Denver University Law; Kevin Johnson, UC Davis Law; Lisa Martinez, Denver University Sociology; Cecilia Menjivar, Kansas University Sociology. Moderator: Professors John Griffin and Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado. Register here by Dec 4 to reserve a lunch; otherwise, feel welcome to join without RSVP.

December 14. Mesa works-in-progress series from 12-1:30 at CU Boulder (Wolf Law 480). Bertha Bermudez Tapia, CU Boulder presenting Where is home?: A study of migrant shelters in a context of border violence and deportation; Rebecca Galemba responding. Please RSVP to Prof. Ming H. Chen for paper and event details by Dec 10.