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Readings,
Talks and Book Signings |
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lectures frequently about economic and national security issues
related to immigration, the adaptation of immigrants into host societies,
changing definitions of citizenship, the politics of race and culture in
the Dominican Republic and Haiti, emerging-market finance and development,
and the practice of journalism and literary nonfiction.
JOIN THE LOCKOUT EMAIL LIST to receive information about upcoming
events.
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Chicago
Council on Global Affairs
"Fortress America? Tough Questions
and Answers on Immigration"
September 5, 2007
7:30-9 a.m. breakfast discussion
332 South Michigan Avenue, Suite
1100
Chicago, IL
Info at
www.thechicagocouncil.org
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V Annual
Interdependence Day Celebration
September 10-12, 2007
Panelist
Mexico City, Mexico
more info at www.civworld.org
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New Rochelle Library
Guest commentator on immigration and history following film "The
History of Immigration to the Lower East Side"
September 27, 2007
7:30 p.m.
New Rochelle, NY
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"Immigration
Control in a Land of Immigration" Conference
Wake Forest
University
October 3-5, 2007
Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
Check back for details
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Seventh
Annual International Women’s Day Conference
March 8, 2008
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Great Barrington MA
Check back for details |
RECENT
EVENTS
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"Cities
Respond to Immigration Crisis"
Panel Discussion
SEIU Local
32BJ
June 20, 2007
New York, NY
Local 32BJ Secretary-Treasurer Héctor Figueroa moderates a
discussion on local responses to the immigration crisis. The
panelists include (from left to right): Michele Wucker, World Policy
Institute; Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute; Michael W.
Cutler, Center for Immigration Studies; Muzaffar Chishti, Migration
Policy Institute; and Jackson Chin, Puerto Rican Legal Defense &
Education Fund.
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"Immigration: Many Faces, Many Facets" Conference
University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
April 26-27, 2007
Keynote
speaker
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Click here for information
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Columbia
University Human Rights Seminar
April 4, 2007
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New Jersey
Immigration Policy Network Conference
March 10, 2007
New Brunswick, NJ
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Conference on Dominican-Haitian Issues
John Jay College
Friday, February 23, 2007
Panel Moderator: "Civil Society's Response to the Haitian Crisis in
the Dominican Republic"
New York City
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Westchester
Community College
February 22, 2007
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Multicultural Center at Portland State University
January 29, 2007
Portland, Oregon
Click
HERE for a review of the talk
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Rice
University
Humanities Research Center
November 17, 2006
Houston, Texas
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Rapoport
Center for Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas School of Law
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Austin, Texas
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Dominican
Joe Cafe
November 15, 2006
Austin, Texas
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Vanguard
High School
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Waco, Texas
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Texas
Christian University Neeley School of Business
November 13,
2006
Fort Worth, Texas
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'"Integration Policies in the EU and the US" Conference
November 6, 2006
Hungarian Academy of Science
Budapest
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"The
Immigration Debate:
Should They Stay or Should They Go?
Panelist
October 24, 2006
Pace University Law School
White Plains, New York
Hosted by Westchester Women's Bar Association and Pace University
School of Law
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Upper West
Side Barnes & Noble
October 23, 2006
82d St and Broadway,
Manhattan
New York City
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Book Reading
from LOCKOUT
July 17, 2006
The Half King
New York City
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Discussion: LOCKOUT and Immigration
July 11, 2006
Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
New York City
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Book Reading from LOCKOUT
June 27, 2006
Harry W. Schwartz Downer Ave Bookstore
Milwaukee
This event will be broadcast on
BookTV beginning Saturday, July 8, at 1 p.m. ET on C-SPAN2. Check
www.booktv.org
for additional show times.
or view online at
www.Fora.tv
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The Engineer and the Busboy:
Immigration, Jobs and the Global Economy
Panelist
June 7,
2006
Asia Society
New York City
Sponsored by Asia Society and the Immigration Policy Center at the
American Immigration Law Foundation
Click
here for program
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Book Reading from LOCKOUT
May 9, 2006
Olsson's Books and Records
Washington, DC
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Hispaniola: Voices of Its People Echoing Freedom
Special Guest
April 29, 2006
Riverside Church
New York City
An OPEN FORUM for a dialogue among students, community members,
and scholars from the Dominican and Haitian
Diaspora and allies. For information:
http://www.pinteleyid.com/dr-haiti/
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Forum on Integrating Immigrants Into the Workplace
Institute for Work and the Economy, Northern Illinois University
Outreach, and the Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago
FULL AGENDA
Panelist: "Challenges to Meaningful Employment"
Chicago
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Fortress America's Barriers to Global Talent
A World Policy Institute Panel Discussion
April 6, 2006
Panel discussion moderator
MARIAM ASSEFA,
Executive Director of World Education Services and 2006 President of
NAFSA: Association of International Educators ; RICHARD
GARNICK, President of North American Services, Keane, Inc. ; and MICHAEL
PANZNER, Vice President, Rabo Securities, and author of The New Laws of
the Stock Market Jungle: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in a Changing
World (Prentice Hall, 2005)
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"Immigration & National Security: European Challenges and
International Perspectives"
A conference from the Program on Citizenship & Security at the World
Policy Institute, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, and the German Council
on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
Introductory remarks and panel moderator "The Economic Impact of
Immigration and Security Measures"
March 23-25, 2006
Berlin, Germany
For more information:
www.citizenshipandsecurity.org
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"Why Noncitizen Local Voting Rights Are Good for New York
City"
Testimony to the Government Operations Committee of the New York
City Council
November 14, 2005
For text of testimony click
HERE
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U.S. National Security and Policies Toward Noncitizens
Conference on ‘Security dilemmas and national immigration policies’
Center for International Relations
Warsaw, Poland
September 29, 2005
For text of comments click
HERE.
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Fixing a Broken Immigration System
Bangor Foreign Policy Forum
Bangor, Maine
August 1, 2005
7:30 a.m.
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Michele interviews
Wall Street Journal
correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov about his book,
FAITH AT WAR on May 10, 2005, at a
World Policy Institute event
broadcast on C-Span Book TV.
| Other recent
topics and venues:
Michele speaks at the inauguration of the Dominican Republic Education
and Mentoring (DREAM) Project in Cabarete, 2004.
 | Caribbean
Historiography (Discussant)
American Historical Association 2003 Annual Meeting
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Immigrant Voting Rights
Brecht Forum • Demos Forum/ City University of New York Graduate
Center • Humanist Center of Cultures • New York University • New York
City Council |
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| World
Policy Institute panel discussions:
| "Between
Host & Homeland:
The
Politicization of Europe's Second-Generation Diaspora"
A conference hosted by
the
Program on Citizenship & Security
at the World Policy Institute
and
the International Center for Migration Ethnicity and Citizenship
Friday, April 13, 2005 |
| "Global
Citizens or Local Citizens? National Loyalties in Play in an Age of
Migration"
Thursday, November 4, 2004 |
| "Terrorism's
Aftermath: America's War on Immigrants" December 2003 |
| "Why
Countries Go Bankrupt" November 2001 |
| "Grapes
of Wrath: Migrant Workers in the Global Economy" November 2000
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| South
Asian Journalists Association, May 2005
| "Turning
Your Story into a Book" with Irshad Manji, S Mitra Kalita, and
Nirav Desai
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| American
Society of Journalists and Authors, April 1999
| "Finding
Your Story's Center" with Stephen Dubner, Sam Freedman and
Jessica Seigel
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| Foundation
for Ethics and Meaning:
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"Reinventing Politics and Society" at the New Millennium
conference, May 2000 "On Being a Cosmopolitan" with Jason Hill |
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