As part of the Migrations Summer Institute, Crystal Baik (UC Riverside) and Ma Vang (UC Merced) will discuss their work on militarized migration through the lens of collaborative and public scholarship. The conversation will explore

the role of imagination, play, and experimentation play in one’s research, work, and teaching;how scholars of U.S. war, empire, and anti-colonial resistance "orient" themselves in relationship to the neoliberal settler university;how researchers might interrogate and shift the forms of their work, the methods of its dissemination, and its accessibility for various audiences.Crystal Mun-hye Baik is an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Riverside. Baik is the co-director of the Memory and Resistance Laboratory at UCR; a core member of the Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective, and a co-editor of the Critical Militarization Studies book series at University of Michigan Press.

Ma Vang is an associate professor of critical race and ethnic studies at UC Merced. She founded the program in critical race and ethnic studies as a new major at UC Merced and served as the program’s inaugural chair from 2017-2020. Vang is also a founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective. Vang is also co-editor of the Critical Refugee Studies book series with the University of California Press.

Register in advance to attend.