The California Border From Alta to Baja

Arroyo Residential Seminar (Symbsys 16)

The California Border From Alta to Baja

Reunion Dinner and Discussion: Friday, Nov. 14

November 13, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

A Reunion Dinner and Philoso-tea Discussion for
“The California Border from Alta to Baja” (Symbsys 16)
Friday, November 14

Dinner (6 pm): Wilbur Dining Hall East, Big Arroyo Table
Join us for a reunion dinner and discussion featuring Enrique Davalos,
professor of Chicano Studies and San Diego City College. Enrique led our tour in tijuana.
Guest meals available if you don’t have a meal plan. Email Todd or show up at 6 pm to claim a guest meal.

After Dinner (7 pm): Arroyo Lounge, map link:
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=06-400A
(go around to the glass lounge door for entry)
Join Enrique Davalos, prof. of Chicano Studies at San Diego City College, and a Mexico-U.S. border activist, for a Philoso-tea discussion of immigration and globalization.

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Topic Table: Post-trip discussion

May 26, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Tuesday, May 27, 6-7:30 pm. Topic Table: Post-trip Discussion.  A discussion and reflection on all the issues raised by this class, in the Wilbur East Dining Hall.

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Trip to the Borderlands

May 5, 2008 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized

The main event of this course was held this weekend. Here is a retrospective schedule:
Friday, May 2

  • 12:30-1:15 pm Travel from Stanford to San Francisco International Airport
  • 2:45 -4:15 pm Fly from SFO to San Diego
  • 4:45-8:30 pm Ground transportation from San Diego Airport to our lodging in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
  • 8:30-10 pm Dinner

Saturday, May 3

Sunday, May 4

  •  Morning and lunch: free time
  • 1-2 pm Clean up and packing
  • 2-6 pm Travel from Rosarito Beach to San Diego
  • 9-10:30 pm Fly from San Diego to San Francisco
  • 10:45-11:30 pm Return from SFO to Stanford

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Movie: Traffic

April 23, 2008 · 4 Comments · Pre-trip events

Ninth pre-trip event:

Thursday, April 24, 7-9:30 pm.  Film: Traffic (2000) – An award-winning drama directed by Steven Soderberg. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives affect each other even though they do not meet. Based on the story of the “Tijuana Cartel”.

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Philoso-tea: The Immigration Debate

April 23, 2008 · 1 Comment · Pre-trip events

Seventh pre-trip event:

Tuesday, April 22, 6-7:30 pm.  Philoso-tea: The Immigration Debate. An Arroyo-style discussion of the principles underlying immigration, following up on the “Immigration” episode of Philosophy Talk.

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Documentary: Maquilapolis

April 18, 2008 · 2 Comments · Pre-trip events

 Fifth pre-trip event:

Friday, April 18, 6-7 pm. Film: Maquilapolis (2006) – A documentary film telling the story of how a few Tijuanense women balance life working in maquiladora factories with their struggle for justice in the system that governs their place of work. American filmmakers brought together a few women who took the majority of the footage as a diary of their day to day existence.

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Topic Table: Effects of Immigration on Children and Adolescents

April 16, 2008 · 2 Comments · Pre-trip events

Fourth pre-trip event:

Wednesday, April 16, 6-7 pm.  Topic Table: Effects of Immigration on Children and Adolescents.  An informal discussion at an Arroyo “Topic Table” (dining hall tables configured for group discussion at lunch or dinner), with Cristina Leal of the Education School.

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Documentary: Crossing Arizona

April 10, 2008 · 4 Comments · Pre-trip events

Third pre-trip event:

Friday, April 11, 5:30-7 pm. Crossing Arizona (2006) – A documentary film showing different sides of the immigration debate on the Arizona border through the eyes of those most affected by it.

  • Supplementary film to view online: A Death in the Desert (2004) – A Frontline World documentary about the tragic journey of Matias Garcia, a chili pepper farmer from a small Zapotec Indian village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, who crossed the border looking for work and died in the Arizona desert.

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Documentary: Made in L.A.

April 9, 2008 · 5 Comments · Pre-trip events

Second and Eighth pre-trip events:

Thursday, April 10, 7-8:15 pm or Wednesday, April 23, 10:30-11:45 pm. Made in L.A. (2007) – A documentary film about three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles’s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.

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Documentary: The Other War

April 9, 2008 · 4 Comments · Pre-trip events

First and Sixth pre-trip events:

Friday, April 4, 6:30-7:30 pm or Monday, April. 21, 10-11 pm. The Other War (2007, rough cut) – an independent film about the anti-immigration movement in Los Angeles.

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