Past Events

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Join TRIO SSS, as well as representatives from the Global Hub and the Global Experiences Office, for a night of global trivia, prizes, and learning about international opportunities available at Pitt! Hear from undergraduate students who have and are currently taking part in a range of global experiences, from scholarships to area studies certificate programs to co-majoring in international area studies and Russian, and have the chance to mingle with students and staff to support you in your own international journeys.

Attention: Undergraduate students! Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers!

Register here: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/pop-up_registration Free and open to the public

Attention: Undergraduate students! Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers!

Short Bio: Mireya Loza is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the American Studies Program at Georgetown University and a curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Loza is a public historian who contributed oral histories, trained communities, and helped amass over 800 oral histories with bracero communities featured in the Bracero History Archive. These oral histories became a cornerstone of her book, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC Press). Her first book won the Theodore Saloutos Book Prize awarded by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. Title: Beyond Braceros: How Temporary Labor Shaped Industrialized Agriculture in California,1942-1965 Abstract: As the largest employer of Mexican guest workers during the era of the Bracero Program, California growers stand center stage in this talk about race and food production in America.
Beyond braceros, growers relied increasingly, but not exclusively, on Mexican undocumented workers and actively recruited laborers from Japan and Puerto Rico. California growers’
global search for cheap labor challenges long-held assumptions that Mexican workers were the logical, if not inevitable, ideal farmworker. This talk will explain the lobbying efforts, political reach, and racial meaning-making of California growers as they handpicked their most coveted farmworker and explain how the contemporary reality in American agriculture was not inevitable but created by design through policy and grower influence. This event is co-sponsored by CESR and CLAS, and is part of Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month!