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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins
DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). 
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Diffusion without Isomorphism: The Interstitial Politics of the Official Categorization of Blackness in Mexico (1994-2015)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract :\nOver the past thirty years\, Latin American censuses have introduced self-identification questions for people of African descent. After decades of demographic invisibility\, most states in the region now enumerate Afrodescendent populations using several ethnoracial categories of Blackness. Census categories are crucial in estimating the demographic composition and ethnoracial inequality affecting these populations. However\, few studies have examined the conditions that allowed for the heterogeneous diffusion of categories of Blackness in Latin America. This article analyzes Mexico’s 2015 Intercensal Survey\, the first official instrument to enumerate Black people in this country's history\, to uncover the enabling conditions for this shift. Using a convergent mixed methods design\, the analysis shows that the official enumeration of Blackness unfolded through an institutionally liminal space of classification struggles. While the category “Afrodescendant” was endorsed by internationally oriented state actors and ethnohistorical researchers\, “Black” gained legitimacy from activists focused on cultural politics and researchers mobilizing ethnographic knowledge\, and “Afromexican” was supported by activists advocating for development politics and locally oriented state actors. This article advances a constitutive argument that helps explain under what conditions census politics emerge as an interstitial space of contention that challenges the routine exercise of the symbolic power of the state to enumerate its populations.
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Exploring Your Future: Summer Associate Program at the Institute for Defense Analyses
DESCRIPTION:Please tune in on September 18th for our latest student-focused event – Exploring Your Future: Summer Associate Program at the Institute for Defense Analyses. This month we’ll be joined byfour panelists who started their research careers at IDA as summer interns! Heather\, Megan\, Jay and Janet will share perspectives on their uniquecareer paths and how the IDA Summer Associate Program shaped where they are today. Plus\, insights into project work\, skills development\, and tips on applying to the program.  Learn how you can put your education to work while making a tangible impact at a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. We’ll also share backgroundon IDA culture and the mission behind the work we do. The IDA Summer Associate Program is a paid summer opportunity that takes placeat our Virginia and Washington\, D.C. offices for approximately 10 weeks every summer. The program provides students with a unique opportunity to use their quantitative and analytic skills to work on challenging real-world national security issues. This program is for continuing students\, so applicants must have plans to return to school in the fall. We seek both undergraduate (rising seniors) and graduate students with strong GPAs in a variety of disciplines\, including: computer science\, mathematics\, chemistry\, physics\, operations research\, aero/astronautical engineering\, mechanical or electrical engineering\, materials science\, biological sciences\, environmental sciences\, learning sciences\, physical sciences\, social sciences\, statistics\, information technology\, economics\, behavioral sciences\, international relations and policy studies. Have specific questions for our panelists? Email us at employment@ida.org and we’ll answer themduring the session. You’ll also have the chance to ask questions live during the panel.  Tune in via Zoom on September\, 18th at 12pm EST for this virtual opportunity! Please click the link below to join the webinar:https://ida-org.zoomgov.com/j/1615153527Passcode: 369321
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