May 27, 2021 | “Re-Hearing: Racializing Discourses of Risk and Harm in a California Child Welfare Court” Panel title: Falling short of an ideal: Legal gaps, failures, and a push for reform, CRN on Ethnography, Law, and Society, Law and Society Association. |
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May 29, 2021 | Reader for Author Meets Reader Event, “Taking Children: A History of American Terror” by author Laura Briggs, CRN on Feminist Legal Theory, Law and Society Association. |
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June 2021 | “Challenging Beliefs about ‘Minimally-Fit’ Parental Care in Child Welfare Cases,” for the Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being Symposium, Organized by The Columbia Journal of Race and Law. |
Past Events
Nov 2020 | “Re-Hearing Stereotypes: Raciolinguistic Ideologies of Spanish Speakers in a California Child Welfare Court.” Invited talk for The Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory, Dept. Anthropology, UC San Diego. |
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May 2020 | “The Management of Risky Parents: Evaluating Noncompliance in Child Welfare Cases.” Law & Society Association. |
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Nov 2019 | “Establishing Jurisdiction: Conflicts in Ideologies of Adequate Parental Care in California.” American Anthropological Association. |
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Sep 2019 | “Managing the Boundaries of Parenthood.” Invited presentation. American Bar Foundation Seminar Series. Chicago, IL. |
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Nov 2018 | “Linguistic Hierarchies in Family Reunification: Barriers to ‘Good’ Parenting in U.S. Juvenile Court.” American Anthropological Association. |
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Oct 2018 | “Linguistic Sympathy among Interpreters in Juvenile Court.” Jurilinguistics II Conference, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Language and Law. University Pablo de Olavide, Spain. |
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Dec 2017 | “Language Barriers in a U.S Juvenile Dependency Court.” Transnational Law Summer Institute, Reproduction, Alienation, Intervention. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. |
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June 2015 | “English vs. Spanglish: Language Contact in East Los Angeles.” Jeunes Cherchers en Science du Langage, Contact de Langues. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. |