Renée de la Torre has a Masters degree in communication studies, from ITESO, and a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Social Anthropology, from the University of Guadalajara. Since 1993 she has been working as a Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at CIESAS (Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology), in Guadalajara, Mexico.

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents:   HAGAR KOTEF, “Freedom as Violence, or: a (Post-)Colonial Account of Mobility, Homelessness, and Political Belonging. December 2nd, 6pm to 8pm, Wolff Conference Room, 1103. Albert and Vera List Academic Center, 6 East 16 Street 11th Floor, New York City Patterns of mobility and immobility (real or imagined) can be mapped

The Citizenship in Movement Working Group and the Sociology Department present their final speaker of the semester, Linda Bosniak, with her talk, “Wrongs, Rights and Irregular Migrants.” Linda Bosniak is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is spending the 2015-2016 year as a Member-Scholar of the Institute For Advanced Study,