THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY

This year's Campus Community Book Project is The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea. All events are open to the public, and all except the author's Nov. 28 evening talk are free. The book project is sponsored by the Office of Campus Community Relations.

Oct. 29 — Medical Students' Per-

spective on Immigrant Health Issues. Panel: students from the UC Davis Health System's Paul Hom clinic (Asian-Pacific Islander), Clinica Tepati (Hispanic) and Shifa Cinic (Middle Eastern and East Indian). Moderator: Jesse Joad, associate dean, School of Medicine. 4:10-5:30 p.m., MUII, Memorial Union.

Oct. 30 — Youth Perspectives on Trans-nationalism. Panel: Marisela Rodriguez, Community Development Graduate Group; and Lucia Kimble and Jennifer Gong, Youth in Focus, Building a College Pipeline for Immigrant Youth in Sacramento Schools. Moderator: Jim Grieshop, 4-H Center for Youth, UC Cooperative Extension. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Regional Change and the 4-H Center for Youth Development. 3:10-5 p.m., East Conference Room, Memorial Union.

Oct. 31 — War Refugees and Immigration: Personal Stories. Robert Ronald, Holocaust survivor from Germany; plant biology professor Katayoon Dehesh, from Iran; and Ayad Al-Qazzaz, sociology professor, California State University, Sacramento, from Iraq. 1:10-2:30 p.m., East Conference Room, Memorial Union.

Nov. 1 — Arab and Muslim American

Communities in the U.S.: Immigra-tion, Race and Terror. Panel: Nancy Hormochea, immigration lawyer, Arab Resource and Organizing Collective; Summer Hararah, UC Davis student; Steven Salaita, assistant professor, English, Virginia Tech; Wazhma Mojaddidi, immigration lawyer, member of the board of directors of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Moderator: Sunaina Maira, associate professor, Asian American Studies. 6:30-8 p.m., MU II, Memorial Union. Co-sponsored by American Studies, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, English and Middle East-South Asian Studies.

Art and photo exhibits

ProtestArte II — Screenprints from the Chicana/o Poster Workshop with art professor Malaquias Montoya. Oct. 31-Dec. 6, The Gallery, second floor, Memorial Union (gallery hours 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday); reception, 6-8 p.m. Nov. 7.

The Immigrants' Rights Movement, first floor, Shields Library, through Dec. 7; and Border Control, Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis, through Nov. 28. Both feature photography by Francisco J. Dominguez

Author's visit

Nov. 28 — Panel discussion on immigration policy and enforcement. Set to join Urrea are Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, professor, Chicana/o Studies; Philip Martin, professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics; Julia Mendoza, School of Law's Immigration Clinic; and Ralph Ogden, sheriff, Yuma County, Ariz. 4-5:15 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Free.

Nov. 28 — Author's talk, 8-9:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center. Tickets required; they are available for purchase through the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787,

or www.mondaviarts.org. Book signing scheduled from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Complete schedule

occr.ucdavis.edu (click on "Campus Community Book Project" near the upper left corner of the page).

Media Resources

Clifton B. Parker, Dateline, (530) 752-1932, cparker@ucdavis.edu

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