We are delighted to share that, together with the Center for Cultural Studies, we will be hosting scholar-activist Professor Saturnino ‘Jun’ Borras at UCSC this winter quarter.
Jun Borras is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and is a long-time agrarian movement activist in the Philippines and internationally. He was a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the La Via Campesina during its formative years, in 1993-1996. He is a recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Grant, enabling him to study how land rushes shape global social life, and does fieldwork for this in Southeast Asia and China, Ethiopia and Colombia. He works in the tradition of, and at the same time studies, scholar-activism. He was Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years until 2023. He co-organizes the regular International Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism meant for PhD researchers and early career scholars from/in the Global South.
We invite you to be a part of our engagement with Jun Borras and his works at the two events we have planned (more details below). For Slow Seminar, please REGISTER HERE
For Slow Seminar, please REGISTER HERE.