Global Commitment Initiative

Ria Custodio
rcustodio@csusm.edu
http://www.csusm.edu/chabss/gci

Community Service and Volunteer Fair 2016

San Marcos, USU Ballroom
1
March
2016
Elizabeth Matthew
ematthew@csusm.edu

The CHABSS Global Commitment Initiative engages students in activities to broaden their understanding of global issues. The GCI Community Service Fair is an opportunity to put that global knowledge into action locally. Learn about volunteer opportunities that allow you to serve your local community while earning valuable experience and preparing for future careers.

Purgatorio Film Screening

San Marcos, USU Ballroom
29
March
2016
Elizabeth Matthew
ematthew@csusm.edu

Presented by The College of Humanities, Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Global Commitment Initiative with support from Co-Curricular Funding Awards, Film Studies, Latin@ Center, and Border Angels de CSUSM

Film description: At times harrowing, at times hauntingly beautiful, “Purgatorio” exposes the politics of and around the US-Mexico border not so much by explicitly addressing the technical intricacies of migration regimes, but by capturing experiences in the border region on a human scale. In its display of the widespread exposure to different forms of violence on both sides of the border, the film also succeeds in depicting the peculiar interplay between the presence and the absence of government authorities that structures ‘la frontera’. This film should be of interest to everyone in the social sciences and the humanities who teaches in migration and border studies.