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-9 posts tagged "Labor Cafe"
Kelsey Quint | Monday, May 1, 2023
Each month, the Center for Social Concerns transforms the Geddes Hall Coffee House into a forum for discussion, debate and caffeine. Notre Dame community members gathered Friday to discuss issues affecting workers in the spring semester’s final installment of the Labor Cafe. As always, Dan Graff, history professor and director of the Higgins Labor Program,
Peter Breen | Monday, October 3, 2022
Members of the Notre Dame community convened Friday evening in Geddes Hall, the home of the Center for Social Concerns (CSC), for the first Labor Cafe of the fall semester. Dan Graff, history professor and the Higgins Labor Program director at the CSC, kicked off the conversation. “[The Labor Cafe] is the longest running vehicle
Alexandra Muck | Wednesday, August 29, 2018
While the Higgins Labor Program has been around in various forms since the early 1990s, current director Daniel Graff, who has a joint appointment in the history department, is focused on bringing together the research and student engagement sides of the program. Graff, who was appointed director in 2014, said Higgins was originally founded by
Andrew Cameron | Monday, April 10, 2017
In Friday’s installment of the Higgins Labor Program’s (HLP) Labor Cafe discussions, members of the Notre Dame community gathered in the Geddes Hall Coffee House to discuss the supply chains of Notre Dame licensees Students from the Center for Social Concerns Fall 2016 Human Trafficking Seminar delivered a presentation on the the topic titled “Exploring the Risk of Forced
Natalie Weber | Wednesday, September 7, 2016
What are the origins of Labor Day? What is a just wage? How are racial justice and workers’ rights intertwined? These are all questions one might discuss for project or discussion group sponsored by the Higgins Labor Program, part of the Center for Social Concerns. According to the Center for Social Concerns’ website, the Higgins Labor
Meghan Sullivan | Monday, February 22, 2016
Last Friday, members of the Labor Café, a biweekly event hosted by the Higgins Labor Studies Program to foster discussion on work, inequality and social justice issues, met at the Snite Museum of Art to discuss Henry Mosler’s “Forging the Cross.” Bridget Hoyt, curator of education at the Snite, led the discussion. “We do these single-work
Meghan Sullivan | Monday, January 25, 2016
Last Friday, the Higgins Labor Studies Program hosted Labor Café, an event held multiple times throughout the semester to promote discussion on work-related social justice issues. Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Studies Program, opened Friday’s Labor Café discussion. “The Higgins Labor Program … is an interdisciplinary unit on campus that sponsors research, teaching
Gabriela Malespin | Monday, March 23, 2015
Representatives of UNITE HERE, the labor union representing Ameristar Casino employees, described their campaign against the casino during the most recent Labor Cafe discussion sponsored by the Higgins Labor Program — a series of monthly discourses dedicated to educating the Notre Dame community about labor issues. Dominique Wilson, a representative from the Chicago-based UNITE HERE Local 1 chapter and employee at Bluechip Casino, and Stuart
Megan Valley | Sunday, February 8, 2015
Bridget Hoyt, curator of education at the Snite Museum of Art, led a discussion Friday of photos by social documentary photographer Sebastiao Salgado at the biweekly Labor Café meeting. Two of Salgado’s photo series, of the gold mines of Serra Pelada in Brazil and the oil field fires in Kuwait, were selected and presented by Hoyt