Wednesday, December 1, 7-8:30 pm EST.

Join the BGSU Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, and Drs. Bruce Collet and Luis Fernando Macías for a discussion about the sanctuary movement in U.S. churches as well as public schools.

About this event

On Wednesday, December 1st , from 7 to 8:30 pm EST, Dr. Bruce Collet, Professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Policy in the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University, and his research partner, Dr. Luis Fernando Macías, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno, will discuss the differences and commonalities of nearly two dozen sanctuary churches and schools across the country. This virtual discussion will examine how churches and school sanctuaries function to resist anti-immigrant sentiment in the contemporary moment. Collet will be sharing his research findings as part of his Faculty Fellowship with BGSU’s interdisciplinary public humanities center, the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS).

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