Este seminario tiene como ambito de mejor entender como funciona el programa de la Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo (TTF) en Mexico, su desarollo y sus efectos sobre los trabajadores, la industria y la sociedad.

Los apresentadores incluyen Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra. Antonieta Barron (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Dra. Martha Garcia (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur) y Dr. Manuel Angel Castillo (El Colegio de Mexico).

La discusion tendra lugar en espanol y sera traducido en ingles.

La Migration Initiative, la Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic y The Center for the Study of Inequality apoyan a este evento.

This workshop seeks to understand working mechanism of the agricultural temporary foreign workers program entitled 'Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo' in Mexico, its development and effects on workers, the industry and society.

Speakers include Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra. Antonieta Barron (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Dra. Martha Garcia (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur) y Dr. Manuel Angel Castillo (El Colegio de Mexico).

The event will take place in Spanish and will be translated into English.

The event is supported by the Migration Initiative, the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic and the Center for the Study of Inequality.

Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas.

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Subrina Shen is an assistant professor at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin.

When having a higher-status follower promotes exploration: Hierarchical inconsistency, goal alignment, and exploration in product development teams

A burgeoning stream of work views organizational internal inconsistency as an impetus for innovation and strategic change. Building on this literature, this paper examines an important yet under-studied aspect of internal misfit/inconsistency: global-local hierarchical inconsistency in product development teams, or the situation in which team members have misaligned rank orderings in the global (organizational) and local (within-team) hierarchies. In contrast to prior research which shows hierarchical inconsistency to increase conflict and thus hurt performance, we argue that the conflict induced by global-local hierarchical inconsistency could spark explorative search–an important antecedent for innovation and strategic change–when team members have aligned goals. We propose a novel mechanism–goal-aligned social rank enhancing behavior–to explain the positive effect of global-local hierarchical inconsistency. We empirically tested these arguments with data on A/B testing experiments around a social networking app product in a Chinese internet company between 2019 and 2021. The results show that hierarchical inconsistency encourages search and exploration when departmental goals are aligned in a team. Our study contributes to the burgeoning discussion around the impact of organizational internal misfit on innovation and strategic change as well as the literature on consequences of status inconsistency.

Subrina's research examines the creation, evaluation, and commercialization of innovative ideas in emerging technology sectors, with a contextual focus on artificial intelligence technologies. It is informed by both organizational sociology and strategy research.

​​​Subrina's work has been published in Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. Subrina's research has won a number of awards, including the 2021 Conference Theme Best Paper Award from the International Association of Chinese Management Research and the Best Paper Award from the 2018 International Conference on Innovation Studies.

"What Everyone Should Know about ASL and American Deaf Culture"
Corrine Occhino
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University

ASL (American Sign Language) is experiencing a pop-culture moment. In the past few years, ASL has been visible in TV-shows, movies, commercials, and in sports and news broadcasts. ASL programs are popping up in schools and colleges all over the U.S. Despite dips in enrollment for many college programs, student enrollment in ASL classes is at an all-time high, as it has quickly become one of the most popular languages to take on college campuses. But despite its growing popularity, the hearing world knows little about ASL, its role in Deaf culture, its status as a real, human language, or the daily frustrations many Deaf ASL signers experience as they fight for access and inclusion in a hearing world.

In this talk I will take you on a whirlwind tour of ASL and the signing communities who use it. In the first half of my talk, I will discuss ASL's roots in Deaf Education and the role segregation played in the creation of ASL varieties. I will talk about the communities of signers who use ASL, why ASL is a Deaf language, and why language deprivation is still a very real problem for deaf children in the U.S.

In the second half of my talk, I will talk about some interesting linguistic properties of ASL and what research on ASL has taught us about language, and language learning. I will end with a discussion of how learning ASL opens the door to understanding Deaf culture, but also invites us to interrogate the ways we can disrupt the hegemony of hearingness, making way for a more inclusive and equitable society.

Bio: Dr. Corrine Occhino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and in the Department of Teaching and Leadership at Syracuse University. Dr. Occhino received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 2016. In 2017, she joined the Center on Culture and Language at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology where she ran the ASL Assessment Project. She now runs the Multimodal Language Lab at Syracuse University, where she uses a combination of corpus-based, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic approaches to study language in the visual modality. Most recently, Dr. Occhino has published articles on the phonological organization and structure of ASL, sociolinguistic variation in ASL, and on the role of experience and construal in ASL-English bilingual language processing. Dr. Occhino also works on issues related to language access and social justice, equity, and inclusion in deaf communities, collaborating on research projects aimed at improving reproductive health outcomes for deaf women and increasing the representation of minoritized dialects of ASL and their signers in the documentation and study of ASL.

This event will be held in person in G25 Stimson and will also be streamed live over Zoom. Join us at the LRC or on Zoom.

The event is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.