Next week, the students and filmmakers behind “Change the Subject,” will be on campus to screen their documentary and talk about their advocacy for undocumented students’ rights. The screening is free to attend and will take place on Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. in Spanos Theatre. Learn more about the event here.
The film tells the story of Dartmouth College students who were committed to advancing the rights and dignity of undocumented people by challenging the use of the term “illegal aliens” as a subject heading in the library catalog. The students’ advocacy took them from Dartmouth’s Baker-Berry Library to Congress, demonstrating how an instance of campus activism entered the national spotlight and how a cataloging term became a flashpoint in the immigration debate on Capitol Hill.
Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares and Estéfani Marín, who are both featured in the film and members of the Dartmouth College Class of 2017, as well as Jill Baron, the librarian for romance languages and Latin American, Latin@ & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, who appears in the film and serves as co-director. The panel will be moderated by Adrienne Garcia-Specht, a financial aid counselor, president of the Chicanx Latinx Faculty Staff Association at Cal Poly, and a steering committee member of the Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success (CCC-USS).
This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to share this with any groups or individuals you think may be interested in attending. If you’re able to help advertise the event through your social or any other channels, it’d be very much appreciated! I’ve attached some draft posts for social media and the event’s flyer and logo. The screening also has a Facebook event page, here, and an accompanying story that could be shared as well.
