ASYLUM SEEKERS: Michele Waslin and Carol Cleaveland discuss their book “Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Survival,” based on eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and gang members. The authors describe the women’s histories prior to crossing the border, and the legal strategies they use to convince immigration judges that rape and other forms of “private violence” should merit asylum. Cleaveland is professor of social work at George Mason University and Michele Waslin is assistant director of the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center.
They will be in discussion with Susan Conley de Castro, retired immigration judge, and moderator Makenzie Heinrichs of the co-sponsoring Binger Center for New Americans. Free. 3 p.
m. Monday, University of Minnesota Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st.
Ave. S., Mpls.
Register at z.umn.edu/privateviolence .
TAIYON J. COLEMAN: St. Paul scholar, educator and award-winning writer reads from “Traveling Without Moving: Essays From a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America.
” Free. 7 p.m.
Thursday, University of Minnesota Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S.
, Mpls. In conversation with Kirsten Delegard, co-founder of the Mapping Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries. SHANNON GIBNEY: Reading of the children’s picture book “We Mi.