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Border Talks

Tues Feb 25 and Tues March 3. “Border Talks.” Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square 5th Fl, 5:00-7:00.

(These talks frame conceptual approaches to borders and explore spaces of mobility/immobility, imaginaries of closure or opening, and acts of resistance.)

February 25.

  • Julie Mostov (Liberal Studies) “Resisting the Challenge of Hard Borders”
  • Christian Martin (Center for European and Mediterranean Studies) “Structural Transformation of Democracy: Globalization and Conceptions of National Borders”
  • David Ludden (History) “A History of Violence – Borders and South Asia”
  • Cristina Beltran (Social and Cultural Analysis)”Migrant Violence and the Dream of Frontier Freedom.”
  • Simón Ventura Trujillo (English) “The Borderlands and Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Studies.”

March 3

  • Dina Siddiqi (Liberal Studies) “Bordering Practices and the Making of Muslim Bodies.”
  • Natasha Iskander (Wagner School of Public Policy) “How the Border Splits the Body”
  • Jini Kim Watson (English and Comparative Literature) “Genres of the Borderscape: Behrouz Boochani and Australia’s Offshore Detention ‘Regime’”
  • Vasuki Nesiah (Gallatin School of Individualized Study)”Spatial Imaginaries of Closure”
  • Marie Cruz Soto (Gallatin School of Individualized Study) “Colonial Borders: Puerto Rico and the US Empire”

 February 25, 2020 

Location: Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square

Global Asia Program