The
Center for Global and Area Studies’
spring lecture series, “Mapping the Global Migration Net,” will launch on
Thursday, Feb. 14, with a discussion and film screening from 12:30-1:20 p.m. in
Room 116 Purnell Hall.
The
series, which is free and open to the public, will continue at the same time
each Thursday that UD is in session through May 16.
Subtitled
“Border Crossing, Technology and Human Rights in Our Global Journeys,” the
series focuses on the journeys of clandestine migrants from the perspective of
the migrants themselves, as well of researchers, humanitarians, policymakers,
artists and entrepreneurs.
Scholars
from the College of Arts and Sciences and from across the U.S. who study
migration in various parts of the world will take part in the series. Speakers
will include Dr. Unni Karunakara, former international president of Médecins
Sans Frontières
(Doctors Without Borders) on May 9 and Carol Bachelor, director of the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees’ Division of International Protection on April
25.
In
addition, three of the meetings will be experimental sessions featuring
real-time feeds in which the voices of resettled and clandestine migrants will
be heard and a musical performance art session in which students will
participate.
The
inaugural session on Feb. 14 is a talk and film screening by documentary filmmaker
Charles Fairbanks, who will discuss his film “The Modern Jungle.”
The
film is a portrait of globalization filtered through the fever dream of a
Mexican shaman who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed
nutritional supplement. Made in collaboration with Saul Kak, an ethnically
Zoque painter from Chiapas, Mexico, “The Modern Jungle” has won awards at film
festivals.
Fairbanks’
talk is titled “Visualizing Mobility and Changing Lives.”
The
series will continue with the following speakers and topics:
Feb. 21, Malasree Neepa Acharya of the Department
of Political Science and International Relations and the Horn Entrepreneurship
program at UD, “Mapping the Migration Net: Interconnecting Worlds.”
Feb. 28, Noelle Brigden of Marquette University, “The Migrant Passage:
Clandestine Journeys from Central America.”
March 7, Stephen Ruszczyk of Montclair State University, “Moral Career of
Migrant Il/Legality: Undocumented Youths in NYC and Paris Negotiating
Deportability and Regularization.”
March 14, Cristina Dragomir of Columbia University, “On the Move: Contradictory
Practices of Citizenship in South Asia.”
March 21, Lisa Poggiali of the University of Pennsylvania, “Waiting to Move,
Moving to Wait: Security in the Age of Mass Displacement.”
March 28, “Resettled Voices: Live Conversation from Thessaloniki and Berlin” moderated
from Lampedusa by Giacomo Orsini of the Université Catholique de Louvain.
April 11, Phillip Ayoub of Occidental College, “Migrant Communities and
Diaspora Impact in Facilitating Transnational Queer Mobilizations.”
April 18, Pablo Dominguez Galbraith of Princeton University, “Crossing Mexico:
Arts, Migration and Ecologies of Migrant Care in the Americas.”
April 25, Live conversation from Athens, Geneva and Newark, Delaware, with U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees and International Organization for Migration
delegates, moderated from Brussels by Radostina Primova, program director for
climate change, Heinrich Böll Foundation.
May 2, “Performing Migration: Live Sound Art Performance Premiere of
{interventions}” by Neepa Acharya, Baroque violin; John Walthausen, keyboards;
and international performance artists. The location for this session will be
announced later.
May 9, Dr. Unni Karunakara, former international president, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors
Without Borders.
May 16, Malasree Neepa Acharya, “Border Crossing, Technology and Human Rights
in Our Global World: How We Empower our Shared Journeys” with guests, students
Casey Moore and Ariana Gannon.
