The Citizenship in Movement Working Group and the Sociology Department present their final speaker of the semester, Linda Bosniak, with her talk, “Wrongs, Rights and Irregular Migrants.” Linda Bosniak is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is spending the 2015-2016 year as a Member-Scholar of the Institute For Advanced Study, […]
MEXICO DIALOGUES PUBLIC SECTOR, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND ACADEMIA SERIES Mexico Dialogues brings public officials with leading roles in shaping the social development of their country, together with highly committed scholars and civil society activists who will discuss the most relevant issues related to Mexico’s current agenda. The event will have four panels: Mexico’s International Agenda;
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CFP: Duke University Graduate Conference “Where I fare well, there is my home”: Migration, Past and Present, March 4, 2016 Call for Papers “Where I fare well, there is my home”: Migration, Past and Present Graduate Student Conference March 4, 2016 Durham, NC, USA Migration is a global phenomenon that has had a profound influence
Diaspora Disneys: Spectacular Homes and Homelands in the Global Age with Shelley Salamensky The Bark Room (Orientation Room), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 2 West 13th Street, Room M101, New York, NY 10011 In our increasingly mobile, global age, “home” may be something less grounded than acted out — yet no less real. Exploring bizarre
Futurographies: Cambodia-USA-France, a Multi-Media Exhibition Exploring Alternate Futures, on View at Parsons School of Design Sheila C. Design Center, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue Opening Reception: Thursday, Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m. *Featuring spoken word performances by Monica Sok and Peuo Tuy* On View: Friday, Nov. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 10 NEW
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Migration, Temporality and Sexuality in India Thursday October 29th, 6pm, Klein Conference Room, A510 66 West 12th Street, New York City. Over the past decade, a sea change has occurred in discourses of sexuality throughout the Global South. In this presentation, I review this set of changes in South Asia, by focusing on sex worker,
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The Sociology Department and the Citizenship in Movement Working Group proudly present a talk by Mahmood Mamdani: “Political Violence and Political justice: Rethinking Nuremberg in light of South Africa.” Mahmood Mamdani is professor and executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and professor of Anthropology,
Call for Papers Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation: Dismantling the Human Smuggler Narrative European University Institute Florence, Italy April 5-6, 2016 In contemporary mainstream narratives of migration, the human smuggler has earned a privileged if infamous spot as one of the most widely recognized and despised global predators. Smugglers are often referred to as orchestrators
Post-graduate fellowships are available for post-graduate students enrolled in a degree programme interested in the politics of human mobility. This includes topics related to, among others, urbanization; xenophobia; immigration and migration policy; and the governance of diversity. Newly enrolled and continuing students at the Masters and Doctoral levels are eligible. Students will be expected to work
When death is not the end By Ever Osorio, M.A. candidate in the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research. Sometimes death is not the end. This is not a religious or metaphysical predicament, but a material reality for thousands of families whose fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters have migrated “illegally”, and “irregularly”
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