The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to Prefigurative Politics on the Eve of the US Presidential Elections, the second seminar of the Mobility in Post Democracy Seminar Series organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and co-sponsored by the Institute. Mobility in Post Democracy Post Democracy has recently arisen as a

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to Latinx: Defining Identity at the Borderlands, a Statue Salon Series event.                                       Drawing on Gloria Anzaldua’s borderlands framework, Chakira Haddock-Lazala, Ph.D. (CHA-Harvard Medical School), Jesus Barrios (Callen-Lorde Community Health Center + CUNY) and Tamara Oyola-Santiago (Student Health Services) will lead us in

  The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to Right of Refusal, the first seminar of the Mobility in Post Democracy Seminar Series organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and co-sponsored by the Institute. Right of Refusal With many states on the brink of a democratic collapse, the Mobility in

The Columbia University Maison Française hosts a film series on migration, Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today, which will take place October 13 – October 28, 2016. For a complete schedule of screenings, please visit: http://www.maisonfrancaise.org/filming-at-the-borders-migrating-to-europe-today Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today A special film series organized by the Columbia University Maison

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to a keynote lecture by Wendy Brown launching Mobility in Post Democracy seminar series. Entitled “Neoliberalism, Financialization, and Democracy: Ten Theses,” the keynote lecture maps the current landscape and possible futures in a post democratic era. Brown explores the transition from the political subject, homo politicus, to the neoliberal and anti-solidaristic homo

Join us for our last ZIMM Lecture of Fall 2016. Prof. Natasha Iskander, New York University. “Bonded: Migrant Workers, Global Capitalism, and the Rise of Unfreedom” Qatar, the host of the 2022 World Cup, has been called out for its labor practices. Human rights and labor organizations have condemned the treatment of migrant workers and have called the small gulf nation

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to host the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address by Judith Butler. With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, the UNHCR has called migrant deaths at

Join us for our first Zimm Lecture of Fall 2016, followed by a reception. Prof. Heike Drotbohm, University of Mainz, Germany. “Exploring contradictory politics of displacement: São Paulo’s humanitarianism and occupy movements” In the Brazilian megalopolis of São Paulo multiple types of poor and mobile populations share the need for shelter, legal protection and the access to other social

FORCED FROM HOME What We See: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for an engaging discussion featuring MSF leadership, aid workers, and outside experts. Using a combination of first-hand field experience and top-level insight, the speakers will discuss some of the most pressing needs of refugees and internally-displaced