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
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,
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,
The border surrounding the territory of the United States has been interiorized. As efforts intensify to police immigration in the name of creating “Secure Communities” (until recently a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s immigration policy), the locus of securitization has become the spaces within national borders, including states and local municipalities. The workplace, too, has
In 2009, Human Rights Watch published a report, detailing alarming labor conditions and human rights violations on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi where a new Guggenheim Museum was to be built, one of several international cultural institutions. In response, several dozen artists, curators and cultural producers launched the Gulf Labor Artist Coalition with the intention
Securitized Immigration and the Electronic Surveillance of Workers in the United States Daniel M. Goldstein Department of Anthropology Rutgers University The border surrounding the territory of the United States has been interiorized. As efforts intensify to police immigration in the name of creating “Secure Communities” (until recently a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s immigration
Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Programs of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) and
Jason De León will give a lecture entitled “The Land of Open Graves: Necroviolence and the Politics of Migrant Death in the Arizona Desert”. The event will be held in the Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, 63 5th Avenue Building (University Center), Lower Level, room UL 105. Since the mid-1990s’, the U.S. federal government
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility proudly announces “Reimagine Belonging.” The event co-sponsored by the Zolberg Institute is organized by With Wings and Roots, and marks the launch of the interactive website ReimagineBelonging.org. Visitors will attend a panel discussion on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and visions of citizenship; explore an installation of
This three-day event is organized by The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) in partinership with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM). QDEP is a collective alternative to detention program and community organizing project for trans/queer/HIV+ immigrant detainees, undocumented folks, asylum seekers and their families in New York City. QDEP a member of the Detention Watch
