Past Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
Human history is a shared chronicle of migration. According to a recent United Nations World Migration Report, there are over 281 million migrants around the world. These migrants bring with them a multitude of proven benefits for their new homes: new languages, cultures, customs, and economic activity. Migrants have always faced threats to their rights, dignity and well-being. The early stages of the global pandemic posed a new challenge altogether, essentially halting the movement of peoples between countries. However, remittances have rebounded and even reached historical highs in several countries, signaling that global migration will continue as it has in the past. This Interdisciplinary Lecture Series includes presentations and discussions on a variety of topics that incite, impede, or are consequent of migration both within the United States and across the world.
Past Events
SEPTEMBER 2022
"From Globalism to Retro-Capitalism: Rising Authoritarianism and Immigration in the United States"
Featuring Dr. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University
Presented by the Global Studies Program
OCTOBER 2022
"The Making of a Migrant Public Sphere: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the Midwest"
Featuring Dr. Juan Ignacio Mora, Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University - Bloomington
Presented by the Latin American & Latinx Studies Program
NOVEMBER 2022
"Migration and Miscommunication"
Featuring Dr. Katerina Linos, Professor of Law at University of California - Berkeley
Presented by the Arabic Studies Program
FEBRUARY 2023
"Ideological Perspectives, Immigration Bias and Legal Decision Making"
Featuring Dr. Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Presented by the Psychology of Crime & Justice Program