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Migration and the Humanities
Speakers: Laura Briggs, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, and A. Naomi Paik
How did we get here? The Mahindra Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series on Migration and the Humanities presents a conversation about migration and the southern U.S. border.
Laura Briggs
Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Acting Professor of English,
Emory University.
A. Naomi Paik
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History,
University of Illinois
Moderated by Kirsten Weld
Professor of History,
Harvard University
According to the 2018 World Migration Report, there will be 405 million international migrants by 2050. Amid climate change, geopolitical instabilities, and authoritarian nationalism, borders have become crucial sites of both proliferating cruelty and outpourings of solidarity. Many of us are asking: How did we get here? And what can we do? This series brings together scholars and activists from multiple fields who can help us confront these questions with humanistic sensibility and depth of knowledge.
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