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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
February Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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February Public Conversation Series:
Asian Americans and the Curse of Competence
Jennifer Lee (Columbia University) and Crystal Parikh (NYU) will engage in conversation on "Asian Americans and the Curse of Competence." Speakers will be introduced by Maria Abascal (NYU).
Jennifer Lee is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. An award-winning author and experienced public commentator, she has been uniquely successful in placing the study of Asian Americans centrally in the discipline. She is author or co-author of four-award winning books, including Asian American Achievement Paradox which garnered five national book awards. In it, she and her co-author dispel the cultural fallacy that Asian Americans excel in education because they value education more than other groups. Her work has also focused on immigrant entrepreneurship and ethnic conflict, intermarriage and multiracial identification, the battle over affirmative action, and the surge in anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, which she presented to the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. In her most recent project, Lee shifts our attention to the workplace, where Asian Americans lag behind all racial and ethnic groups in promotion to managerial and executive ranks in spite of their education, work experience, and job performance. Presumed competent, Asian Americans are not presumed fit to lead.
Crystal Parikh is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and English at New York University. She specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary transnational American literature and culture, with a focus on comparative race and ethnic studies, as well as ethical and political theory and gender and sexuality studies. In addition to numerous essays and articles, Professor Parikh has published Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), which was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literature. She is also the author of An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture (Fordham University Press, 2009), which was awarded the Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary Studies. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (2019), and she co-edited with Daniel Y. Kim, The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015). Professor Parikh is currently serving as the Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
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Date: February 15, 2024
Time: Reception at 5:00pm, conversation at 6:00pm
Where: Rudin Forum, Wagner School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10012
Who: Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the Department of Sociology, and the Wagner School of Public Service
The event is public and open to non-NYU community members.
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| Upcoming Public Conversation Series
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March 14, 2024, "City of the World" featuring Phil Kasinitz (CUNY) and Marion Casey (NYU)
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April 24, 2024, "Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement" featuring Melissa Fleming (United Nations) and Mohamad Bazzi (NYU)
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| Graduate Student Award for Summer Research
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The NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th annual Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration.
The award funds research or artistic production in an array of academic disciplines, including in the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical and natural sciences, and professional fields (e.g. law, public policy, urban planning, engineering, and business). We welcome research that is innovative in conception and that spans disciplinary boundaries. Research that compares migration dynamics in different geo-political regions is especially encouraged.
Applications will open on February 5, 2024 and will be due on March 29, 2024. More details coming soon.
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Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash.
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In each digest, we will list upcoming events for the month related to the topic of migration that may be of interest to you. Events upcoming this month are below.
If you have an event happening next month, please let us know using the information at the end of this newsletter.
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Talk: Writing Across Borders with Shehan Karunatilaka
Explore the captivating realm of Shehan Karunatilaka’s fiction, which masterfully intertwines the surreal and humorously dark. "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" is noted as “an afterlife noir” that reflects Sri Lanka’s tumultuous history through a unique lens. In this session, Shehan will share excerpts from his work and discuss his artistic craft, inspiration, and the nuances of addressing conflict and contested memories in writing. Drawing influence from global literary icons like Kurt Vonnegut and Margaret Atwood, Shehan's writing effortlessly connects local experiences to a worldwide audience.
Date: February 5, 2024
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Where: NYUAD Campus, Conference Center
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
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Lecture: In Her Own Words with Isabel Sandoval
For her final event as the A/P/A Institute’s 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence, Isabel Sandoval presents a lecture about cultivating her sensibility and maintaining her integrity as a self-taught filmmaker. In an industry dominated by cisgender white men, Sandoval will discuss how her multiple identities as a migrant woman of color inform her understanding of the language of cinema and her approach to creative collaboration. She will also share updates on her ongoing projects Tropical Gothic and Moonglow, as well as her aspirations to write a manuscript on creating a personal and sensual cinema.
Date: February 6, 2024
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Where: NYU Silver Center, Jurow Hall & Silverstein Lounge, 31 Washington Place, 1st Floor
Who: Asian/Pacific/American Institute
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Film Screening and Q&A: ÉLEFA (2022) with CineCLACS Film Club
Join the CineCLACS Film Club for a screening of ÉLEFAN (2022) directed by Daniel Díaz. The screening will be followed with a virtual q&a with filmmaker, Daniel Díaz and Santiago Peluffo Soneyra, Co-Director of Latin Elephant.
ÉLEFAN (2022)* is a documentary short film (27 min) that explores the relationship between space and identity among London's Latin American community in the years leading up to the demolition of Elephant & Castle shopping centre.
The UK is home to 250,000 Latin Americans; some estimates put the true figure at over 1 million. London’s Elephant and Castle shopping centre has been the community’s primary hub for decades. After more than ten years of uncertainty, controversial plans to demolish the shopping centre finally moved ahead in 2021.
*with English subtitles
Date: February 9, 2024
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Where: KJCC Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South
Who: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to learn more about this film screening and Q&A.
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Research Workshop: The Communist International, Forged Passports and the Interwar Border Regimes in the Middle East
Based on research at the archives of the Communist International and an array of state and police archives, this paper dissects the tension between the rise of new border regimes in the Middle East and the emergence of the global communist movement around the Comintern. It explores what the use of forged passports by communist militants could tell us about these two coeval processes. Accordingly, it argues that the rise of a Comintern counter-infrastructure to forge travel documents for communists, as well as their widespread use in the region, was a sign of Communist International’s efforts to operate as a supranational polity in the rapidly bordering interwar world.
When you RSVP, you will receive a work-in-progress that must be read before the workshop.
Date: February 15, 2024
Time: 5:00-7:30pm
Where: Kevorkian Center, 255 Sullivan Street
Who: Hagop Kevorkian Center
Register to learn more about this research workshop.
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Talk: "Indispensable to Trade," Money Counterfeiters, Migrants, and Business in Atlantic South America, 1880-1940
The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) hosts the talk "Indispensable to Trade': Money Counterfeiters, Migrants, and Business in Atlantic South America, 1880-1940", by Diego Galeano (Pontificia Universidade Catolica-Rio de Janeiro).
This event is free and open to the public. All attendees must register by 5:00pm on Wednesday before the event. For information or to obtain a copy of the pre-circulated paper and to RSVP, please contact Natalia Mahecha Arango, at nma395@nyu.edu.
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the History Department of SUNY Stony Brook, and the Department of Black and Latino Studies and the Initiative for the Study of Latin America at Baruch College
Date: February 16, 2024
Time: 11:00-1:00pm
Where: King Juan Carlos Center, Room 701
Who: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Talk: Territory and Self-Determination, Why We Need to Put Territory at the Centre of Thinking About the State
In this talk, Margaret Moore (Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University) discusses the often overlooked significance of territory—the geographical domain of the modern state—in political theory, political science, international law, and international relations. While traditional discussions emphasize the rights and duties between states and citizens, the concept of territory remains underexplored. Many global conflicts revolve around territorial disputes, including issues of borders, belonging, secession, and annexation. This talk aims to explore the fundamental questions surrounding territory, evaluate existing territorial theories and their shortcomings, and consider the legitimacy of claims over territory.
Date: February 19, 2024
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Where: NYUAD Campus, Conference Center
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Talk: Histories We Carry, Diasporican Artists in Conversation
Join us for a conversation between artist-in-residence Estelle Maisonett and artists Juan Sánchez and Shellyne Rodriguez. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Johanna Fernández. The panel will be followed by a reception.
Estelle Maisonett is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Her work is an investigation of how personal and socio-cultural relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity. With a practice comprising photography, printmaking, sculpture painting, installation and video, Maisonett’s life-size collages explore how Latinx identity has historically been composited by fragments of cultures locally and abroad. Maisonett received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 2023 and her BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2013.
Born to working-class Puerto Rican immigrants in Brooklyn, NY, Juan Sánchez is an influential American visual artist, and one of the most important Nuyorican cultural figures of the latter 20th century. Maintaining an activist stance for over forty-five years, his art is an arena of creative and political inquiry that encompasses the individual, family, the communities with which he engages, and the world at large. Sánchez has produced an extensive body of work that consistently addresses issues that are as relevant now as they were in the 1980s – race and class, cultural identity, equality, social justice, and self-determination. He emerged as a central figure in a generation of artists using diverse media to explore ethnic, racial, national identity and social justice in 1980s and ’90s. Sánchez exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.
Johanna Fernández is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, February 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. She teaches 20th Century US history and the history of social movements. Dr. Fernández’s recent research and litigation has unearthed an arsenal of primary documents now available to scholars and members of the public. She directed and co-curated ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, an exhibition in three NYC museums cited by the New York Times as one of the year’s Top 10, Best In Art.
Date: February 22, 2024
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Where: 20 Cooper, Fourth Floor
Who: The Latinx Project
Register to learn more about this talk.
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