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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
March Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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March Public Conversation Series: City of the World
Phil Kasinitz (CUNY) and Marion Casey (NYU) will engage in conversation on migration to New York City in the mid-18th century with a focus on migrants from Europe in a conversation entitled, "A City of the World."
Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, where he chaired the doctoral program in Sociology from 2001 to 2018. He co-founded and was the first director of CUNY’s master’s program in International Migration and is director of CUNY’s Advanced Research Collaborative. His co-authored book Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award in 2010. Other recent books include Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States, co-edited with Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Global Cities, Local Streets, with Sharon Zukin, and Xiangming Chen. He was the book review editor of the journal Sociological Forum from 2005 to 2023. Kasinitz is a member of the historical advisory committee for the National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island and has been a consultant to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
Marion R. Casey trained as an historian with David N. Doyle at University College Dublin and with David M. Reimers at New York University. Her goals are to use the longevity of Irish emigration to illuminate the evolving ethnic and racial experience in the United States; to explore diaspora and transnationalism from Irish and American perspectives; and to teach students how to think historically. In 1997 she established the Archives of Irish America in New York University’s Bobst Library and in 1999 she was named a Centennial Historian of the City of New York.
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Date: March 14, 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: History Department, Glucksman Ireland House, Department of Sociology, and the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU
The event is public and open to non-NYU community members.
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| Upcoming Public Conversation
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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 be due on March 29, 2024.
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Film Screening and Celebration of the Migration Network's 2023 Graduate Student Awardees
Every year, the recipients of the Graduate Students Award for Summer Research on Migration collaborate with students in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film and Television to produce compelling short films on new migration research and stories. Join us as we celebrate the award recipients and filmmakers, learn about their exciting research, and watch the films that they created.
Date: February 29, 2024
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Rudin Forum, Wagner School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10012
Who: Migration Network
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Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash.
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Undergraduate Workshop: "Migration and Im/Mobility": Rising to the Challenge
NYU undergraduate students from across the university will present research projects featuring topics such as migration, mobility or immobility, borders, displacement, and asylum globally and locally. There will be two panels, with 4 students each, moderated respectively by Professors Krishnendu Ray (Steinhardt) and Julie Mostov (Liberal Studies). Following each panel, there will be time for Q & A. Refreshments will be served.
Panel One: Borders & Boundaries | Moderated by Professor Krishnendu Ray (Steinhardt)
- Seema Anjali Sawh
- Anand Kumar
- Liz Prado Gonzalez
- Lizette Saucedo
Panel Two: Making Home? | Moderated by Professor Julie Mostov (Liberal Studies)
- Elise Atkinson
- Corinne Lattermann
- Valeria Hidalgo
- Cameron Roberts
Date: March 5, 2024
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Where: 19 Washington Square North
Who: Liberal Studies, the NYU Migration Network, and the NYU Office of Undergraduate Research.
Register to learn more about and register for the undergraduate workshop.
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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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Workshop: Visualizing African-Asian Worlds
The world’s two largest film industries — Bollywood and Nollywood — are based in Asia and Africa, respectively. As global film festivals expand and Netflix and other companies eye markets on both continents, African and Asian creators are depicting their relationships through media that capture popular narratives, creative economies, and affective meanings of Africa-Asia, beyond and below the political propaganda of solidarity and Global South partnership. They give aesthetic form to the desires, disillusionment, and other emotions that are often unspoken. This workshop foregrounds contemporary non-fiction films and material culture, such as textiles and photography, to examine creative storytelling and artistic expression that explore and narrate life in African-Asian worlds.
The workshop will also feature an exhibition, “Textiles across Continents,” curated by Pashington Obeng which will be displayed at the Conference Center (A6) Lobby over the weekend. The photographs of patchwork quilts known as kawandi on display were produced by Siddi women (descendants of early African immigrants in South Asia) of Karnataka, India. The exhibition showcases firstly, the genealogies of knowledge about the unique African textile cultures and the values they embody among Africans of the Indian Ocean diaspora. Secondly, as the exhibition spotlights Siddi inventions, it also touches on the staging of female ingenuity that intersects with Indian and African visual cultures.
Date: March 2-3, 2024
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Where: The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
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Poetry Showcase: Violence Across Borders, A Bilingual Poetry Showcase & Discussion on Peruvian Women Poets in NYC
Join us for an evening of bilingual poetry featuring four women poets from Peru. This event will offer a unique perspective on the experiences and creativity of Peruvian women in New York City and the broader diaspora.
Natalia Chamorro. Poet. Author of “Reflejo escaparate” (Sudaquia Editores, 2023). She holds a PhD in Literature and Hispanic Languages from Stony Brook University. Her poems are featured in the Anthology of the New York City International Book Fair (2021) and the Multilingual Anthology - The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (2017). She lives in Queens and is preparing a book of essays titled “Escaleras de incendio.”
Rocío del Águila Gracey (Peru, 1988) is a doctoral candidate in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She holds a Master’s degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Victoria Mallorga Hernandez (Lima, 1995) holds a Master’s degree in Publishing & Writing from Emerson College. Above all, she identifies as a Taurus, a poet, and a trickster. Her works include “albión” (alastor editores, 2019), “absolucion” (2021), and “dos chicas al borde de la cama” (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2024).
Rocío Uchofen (Lima, Peru) is a writer, poet, and cultural promoter. She studied Linguistics and Literature and holds a Master of Arts in English from CUNY-CSI. In 2019, she received a micro-residency at NYPL from The Poetry Society and participated in The Americas Poetry Festival of New York.
Alexandra Arana is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was the director of the Peruvian LGBTIQA+ magazine “Crónicas de la Diversidad” in 2023. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and LGBTIQA+ cultures; pop culture, Girls’ culture, and fan cultures; as well as transpacific studies.
Date: March 4, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Where: KJCC Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South
Who: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Consulate General of Peru in New York.
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Panel: Coalition-Building Panel on Immigration, Perspectives from Social Movements, Academia, and Law
In this panel event, we will explore tensions and overlaps among social movement spaces, law, and academia in approaching how to change the U.S. immigration system. We will put practitioners from these three areas in conversation with one another to ask: how can these three groups learn from one another? How can coalitions among them make stronger movements to push the government to take action to create more humane immigration laws? We will discuss questions of authenticity, legitimacy, credentialing, and respect to bridge the gap between the current state of things and true coalition and collaboration.
Date: March 6, 2024
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor
Who: XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement MA program; CMEP; and The Latinx Project
Register to learn more about this panel.
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Talk: "Iran Connected and Disconnected": Contraband Mobility from Kurdistan to Tehran
Drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork in a border village in Rojhelat (Iranian Kurdistan), Moslem Ghomashlouyan discusses how contraband mobility in Iran incarnates entangled multiscalar (dis)connectivities. The contraband links Iran to transnational commercial flows despite economic sanctions and the government’s policy of “resistance economy.” These dynamics foster the decades-old cross-border Kurdish commercial mobilities that connect Iran to Bashur (Iraqi Kurdistan). Ghomashlouyan’s ethnographic narrative, spanning from Kurdistan to Tehran, reveals (dis)connectivities between the marginalized kolbers, who help move the contraband across the border, and the Tehranis in the capital city’s upscale north.
Moslem Ghomashlouyan is an assistant and doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology of the University of Bern.
Naor Ben-Yehoyada is an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Naor Ben-Yehoyada's work examines unauthorized migration, criminal justice, the aftermath of development, and transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean.
Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at NYU. His general fields of research and teaching are comparative politics of the Middle East with a focus on issues related to political economy, contentious politics, and transnational approaches.
Date: March 7, 2024
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Kevorkian Center Library, 255 Sullivan St. Who: The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies Initiative
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Colloquium: "South Asian American Diaspora": Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization
Asian Americans of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other South Asian ancestry are dramatically challenging the traditional mainstream view of who counts as Asian American. With their increasingly visible presence among Asian Americans, South Asians have started shaping the contours of Asian American politics and political mobilization in important ways. An important feature of South Asian American mobilization has been the presence of deep internal fractures within the community along the lines of religion, caste, class, and nation of origin among other things.These internal cleavages have a strong diasporic dimension and they have shaped the nature of community mobilizations in the post-9/11 period. At the same time, South Asians have been showing a relatively high level of uniformity in the context of American electoral politics in terms of their political preferences that are possibly shaped by how South Asians encounter and interpret race and racialization. It is important to underline these contradictory political impulses within South Asian communities to speculate about their future political trajectories as a diasporic community within the larger umbrella category of Asian American.
Sangay K. Mishra is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University. He specializes in immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism, diaspora, and racial and ethnic politics.
Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 4:00-7:00pm
Where: 53 Washington Square South (KJCC) 701 Who: New York Center for Global Asia
Register to learn more about this event.
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Keynote: "Embracing Every Hue:" Liberating Imposter Syndrome, Intersectionality, and Borders Through Storytelling
Join us for this keynote event with special guests Kyle Liang, R.A. Villanueva, and Poet-Translator Tiffany Troy. The panel will speak on how poetry specifically has been a form of true expression, excavation, and liberation through finding their respective voices. Please fill out the details below to confirm attendance. If attending virtually, a Zoom Link will be sent out prior to the event.
Date: March 27, 2024
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Where: 7 East 12th Street Who: School of Professional Studies
Register to learn more about this keynote.
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