Welcome to the NYU Migration NetworkNovember Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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Join us for our last explainer of a series of quick, 15-minute online explainers in which leading scholars break down major topics related to detention and deportation.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 10:30–10:45 a.m. (ET)
Location: Online
Sanctuary Cities with Domenic Vitiello (University of Pennsylvania), interviewed by Natasha Iskander (New York University)
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| To watch or listen to our past explainers, please visit migration.nyu.edu/migration-explainers.
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Join us for a virtual panel that brings together an international group of scholars and writers who work on questions of migration to discuss the ways in which detention and deportation are reshaping global politics, putting the U.S. focus of our series into dialogue with the rest of the world. The panel will start with a 15 minute presentation from each participant and conclude with a Q&A.
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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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&Doc EP05 Film Screening Still Moving: A Transborder Film Showcase
Co-presented by the News & Documentary Program at New York University and the Transborder Film Foundation, Still Moving brings together filmmakers from both sides of the border and draws an analogy between moving images and migrating bodies. Note: Non-NYU attendees must show a valid ID to enter the building.
Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Where: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street (Theater 102)
Who: Co-presented by the News & Documentary Program at New York University and the Transborder Film Foundation. Moderated by Simón Trujillo, Associate Professor of English, NYU Arts & Science. Curated by Brandy Wang.
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Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz
Color Congress, through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative, and Cinema Tropical are proud to present "Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz," the first-ever retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated Mexican-American filmmaker.
Programmed by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, this multi-venue celebration of five feature films—each followed by in-person Q&A sessions with the filmmaker and special guests—will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Firehouse Cinema at DCTV, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Maysles Documentary Center, and New York University’s Espacio de Culturas throughout November 2025.
Note: These are ticketed events.
Featured Films:
Reportero - Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7 PM EST at Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film
Harvest Season - Monday, November 21, 2025, 7 PM EST at Maysles Documentary Center
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IEW: Know Your Rights Workshop
This workshop, led by the NYC Commission on Human Rights, will provide an overview of the general and NYC-specific rights you have as non-immigrant residents in the U.S., and will provide some additional resources to continue staying informed and to share with others!
Note: This workshop is open to NYU international students, scholars, faculty, and the overall NYU community.
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Where: NYU StudentLink Center, Room C08 (in the basement level)
Who: Led by NYC Commission on Human Rights
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The State of Asylum in the US: A Discussion with Leaders in the Field
Join DMAG to hear from professionals in the field to discuss the state of affairs of asylum seeking in the United States at a time when migration is more dangerous than ever, despite the displacement of millions worldwide. Ask critical questions, create connections with other leaders, and enjoy small bites.
Note: This event is for NYU students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Attendees must register with an NYU address.
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Where: Student Event Space B - 274, 105 East 17th Street
Who: Presented by the Displaced Migrants Action Group (DMAG)
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Reel Borders: Displacement, Activism and Participatory Filmmaking
Screening of autoethnographic films developed with 13 women in Ceuta, on the Spanish-Moroccan border, followed by a conversation on counter-narratives of border regimes in everyday life with Professor Kevin Smets and PhD fellow Irene Gutiérrez-Torres.
Note: Note: Non-NYU attendees must show a valid ID to enter the building.
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM EST
Where: 239 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003, Floor 8
Who: Presented by NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
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Know Your Rights: A Conversation with AWDPI on Domestic Violence and International Student Support
WISS is partnering with Asian Women Development Plan International (AWDPI) for a timely and important conversation on domestic violence and the unique challenges faced by international students and immigrant communities in the United States.
Note: This event is for NYU students, alumni, faculty, and staff only.
Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EST
Where: Student Event Space A - 270, 105 East 17th Street
Who: Presented by the Wagner International Student Society (WISS) and the Asian Women Development Plan International (AWDPI)
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Print & Power: Incarceration, Confinement, & Archival Silences
This panel discussion will feature three short talks by eighteenth-century historiographer Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers), twentieth-century book historian, Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton) and seventeenth-century media historian, Whitney Trettien (UPenn). Moderated by NYU’s own Lisa Gitelman, the panel will explore the book and its adjoined archival silences as lenses through which to examine contemporary power struggles, including the ongoing ICE raids, mass incarceration, impeachment proceedings, and persistent dispossession.
Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Where: 244 Greene Street #106
Who: Presented by NYU English Department
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| The Migration Network wants to highlight it all!
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Please share any events, highlights, or other information for the Migration Network by emailing migration-network@nyu.edu.
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Thanks to all of you for your continued engagement with the network. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email migration-network@nyu.edu.
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