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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
April Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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April Public Conversation Series Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement
Melissa Fleming (United Nations) and Mohamad Bazzi (NYU) andwill engage in conversation on "Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement."
Melissa Fleming is Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations, having taken up her post in September 2019. Ms. Fleming leads the UN’s Department of Global Communications, which is responsible for informing global audiences about the state of the world and engaging them to build support for the Organization’s work and goals. In this role, Ms. Fleming oversees the UN’s strategic communications operations, including its multilingual news and digital media services, public outreach programmes, and global campaigns. Under her leadership, the UN Department of Global Communications engages in far-reaching efforts to address misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech. She is leading on the development of a Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms. Previously, Ms. Fleming served 10 years at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as Head of Global Communications. Prior to that, she was the Spokesperson and Head of Media and Outreach at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She also headed the Press and Public Information team at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Ms. Fleming is a TED speaker, the author of the book, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, and the host of the award-winning UN podcast, Awake at Night. Ms. Fleming holds a Master of Science in Journalism from the College of Communication, Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in German Studies from Oberlin College.
Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he was associate director of NYU’s Journalism Institute. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was also the 2008 Edward R. Murrow press fellow at CFR. Before joining the NYU faculty, Bazzi was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday, where he established bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut. He was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath. He also served as Newsday’s United Nations bureau chief and as a metro reporter in New York City. His essays and commentaries on the Middle East have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and other publications Bazzi has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2017 and 2016 National Headliner Award; the 2016 National Society of Newspaper Columnists Award; the 2008 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting and analysis on foreign affairs; and other accolades.
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Date: April 24, 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: Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Wagner School of Public Service
The event is public and open to non-NYU community members.
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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.
The application deadline has been extended to Friday, April 5, 2024.
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Faculty Colloquium for Research Development Award
The NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the third round of the Faculty Colloquium for Research Development Award. This award combines two forms of support for the development of innovative projects that engage with questions of migration and mobility. It includes (a) $5,000 to fund a workshop or a series of meetings to develop preliminary research directions and related research design; (b) resources for identifying funding and proposal development from the NYU Office of Research Development.
Proposals for research that spans disciplinary boundaries and that is collaborative (involving more than one researcher) are especially encouraged, as are proposals that link faculty from more than one of NYU’s campuses worldwide.
The Faculty Colloquium for Research Development Award is made possible through the generous support of the Mega-Grants Initiative Seed Fund at NYU. As part of the requirements of the award, the recipients are expected to use the research that results from the colloquium series to develop and submit a proposal for external funding, and are required to meet at least once with the NYU Office of Research Development for support with proposal development. The colloquium meeting or meetings must be held over the 2024-2025 academic year. Additionally, as part of that colloquium, the recipients must arrange at least one event that is open to the public and in which they will present their research project.
Applications are due April 26, 2024.
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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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Book Launch: Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City with Sylvia Morse
Join the Urban Planning Student Association on Wednesday, April 3, 5:30 to 6:30 pm for a book talk and discussion with Sylvia Morse, co-author of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, and community organizers about the impacts of New York City zoning policies in local neighborhoods. Morse's book outlines zoning case studies in Williamsburg, Harlem, and Chinatown and the impacts of zoning policy on low-income communities of color. Morse and guests will discuss ways the city can reform zoning policy to promote community-based planning to address inequalities and prevent displacement. There will be opportunities for students to answer questions and food will be served!
Date: April 3, 2024
Time: 5:30-6:30pm
Where: Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Floor, Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street
Who: UPSA
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Workshop: A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group with Nari Yoo
NYU graduate students are invited to join the next workshop hosted by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group featuring Nari Yoo (PhD candidate in social work, NYU Silver). Yoo will present her in-progress research paper and data visualization project, “Spatial and Virtual Access to Mental Health Care among Immigrants with Language Barriers,” which examines access to non-English mental health services, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog, using computational and geospatial methods. She will also briefly introduce the history and policy of language access in mental health care in the United States. Lunch will be served.
The A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group hosts monthly workshops for graduate students to foster interdisciplinary discussion and interdepartmental collaboration on each other’s research and interests in Asian/Pacific/American Studies.
Date: April 5, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, Room 372
Who: Asian/Pacific/American Institute Graduate Student Working Group
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Talk: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
For centuries, people from the Nepal Himalaya have relied on a combination of agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Among some communities, seasonal migrations to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and cities in North India for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad to other Asian countries and the Gulf States shaped their experiences since the 1980s. Yet, permanent migrations to New York City over the past two decades, are reshaping lives and social worlds. Culturally Tibetan regions such as Mustang have experienced one of the highest rates of depopulation in contemporary Nepal — a profoundly visible depopulation that contrasts with the relative invisibility of Himalayan migrants in New York City. Drawing on more than 25 years of fieldwork and relationships with people in and from Mustang, and on collaborative NYC-based research focused on the broader migration experiences of Himalayan and Tibetan New Yorkers, this talk explores questions about migration, community, and belonging in translocal worlds — rooted equally and by turns in Himalayan villages and the global village of New York. I explore how different generations abide with and understand each other, how traditions are defended and transformed in the context of new mobilities, and how cycles of movement and patterns of world-making shed light on dynamics of kinship and care in an era of migration. flexible in the face of migration, at the nexus of environmental, economic, and cultural transformation.
Sienna R. Craig is the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is a medical and cultural anthropologist whose relationships with Himalayan and Tibetan communities spans three decades and bridges communities in Asia and North America.
Date: April 5, 2024
Time: 4:00-7:00pm
Where: 53 Washington Square South (KJCC) 701
Who: Global Asia Colloquium
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Book Launch: Queer World Making, Contemporary Middle Eastern Contemporary Diasporic Art
Please join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Andrew Gayed, and Jamil Hellu for a book launch and discussion of Gayed’s book Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art, where the book will be available for purchase.
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work in order to imagine a different present. Building on global art histories and transnational queer theory, Queer World Making illuminates contemporary understandings of queer sexuality in the Middle Eastern diaspora. The author focuses on the visual works of artists who create political art about queer identity, including Jamil Hellu, Ebrin Bagheri, 2Fik, Laurence Rasti, Nilbar Güres, and Alireza Shojaian. Through engaging with these artists, Gayed is seeking to articulate a Western and non-Western modernity that works beyond the dichotomy of sexual oppression, stereotypically associated with the Middle East, versus sexual acceptance, attributed to North American norms. Instead, Gayed traces how diasporic subjects create coming-out narratives and identities that provide alternatives to inscribed Western models. Queer World Making reframes Arab homosexualities in terms of desire and alternative gender norms rather than through Western notions of visibility and coming out, narratives that are not conducive to understanding how queer Arabs living in the West experience their sexuality.
Date: April 10, 2024
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Who: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Bluestockings Cooperative
Register to learn more about this book launch.
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Virtual Panel: Queer and Trans Afro-Latinx Voices
Join us for an online panel celebrating the publication of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent. The volume centers on the writing, visual, and graphic art of 44 contemporary writers across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Joining us are five NYC-based Afro-Latinx contributors: Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera, Irene Vázquez, Armando Alleyne, Edgie Amisial, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes. They'll be accompanied by editor, Alan Pelaez Lopez, a 2022-2023 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow.
When Language Broke Open collects the creative offerings of forty-five queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent who use poetry, prose, and visual art to illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. Telling stories of Black Latinidades, this anthology centers the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community.
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Talk: Roads to Civilization: Imagining, Mapping, and Integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish State
This talk explores the historical journey of Dersim, a mountainous region in eastern Anatolia with a predominantly Kizilbash Kurdish population, as it transitioned from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state. It analyzes how racialized ideologies and colonial policies influenced the treatment and perception of this ethno-religious group across both the empire and the nation-state. The talk provides critical insights into broader issues of identity, violence, and statecraft in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century transformations from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule.
Cevat Dargın is a historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa.Dr. Dargın holds the position of Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies at Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. Before coming to Columbia, he earned his PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Sara Pursley is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Pursley works on the cultural, social, and intellectual history of the modern Arab Middle East, mainly Iraq. She has explored questions related to economic development and modernization theory, histories of psychology and pedagogy, gender and sexuality, childhood and youth, revolution and decolonization, Islamic and secular family law, land settlement projects, and the transition from British to American empire.
Date: April 11, 2024
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Kevorkian Center Library, 255 Sullivan St Who: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Virtual Symposim: “At the Edge of Each Other's Battles”: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures
Join the virtual symposium, “At the Edge of Each Other's Battles”: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures hosted by the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, The Latinx Project, and CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
This symposium uses the words of poet Audre Lorde to bring together scholars, experts, and community activists to examine the impact of colonization, displacement, and oppression while seeking to foster deeper understanding, empathy, and solidarity on a collective journey towards liberation.
Attendance is free and will include simultaneous translation.
Date: April 12, 2024
Time: 12:00-5:15pm
Where: Kevorkian Center Library, 255 Sullivan St
Who: The Latinx Project
Register to learn more about this talk.
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Book Launch: Suad Aldarra's I Don't Want to Talk About Home
Join us as we launch Suad Aldarra's I Don't Want to Talk About Home in New York.
Suad Aldarra is a Syrian-Irish writer and data scientist based in Dublin. She lived in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and the US before eventually settling in Ireland. Suad was selected as the Common Currency writer in residence for the Cuirt International Festival and English/Irish PEN in 2021 and was awarded the Art Councils of Ireland English Literature bursary. Her debut memoir, I Don’t Want to Talk About Home, was published by Doubleday/PRH Ireland in July 2022 and shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards - Biography of the Year. Her short story The Three Strangers was included in A Little Unsteadily Into Light: New Dementia-Inspired Fiction (2022), edited by Jan Carson. Suad has written several pieces for the Irish Times and Independent, among other places.
Date: April 18, 2024
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Who: Glucksman Ireland House
Register to learn more about this book launch.
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Conference: Thinking with Bourdieu Today, Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches
In recent years, while the impact of French philosophy and critical theory on the American academy may have waned, the thought and work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu have arguably become increasingly relevant across the humanities and social sciences. Co-organized by scholars from NYU and Columbia, this international, cross-disciplinary conference brings together sociologists, literary critics, historians, and comparatists in order to take advantage and give direction to the expanding use of Bourdieu’s concepts of field (“champ”), “habitus” and "symbolic” and “cultural capital” and confront them with other critical perspectives in the humanities and the social sciences, such as trans-identities, postcolonialism, transnational and global approaches, and new trends in literary theory and intellectual history.
There is a long history of the reception of Bourdieu's work in the United States, especially his theories of cultural capital and of habitus, but less so with his field theory. A couple of conferences were held after his death in 2002—on Bourdieu and history, or on how to put his theory in practice. More recent developments have involved a quite dramatic rise in interest in Bourdieusian sociology and its possible confrontation with newly emerging approaches. Key among these are the transnational and postcolonial perspectives on traditional objects (like the fields of cultural production or the history of the social sciences) or issues like transgender identity which question the habitus in ways that need to be compared to the transclass experience (or "transfuge" experience, with emphasis on flight and mobility of subject position). Some of these challenges are being addressed in recent and current research, others still await to be fully acknowledged.
This conference aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary and transatlantic reflection on these new issues by gathering American and French scholars from different generations. The idea is to harness the growing enthusiasm of scholars across disciplines (ranging from literary criticism to historical sociology to intellectual history) in Bourdieu’s work in order to more thoroughly address the problem of disciplinary field, method, protocol and problem-definition in a post or transdisciplinary era in the humanities and social sciences. An important goal of the conference will be to consider the impact of Bourdieu’s concepts and sociological theory on contemporary paradigm-formation in the comparative humanities, with emphasis on their relevance to new developments in transnational, postcolonial and transgender studies and to the politics of field-definition today in their relation to critical practice, the teaching vocation, decolonial thought and Black theory.
Date: April 25-27, 2024
Time: all day, see schedule Where: Remarque Institute, 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor & Maison Française, New York University, 16 Washington Mews Who: Remarque Institute/La Maison Française
Register to learn more about this conference.
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