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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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Spring 2025 Public Conversation Series
Held monthly over the semester, these public conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and its political stakes.
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| Visualizing Data on Migration, Deportation, and Border Enforcement
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When: April 24, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Alex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Before joining Yale, Alex served for ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. He is currently senior editor of archipelagos journal, editor of internationalization of Digital Humanities Quarterly, co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, and co-principal investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latinx politics and political theory. She is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Social and Sultural Analysis. Her work has appeared in Political Theory, the Du Bois Review, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and various edited volumes. She is currently the co-editor of Theory & Event, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes work by scholars working at the intersections of political theory, cultural theory, political economy, aesthetics, philosophy, and the arts. She is also an occasional guest on MSNBC.
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NYU Migration Network Speaker Series
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When: April 9, 12 pm - 1 pm
Where: Room 302, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Adam Cox is the Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches and writes about immigration law, constitutional law, and democracy. Before coming to NYU, he was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.
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When: April 29, 12 pm - 1 pm
Where: Room 302, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Sophie L. Gonick is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU with an emphasis on Global Urban Humanities. Her work emerges at the intersection of planning history, critical race and gender studies, and debates on migration, integration, and inclusion, particularly within the context of Southern Europe.
Irene Landini is a postdoc at the University of Antwerp whose research centers on social inequalities related to migration and ethnicity in Europe, particularly in welfare and formal education. Her current project investigates how the growing digitalization of school learning and teacher-parent communication impacts inequality and inclusion/exclusion dynamics in the experiences of Pakistani and North African immigrant parents in various cities in Belgium and Italy.
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NYU Migration Network Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration
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The NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the launch of the 5th annual Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration. Five awards of $3000 each, along with five finalist recognitions of $1000 each, will be granted for the summer of 2025 to support outstanding graduate students in their research on migration and mobility. 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 Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration is made possible through generous funding from the Remarque Institute, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the Furman Center, 19 Washington Square North, the Latinx Project, the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Graduate School of Arts & Science, Liberal Studies, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the Urban Democracy Lab, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
The award supports research and artistic production, including expenses associated with materials and data sources required to complete the project. The award also offers an optional collaboration with the Tisch School of the Arts to make a short film about the research. The 2025 grants will fund research in compliance with NYU travel regulations, which are subject to change. Students enrolled in any NYU graduate program, at any of NYU’s campuses, and having completed at least one semester of coursework, are eligible to apply. Finalists from previous years are also eligible to apply.
Applications are due on April 4, 2025
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Apply for the 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.
Applications are due on April 28, 2025
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NYU Migration Network Spotlight
The NYU Migration Network is spotlighting new publications on migration by NYU faculty. We will feature a new interview every month with an NYU author about their recent book.
This month, we are excited to feature Prof. Arang Keshavarzian's new book Making Space for the Gulf Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2024), interviewed by Farrah Mina.
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You can access our Spotlight interview archives here.
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Upcoming Events
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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Navigating Memory Wars: Russian Migrants in Germany and the Kremlin’s Digital Influence
The research is based on semi-structured interviews among young people (first generation migrants, as well as the children of migrants) with a focus on how they position themselves within conflicting offers of historical belonging. The researchers interviewed 20 young Russians who arrived in Germany after February 2022 and 20 young Russians who underwent their socialisation in Germany. They focus on three key historical topoi, each characterised by varying degrees of mediation and lived experience. First, historical arguments that justify Russia's annexation of Crimea, which is part of lived memory. Second, the ordinary times of the Soviet Union and socialism in East Germany, situated between the immediacy of lived experience of older family members and the mediated narratives conveyed through eyewitness accounts. Third, representations of World War II, a heavily mediatised part of history that is no longer within the realm of lived experience.
Date: April 2, 2025
Time: 4 pm - 5.30 pm
Where: 19 University Place, 2nd Floor
Who: New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
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Discussion | From Empire to NYPD: Immigration, Colonial Policing, and the Making of Law Enforcement
Join IPK for a panel discussion, From Empire to NYPD: Immigration, Colonial Policing, and the Making of Law Enforcement, on Wednesday, April 2 (5:30-7:00 PM). The origins of policing in New York are deeply connected to empire and immigration enforcement. This panel will trace how colonial policing tactics—used to control populations abroad—were brought home, shaping local policing practices and immigration control from the 19th century to the present. Featuring voices from the podcast Empire City, this discussion will examine the concept of “crimmigration” and the long history of policing as a tool for managing racialized immigrant communities. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge Race and Public Space Working Group and the Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism Podcasting and Audio Reportage concentration.
Date: April 2, 2025
Time: 5.30 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square
Who: Institute for Public Knowledge
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2025 Liberal Studies Student Research Colloquium
Liberal Studies welcomes you to attend the annual Student Research Colloquium. This event gives students an opportunity to showcase and discuss their original research with peers and the NYU community. Breakfast and hot lunch served. This year’s colloquium will feature a keynote address, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, from renowned anthropologist and 2024 National Book Award Winner Jason De León.
Date: April 4, 2025
Time: 9.30 am - 1 pm
Where: Kimmel Center for University Life
Who: Liberal Studies
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A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Maria Paz Almenara
Maria Paz Almenara (PhD candidate, NYU Media, Culture, and Communication) presents their dissertation chapter, “Absorbed Landscapes: Legal Memory, Infrastructure and Displacement” at the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. 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 4, 2025
Time: 1.30 pm - 3 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square
Who: A/P/A Institute at NYU
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Book Talk | Alice Driver | Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Past and Future of Work Working Group on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Alice Driver. She will discuss her new book Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company with Roger Horowitz and Eyal Press.
Date: April 9, 2025
Time: 5.30 pm - 7 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square
Who: Institute for Public Knowledge
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RicanVisions: Curatorial Walkthrough
RicanVisions aims to continue to expand the canon of Diasporican visual art, bridging the past and present of contemporary art from the Puerto Rican diaspora. The exhibition includes emerging artists, some who are showing in New York City for the first time, as well as veteran artists overdue for recognition, such as Marina Gutiérrez and the abstract artist Evelyn López de Guzmán who are showcasing work that has never been exhibited before. Some of the artists were selected through their participation in the annual Artist-in-Residence open call at The Latinx Project.
Date: April 11, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 7 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square
Who: The Latinx Project
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Living as a Central Asian in Urban Russia in the Aftermath of the Crocus City Hall Attacks
In this talk, Dr. Mariana Irby draws from long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tajik migrant communities in Moscow and Saint Petersburg to explore how the aftermath of these attacks have shaped her interlocutors' perception of their place in Russia as racial minorities, the nature of their encounters with the state, and their views on building stable futures for themselves in the Russian Federation.
Date: April 17, 2025
Time: 4 pm - 5.30 pm
Where: 19 University Place
Who: New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
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Academic, Artist, Activist, Indigenous – Curating Spaces of Critical Voices
For this talk, the public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller Layqa Nuna Yawar will focus on how his work speaks to a legacy of cultural survival against colonial power. Via public art and studio painting, his works amplify the narratives of othered people and their messages against oppression while also being in conversation with his personal history as an immigrant from the Ecuadorian Andes and its own history of colonization.
Date: April 21, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Where: KJCC Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South
Who: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Book Panel: What Side are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders
What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders is a kind of political biography of Mike Wilson, a Tohono O'odham citizen who worked for the special forces in Central America then had a political awakening that led him to begin establishing water stations for migrants crossing into the US through O'odham land. It's a fascinating story whose telling is made possible through a collaboration between Lucero, a Chicanx political scientist, and Wilson. It offers a rich example of Chicanx-Native intellectual collaboration.
Join us for a book talk with Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero, moderated by Professor Simón Trujillo.
Date: April 23, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 7.30 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Sq
Who: The Latinx Project
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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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