Join us every week this semester as we discuss borders and migration around the world.

Lecture Series Schedule

January 24 “Migration Patterns Underlying California’s Rapid Population Progress Post–Gold Rush,” Sam Otterstrom

January 31 “Faculty Fretting: Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East,” Leslie Hadfield, Christine Isom-Verhaaren, and Evan Ward

February 7 “Empire by Entrepreneur: Transnational Merchants in Russia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” MatthewRomaniello

February 14 “Women and Children in Crisis: Volunteering at an ICE Detention Center,” Kif Augustine-Adams, Mallorie Mecham, Carlie Smith, and Blaine Thomas

February 21 “European Borders and Italian Transgressions: Film Fictions vs. Social Realities,” Marie Orton

February 28 “Migration and Politics in Africa,” Ken Bugul

March 7 “Revolution Across Borders: Mexico’s Transnational Radicals and Artists, 1920–1945,” Stephanie Smith

March 14 “No More Strangers: Breaking Down Borders at BYU,” Eric Bybee, Steve Smith, and Julie Valentine

March 21 “Natives as Immigrants and Refugees: A Comparative North American Borderlands Example,” Brenden Rensink

March 28 “Book of the Semester: Notes on a Foreign Country,” (in HBLL Auditorium), Suzy Hansen

March 29 “Punishment Beyond the Deportee: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Deportation,” Tanya Golash-Boza

April 4 “Rio de la Plata as an Atlantic Borderland: Transimperial Interaction and the Contested Incorporation of the North Bank of the Rio de la Plata into the Iberian World,” Fabricio Prado

April 11 “Dragomans Without Borders: Translation, Mobility, and Empire in a Shifty World,” Natalie Rothman

April 18 Kennedy Research Fellows