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