Migrations Events
Migrations hosts regular forums, workshops, lectures, films, and art exhibitions. Check out this semester's schedule of events.
Upcoming Events
6:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Asylum seekers and refugees from many areas of the world and specifically from Central and South America are desperately trying to immigrate to the United States. These migrants are traveling through dangerous areas and difficult terrain to reach the southern border of the US with the hopes of making a better life…
10:00 am
Mann Library, 103
How can we identify and interpret xenophobia in online spaces? What can digital data tell us about real world enforcement and lived experiences of migrants, and where are its limits? And how can we use computational tools to study and respond to objectionable speech online?
This hands-on workshop introduces…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium, G64
Due to weather-related travel cancellations, Nasser Abourahme’s lecture on February 25 and graduate seminar on February 26 are postponed until Wednesday, March 11-12. Times and lecture location remain the same.
Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to…
12:00 pm
Virtual
Recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela—including strikes on civilian boats, the seizure of oil tankers, and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro—have raised questions about U.S. ambitions in Latin America and their implications for peace and international order. This panel brings together five prominent…
1:25 pm
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2250
Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "The Demography of Staying: Probing the Decline of Domestic Migration in the United States" with Peng Huang, University of Georgia. This seminar is hosted by MigLab.
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Karen Donoghue (Journalism and Mass Communication at North Eastern Hill University)
In an era marked by migration, identity and community dynamics are constantly remade, throwing into sharp relief questions of belonging that must be addressed through a post-nationalist lens. My own scholarly focus…
3:00 pm
160 Mann Library
More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while…
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…
6:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Possible Landscapes joins seven people in seven different regions of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the course of their daily lives: Kevin, a fisherman on the east coast suffering the recent loss of one of his crew members at sea; four generations of the Josephs family in the steep hillsides of the…
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…
7:00 pm
Alice Statler Auditorium
"Voices of Resilience" is a lecture-recital event, with 8 operatic performances and 5-10 embedded speeches on the role of music in peace-making. Held in collaboration with a Ukrainian classical voice non-profit, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Institute for European Studies,…
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…