Cornell’s Migrations initiative and the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) invite you to join a discussion on global migrations, featuring postdoctoral fellows and early career scholars from both universities. This virtual symposium will include presentations and faculty-led discussion.

Cornell Speakers

Eleanor Paynter is currently an ACLS fellow and Migrations fellow at Cornell. Her work is in the area of critical refugee studies, incorporating approaches from narrative, media, and cultural studies to consider experiences and representations of precarious and undocumented migration, asylum, and human rights. Focused on the Black Mediterranean, her research and public writing respond to anti-immigrant racism and postcolonial border dynamics. Ángel A. Escamilla García is a Migrations postdoctoral fellow at Cornell. His research focuses on how migrant youth negotiate high-risk environments. His current project uses ethnographic methods and interviews to explore the different strategies that Central American youth use to migrate through Mexico on their way to the United States.Discussants

Eric Tagliacozzo, co-chair of the Migrations initiative and the John Stambaugh Professor of History. He is also the director of Cornell's Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and the contributing editor of the journal Indonesia. Kavita Datta, Director of the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London, and Professor of Development Geography. Kavita is also Deputy Vice-Principal (Research Impact) of the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of Migration.QMUL Speakers

Yasmin Fedda is a fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social science (IHSS) at QMUL. Yasmin works as a filmmaker, researcher, and film programmer who has focused on themes that broadly fit under film, anthropology, and political sciences, with a focus on documentary, interactive storytelling, forced migration, representation, film & ethics, language, disability, activism and human rights. Keren Weitzberg is a tech and migration researcher with 15 years of experience in East Africa conducting fieldwork in cross-cultural, multilingual settings. In September 2022, she joined the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London as a senior lecturer and a fellow at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. Keren works at the intersection of science and technology studies, migration studies, and critical race studies, examining problematics related to mobility, digital identity, biometrics, and fintech.Ria Kapoor is a lecturer in history and IHSS Fellow at QMUL. She is a historian of refugees, immigration, and rights, with a focus on the Afro-Asian world and its impact on the international and global orders. Ria joined QMUL in 2022, following a year as a Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester.Register for the symposium.