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Migrations Events

Migrations hosts regular forums, workshops, lectures, films, and art exhibitions. Check out this semester's schedule of events.

Upcoming Events


3:00 pm

Johnson Museum of Art

Join the Migrations Program for a tour of a special exhibition at the Johnson Museum of Art. We will explore "Naples: Course of Empire" featuring work by contemporary artist Alexis Rockman and discuss how humanity and climate change affect migration and movement over the centuries. The group will meet in…

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…

12:00 pm

Mann Library, Mann 103, Stone Computer Classroom

What can maps reveal about movement, displacement, and mobility? What are applications and limits of migration data? And how can we use digital tools to map migration?

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze human migration data.…

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium, G64

Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. This is nowhere clearer than in the struggle over Palestine. And at no point starker than in the genocide in Gaza. In this talk, I take as my primary object the Palestinian refugee camps created in the fallout…

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…

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…

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…

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…