Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole '09, moderated by the undergraduate migrations scholars and Shannon Gleeson, professor of industrial and labor relations and Migrations initiative taskforce co-chair.

Her talk, "Extracontinental: How the Global Refugee Crisis Is Colliding with Immigration Policies," will be an interactive forum about the global refugee crisis, migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration policy, its effects on people on the move, and the work of journalists covering these situations. O'Toole is the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and an immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

This conversation, presented by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell’s Migrations initiative, is part of Beyond Borders: Undergraduate Migrations Symposium.

The inaugural undergraduate migrations symposium, Beyond Borders, features the work of students thinking critically and across discipline about migrations. Beyond Borders was organized by the Einaudi Center's undergraduate migrations scholars—Aliou Gambrel, Danielle Berkowitz-Sklar, Joanna Moon, and Vanessa Olguín—with support from the Migrations initiative.

Join us to celebrate the range of innovative projects and to connect with others interested in migration issues. We will also feature a roundtable with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O’Toole '09, who is the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Session 1, 10-11:30 a.m. (ET)

Alp Demiroglu '21, Architecture: "Take What You Can Carry: Place-Making for the Forcibly Exchanged"Aliou Gambrel '22, College Scholar & Africana Studies: "They Crowd Our Land"Laura Miranda '22, Sociology and Spanish: "Mining as a Migration Ecosystem: The Case of Porgera, Papua New Guinea"Moderator: Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor, Department of Global Development

Session 2, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (ET)

Alexis Fintland '22, Industrial and Labor Relations: "Immigration in the Trump Era: An Analysis of Institutional Failures and Policy Recommendations"Mimi Goldberg '21, Industrial and Labor Relations: "Re-examining Hoffman Plastics Compounds v. NLRB under the Trump Administration"Luis Miguel Tamayo '22, Sociology and Spanish, "Culture Matters in Money Matters: How Culture Distinctly Affects Economic Behavior between Mexican Immigrants & Mexican Americans"Moderator: Kate Griffith, Jean McKelvey-Alice Grant Professor; Chair, Dept. of Labor Relations, Law, & History, Cornell ILR School; and Associate Member of the Law Faculty, Cornell Law School

Roundtable with Journalist Molly O’Toole on the Global Refugee Crisis, 2-2:45 p.m. (ET)

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Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole '09, moderated by the undergraduate migrations scholars and Shannon Gleeson, professor of industrial and labor relations and Migrations initiative taskforce co-chair. Her talk, "Extracontinental: How the Global Refugee Crisis Is Colliding with Immigration Policies," will be an interactive forum about the global refugee crisis, migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration policy, its effects on people on the move, and the work of journalists covering these situations. O'Toole is the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and an immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

Session 3, 2:45-4:15 p.m. (ET)

Vanessa Olguín '22, Government and College Scholar: "Contemporary Manifestations of the Ethos of The Underground Railroad: Humanitarian Work at the US Southern Border and in the Mediterranean Sea"Angela He '21, Sociology and Asian Studies: "How Organizations Adapt to Different Settings: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 Relief Efforts of Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the U.S. and China"Hannah Schmelkin '22, Industrial and Labor Relations: "Education & The Syria Crisis: 10 Years On"Kaitlyn Zhao '21, Economics and Government: "Household Registration, Housing Quality, and Wellbeing: A Comparative Mediation Analysis of Vietnam and China"
Moderator: Gerard Aching, Professor of Africana and Romance Studies

Closing remarks: Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Department of Government

Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.

In this panel, Utku Balaban discusses the relationship between postwar urban growth and Islamic revivalism in Turkey. Rather than in a distant past dating back to the nineteenth century, the roots of the decades-long political success of Turkish Islamism lie in the growth of new working-class neighborhoods in the outskirts of metropolitan areas after the 1980s. Focusing on Istanbul, Balaban argues, Islamic revivalism in Turkey is an outcome of the vertical redevelopment of single-story slums into multistory buildings and the ensuing mushrooming of small industrial facilities in working-class neighborhoods in the 1980s. This dual development redefined Turkish Islamism as a cosmology to regulate the everyday life practices of urban workers and reframed the conflict-ridden relationship between the owners of these facilities and their urban workers as a religious fraternity based on a common urban culture. Turkish Islamism is not old and provincial, but new and urban. After Balaban’s presentation, Pamela Karimi and Ijlal Muzaffar will respond from the perspectives of their own research in Tehran and Karachi.

Speaker:
Utku Balaban | Amherst College

Response by:
Pamela Karimi | UMass Dartmouth
Ijlal Muzaffar | Rhode Island School of Design

Moderated by Esra Akcan | Cornell University

This panel is organized as part of the Institute for European Studies’ partnership with MESA Global Academy. It is sponsored by the MESA Global Academy. You may find information about past events and video recordings at https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/institute-european-studies/events/….

Swati Chattopadhyay is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California–Santa Barbara. An architect and architectural historian, she specializes in modern architecture and urbanism, and the cultural landscape of the British empire.

She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (2005); Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012); and the coeditor with Jeremy White of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (2014), and Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (2019). Her current work includes two digital humanities projects, Mapping the Ephemeral, and Bookscapes. Her forthcoming book is titled, A Geography of Small Spaces.

Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, J. Paul Getty Foundation, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, National Science Foundation, and a distinguished visiting fellowship from Queen Mary University of London. She has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a University of California Multicampus Research Group, and as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. In 2018 she was named a fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians for a lifetime of significant contribution to the field. She is a founding editor of PLATFORM.

Introduction by Esra Akcan
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Joshua Neves, Associate Professor and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University (Montréal).

Dr. Neves writes: This talk examines the relationship between special effects and Asia or the South—what I am calling southern effects. It has two major lines of inquiry. The first focuses on cultural circulation. It begins with monstrous and magical cinematic histories before tracing the recent effects of these southern trajectories. Secondly, it explores the role of technological-economic distribution as a form of production. Special effects are now central to Asian media, shaping not only their relationship to global markets but emergent popular geographies. The link between these two global modalities—one obtaining from imperial legacies, the other, from the economic-cultural “rise” of Asia, focuses our attention on special effects as a key node of the global-popular. Tracing a particular genealogy of special effects in Asia, the talk will move from King Kong (1933) and Godzilla (1954) to the 2013 Chinese-Korean blockbuster Mr. Go (Kim Yong-hwa, 2013) and the 2021 release of King Kong vs. Godzilla, among others.

Bio: Joshua Nevesis Associate Professor and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University (Montréal). His research centers on digital media, cultural and political theory, and problems of development and legitimacy. He is the co-author of TechnoPharmacology(forthcoming), and author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy(Duke 2020), and co-editor of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke 2017).

Presented by the Cornell EastAsia+ Initiative, a collective of scholars, publishing professionals, curators, and graduate students dedicated to exploring new possibilities for academic publishing, networking, and collaboration in East Asia media studies and digital humanities research.

EastAsia+ is generously supported by funding from Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities.