Join us for a discussion of RIVERINE CITIZENSHIP: A BOSNIAN CITY IN LOVE WITH THE RIVER. Featuring the book's author, Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University), Kristin Doughty (Rochester University), Saida Hodzic (Cornell University), and the Cornell Proseminar in Anthropology. Lunch will be served and everyone is invited.

Winston Churchill famously quipped, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” For generations, the United States has wrestled with the complexities that come with international alliances. Nonetheless, ever since the early days of the Cold War, America's ability to attract like-minded allies to support and defend its interests has given it a competitive advantage relative to its main adversaries. As we continue the debates of previous generations regarding where and how the United States should be involved in the world, we need to understand the value of alliances, and how the debate itself—both within the United States and with its allies—matters to national security. Three panelists from the US Army War College will share perspectives on how Australia contributes to US security; the complexities of improving NATO effectiveness via increased contributions from its European members; and the importance of the American public engaging in well-informed debate about the country’s role in the world.

Panelists
Colonel Rob Haertsch, an Australian Army Officer with 25 years of service, recently served as Director - Land at Army Headquarters in Canberra, overseeing the integration of operational planning with the joint force and government. Prior to this, he was the Defense Adviser in Suva, Fiji, working with the Head of Mission at the Australian High Commission. His operational deployments include to the Solomon Islands, Iraq, and Afghanistan, along with domestic support to civil authorities in Australia. Colonel Haertsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales and a Masters in Defense and Military Studies from the Australian National University.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hartnett is a Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Air Force. He has served for over 19 years, and his last assignment was as the Public Affairs Advisor to the Secretary of the Air Force. In this capacity, Lt Col Hartnett supported the Secretary’s efforts to modernize the force and improve the lives of Airmen through the coordinated use of media engagement, community outreach, and internal coverage. He holds a Master's Degree from Air University and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Lieutenant Colonel Christiana Crawford is a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Operational Planner and Western Europe Foreign Area Officer. She was commissioned in 2004 from the United States Naval Academy. She has spent considerable time living and working in Europe where she participated in the Robert Bosch Fellowship Program and worked in the German Foreign Ministry. Most recently Lieutenant Colonel Crawford served as the lead planner in the Pacific, overseeing the implementing of Marine Corps force modernization efforts. She is fluent in German and holds a Doctor of Chiropractic as well as master’s degrees in international relations and defense and strategic studies.

Host
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Film Screening of "From Where We Stand" and discussion with Lucy Kaye and Adrian Favell

Lucy Kaye's one hour documentary and deep dive into the life and times of residents of three post industrial towns in the North of England is at once moving, visually haunting, and (in parts) disturbingly raw. It is part of a 4 year project run at the University of Leeds which took a sociological look at political disaffection -- and issues of austerity, deprivation, race and nation -- in the North of England after Brexit and during COVID.

With a direct and spontaneous approach, filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverse individuals in three post-industrial northern English towns. Through the stories of people connected by place, the film explores our relationship with where we’ve come from, what we’ve left behind and where we live. Amongst the people we meet are Bini, a former asylum seeker from Eritrea trying to root himself in Middlesbrough; Stella, a Polish woman stuck in the UK after a relationship breakdown, making a life for herself and her daughter; and Yan, a former power station worker enveloped in nostalgia for the past. We also get to know Yubi, a Pakistani immigrant mourning the passing of his father in Wakefield; and Lisa, another Halifax resident determined to make sure the voices of her community are heard. In pared-back verité style that deploys music and lingering shots of the landscapes that define these lives, From Where We Stand offers the people portrayed time and space to express how they feel about their lives and their towns.

Background:

From Where We Stand is made in collaboration with the Northern Exposure research project at the University of Leeds. Adrian Favell, is Director of the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork and is PI of the Northern Exposure Project at University of Leeds. The research explores notions of identity, place and disaffection in post-industrial towns in the North of England after Brexit. More information can be found here: https://northernexposure.leeds.ac.uk/.

https://fromwherewestand.co.uk/

Host
Institute for European Studies

Cosponsors
Sociology
Migrations

In a world of massive inequalities between nations, and where citizenship at birth is the biggest determining factor of anyone's life chances, migration and international mobility are often seen as dramatic mechanisms of change. Yet strict borders and hierarchies between nations persist. The recently initiated five year ERC Advanced Grant project, MIGMOBS - The Orders and Border of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism (2024-28) investigates how and why global inequalities are reproduced through the shifting classification of mobile populations. In opening a new vision by seeing "international migration" as only a narrow and symbolically overcharged slice in a continuum of "mobilities", both human and non-human, it effects a paradigm shift in conventional migration studies, in both theoretical and operational terms. Building a global database with case studies across 23 sending and receiving countries, MIGMOBS charts how nation-states have preserved power through the era of neoliberalism by selectively opening and closing channels of mobility: making immigration and asylum the obsessive target of sovereign control while rendering invisible and fluid the mass mobilities of tourism, students, business and commuter travel. For more information, contact the PI, Adrian Favell (adrian.favell@ucc.ie), or see: https://www.ucc.ie/en/migmobs

Adrian Favell is Professor of Social and Political Theory and Director of the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork. He directed the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, and was also Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, Aarhus University and UCLA. He is the author of various works on migration, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and cities, notably a recent book with Polity Press (2022) The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies. He directs the ERC AdG Project MIGMOBS - The Orders and Border of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism (2024-28) . Website: www.adrianfavell.com

Host
Institute for European Studies

Cosponsors
Migrations Program, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Sociology