events

2021-22 Events

Stay or Leave? Perspectives on Immigration and Migrant Labor from Both Sides of the Border
Immigration policy debates are increasingly focused on preventing the flight of Latin Americans and Caribbeans who are leaving their home countries in search of economic and/or physical security in the US. At the same, many sectors of the US economy--including in Kansas and Missouri--draw migrants from these same countries, who often work and live under punishing and exploitative conditions. To what extent can the US reconcile the goals of incentivizing potential migrants to remain in their home countries while the country's labor markets simultaneously induce their exodus? This moderated conversation will feature Suzanne Gladney, Director of the Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund (Kansas City, Missouri) and Brent Metz, KU Professor of Anthropology, who will discuss the forces driving Central Americans from their home communities and the challenge of creating more humane working and living conditions once migrant laborers arrive in the region.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
3:30-5:00 PM
Mallott Room, Kansas Union
For Zoom information, please contact Christie Holland at christieh@ku.edu

Past Events

	Coming to the Heartland In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series A KU research team including Elizabeth MacGonagle (Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and Director of the Kansas African Studies Center), Marta Caminero-Santangelo (Professor of English and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Abel Chikanda (Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Geography and Atmospheric Science), Meg Jamieson (Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies), Brian Rosenblum (Librarian for Digital Scholarship, KU Libraries, and Co-Director of Institute for Digital research in the Humanities), Hannah Britton (Professor of Political Science and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), and Sylvia Fernandez (Post-doctoral Researcher at Hall Center for the Humanities) will give a presentation about their work on the intergenerational stories of Latin American and African migration to the Heartland. Monday, April 19, 2021 7:30 PM Presented via Zoom.
	Lual Mayen In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:30 PM Presented via Crowdcast.
	Denise Brennan In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:30 PM Presented via Crowdcast.
	Donna Gabaccia In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:30 PM Presented via Crowdcast.
	Erika Lee: America for Americans In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00 PM Presented via Crowdcast.
	An Evening with Juan Felipe Herrera In collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities Migration Stories Lecture Series Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:00 PM Presented via Crowdcast.
	Partnering with Migratory & Seasonal Agricultural Workers: Building Capacity for Healthcare Delivery and Research Co-Hosted by Social Welfare Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Wednesday, March 4, 2020 5:00 PM Arterra Event Gallery, Lawrence, KS
	Stacey Vanderhurst, KU Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Naive, Desperate, or Determined?: Making Sense of High-Risk Migration Co-Hosted by the Kansas African Studies Center Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:30 PM International Room, Kansas Union
	Bartholomew Dean, KU Associate Professor of Anthropology Mobility & Freedom: an essay on sovereignty & the technologies of social disruption in Amazonia Wednesday, September 18, 2019 3:30pm Bailey 318
	Vasyl Makhno, Ukranian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator Part of the Center for Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies and the KU Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Palij Lecture Series Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:00pm Mallott Room, Kansas Union
	Ludwin Molina, KU Associate Professor of Pyschology Pura Vida: Costa Rican Exceptionalism and Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:30pm Bailey 318
	Liefu Jiang, Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Jennifer Chappell Deckert, & Kathryn Vaggalis, KU Graduate Students Graduate Student Panel Friday, April 26, 2019 3:00pm Blake 210
	Bartholomew Dean, KU Associate Professor of Anthropology Randy David, KU Graduate Student in Anthopology Population Distribution and Sociogenetics in a Peruvian Amazonian Population Monday, February 25, 2019 3:00pm Pine Room, Kansas Union
	Rebecca Galemba, Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Denver Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border and Implications for Migrant Rights Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:00pm Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
	Ben Teitelbaum, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Colorado, Boulder Odes to dying people: Music and the gendering of racial decline in organized white nationalism Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:30pm The Commons at Spooner Hall
	Emily Rauscher, KU Sociology Department Going Places: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Internal Migration Thursday, November 16, 2017 Noon Alderson Room, Kansas Union
	Jennifer Raff, KU Department of Anthropology Demography and Migration History of the Aleut Peoples Monday, May 1, 2017 Noon Centennial Room, Kansas Union
	Abel Chikanda, KU Department of Geography & Department of African and African-American Studies Assessing the Integration Outcomes of the African-Born Population in the United States Wednesday, March 29, 2017 Noon Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
	Marta Caminero-Santangelo, KU Department of English Stories of the Undocumented: Cultural Trauma and American DREAMers Tuesday, February 21, 2017 6:30pm reception, 7pm lecture The Commons, Spooner Hall
	Sujey Vega, Arizona State University Bypassing Borders: How Latinos Assert Belonging and Practice Home in the Heartland Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Noon Kansas Union, Jayhawk Room
	Professor Dan Smith, Anthropology, Brown University Masculinity and Mobility: Men, Money, and Migration in an African Setting Wednesday, February 1, 2017 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM The Commons, Spooner Hall
	Vanesa Ribas, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego On the Line: Immigration, Race, and Exploitation in the New South Thursday, November 17, 2016
	Aminatta Forna, Lannan Visiting Chair at Georgetown University, Author, Broadcaster and Journalist From Root to Branch: Travels in the Footsteps of the Enslaved Thursday, November 10, 2016
	TRANS/FORMING Activist Media in the Americas An interdisciplinary exhibition & symposium of activist media producers and scholars October 24-29, 2016
	Professor Peggy Levitt, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Sponsored by the KU Center for Migration Research and the Spencer Museum of Art
	"Legality and Precarity Among Middle-Class Venezuelan Migrants" Lourdes Gouveia, Emerita, University of Nebraska, Omaha October 12, 2016
	Doris Marie Provine, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University Policing Immigrants in Dodge City and Beyond September 21, 2016