Border Inhumanities

Date and Time

February 27, 2020
06:00PM - 06:00PM EST

Location

Room 210, Emerson Hall

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Speakers: Tania Caballero, Yolanda Chávez Leyva, and Sarah Lopez

ROOM CHANGE: This event will take place in Emerson 210

A conversation about detention camps on the southern U.S. border with 
 
Tania Caballero
Pediatrics Research and Clinical Fellow
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 
 
Yolanda Chávez Leyva
Associate Professor of History
University of Texas at El Paso
 
Sarah Lopez
Associate Professor of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin
 
Moderated by Bruno Carvalho
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

According to the 2018 World Migration Report, there will be 405 million international migrants by 2050. Amid climate change, geopolitical instabilities, and authoritarian nationalism, borders have become crucial sites of both proliferating cruelty and outpourings of solidarity. Many of us are asking: How did we get here? And what can we do? This series brings together scholars and activists from multiple fields who can help us confront these questions with humanistic sensibility and depth of knowledge.