Migration and the Humanities: A Conference

Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street
Doors open at 5:30pm, program starts at 6:00pm

Performance by

Members of the Silkroad Ensemble
Edward Perez ’00, bass
Martine Thomas ’18, viola
Hadi Eldebek, oud

Introduction by

Drew Gilpin Faust
Harvard University

Homi Bhabha
Harvard University

Reading by

Junot Díaz
Novelist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conversation with

Junot Díaz

Parul Sehgal
New York Times Book Critic 

Homi Bhabha

Friday, February 9, 2018

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street

Opening Remarks

10:00am-10:30am

Identity and Dignity

10:30am–12:45pm

Kwame Anthony Appiah
New York University

Veena Das
Johns Hopkins University

Uday Mehta
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Tommie Shelby
Harvard University

Homi Bhabha
Harvard University 

Survival and Security

2:00pm–4:15pm

Inderpal Grewal
Yale University

Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
University of Texas, Austin

Bernard Harcourt
Columbia University

Lisa Lowe
Tufts University

John Hamilton
Harvard University

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.