#  Migration and the Humanities: A Conference 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 8 - February 9, 2018** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street (Thursday); Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street (Friday)**  



 

 



 

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Thursday, February 8, 2018 *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**

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##  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.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Migration and Humanities ](/event-series/migration-and-humanities)
- [ Public ](/event-type/public)
 
 

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