Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium

April 12 - April 16, 2021

12:00AM - 11:59PM

Online

Add to Calendar 2021-04-12 00:00:00 2021-04-16 23:59:00 Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium At this symposium, academics, activists, artists, and community members are teaming up to bring to light how the policies enacted in the U.S.- Mexico borderlands have direct impacts on the lives of our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, family members, friends, and those who must reside under the protection of sanctuary. We will use art and scholarship to interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations and the deaths and disappearances that result from U.S. immigration policies. For full event information and other resources please visit our webpage. These events are free and open to the public, registration is required and available at the webpage linked above. Funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Co-Sponsored by: The Latina/o Studies Program, The Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, The Department of Sociology, and The Institute for Population Research. Co-Organized by Victor Espinosa and Danielle Schoon If you have questions or require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in “Bringing the Border to Columbus” events, please contact Event Coordinator, Melissa Rodriguez. Requests made two weeks before any individual event date will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. Online Department of Sociology sociology-info@osu.edu America/New_York public

At this symposium, academics, activists, artists, and community members are teaming up to bring to light how the policies enacted in the U.S.- Mexico borderlands have direct impacts on the lives of our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, family members, friends, and those who must reside under the protection of sanctuary. We will use art and scholarship to interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations and the deaths and disappearances that result from U.S. immigration policies.

For full event information and other resources please visit our webpage.

These events are free and open to the public, registration is required and available at the webpage linked above.

Funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme

Co-Sponsored by: The Latina/o Studies Program, The Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, The Department of Sociology, and The Institute for Population Research.

Co-Organized by Victor Espinosa and Danielle Schoon

If you have questions or require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in “Bringing the Border to Columbus” events, please contact Event Coordinator, Melissa Rodriguez. Requests made two weeks before any individual event date will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Event Schedule

10:00 AM - Opening Ceremony: Coffee and Conversation (Invitation Only)

1 :30-3:00 PM - On Board(hers) Goes Global: Presentation and Workshop

Weekly Event:

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94): Art Installation
The OSU Hopkins Hall Gallery is open 11 :00 AM - 4:00 PM, this installation is available for viewing from April 12-16, 2021. Pre-register your visit to the gallery here.

12:30-2:30 PM - Borderlands in Columbus: Sanctuary Roundtable and Fundraiser

Weekly Event:

10:00-11 :30 AM - Workshop in Creative Self Care for Community Leaders

2:00-3:30 PM - The Human Cost of Immigration Policy: Conversation with Douglas Massey

4:00-5:00 PM - Performance/Borderlands: Embodied Futurism and Surrealism

Weekly Event:

11 :00am-12:15 PM - Undocumented Americans: Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

2:00-3:30 PM - Art and Activism: Conversation with Tanya Aguiniga and Jackie Amezquita

Weekly Event:

1 :00-2:30 PM - Performing Ourselves, Performing our Histories: Latinx Stories of a Pandemia

4:30-6:00 PM - Keynote by Robin Reineke: Re-membering the Missing and Dead along the US-Mexico Border

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