All public lectures are from 4-6 pm in Communications 120, with a reception to follow at the Simpson Center.

Re-Mapping Borderlands Studies
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
“Frontier Liberalism and the Geneology of Mexico’s indio bárbaro, 1810-1870″
Monday, October 8, 2012
4:00 pm
Communications 120

Protecting the Homeland: Constructing Borders and Border Crises
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
American Studies, Yale University
“Migrant Personhood and the Definition of Sovereign Power in North America”
October 25, 2012

Caribbean Borders: Near and Far
Robin Derby
History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Cuidado con el perro que muerdo callado: Black Dogs as Trauma Revenants on Hispaniola”
November 29, 2012

Juan Flores
Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
“Salsa Power: The Politics in/of Latin Music of the 1960s”
November 30, 2012

Are Borders Bad for Women?
Shannon Speed
Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
January 17, 2013

Feminisms, Nationalisms, and Violence
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez
American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
February 7, 2013

Border Patrols of Popular Culture
William Nericcio
Liberal Arts and Sciences, San Diego State University
“Confessions of a Mexican American Hoarder” or “Prowling the Caucasian Bestiary”: The Existential and Insane Consequences of Collecting Latina/o Artifacts and Stereotypes”
February 28, 2013

Mapping Sovereignty: Indigenous Borderlands
Audra Simpson
Anthropology, Columbia University
Ofelia Zepeda
American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
April 11, 2013

Extracting Sovereignty: Extractive Industries Across the Americas
Luis Vittor
Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas (Peru)
May 2, 2013

Borders of Kinship: Species/Race/Indigeneity
Noenoe Silva
Policial Science, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Johathan Goldberg-Hiller
Social Sciences, Public Policy Center, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Kim Tallbear
Environmental Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
May 23, 2013