CANCELLED: Hope
*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Hope is a dramatic film by French writer/director Boris Lojkine. In this film, Léonard makes a clandestine journey from Cameroon to […]
CANCELLED: Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj – Lâle Can
Unfortunately, Thursday evening’s book talk by Dr. Lâle Can has been cancelled due to travel concerns. At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual […]
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Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants – César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually […]
Welcoming the Stranger’ on Occupied Land: Migration, Metaphor, and Decolonial Challenge on Faith-based Border Activism – Leah Sarat
Dr. Leah Sarat (Arizona State University) will give this keynote lecture as part of the 4TH Annual Religion Graduate Student Association Conference: “Protest, Power and Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and Religion,” […]
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities – Lenny Ureña Valerio
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations […]
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The Age of Consequences
Dr. Les Thiele of UF’s Department of Political Science will introduce this important documentary as part of the “Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989” Campus Weeks Events. ‘The Hurt […]
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior – Peter Tinti
Join international investigative journalist Peter Tinti, who will speak as part of the International Career Pathways Speaker Series. Tinti will host a discussion of careers in investigative journalism and his work […]
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Broken Families Across the Border – Erin Anderson
Erin Anderson works for Al otro lado, an NGO that supports and provides legal advice to families separated by ICE. She will talk about how Al otro lado helps parents […]
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Climate Refugees
Dr. Alioune Sow of UF’s Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures will introduce this important documentary as part of the “Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989” Campus Weeks Events. […]