Theme: Global Migrations
Wednesday September 18th, 2019
- Lauren Aronson, College of Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting “Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids in the United States: the Journey and the Destination.”
Thursday October 17th, 2019
- David D. Laitin, James T. Watkins and Elise V. Watkins Professor, School of Humanities and Science, Stanford University presenting “Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge.”
Wednesday October 23rd, 2019
- Clifford Singer et. al., Former Director of the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS), Research and Emeritus Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting “Climate Action Game Experiment (CAGE).”
Wednesday December 4th, 2019
- Ann-Perry Witmer, Instructor and Faculty Advisor, Engineers Without Borders, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting "Global Attitudes of Rural Technical Inferiority as a Cause for Migration to Cities in the Non-Industrialized World."
January 2020:
- Cynthia Buckley, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting "Conflict, Migration, and Return: Negotiating Registration and Displacement in Ukraine, 2014-present."
February 2020:
- Liv Thorstensson Davila, Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting “Civic Identity and Engagement among Migrant-Origin Youth.”
- Carol Symes, Director of Graduate Students, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting "The Misuses of the Past in Contemporary Debates about Migration."
March 2020:
- Maggie Paxson, Senior Associate, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute, and Visiting Scholar, George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Title TBD. Recent Publication: The Plateau.
- Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University. Title TBD. Recent Publication: Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century.
Wednesday April 22nd, 2020:
- Matt Winter et. al., Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presenting "Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective."