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Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium

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April 12 - April 16, 2021
12:30PM - 12:30PM
Virtual

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Add to Calendar 2021-04-12 12:30:00 2021-04-16 12:30:00 Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium Time: Various Event Host: Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, The Latina/o Studies Program, The Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space Short Description: At the Bringing the Border to Columbus symposium, academics, activists, artists and immigrants from the Ohio State and greater Columbus community will interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico and the resulting death and disappearances in these borderlands. Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium will take place at The Ohio State University on April 12-16 supported by a Global Arts + Humanities Discover Theme grant. At the symposium, academics, activists, artists and immigrants from the Ohio State and greater Columbus community will interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico and the resulting death and disappearances in these borderlands. We aim to bring to light how the policies enacted in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have direct impacts on the lives of our immigrant neighbors, all U.S. Americans and on the lives of immigrants in the U.S. who continue to live in the borderlands under the protection of sanctuary. Virtual College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: Various
Event Host: Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, The Latina/o Studies Program, The Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space
Short Description: At the Bringing the Border to Columbus symposium, academics, activists, artists and immigrants from the Ohio State and greater Columbus community will interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico and the resulting death and disappearances in these borderlands.


Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium will take place at The Ohio State University on April 12-16 supported by a Global Arts + Humanities Discover Theme grant.

At the symposium, academics, activists, artists and immigrants from the Ohio State and greater Columbus community will interrogate the politics of south-to-north migrations in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico and the resulting death and disappearances in these borderlands. We aim to bring to light how the policies enacted in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have direct impacts on the lives of our immigrant neighbors, all U.S. Americans and on the lives of immigrants in the U.S. who continue to live in the borderlands under the protection of sanctuary.

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