Events
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All remaining events are open to everyone. Register at the links below.
Detention and Deportation Conference
Day: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Location: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Join us for a full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles—past, present, and future. Through four panels with scholars, journalists, policy experts, and activists, we’ll examine how these practices shape U.S. politics and immigration policy, from the historical roots of detention to the latest technologies of enforcement, and the on-the-ground organizing happening in New York City today.
Panel #1: The Politics and Policy Under Trump 2
Time: 10:30 am-12:00pm EDT
This panel sets the stage for a discussion of detention and deportation in the context of today’s politics and policies. Together, the panelists will help us make sense of the impact of this administration’s policies on the lives of immigrants and the way that a politics of detention and deportation is reshaping the United States of America.
Featured Panelists:
Adam Cox (New York University)
Muzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute)
Tanya Greene (Human Rights Watch)
Miriam Jordan (New York Times)
Moderated by Natasha Iskander
Panel #2: On Detention, Deportation, and Asylum's Afterlives
Time: 12:15pm-1:15pm
This keynote discussion will situate this unprecedented moment in the context of the contemporary history and geography of detention and deportation in immigration enforcement.
Featured Keynote Speaker:
Alison Mountz (University of Toronto)
Moderated by Radha S. Hegde
Panel #3: Technologies
Time: 1:30pm-3:00pm
This panel focuses on the technologies and infrastructure of detention and deportation, from digital surveillance to the bureaucratic structure of ICE, to the financial institutions embedded in the business of detention.
Featured Panelists:
Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University)
Matthew Guariglia (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Nancy Hiemstra (Stony Brook University)
William Turton (Propublica)
Moderated by Aisha Khan
Panel #4: Activism in NYC
Time: 3:15pm-4:00pm
This panel brings together activist organizations and student groups to discuss the work that they are doing on the ground to support New Yorkers who are vulnerable to detention and deportation. The discussion will include a know-your-rights training.
Featured Panelists:
Emary Aronson (Robinhood)
Jairo Guzman (The Mexican Coalition)
Nuala O'Doherty-Naranjo (Jackson Heights Immigrant Center)
Moderated by Krishnendu Ray
Virtual Explainers
Join us for a series of quick, 15-minute online explainers in which leading scholars break down major topics related to detention and deportation.
History of Deportation in the USA with Adam Goodman (University of Illinois Chicago), interviewed by Josie Saldaña (New York University)
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
Third-country Deportations with Sarah R. Sherman Stokes (Boston University), interviewed by Isabella Trombetta (New York University)
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
Location: Online
Habeas Corpus with Ahilan Arulanantham (University of California, Los Angeles), interviewed by Adam Cox (New York University)
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
Sanctuary Cities with Domenic Vitiello (University of Pennsylvania), interviewed by Natasha Iskander (New York University)
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
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Global Comparisons of Detention and Deportation
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Location: Online
This virtual panel brings together an international group of scholars and writers who work on questions of migration to discuss the ways in which detention and deportation are reshaping global politics, putting the U.S. focus of our series into dialogue with the rest of the world. The panel will start with a 15 minute presentation from each participant and conclude with a Q&A.
Featured Panelists:
Sally Hayden (Journalist)
Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
Lorenzo Alunni (University of Milano Bicocca)
Andrew Burridge (Macquarie University Sydney)
Moderated by Julie Mostov (New York University)