Events
Immigration & the 2024 US Election
Day: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 10:00am - 3:30pm EDT
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Room: Greenberg Lounge
Join us for a day-long event on immigration and the U.S. elections. We will cut through the campaign season rhetoric on immigration and provide a clear breakdown of the policy stakes involved in this election. The day will feature three panels: 1. Immigration Policy and the US Elections; 2. Immigration: Rhetoric vs. Reality, and 3. NYU and New Arrivals to NYC. Join us for as much of the day as you like!
Virtual Explainers
Join us for quick zoom breakdowns of the immigration policies proposed by the Trump and Harris campaigns and an explanation of how they fit in with existing policies and practices.
Border Enforcement & Access to Asylum
Date: Monday, September 30, 2024
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
Mass Deportations
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
Prisons & Immigration Policy
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Location: Online
Learn all about immigration policy in 15 minutes or less.
Global Comparisons of Immigration Policy and Electoral Politics
Date: Monday, October 21, 2024
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Location: Online
How does the role that immigration plays in US elections compare to elections in other places around the world? Join us for a virtual roundtable discussing immigration and electoral politics in the UK, France, Germany, Greece, and Argentina.
Karina Horsti on Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster
This event is co-hosted by NYU Liberal Studies, the NYU Migration Network, and the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Location: 239 Greene Street, Room: 8th Floor
Join Karina Horsti for a talk drawing on her recent publication, Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster, moderated by Professor Radha Hegde (NYU Steinhardt).
The focus on survival adds an important temporal aspect to the issue of migrant deaths at borders. This awareness of temporality - that the present will one day be past - allows us to imagine possible futures, prompting a vision of a convivial future society. Ethnographic research with survivors of the most mediatized migrant shipwrecks in Italy shows how for the survivors of border violence survival is a process in which they create a new identity and belonging in Europe. The specters haunting the present are not only from the past but also from the future.
About the Speaker: Karina Horsti is Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her research focuses on migration, media, memory politics and culture. She is the author of Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster (Cornell University Press, 2023).
Please email lsdeansoffice@nyu.edu with any questions.
Note on Accessibility: The entrance on 239 Greene Street is wheelchair accessible. For any questions or to notify us of accommodation requests, please email lsdeansoffice@nyu.edu at least two weeks prior to the event date.