The Columbia University
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER)
joins the Forum on Migration
to present the lecture series
Migration, Race, and Ethnicity
January 26-April 24, 2012
6:00pm
Barnard College
117th Street and Broadway
New York, NY
See lecture topics below
All lectures are open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
CSER joins the Forum on Migration this semester to present the lecture series "Migration, Race, and Ethnicity." The series not only incorporates the interests of both centers but also their interdisciplinarity (in this case, history, ethnography, sociology, musicology, and political science) and their global scope.
"Migration, Race, and Ethnicity" includes presentations about local processes (the early formation of the Dominican community in New York City) and about Atlantic ones (a comparison of the politics of "home" and belonging in Western Europe and the U.S.). It deals with the past (indigenous migration in colonial Mexico or Spanish colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines) and the future (the growing reliance on, and exploitation of, guest workers in the U.S.). And it tackles identitary processes through a variety of lenses and sites, exploring the use of sports as an expression of ethnic solidarity among Jews and Palestinians in South America, of ethno-nationalist discourse as an assertion of membership among Russian arrivals in Israel, and of music and African origins in the construction of Brazilian national identity.
In a related expression of the local/global nexus, the series brings scholars from institutions of higher learning in New York City and in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem.
Lecture Topics
JAN 26 (THU) 6pm
To Mines and Markets:
Indigenous Migration in Colonial Mexico
Dana Velasco, Adelphi University
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barbard Hall, 3rd Floor, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
JAN 31 (TUE) 6pm
Guest Workers, Temporary Labor,
and the Future of American Immigration
Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
FEB 8 (WED) 6pm
The Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil
and the Challenge of Affirmative Action Programs
FEB 21 (TUE) 6pm
Not Feeling at Home: Migration, Belonging
and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the U.S.
Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
MAR 26 (MON) 6pm
Colonial Rights & Migration: Cuba, Puerto Rico,
and the Philippines in the 19th Century
Josep M. Fradera Barceló, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Location: 304 Barnard Hall, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
MAR 29 (THU) 6pm
Sports and Ethnicity: Jewish and Palestinian
Soccer Teams in Argentina and Chile
Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
Location: Diana Oval, The Diana Center, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
APR 3 (WED) 6pm
From One Island to Another:
Dominican Immigration to New York, 1892-1924
Ramona Hernández,
The City College of NY and Graduate Center, CUNY
Location: TBA
APR 24 (TUE) 6pm
Africa in Brazil? Samba, History,
and the Allure and Challenge of Diaspora
Marc Hertzman, Columbia University
Location: Diana Oval, Broadway at 117 St, NYC
For more information:
Josephine Caputo
Administrative Assistant
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University in the City of New York
423 Hamilton Hall / 1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Tel: 212.854.0507 Fax: 212.854.0500