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Migration Matters: An Interdisciplinary
Program on Immigration at
the US-Mexico Border All
events are free and open to the public. They will be
held at Southern
Methodist University in 306 Dallas Hall/McCord
Auditorium, unless otherwise
noted in the program calendar. For further
details contact professor Jayson
Gonzales Sae-Saue: jsaesaue@smu.edu Outlaws
and Saints: An Evening With New York
Times Best-Selling Author Luis Urrea Thursday, January 26,
6:30 to 8:30: Luis Urrea, novelist
and essayist. Author of
the best seller The
Devil’s Highway,
the highly acclaimed novel The
Hummingbird’s Daughter, and the recently released
The Queen of America. The
Route of Death: Migrants, Massacres, and Cartels Thursday, Feb 9,
7:00 - 9:00
Screening of the film Una Ruta Nada Santa
with Moises Gomez
(cinematographer
and reporter), and Jim
Walters, (Assistant Chief of Police at Southern
Methodist University, and U.S.
Department of Justice Director, Southern Border
Initiative who has worked on
the case) A group of undocumented
immigrants crossed Mexico hoping to
make it to the United States, to the American Dream.
Nonetheless, a few
kilometers from their destination, 72 of them were
massacred. This crime is one
of many committed on the so-called Route of Death.
This is the story of
Victoria Castro, a young 15-year-old girl, and
Francisco Antonio, a 30-year-old
father of four children, two of the souls lost in the
massacre of San Fernando. Barbed-Wire
Art,
Border Myths, and Immigration Violence Wednesday, February
22, 5:30-7:30: Panel with Maria
Herrera-Sobek, Chicana/o and
Border Studies, University of California Santa Barbara;
Josiah Heyman,
Anthropology, University of Texas El Paso; and Roberta
Villalon, Sociology, St.
John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Elections,
The Law, and Languages at the Border
Monday, April 2,
5:30-7:30: Nancy Foner,
Distinguished Professor of
Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City
University of New York
will present the 2012 George and Mary Foster Lecture in
Cultural Anthropology. El Norte Wednesday, April 4,
6:30-8:30. Film
screening with commentary by Dr. Caroline B. Brettell,
University Distinguished
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern
Methodist University. Environmental
Justice
and Maquilladora Murders Thursday,
April 26, at
Great Hall (Prothro Building), 6:30-8:00 Presenter: Dr. Daisy
L. Machado, Dean
of Academic Affairs and Professor of Church History, Union Theological
Seminary in the City of New
York, and faculty of SMU-Perkins School of Theology. Respondent: Dr. Evelyn Parker, Associate Professor of
Practical Theology at
SMU-Perkins School of Theology. Support for this
program comes from: |