Interdisciplinary Special Symposium

Borders and Borderlands:
Culture, Society, and Economics
during Changing Times

Presented by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Morgan Library, Event Hall
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Day programming is free and open to the public.

Program
9:00am-9:05am
Welcome and Overview of the Symposium – Anita Alves Pena (CSU, Economics)

9:05am-10:15am
Barriers and Borders Panel I: Historical Perspectives on Local, National and International Borders and their Influences
Adam Thomas (CSU, History) – Colorado’s Tortilla Curtain: Inventing an Internal Borderland
Jennifer Cullison (CU Boulder, History) – Contradictory Enforcement Ideals: The Developing Immigrant Detention Industrial Complex and the Demise of U.S. INS Visions of Humane Policy, 1954-1988
Mohammed Hirchi (CSU, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – The Cultural Legacies of Moorish Spain in the Global Context

10:15am-10:30am Student Poster Presentations and Break

10:30am-11:45am
Community Workshop: Facilitating Discussion of Emotionally Charged Issues: Physical and Cultural Borders and Divisions
Group Facilitator: Carmen Mendoza (CONNECTIONS, Heart Centered Coaching,Fort Collins)

11:45am-12pm Student Poster Presentations and Break

12pm-1:15pm
Featured Speaker and Brown Bag Lunch
Introduction by Mary Van Buren (CSU, Anthropology)
Dr. Cristina Jo Perez (Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies, University of California, Davis)
Violent Intimacies at the Mexico-U.S. Border Industrial Complex

1:15pm-1:30pm Student Poster Presentations and Break

1:30pm-2:45pm
Barriers and Borders Panel II: Current Perspectives on National and International Borders and Divisions
Sophie Esch (CSU, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Trafficking Death and Government Staging: Firearms as Commodities and Props in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
Francisco Leal (CSU, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Borderless Thinking: Drugs and Poetry in Latin America
Fernando Valerio-Holguín (CSU, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – Primitive Borders: Cultural Identity and Ethnic Cleansing in the Dominican Republic

2:45pm-3pm Break, Student Poster Presentations and Break

3pm-4:15pm
Keynote Speaker
Introduction by Steve Mumme (CSU, Political Science)
Dr. Joan B. Anderson (Professor Emerita, University of San Diego)
U.S.-Mexico Border Issues and Policies: An Economic Prospective

4:15pm-4:30pm Break, Walk to Lory Student Center Theatre

4:30pm-5:45pm
Special Film Screening (ticketed event)
Walls/Muros, Part of the Second Annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Lory Student Center Theatre
More info on the film: http://wallsmuros.com/en/
More info on the film festival and tickets ($10 General Admission/$5 Students): https://actfilmfest.colostate.edu/

5:45pm-6:30pm
Panel on Global Borders, Walls, and Other Themes of the Film
Alvaro Enciso, artist and cultural anthropologist who investigates migrant deaths
Hanan Isweiri, CSU PhD student stranded by President Trump’s first travel ban

For more information about LACS: http://polisci.colostate.edu/lacs/

 

This symposium is possible with the generous support of:
The College of Liberal Arts | Colorado State University Libraries | Anthropology | Economics | El Centro | Ethnic Studies | History | International Studies | Journalism & Media Communication | Languages, Literatures and Cultures | Office of International Programs | Political Science | Sociology | Women’s Studies