Part I: Alexander Library Teleconference Room, SCC 403
9:30am-11:30am: Histories, Causes, and Contexts of the Current Crisis
Part II: Alexander Library Teleconference Room, SCC 403
1:00pm-3:00pm: Contemporary Trajectories
Part III: Hageman Hall, New Brunswick Theological Seminary
4:00pm-6:00pm Video and Film Exhibitions
 
 
   
 
PROGRAM
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Part I. Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall, SCC 403

9:30am-11:30am: Histories, Causes, and Contexts of the Current Crisis

Chair: Carolyn Brown (Former Director, Center for African Studies; Department of History, RU-NB)

Cristina Lombardi-Diop (Senior Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago)
Presentation title: "The Mediterranean Crisis from Italy's Southern Front"

Ousseina Alidou (Former Director, Center for African Studies; Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, RU-NB)
Presentation title: "Globalization, Conflicts and African Youth Displacement"

Amadou Kane Sy (Artist and Activist, Portes et Passages-Art et Développement, Mbodiene, Senegal)
Presentation title: "Following the Fish"

Kassahun Checole (Publisher, Africa World Press, Inc. & The Red Sea Press, Inc.)
Presentation title: “When the Risk of Death is Rationalized: Critical Sources and Reasons for Eritrean Migration”

 

[Break for lunch on your own]

 

Part II: Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall, SCC 403

1:00pm-3:00pm: Contemporary Trajectories

Chair: Rhiannon Noel Welch (Department of Italian, RU-NB)

Cristiana Giordano (University of California, Davis)
Presentation title: "The dark side of Schengen: "migrants" in and out of translation"

Mounkaila Harouna (Abdou Moumouni University, Republic of Niger)
Presentation title: "Sub-saharan Migrations towards North Africa and Europe: Origins and Contemporary Trajectories"

Jean-Baptiste Sourou (Gregorian University in Rome/ St. Augustine University of Tanzania)
Presentation title: "African Contemporary History and the Roots of the Immigration through the Mediterranean Sea"

R. Daniel Kelemen (Professor of Political Science, RU-NB)
Presentation title: “The EU and the Refugee Crisis”

Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard College)
Presentation title: “Borders of Humanity: Migration and the Crisis of Human Rights in Europe”

 

Part III. New Brunswick Theological Seminary-Hageman Hall

4:00-6:00pm: Video and Film Exhibitions

Discussion and exhibits by:
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen ( Paris-based visual artist and filmmaker) and
Amadou Kane-Sy (Senegalese visual artist and social activist)

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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