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B/ordering Violence Speakers and Themes

Spring Quarter 2013:
Indigenous Perspectives on Political Boundaries

April 11-12, 2013
Theme: Mapping Sovereignty: Indigenous Borderlands
Speakers: Audra Simpson (Anthropology, Columbia University) and Ofelia Zepeda (American Indian Studies, University of Arizona)

May 2-3, 2013
Theme: Extracting Sovereignty: Extractive Industries Across the Americas
Speaker: Luis Vittor (Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas, Peru)

May 23-24, 2013
Theme: Borders of Kinship: Species/Race/Indigeneity
Speakers: Noenoe Silva (Political Science, University of Hawai’i, Manoa), Johathan Goldberg-Hiller (Social Sciences, Public Policy Center, University of Hawai’i, Manoa), and Kim Tallbear (Environmental Sciences, University of California, Berkeley)

Fall Quarter 2012:
The Discourses and Practices of Policing Borders

October 8-9, 2012
Theme: Re-Mapping Borderlands Studies
Speaker: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Social &Cultural Analysis, New York University)

October 25-26, 2012
Theme: Protecting the Homeland? Constructing Borders and Border Crises
Speaker: Alicia Schmidt Camacho (American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, Yale University)

November 29-30, 2012

Theme: Caribbean Borders: Near and Far
Speakers: Robin Derby (History, University of California, Los Angeles) and Juan Flores (Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University)

Winter Quarter 2013:
Gendered Violence in the Borderlands

January 17-18, 2013
Theme: Are Borders Bad for Women? 

Speaker: Shannon Speed (Anthropology, University of Texas)

February 7-8, 2013
Theme: Political Economies of Violence, Sex, and Drugs
Speaker: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández (American Studies, University of Texas)

February 28-March 1, 2013
Theme: Border Patrols of Popular Culture
Speaker: William Nericcio (English and Comparative Literature & Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University)

Spring Quarter 2013:
Indigenous Perspectives on Political Boundaries

April 11-12, 2013

Theme: Mapping Sovereignty: Indigenous Borderlands

May 2-3, 2013
Theme: Extracting Sovereignty: Extractive Industries Across the Americas

May 23-24, 2013
Theme: Borders of Kinship: Species/Race/Indigeneity

 

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About B/ordering Violence

The B/ordering Violence Sawyer Seminar is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Latin American Caribbean Studies program, the Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the University of Washington’s Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER)

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