Plenary 1: Justice and Joy in the Borderlands

Panelists:
Anita Huízar-Hernández*
Cecilia Menjívar
Greer Millard
Luis Alberto Urrea
Javier Zamora

Celebrating 10 Years of LSA: Critical Reflections on Latinx Studies as a Field of Study

Panelists:
Rafael Pérez Torres
G. Cristina Mora
Francisco J. Galarte
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez
Ana Patricia Rodríguez

If you're in Providence, please considering attending this incredible event on April 25th: Dr. Elaine Ayers (Elaine Ayers) on 'Moss as Medium: Colonial Plant Transportation and the Materiality of Movement.'

'Modern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. Ordering the Human ... examines the racialization of science ... illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.'

Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science

Edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley

So excited for this new volume of essays on the mutual constitution of modern science, race, and the globe that my brilliant Harvard, Department of the History of Science colleague Eram Alam coedited with Dorothy Roberts and Natalie Shibley

#histstm #histsci #histmed #sts

Deeply honored by the Infraestructural Humanities Group at the University of Glasgow for organizing events on Black Geographies for me to attend while I’m in Europe. It was a dream to engage with Victoria Okoye and Farai Chipato. Thank you for the invitation and care Henry Ivry!

Indigenous Peoples have inherent rights to access, use, and steward data critical for effective governance:

Indigenous Peoples have inherent rights to govern those data according to their own values, principles, and practices:

This week in Indian Country. First U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit hosted by US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network. NativeBio Data Consortium is proud to co-produce, co-sponsor, present, and attend as faithful, relational interlocutors. Support Indigenous data sovereignty. #IDSov #IDGov #DataBack

Our summit is getting started with an opening keynote by Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Nation for his talk on “A Consideration of Data Sovereignty and Intellectual Property from the SoilSoul of Indigenous Peoples”

As an Indigenous soil nerd, I could not be more excited 🥳

Day 1 of US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit— 450 people here at the Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Casino Del Sol, eager to talk and learn about how Indigenous Peoples harness data for self determination 🥳

In this piece for Researching Internal Displacement, Stephanie Schwartz @adamlichtenheld and I discuss why politics are essential for understanding displacement, and introduce our new project on the politics of government responses to it. AISSR researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/t…

Nerding out with one of my favorite conveners - Texas Tribune “The Significance of El Paso to Texas and its Future”

I have two entries in the latest edition of the SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies! 🙌🏽 The first is on Decolonizing LGBTQ Studies and the second is on Indigenous Sexualities! 🌱 If you need help accessing, please send me an email! 🏳️‍🌈🪶👊🏽

Excited for LSA! If you are in AZ, come visit us at our panel:

Latinx Civic Life and Placemaking Amid Crises, Democratic Erosion, and State Violence

Some important notes from our site committee led by Sujey Vega and Anita Huízar-Hernández, who have been working very hard to ensure that this year's meeting is a success 📝 1/12

Please check out this event next week BMI co-sponsored!

New reporting: The number of migrants apprehended along the US-Mexico border dipped in March, internal government figures obtained by CBS News show, a surprising trend that officials say mainly stems from an immigration crackdown by the Mexican government.
cbsnews.com/news/immigrati…

The United States “dominates these governments and their peoples, exploits their resources, prohibits political independence, withholds representation, and imposes its own laws, values, and norms upon these governments without consent.”

Daily #Border Links: April 10, 2024

Biden still considering executive action to curb asylum. DHS Sec Mayorkas testifies twice in Congress today. >34 migrants have died in El Paso Sector in FY24, even before summer.

For a version with working links, go to borderoversight.org/news