2017 Spring Walls, Borders, Fences

December 16, 2016

Public Panel Discussion – Ather Zia & Huma Dar

Kashmir in the Shadows of Walls & Barbed-Wires: Postcolonial Contestation over Lives, Lands, Languages Moderated by Piya Chatterjee, Scripps College In 1947-8, up to a million and a half Muslims […]

Public Panel Discussion – Rosa-Linda Fregoso & Margo Tamez

Resurgence in Spaces of Impunity: Indigenous and Latinx Perspectives Moderated by Carmen Sanjuan-Pastor (Spanish, Scripps) Margo Tamez’ talk, “The Return and Resurgence of the Nde’ Monster Slayer and the 4th […]

Film screening + Q& A with filmmakers – The Narrow Streets of Bourj Hammoud

The Narrow Streets of Bourj Hammoud is a 72-minute experimental non-fiction film about a working-class suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The neighborhood was initially built to permanently settle Armenian refugees who escaped the 1915 […]

Public Talk – Naor Ben-Yehoyada

Seas of “Brotherhood” and Fields of “Care”: Refuge, Rescue, and Retribution in the Mediterranean and Europe The Mediterranean has recently appeared in the international news cycle as the sea that […]

Public Lecture – Lori Allen

Performing Democracy: The Problem of Political Representation in Investigative Commissions to Palestine Over the past century, the conflict in Palestine has been the subject of tens of fact-finding commissions. Whether […]

Student Only Workshop – Ben Wood

Lessons from the Frontlines: Grassroots Activism in the Inland Empire Ben Wood, activist and organizer *Co-sponsored by the Scripps Politics Department and Office of Dean of Students

Public Event – Thomas Abowd

Jerusalem, on the Moving Edge of Israeli Colonial Rule What kinds of barriers—physical, legal, and discursive—operate to keep Israeli-occupied Jerusalem a city of immense separation and inequality? In this presentation, […]

Tuesday Noon – Wendy Cheng

â€˜Our Mutual L.A. Suburban Pasts’: Race and Cosmopolitanism in Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley is the largest majority-Asian American and Latinx region in the United States. Scripps […]

Public Lecture – Audra Simpson

We Are Not Red Indians” (We Might All Be Red Indians): Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment In 2004, Yasser Arafat noted that “the Palestine case […]

Tuesday Noon – Myriam J. Chancy

The Politics of Exclusion: Narrating Post-Earthquake Haiti In this reading from her novel-in-progress, “Douze,” Myriam J. A. Chancy — author, Guggenheim Fellow, and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps […]

Tuesday Noon – Christian RamÃrez

Revitalize Not Militarize: the Struggle for Human Rights in the Southern Border The southern border region is home to some 15 million people living in border communities in California, Arizona, […]

Student Only Workshop – Christian RamÃrez

A Discussion About Human Rights in the US-Mexico Border with Christian RamÃrez Students will engage in a discussion about human rights in the US-Mexico Border with Christian RamÃrez. Christian RamÃrez […]