PROGRAM
9:15 am - Panel 1 – Paradigms Lost? Political Socialization Research in a World of Mobilities
- Tawnya Adkins Covert (Western Illinois University, Sociology): Structure AND Agency: Overcoming Fragmentation in the Study of Political Socialization
- Diana Owen (Georgetown University, Political Science): Media and the Political Socialization of Migrant Communities in the Digital Age
- Liv Dávila (U of I, Education): Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Civic Engagement from the Perspectives of Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Chaired by Jonathan Xavier Inda, U of I, Latina/Latino Studies)
11:00 am – Panel 2 – Migration, Citizenship, Activism
- Veronica Terriquez (UC Santa Cruz, Sociology): The Political Socialization of Latinx Youth in a Conservative U.S. Political Context
- Amal Hassan Fadlalla (Univ. of Michigan, Anthropology, African Studies, WS Studies): Affective Violence: Diaspora, Revolution, and the Making of Global Citizens
- Terri Barnes (U of I, History, Director of Center for African Studies): A Good Story and the Death of an African Migrant in Italy, 1989
- Jonathan Xavier Inda (U of I, Latina/Latino Studies): Illegality, Organ Transplants, and Migrant Biosociality
Chaired by Dara J. Goldman (U of I, Spanish/Portuguese Studies)
1:30 pm – Panel 3 – Human Rights and Border Regimes
- Jessica Greenberg (U of I, Anthropology) Counter-Pedagogy, Sovereignty and the Challenges of Migrant Human Rights in Europe
- Lauren Aronson (U of I, Immigration Law Clinic): Portrait of a Migrant
- Christoph Schwarz (U of I, CSAMES Visiting Scholar): Homeland Politics, European Citizenship, Trans-Mediterranean Political Socialization: The Hirak Protests and the Diaspora
Chaired by Rakesh Bhatt (U of I, Linguistics)
3:00 pm – Panel 4 – Space, Time, Memory
- Rakesh Bhatt (U of I, Linguistics): Mobility, Diasporic Morbidity, and the Chronotope of Victimhood
- Dara J. Goldman (U of I, Spanish / Portuguese Studies): A Shtetl Apart: The Place of Cuban Jews in Configurations of Cuban Citizenship
- Cynthia Buckley (U of I, Sociology): Making International Migrants in Place? Migrating Borders, Identity and Security in Estonia
Chaired by Valerie Hoffman (U of I, Religion)