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icon New York University & The New School Events Schedule–March 11 & 12 [Click to download] (958.51 kB)

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DAY 1: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | Princeton University
4:30–6:30 pm

Opening Remarks

4:30pm – 4:45pm (East Pyne 010)
Pablo Domínguez (Princeton University)
Javier Guerrero (New York University)

Book Launch: The Beast and La fila india

4:45pm – 6:30pm
Óscar Martínez (Journalist, The Beast)
Antonio Ortuño (Novelist, La fila india)
Discussants: Jorge Quintana, Jennifer Rodríguez

*Tuesday's events will not be live streamed.


DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, March 11, 2015 | The New School 
2:00–7:00 pm

Opening Remarks

2:00-2:15 pm (Tishman Auditorium)
Diana Taylor (New York University)
Marcial Godoy-Anativia (New York University)
Pablo Domínguez (Princeton University)
Melissa Amezcua (The New School)

Remains, Justice, and Memory/Restos, Justicia y Memoria

2:15 - 3:30 pm (Tishman Auditorium)
Marta Sanchez Soler (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)
Aldo Ledón (Voces Mesoamericanas)
Diana Taylor (New York University)
Moderator: Pablo Dominguez (Princeton University)

3:30 - 3:45 pm Break

The Right to Human Rights/El Derecho a los Derechos Humanos

3:45 - 5:00 pm (Tishman Auditorium)
Ayten Gundogdu
Amy Gottleib (American Friends Service Committee)
Michael Evans (National Security Archive)
Moderator: Alexandra Délano (The New School)

5:00 - 5:15 pm Break

Keynote

5:15 - 6:15 pm (Tishman Auditorium)
Óscar Martínez (Journalist, Author, The Beast)
Moderator: Marcial Godoy-Anativia (New York University)

Reception
6:15-7:00 pm



DAY 3: Thursday, March 12, 2015 | New York University
10:00 - 6:00 PM

Opening Remarks

10:00 - 10:15 am (20 Cooper Square, 7th floor)

Visible Documents/Documentos Visibles

10:15 - 11:30 am (20 Cooper Square, 7th floor)
Jorge Durand (Universidad de Guadalajara)
Pablo Dominguez (Princeton University)
Christina Sisk (University of Houston)
Moderator: Jorge Romero León

Migrating Violencias—From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa/Violencias migratorias--De Ciudad Juarez a Ayotzinapa

11:45 am - 1:00 pm (20 Cooper Square, 7th floor)
Rita Segato (University of Brasília)
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University)
Rossana Reguillo (ITESO, Guadalajara)
Moderator: Melissa Amezcua (The New School)

Conversatorio: Making the Roads: Perspectives from Activists in NYC / Haciendo Caminos: Perspectivas de Activistas en NYC

2:30-4:00 (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor)
Benito Bravo (Ballet Folklórico Quetzalcoatl)
Bianey García (Make the Road New York)
Carla García (Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña)
Cinthya Santos Briones (anthropologist & organizer)
Librada Paz (Rural and Migrant Ministry)
María Lezama (New York Communities for Change)
Moderators: Kalina Brabeck (Rhode Island College) and Juan Carlos Ruíz (New Sanctuary Movement)

Plenary Discussion

4:15 - 5:15 pm (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor)

Exhibit Opening & Reception: Moysés Zúñiga PERDIDOS Y ENCONTRADOS / LOST AND FOUND

5:30 - 6:30 pm (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor)

Film Screening: La jaula de Oro / The Golden Dream (2013)

5:30 - 6:30 pm (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor)
Director: Diego Quemada-Diéz
Run time: 108 minutes


Friday, March 13, 2015 | Princeton University
10:45 - 7:30 pm

Opening Remarks

11:00am – 11:15 am (East Pyne 010)
Pablo Domínguez (Princeton University)
Javier Guerrero (New York University)
Diana Taylor (New York University

Frontera Sur / Southern Border

11:15am – 12:45pm (East Pyne 010)
Pablo Domínguez (Princeton)
Diana Taylor (New York University)
Aldo Ledón (Voces Mesoamericanas)
Marta Sánchez (Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano)
Moderator: Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones

Transition to Princeton Public Library

12:45pm – 1:30 pm

Film Screening & Discussion: Purgatorio / Purgatory*

1:30pm – 3:30pm (Princeton Public Library)
Screening of Purgatorio: A Journey into the Heart of the Border – In English with Spanish subtitles
Moderator: Javier Guerrero 
Discussants: Sowmya Ramanathan, Thomas Matusiak
*This event will not be live streamed

Transition to East Pyne

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Frontera Norte / Northern Border

4:00pm – 5:30pm (East Pyne 010)
Alexandra Delano (New School) & Benjamin Nienass (CSU San Marcos) 
Guillermo Alonso Meneses (Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
Jorge Durand (Universidad de Guadalajara)
Moderator: Andrés Lajous

Break

5:30pm – 5:45pm

Sobre violencia y fronteras / On Violence, on Borders

5:45pm – 7:15pm (East Pyne 010)
Rossana Reguillo (ITESO Guadalajara)
Rita Segato (U Brasilia)
Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott (U Arkansas)
Moderators: Gabriela Nouzeilles, Gerardo Muñoz

Closing Remarks

7:15pm – 7:30pm (East Pyne 010)

Reception

7:30pm – 9:30pm (Prospect House)