The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Africana Studies Department’s Rite and Reasons Theatre present Histories of Migration and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean from March 17-18, 2022. The hybrid conference is sponsored by a grant from the Mellon Sawyer Foundation, awarded to CLACS, the CSSJ, and Rites and Reasons Theatre to organize a series of events that “Rethink the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America.” 

Histories of Migration and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean explore how migration has shaped and is reshaping the region. The conference analyzes Latin American and Caribbean state responses to violent displacement and compares them to the responses of the US and Europe. In addition, the program examines non-state and non-governmental initiatives, and the ways in which migrants themselves mobilize to resist violence as they travel along settler-colonial borders. Examples that projects explore include Venezuelan and Haitian migration across Latin America and the Caribbean, and the effects of stricter border controls en route to the US.

On Friday, March 18, HIAA Professor Itohan Osayimwese will moderate the panel, “Cultural and Racial Exclusions, Diaspora, and the Construction of the Nation,” from 11:15 am-12:45 pm. Speakers include Paul Joseph López Oro (Smith College), Richie Daly (Concordia University), Franchesca Araujo (UC Berkeley), and Shelene Gomes (UWI St. Augustine). This panel will be held exclusively on Zoom.

Here is the full schedule and list of speakers.