The B/ordering Violence Sawyer Seminar Workshops

During the 2012-13 academic year, UW will be holding a Mellon Sawyer Seminar titled “B/ordering Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity and Gender in the Americas.” The seminar, organized by LACS, WISER, and the Simpson Center, sees borderlands not as fixed but as constantly (re)produced between and within national states. Accordingly, the seminar will convoke a set of distinguished, internationally-recognized scholars whose work considers the complexities of external national borders in the Americas as well as the multiple internal borders that characterize the politics of belonging for diasporic and Indigenous communities in South, Central and North America. The seminar will also explore the dynamics of migration and the social and political implications of migration across the Americas. The following three research agendas will guide our exploration of borderlands: (1) the discourses and practices of border-making; (2) Indigenous perspectives on political boundaries; and (3) gender and violence in the borderlands.

For more information, visit the website at:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/programs/initiatives/bordering-violence

Dangerous Subjects Workshops and Listserv

In conjunction with select co-sponsoring departments and programs, LACS holds a series of three yearly works-in-progress workshops for faculty and graduate students. These workshops began as part of a research cluster supported by the Simpson Center for the Humanities in 2009-2010 entitled “Dangerous Subjects: Contention, Violence, and Control in Latin America.” The 2012-2013 workshop schedules are being developed and information will be updated as it becomes available. If you would like to present at a workshop, please email lasuw@uw.edu. If you would like to join this listserv, please send a request to jal26@u.washington.edu.

2012-2013

Fall
Professor Patrick Christie and Professor Lekelia (Kiki) Jenkins
Date and time TBA

Winter
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Spring
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