Calendar  /  Forum on Migration


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Past Events

Roberto Gonzales standing in front of a school hallway
September 22, 2021 / 5:00 pm
DACA and the Limits of Citizenship
Roberto Gonzales
Video
Audio
portrait of Hoor Al Qasimi in front of a brick wall
October 6, 2021 / 5:00 pm
The Art of Migration
Hoor Al Qasimi
Sonal Khullar
Video
Still from Border Nation (Dir. Jason Jaacks, 2020, 19 min.)
October 10, 2021 / 2:00 pm
Border Nation; You Are on Indian Land

Penn Museum Culture Films
Ania Vu in front of a black background
November 10, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Across Cultures and Time
Ania Vu
Video
Audio
Film still from Empty Desert Dir. Silvia Boarini and Linda Paganelli, 2016, 56 min.
November 14, 2021 / 2:00 pm
Empty Desert

Penn Museum Culture Films
Michael Jones-Correa in a blue jacket and blue shirt against grey background
December 8, 2021 / 5:00 pm
The End of Asylum
Michael Jones-Correa
Video
Audio
Still from Wake up Elena, Wake up (Morit Elena Morit)
January 9, 2022 / 2:00 pm
Short films by Sámi people

Penn Museum Culture Films
Mae Ngai in front of a gray backdrop
January 26, 2022 / 5:00 pm
The Chinese Question
Mae M. Ngai
Video
Audio
Still from On a Tightrope Dir. Petr Lom, 2006, 76 min.
February 13, 2022 / 2:00 pm
On a Tightrope

Penn Museum Culture Films
Photo detail, Urban Mosaic-Sierra Leone-Dukuray Family Prepares for Church, Philadelphia
February 16, 2022 / 3:00 pm
Faces of Immigration

Pop-up Photo Exhibit
Detail from Urban Mosaic series by Harvey Finkle- India-Ravi Singh at his Restaurant, Samosa, With His Mother and Father
February 16, 2022 / 5:00 pm
Immigration: A Philadelphia Perspective
Obed Arango
Amy Eusebio
Mohannad Ghawanmeh
Sarah Paoletti
Mobile deaf logo with round teal sphere criss crossed by 2 vertical lines and 2 horizontal lines.
February 23, 2022 / 5:00 pm
Deaf People on the Move
Sanchu Iyer
Amandine le Maire
Boat People painting by Claes Gabriel
February 25, 2022 / 9:30 am
Migration: Points of Entry, Points of Departure

Humanities Symposium
Artist Kukuli Velarde holding a ceramic sculpture of an infant
February 25, 2022 / 5:00 pm
A MI VIDA
Kukuli Velarde
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Humanities Symposium Keynote

Video
Audio
Still from Wild Honey: Caring for Bees in a Divided Land - Dir. Lisa Palmer, 2019, 30 min
March 13, 2022 / 2:00 pm
Wild Honey

Penn Museum Culture Films
March 16, 2022 / 5:00 pm
The Life and Letters of Migration
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Josephine Park
Dagmawi Woubshet

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture

Video
Audio
March 25, 2022 / 9:00 am
Migrant Subjects Across & Within

Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
March 30, 2022 / 12:00 pm
Art, Lyric, and Movement
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Dagmawi Woubshet
Monarch butterflies in a cluster
March 30, 2022 / 5:00 pm
The Poetry of Migration
Ahmad Almallah
Herman Beavers
Fatemeh Shams
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Video
Audio
April 2, 2022 / 10:00 am
Li Delun in Philadelphia

Symposium, Recital, and Pop-up Exhibit