October 17, 2024 
Projecte Úter: An Interactive Workshop on Visual & Oral Storytelling  
Join artist and organizer Carles García O’Dowd in an interactive workshop on the Úter Project, a collaborative drawing initiative dedicated to sexual and reproductive freedom, exploring personal stories and community connections around abortion and bodily autonomy.

October 11, 2024 
With the Future on our Backs: The Tied Mobilities of Monarch and Human Migrants  
Prof. Columba González-Duarte (The New School) discusses migration and time-making projects, exploring the interconnectedness of human and animal movement through a multispecies lens.

April 16, 2024 
Fundamental Insecurity and Unintended Harms of Care in Rural New England 
In collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology and Human Development & Family Sciences.   
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song draws upon longitudinal ethnographic research centered on housing precarity and mental health among families in rural New England. Over time, she observes oscillating rhythms of stability and instability within families as they face persistent threats to their housing security, grapple with making ends meet on service sector wages, and encounter isolation and stigma within rural communities.

April 4, 2024 
‘Künü: A Space for Dialogue’ with Filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo 
Co-sponsored by Buen Vivir & Collective Healings Initiative, El Instituto, the Departments of Anthropology and Digital Media & Design, Native American & Indigenous Studies, and Native American Cultural Programs. 
lmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo, captures the collaborative efforts of 80 Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in Chile, Araucanía-Loncoche region.

April 3, 2024 
Visual Power: Harnessing Art, Design, and Collaborative Filmmaking in Participatory Global Health Research 
Sara Baumann introduces collaborative filmmaking during this lunchtime seminar. Her presentation showcases a participatory visual research project called “Art Heals,” which explores the role of public art in recovery, healing, and community building.
 

December 5, 2023 
Trauma-Informed Interviewing: A Workshop For Field Researchers 
Join Professor of Social Work Megan Berthold and Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy Tom Buckley for an interactive workshop on trauma-informed interviewing for field researchers. This workshop was developed with the needs of graduate students and faculty in mind, though others are welcome to join. Prof. Berthold and Prof. Buckley have extensive experience working with refugees, asylum seekers, Cambodian survivors of genocide, and others who have suffered war-related atrocities, both in the U.S. and abroad. Now both working in clinical settings, Berthold and Buckley have ample experience in training those who work with people who have experienced trauma.

November 7, 2023 
Longing for Healing: An Art-Based Project with Victims of the Armed Conflict in Colombia 
Using a Participatory Action Research approach, two associations of victims of the armed conflict in the Colombian Amazon were invited to recreate dreams and memories guided by the idea of Buen Vivir (a good, harmonious, and beautiful way of living) and Vivir Sabroso (living joyfully). The final art piece, “Casa Común,” is a collective display of individual pieces created through embroidery and painting. Casa Común serves as an emotional space and archive where healing and reconciliation with violent pasts and presents involve water, plants, and animals, as well as the desire to live joyfully while carrying pains that will never go away.

October 10, 2023 
Injuries of Empire: Detention and Debilitation in South Florida 
Co-sponsored by El Instituto, the Department of Anthropology, and American Studies. 
In this public lecture, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane (Society of Fellows, Columbia University) discusses the racialized hazards experienced by asylum-seeking children at a South Florida detention camp. Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane worked with migrant and asylum-seeking children who were detained at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, a detention camp just south of Miami, Florida. Though ostensibly a place of humanitarian refuge, detained children were separated from their families and exposed to harmful sounds and toxic debris from an adjacent military base. This talk takes up racialized hazard at the detention camp in relation to the adjacent military base, a crucial node in the hemispheric circulation of weapons, soldiers, and military expertise.

October 10, 2023 
Research Justice Against Migrant Detention 
Co-sponsored by El Instituto, the Department of Anthropology, and American Studies.
Following her lecture, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane joins us for a lunchtime seminar on collaborative social movement research. This conversation will reflect on collaborative social movement research, with a particular focus on ethnographic and spatial research with movements for the abolition of migrant detention. We will explore the principles and practices of “research justice,” an approach to knowledge production that seeks to be accountable to movements for freedom and self-determination.