Humanities and the Border: Transforming Our Understanding of the US-Mexico Borderlands Region — An Online EventTuesday, February 15, 20224:00-5:15 PM ETFrom community centers in low-income neighborhoods in San Diego and Tijuana to new spaces for Indigenous storytelling in the borderlands of Arizona, humanities scholars, students, and artists today are illuminating the US-Mexico border region as the complex, creative, and collaborative region that it has long been. Though frequently cast as a place of crisis and separation, the border region fuels deep resilience and vibrant new thinking about cross-cultural community engagement, environmental justice, higher learning, and artistic interpretations of our shared human experience. We hope you will join us for a discussion about the humanities and the border with Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation; Teddy Cruz, Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism at the University of California, San Diego; Fonna Forman, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego; and Natalie Diaz, Poet and Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.- The Mellon Foundation
Mailing Address: MSC 3445, PO BOX 30001 Las Cruces, NM 88003
Physical Location: Nason House, 1070 University Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88003 (just east of the ASNMSU Center for the Arts)
