Migration and Climate Symposium
| When |
Nov 09, 2022
from 12:30 PM to 03:30 PM |
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| Where | Stamp Union Prince Georges Room |
| Contact Name | Katarina Keane |
| Contact Phone | 301-405-4302 |
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The Center for Global Migration Studies is hosting a half-day symposium on Migration and Climate on November 9th at the Stamp Student Union. Speakers at the event will consider how climate change has contributed to migration around the globe in the past and in our contemporary world.
Todd Miller, an independent journalist and the author of Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, will offer a keynote address. The event will also include a conversation among scholars including:
Neel Ahuja, author of Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (AMST and WGGS, UMD)
Alice Bullard, author of Human Rights in Crisis (lawyer and historian)
Sarah Cameron, author of The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan and a forthcoming book on the Aral Sea (History, UMD)
A special reception will be held at 2:15 p.m.