On Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in HNES 102, Alexander Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, will discuss how long-running wars on migrants and refugees – robbed of the right to stay home – converge today at the Palestine-Mexico border, forming a physical and ideological infrastructure of human containment and disposability fueled by genocidal state logics.
He will be introduced by EUC Professor Anna Zalik and EUC Associate Dean Research Carlota McAllister will serve as discussant.
Professor Aviña is author of “Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside” (Oxford University Press, 2014). He was awarded the Maria Elena Martínez Book Prize in Mexican History for 2015 by the Conference on Latin American History. He has also published articles in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research and the NACLA Report on the Americas.
