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Artists Reimagine Migration
Paulette YoungArt historian RobertsonYoung Gallery, New YorkFashion Stories: Migration and Fashioning Identity in America A Study of the designers Mimi Plange and Wunmi—New York’s fashion industry and the development of New York style have historically and are continually shaped by…
Women and Mobility in the Arab Region
Violence, Trauma, and Migration
Claudia PenaUCLAMigration and Trauma Historically, migration from Latin America to the Mexican/US border generally revolved around young men looking for work. In the past decade, and more so in the last few years, we’ve seen more women and children making…
Tracing Cultural Memory
Ellyn ToscanoNew York UniversityA Reflection: Hortense Acton in Florence I came to understand the consequences of migration and the powerful self-fashioning of transitive identities through the life of Hortense Acton. As the former director of Villa La Pietra, in Florence,…
Women and Mobility
Francille WilsonUniversity of Southern CaliforniaSojourning for Truth: Black Women’s Movements for Human Rights This presentation focuses on three key expressions of physical and social movements that capture a century of black women’s expansive interpretations of human rights. We begin with…
Women and Migration(s) – Villa La Pietra
Gender is both cause and effect in migration. Gendered migration roles have been constructed by states, labor markets, and the actors themselves. –Forum on Migration