Events

SLC Townhall on Venezuelan Migration to NYC
[Public Symposium co-organized with Parthiban Muniandy]
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

Indigenous Resistance in the Americas
[Public symposium co-organized with Luisa Heredia]
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

SLC Townhall on Migration, Displacement, and the Politics of Separation
Part II: Activism and Advocacy
[Public symposium co-organized with Luisa Heredia]
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

Illusions of Return: Navigating ‘Illegality,’ Place, and Home in the Maya Diaspora
[Paper presented remotely]
Latin American Studies Association
Boston, MA

SLC Townhall on Migration, Displacement, and the Politics of Separation: Adding to the Public Debate on Immigration Policy
[Co-organized with Migration and Mobilities Faculty Working Group]
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

Weyano’one’: Navigating Virtual Mobilities, Indigeneity, and Place in Maya California and Yucatán, Mexico
[Conference paper]
Native American and Indigenous Association annual meetings
Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Americas Forum: Anthropological, Historical, and Artistic Perspectives on Migration and Mobility in the Americas
[Co-organized with Diana Schwartz Francisco]
Conference for the Center for the Americas
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, USA

Decolonizing Pedagogy:  Indigenous Studies, Engaged Learning, and Social Justice in the Neoliberal Academy
[Conference paper]
116th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association
Washington, D.C., USA

Reclaiming Tangible Heritage: Material Culture and Indigenous Aesthetics in Maya California
[Conference paper]
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meetings
Vancouver, BC

Standing Rock/NoDAPL Teach-In: A Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Indigenous Rights
[Organizer]
Public Symposium, co-organized with students in the Indigenous Rights and Representations seminar
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

Indigenous Mobilities
[Organizer and Chair]
Conference panel for 115th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Indigenous Mobilities: Race, Place, and Exclusion among Undocumented Maya Migrants in the United States
[Invited talk]
Indigenous Migration Workshop
CUNY/The Graduate Center
New York, NY, USA

Affecting Transborder Migration
[Conference panel organizer]
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
Denver, CO, USA

Precarious Passages: The Insecurity of Immigration Control in the Americas
[Conference panel, co-organized with Deborah Boehm]
Latin American Studies Association Meetings
Puerto Rico

Out of Place: Liminality and Identity
[Moderator]
Postcolonial and Development Studies Conference
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

After the Raids: ‘Illegality’ and Immobility in the Maya Diaspora
[Conference Paper | Panel: Legitimacy, Legality, and North American Geopolitics]
Society for the Anthropology of North America Conference
New York, NY, USA

Affecting Migration
[Conference panel organizer]
Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting
Boston, MA, USA

Teaching about Violence
[Roundtable participant]
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C., USA

Cultivating Identities: Nation and Narration
[Moderator]
Postcolonial and Development Studies Conference
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, USA

Migration and the Limits of Mobility:
Everyday Encounters with Borders and Barriers to Movement
[Discussant]
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Chicago, IL, USA

Making a Place for Indigenous Cosmopolitans?
Cultural Citizenship and Social Space in Mayacalifornia
[Conference paper]
Panel: Diverse Engagements: Migration Led Diversification and
Transformations of Urban Space and Society
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Chicago, IL, USA