UConn Human Rights Symposium

About This Event

This lecture will delve into migration and time-making projects, examining both human and animal movement. Instead of solely focusing on traditional ‘pull-push’ factors of human migration, Columba González-Duarte will propose a framework for understanding multispecies mobility through the connections between monarch and human migration. Participants will engage with the concept of migration as micropolitics, challenging racialized border control and exploring more-than-human mobility justice that questions the naturalization of state borders.

Lunch will be served! Kindly register below.

About Our Guest

Columba González-Duarte

Assistant Professor, The New School for Social Research

Pursuing a greater understanding of the relationship between monarch butterflies and the people and communities they interact with has carried Dr. Columba Gonzalez-Duarte far, connecting her roots in Mexico to Toronto and to her new home in New York City. Through her research, Columba examines the conservation dynamics of the monarch butterfly across three nations, analyzing the connections between NAFTA’s agri-food industry, labor migration, and the decline of the monarch population. She also collaborates with scientific and Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, and Mexico to document their knowledge and ways of relating to migratory insects. Dr. Gonzalez-Duarte’s academic practice is shaped by feminist ethics of care, promoting a different form of justice that values the well-being of both humans and more-than-humans during their migratory journeys across North America.

To gain a deeper understanding of her research, publications, student projects, and media, please visit www.columbagonzalez.com.

UConn’s El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies) awarded small seed grants to support faculty-led workshops, reading groups or other research, on any theme of relevance to Latine, Latin American or Caribbean studies in the academic year 2023. Please join us this fall semester in this 4 part series of events to hear about their research accomplishments. Light Refreshments Served. There is limited space, RSVP today!

1st Event:

“Narrativas de Cambio: Latino Stories for Climate and Environmental Justice,” by Dr. Mayra I. Rodríguez

In this presentation, Dr. Rodriguez explores three case studies from Latino communities in Connecticut (Hartford, Bridgeport and Willimantic), highlighting diverse storytelling and community knowledge exchange processes that are being utilized to advance environmental and climate justice.

The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute invites all undergraduate students interested in human rights to attend an information session about our 4+1 Accelerated Master of Arts Program! HRI’s Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. David Richards, and Educational Program Administrator, Dr. Alyssa Webb, will be present and ready to answer questions about the MA program, and how it may complement prospective students’ professional aspirations.