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AAAS - African/African American Studies
ABS - Association For Borderland Studies
AFIT - Economics (Association For Institutional Thought)
AIS - American Indian Studies
AS - Asian Studies
CDD - Chronic Disease & Disability
CJC - Criminal Justice & Criminology
CMS - Communication Studies
CS - Canadian Studies
EG - Economics General

EPN - Environmenal Policy & Natural Resource Management
GD - Globalization & Development
HIS - History
LASC - Latin American Studies & Chicano-Iberian Culture Network
MC - Mass Communication
MENA - Middle East & North Africa
NPPS - Non-Profit, Philanthropy, Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
NZAS - New Zealand & Australia Studies
PA - Public Administration
PFB - Public Finance & Budgeting

PS - Political Science
RAS - Rural & Agricultural Studies
SA - Sociology & Anthropology
SES - Slavic & Eurasian Studies
SP - Social Psychology
SW - Social Work
URPE - Union For Radical Political Economists
US - Urban Studies
WGBL - Women's, Gender, & LGBTQ Studies

ABS - Association For Borderland Studies

12
Apr
2023

ABS Board of Directors Meeting (Executive and Board Members only)

04-12-2023 2:00 pm -5:30 pm
Campanile
13
Apr
2023

ABS 1 - Education and Crossing Borders

04-13-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Abbey North

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: T Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University

 

"Buffering Effects of Enjoyment and Control for Stress among Latino Undergraduate Students Living on the U.S.-Mexico Border”, Tara Bautista; M. Macias; Y. Cruz Carrillo; E. D. Cordero, Northern Arizona University

“Seeing is Believing: Teaching Borders Inside and Outside the Classroom”, Jared P. Van Ramshorst, Kean University

“Reclaiming the Borderlands: Testimonios and Counter-Narratives as Borderlands Pedagogy”, T Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University

“Bridges Over the Prairie: How Two Midwestern Communities Have Tried to Break Down Cultural Borders” , Cari Eastman, Augustana University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 2 - Roundtable: Cross-border crime along the Canada-US and US-Mexico borders

04-13-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Abbey South

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Todd Hataley, Fleming College

 

Todd Hataley, Fleming College; Christian Leuprecht , Royal Military College of Canada

Tony Payan, Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.

13
Apr
2023

ABS 3 - Humaitarian and counter-humanitarian trends

04-13-2023 8:00 am -9:15 am
San Pedro

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Anna Casaglia, University of Trento.

 

“Eugenics in the 21st Century”, Monserrat Garcia, St. Mary’s University

“Humanitarian space on the era of the erasure of asylum. The case of the Texas-Tamaulipas border”, Bertha Bermudez Tapia, New Mexico State University

“Overcoming Borders: German Volunteers Assisting Refugees”, Gabriele Kohpahl, East Los Angeles College

“Institutionalizing the Exception: Homeland Security Section 102(c) Waivers and the Construction of Border Barriers”, Kenneth Madsen, The Ohio State University at Newark

13
Apr
2023

ABS 4, LASC 2 - Decolonial and Abolitional Interventions of Art and Cultural Production in the Southwest

04-13-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Abbey North

Jesus Ruiz Flores
Title:
First Coordinator
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

 

Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

 

Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Moderator: Cynthia Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles

 

“XoQUE Art in Motion Decolonial Interventions on the U.S./Mexico Border”, Cynthia Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘Sin Justicia No Hay Orgullo’: Abolitionist Cultural Work, Organizing, and Radical Disruptions”, Gloria Negrete-Lopez, West Virginia University
“Julio Salgado’s Digital Representations of the Chubby Gay Chicano”, Juan D. Ochoa, Northern Arizona University
“The Future Past VS . Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Years”, Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, California State University, San Bernardino

13
Apr
2023

ABS 6, LASC 3 - Border Openings And Closures In Latin America

04-13-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
San Pedro

Jesus Ruiz Flores
Title:
First Coordinator
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

 

Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

 

Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Moderator: Francisco Lara Valencia, Arizona State University

 

“Las políticas comerciales colombiana y sus planes de desarrollo 2006-2022”, Liliana Marcela Bastos-Osorio and Javier Alfonso Torres-Velasco, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander - UFPS Colombia

“Venezolanos en Brasil: fronteras, discursos y políticas en el Gobierno Bolsonaro (2019-2022)”, Érica Sarmiento and Juliana Foguel Castelo-Branco, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil

“Afectacion u Oportunidad en la Vida en Co-Munidad de los Pobladores por reapertura de la frontera Colombo-Venezolana”, Olga Marina Sierra, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander Colombia

“El muro invertido: las zanjas en el límite fronterizo de Chile con Bolivia”, Bianca De Marchi-Moyano, INTE (UNAP); Angélica Alvites-Baiadera, INTE (UNAP) & CCONFINES (CONICET-UNVM)

“Proceso del Camino Real Tierra Adentro en Chihuahua, Texas y Nuevo Mexico como Patrimonio de la Humanidad UNESCO”, Tomás Jesús Cuevas-Contreras and Isabel Zizaldra-Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México

13
Apr
2023

ABS 5 - A Conversation on Studying the Border through the Fulbright Scholar Program

04-13-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Abbey South

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Paul Richardson, University of Birmingham

 

Participants:

Julia Lieber, Outreach and Recruitment Officer, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Institute of International Education

Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, George Mason University

 

Members of the Association for Borderlands Studies are invited apply for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program's 2024-25 competition, which features over 400 awards offered in more than 135 countries. Scholar Awards enable U.S. citizens to go abroad to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects. This panel will discuss the Fulbright Scholar Program’s mission, eligibility for awards, application components, and specific awards of note for ABS members and conference attendees. Check out all of the awards in advance on fulbrightscholars.org and have your questions answered live in the session.

13
Apr
2023

ABS 7 - Interdisciplinary Border Cultural Heritage Perspectives

04-13-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Capistrano

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Rafael Luevano, Chapman University

 

“Cyprus – The Border as Art, the Border as War”, Hilmi Ulas, Chapman University

“Cultural Heritage Art as Resistance at the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall”, Tony Payan, Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.

“Cultural Adaptations in Times of Border Enforcement”, Nancy Rios-Contreras, Chapman University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 8 - Roundtable: Impacts and Ethics of Experiential Teaching and Learning in the Borderlands

04-13-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Xavier

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Leah Mundell, Northern Arizona University

 

Participants:

Leah Mundell; Estevan Ramirez

Noorul Murshidha Jawaheer

Guadalupe Reynoso Jimenez, Northern Arizona University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 9 - Roundtable: Border Wars: Conflict in Ukraine and its implications across Eurasia

04-13-2023 11:30 am -12:50 pm
Abbey North

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Paul Richardson, University of Birmingham

 

Participants:

Nino Kemoklidze, University of Chichester

Mark Bassin, Upssala University

Keith Brown, Arizona State University