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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

13
Apr
2023

ABS 11 - Culinary Heritage in the Paso del Norte Region of the US-Mexico Borderlands

04-13-2023 11:30 am -12:45 pm
San Pedro

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

 

Moderator / Discussant: Rob Nelson, University of Windsor

 

“History and Culinary Spaces: Constructing a Cuisine of the Border”, Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University

“Eat Like an Abuela: Examining the Traditional Northern Mexican Diet”, Amanda Palacios, New Mexico State University

“Culinary Heritage in Mesilla, New Mexico”, Anna Brown, New Mexico State University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 12 - Rountable: Deadly (Dis)Possession: B/ordering and Policing Regimes

04-13-2023 11:30 am -12:45 pm
Xavier
 

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

 

Moderator: Alfonzo Mendoza, Arizona State University

 

Participants:

Alfonzo Mendoza; Rylie Seidl

Cecilia Marek, Arizona State University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 15, LASC 4 - Security, Geopolitics, and Multilateralism: EU-US comparative

04-13-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
San Pedro

Moderator: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria

 

“Three European Moments of Northern Dimension: Finnish Borderland Perspective to the Shaping the European Union Agenda of External Relations”, Ilkka Liikanen, University of Eastern Finland
“The Architecture of the Schengen border: Spatial violence at the border crossings of Melilla”, Rubén Pérez-Belmonte, Sapienza Università di Roma
“Roxham Road: a geopolitical space of convergence”, Laurence Brassard, University of Quebec at Montreal
“Fortified borders and multilateralism in North America”, Miguel Ángel Sigala-Gómez, Arizona State University
“Cross Border Cooperation: A Global Overview - Europe/North America”, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria

13
Apr
2023

ABS13 - Roundtable: Cross-Border Regions at both ends of the US Border: Comparing San Diego – Tijuana and Cascadia

04-13-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Abbey North

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

 

Moderator: Laurie Trautman, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

 

Participants:

Josefina Pérez Espino, Universidad Pedagogcia Nactional

María del Rosío Barajas Escamilla,  El Colef

Laurie Trautman, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

Kimberly Collins, Leonard Transportation Center, CSUSB

María J. Perez Espino, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

13
Apr
2023

ABS 14 - Climate, Nature, and Environment I

04-13-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Abbey South

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

 

Moderator: Cari Eastman, Augustana University

 

“Borderland Tourism: Enacting Colonized Space in Arctic Tourism”, Julie Renaud, University of Quebec, Montreal

“Pathways to greening the US-Mexico border: Stakeholder engagement for green infrastructure in Ambos Nogales”, Adriana A Zuniga Teran, University of Arizona

“Climate Security, Mobility Injustice and Borders”, Anna Casaglia, University of Trento

“Culture In Emergencies: Fire Prevention On Cultural Heritage Sites In Conflict Situations”, Adewumi Oluwadare Benedict, Lagos State Fire Service, Nigeria

13
Apr
2023

ABS 16 - Book Presentation: To the Golden Age and Beyond: Reflections on 'Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands Through Film’

04-13-2023 2:45 pm -4:15 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:

Michael Dear, University of California, Berkeley (author of Border Witness)

Norma Iglesias, San Diego State University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 17 - Session 1. Border Economics: Transportation

04-13-2023 2:45 pm -4:15 pm
Abbey South

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

 

Moderator: Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Tecnologico de Monterrey 

 

Discussants:

Alejandro Brugués, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte – Cd. Juárez

Rafael Garduño Rivera, Universidad Panamericana

Daniel Covarrubias, Texas A&M International University

César M Fuentes Flores, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

 

“Smart Borders: The key to more resilient International Trade and Cross-Border Transportation.”, Daniel Covarrubias, Texas A&M International University

“El comercio entre EE.UU. y los países de la ASEAN y la ruta ferroviaria del corredor T-MEC; implicaciones para la región Paso del Norte.”, César M Fuentes Flores, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

“Empirical definition of the zone of economic influence between the United States and Mexico border using satellite images”, Irving Llamosas-Rosas, Banco de México and Universidad de Guadalajara; Adrián de León Arias, Universidad de Guadalajara;  Jesus Cañas, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

"Border security and tourism: evidence from visitation of national parks and other protected areas”, Haoying Wang, New Mexico Tech

13
Apr
2023

ABS 18 - Roundtable: Good Neighbor Environmental Board and the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment

04-13-2023 2:45 pm -4:15 pm
San Pedro

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

 

Moderator: Paul Ganster, San Diego State University

 

Participants:

Paul Ganster, San Diego State University;

Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

Placido dos Santos; Irasema Coronado, Arizona State University

Christopher Brown, New Mexico State University

13
Apr
2023

ABS 21, LASC Round Table 2 - U.S.-Mexico Border, Identity, Preservation, Grilled Queso, A Film Documentary”

04-13-2023 4:30 pm -6:00 pm
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/Discussant: Maria de los Angeles Flores, The University of Texas at El Paso

 

Sergio Muñoz Esquer will present and screen for discuss -among the panelists- the production of  his documentary Grilled Queso which portrays one night in the life of Ruth and Issac, a Mexican immigrant couple who work at a Mexican food truck located in a central, high-traffic area in Austin, Texas. The documentary narrates ideas on identity, and preservation of identity after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

 

Participants:
Sergio Eduardo Muñoz-Esquer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Irasema Coronado, Arizona State University, USA
Sergio Peña-Medina, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México
Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, University of Texas at El Paso

13
Apr
2023

ABS 19 - Roundtable: DETAINED: Voices from the Migrant Incarceration System

04-13-2023 4:30 pm -6:00 pm
Abbey North

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

 

Moderator: Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Arizona State University

 

Participants:

David Taylor, University of Arizona

Susan Briante, UA Francisco Cantú, UA aems emswiler, UA

Greer Millard, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP)