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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

14
Apr
2023

ABS 29 - Book Presentation: Geo-politics in Northeast Asia

04-14-2023 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: Jussi Laine, University of Eastern Finland

 

Presenter: Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido University

 

Discussant: Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria

 

The book is published by Routledge, with an open-access version available here: Geopolitics in Northeast Asia

14
Apr
2023

ABS 31 - Roundtable: Horizontal Governance- Civil Society in Motion in Arizona and Sonora

04-14-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
San Pedro

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

 

Moderator: Irasema Coronado, Arizona State University

 

Participants:

Reyna Montoya, Founder and CEO of Aliento

Nicholas Gonzales, Community Planner Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. Real Estate Operations

Dana Orozco, Arizona Field Coordinator, Hispanics Enjoying Camping, Hunting, and the Outdoors

Alma Cota de Yanez, Fundación Empresariado Sonorense A.C. (FESAC), Executive Director Nogales Chapter

Cindy Quintero, MPH Health and Wellness Program Director, Esperança

14
Apr
2023

ABS 32 - Communicating Across Boundaries: Environmental Policy on North America’s Borders

04-14-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Xavier

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

 

Moderator: Donna Lybecker, Idaho State University

 

“Transboundary water governance:  Innovation on the US-Canada border”, Donna Lybecker, Idaho State University

“Navigating the triple boundary:  The Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) and Environmental Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Boundary”, Stephen Mumme, Colorado State University

“The impacts of border wall construction on the physical and cultural geography of the US-Mexico borderlands”, Christopher Brown and Mark Howe, New Mexico State University

“Physical landscape transformations on the US-Mexico border: millennium changes in a Year”, Mark Howe, New Mexico State University

14
Apr
2023

ABS 33 - Roundtable: Border Reporting Beyond Alarmism

04-14-2023 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: Caroline Tracey, High Country News

 

Participants: Caroline Tracey

John Washington

Melissa del Bosque

José Castañeda

 

The roundtable brings together four journalists covering the US-Mexico border from a shared home base of southern Arizona.

14
Apr
2023

ABS 34 - Mobility, Labor, Institutions, and the US-Mexico border

04-14-2023 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: Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

 

“Construction Workforce and Immigration”, Tony Payan, Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez; Pamela Lizette Cruz, Rice University

“Interaction between visa issuance decline and labor markets in the U.S”, Jose Ivan Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rice University

“Biden Migration Policy after two years of his presidency and the Mexican response”, Monica Verea, Monica Verea CISAN-UNAM

“Economic Success and Development Failure in Juárez, Chihuahua: The Role of Institutions”, Lucinda Vargas, New Mexico State University

14
Apr
2023

ABS 35 - Border Connectivity and Closure: Perspectives from Asia

04-14-2023 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: Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido University         

                                               

“Ladakh as a borderland between India and Pakistan: Fluidities and Rigidities”, Zainab Akhter, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & Analysis (MP-IDSA)

“Borders in the mind: A case study of enclaves of India-Bangladesh borderland”, Anamika Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University

14
Apr
2023

ABS Special Lecture: Carlos Vélez-Ibañez: The US-Mexico Transborder Region)

04-14-2023 4:30 pm -6:00 pm
Abbey South

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

 

Speaker: Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez

14
Apr
2023

ABS Business Meeting

04-14-2023 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Abbey South
14
Apr
2023

Reception (for ABS members only)

04-14-2023 7:00 pm -8:30 pm
Court Yard
15
Apr
2023

ABS 36 - Roundtable: Binational Leadership And Collaboration On Substance Abuse And Violence Prevention On The U.S.-Mexico Border: The Case Of The Keepin’it REAL Program

04-15-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
San Pedro

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

 

Moderator: Hilda García-Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

 

Participants:

Hilda García-Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Flavio F. Marsiglia, Arizona State University

Stephen Kulis, Arizona State University

Paul A. Estabrooks, University of Utah

María Elena Medina Mora, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Guadalupe González Lizárraga, Secretaría de Educación y Cultura del Estados de Sonora

Tania Real,  Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Cecilia Norzagaray Benítez, Universidad de Sonora

Guadalupe Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Universidad de Sonora