Crossing Borders, Asserting Boundaries: WGS Scholarship and the Crises of our Day

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Please join Women, Gender, and Sexuality for a panel discussion on the theme of borders, crisis, and the contemporary relevance of scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality.

Panelists include:

• Bridget Anderson is the director of Migration Mobilities Bristol, and professor of migration, mobilities and citizenship at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (Oxford 2013) and Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed 2000) and is the editor of numerous collections on migrant labor and border policy.
• Clara Han is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile (California 2012) and Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham 2020) and numerous articles on the relationship violence, policing, and vulnerability to everyday life.
• Jasbir Puar is professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke 2007) and The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke 2017) and is an editor for the ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise series at Duke University Press. She has published extensively on affective politics, the intersection of nationalism and sexuality, Israel/Palestine, and the war on terrorism.
• Sima Shakhsari is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies at the University of Minnesota. They are the author of Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke 2020) and related articles on the production of normative relationships between queerness, migration, death, and rights.
• Miriam Ticktin is associate professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (California 2011), and has published widely on humanitarianism, borders, and the migrant politics. Her article "No Borders in the Time of COVID-19" appeared in American Anthropologist in July.