On December 11, 2018, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and National Humanities Medal recipient Isabel Wilkerson presented a lecture as part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series on her The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great…
On December 6, 2018, the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series hosted Ernesto Zedillo, the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics; Professor of International and Area Studies; and Professor Adjunct of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, gave a public…
On November 29th, 2018, the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series hosted a lecture by Rosemary Salamone, Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law on the theme of Migration, Language, and Justice, titled "Language Rights and Education in a World Dominated by English."
The lecture can be viewed below.
On October 25th, 2018, the Mellon-Sawer Seminar Series hosted its third session titled, "Undocumented." The event featured presentations by Carol Batchelor (UNHCR) on “Statelessness in Today’s World and the UNHCR #IBelong Campaign on Nationality For All;” Joaquin Arango (Migration Policy Institute, Spain) on “Spain: An Uncommon Immigration…
On October 8th, 2018, Daniel Castro Garcia presented images from his new work, "I Peri N'Tera: A Study of the Migrant Refugee Crisis in Sicily, Italy." Garcia's images are featured on this site under Featured Artwork.
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