[Latina-o_studies] Fw: UPCOMING: "Security and Insecurity in the Texas/Mexico Frontera Regions: A conversation with C.J. Alvarez, Cecilia Ballí, and Timothy Dunn"

Mon Nov 15 09:02:16 EST 2021

This program, sponsored by the Humanities Institute at U.T Austin, may be of interest to many of you.  Note the Central Time zone.
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Subject: UPCOMING: "Security and Insecurity in the Texas/Mexico Frontera Regions: A conversation with C.J. Alvarez, Cecilia Ballí, and Timothy Dunn"

Security and Insecurity in the Texas/Mexico Frontera Regions: A conversationwith C.J. Alvarez, Cecilia Ballí, and Timothy Dunn This Difficult Dialog

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Security and Insecurity in the Texas/Mexico Frontera Regions: A conversation

with C.J. Alvarez, Cecilia Ballí, and Timothy Dunn

This Difficult Dialogues<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1520.1.1952570dce17b5f50e7331ae2f676dd7__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN3qK70q5$> panel discussion brings together historian C.J. Alvarez, anthropologist and writer Cecilia Ballí, and sociologist Timothy Dunn to discuss what makes the Texas-Mexico border regions unique and how their historical and contemporary formations fit into larger narratives about the U.S.-Mexico border areas. HI Program Coordinator and anthropologist Melissa Biggs will moderate.

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Friday, November 19, 2021
5:30 - 6:45 PM Central Time
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This panel considers Texas/Mexico border regions from the perspectives of three scholars who know them well. C.J. Alvarez, Cecilia Ballí, and Timothy Dunn will discuss security concerns associated with “the border” at national, regional, and local levels. The conversation will situate the Texas/Mexico border areas within larger national debates about secure borders and will address multiple ways border communities might experience security and insecurity, including violence; economic instability; and access to natural resources such as water or land.

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C.J. Alvarez

C.J. Alvarez<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1522.1.a8e0478a8698ed5f98249e66026be11e__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN252iyOb$> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at UT-Austin. His areas of interest include the history of the U.S.-Mexico border and environmental history. Dr. Alvarez’s award-winning first book, Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1523.1.14a1683517e9bbc08ce4c0392c7b7764__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN4pT43m8$> (University of Texas Press, 2019) is a history of the built world of the U.S.-Mexico borderline. His current book project is a history of the Chihuahuan desert. During the 2019-2020 academic year this work was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Alvarez’s other scholarly publications include “Police, Waterworks, and the Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1924-1954,” published in the Western Historical Quarterly, winner of the Bolton-Cutter Award for the best article on any phase of the history of the Borderlands. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.

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Cecilia Ballí

Cecilia Ballí<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1524.1.7db3bf47baa30abd1e1301915765c486__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN_3m8z3z$> is a writer, cultural anthropologist, educator, and research and communications consultant. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr. Balli was the first Latina or Latino writer at Texas Monthly, where she is writer-at-large. She has written about the sexual killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, immigration, Mexican drug violence, U.S.-Mexico border culture, and Tejano history and identity, and conducted ethnographic research on the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez and on the 2006 Secure Fence act and construction of the border wall. Ballí has held artist residencies with the Lannan Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Lanesboro Arts Center, and was the 2014-2015 Jesse H. Jones Dobie Paisano Fellow with the Texas Institute of Letters. She is the founder of Culture Concepts<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1525.1.f58b6b3fb9da76da60e3849a7d5e1c0f__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN0HtA3Vs$>, a creative and strategic consultancy firm. She holds a doctorate from Rice University.

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Timothy J. Dunn

Timothy J. Dunn<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1526.1.d57ce69f632b50f0a1d274593be795af__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN2nUsEQQ$> is a Professor in the Sociology Department of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland. His research interests include border studies, international migration, and human rights. He has written two books that focus on the U.S.–Mexico border. The first, The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992: Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1527.1.b2b28e4caff978f67d8bba67aa5f76e1__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN3tY7A86$> (Center for Mexican American Studies, UT-Austin, 1996) demonstrates that the border area became increasingly militarized from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. His second book, Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1528.1.87b4435dbc734e62b9c00f1ae4d6ec57__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN0jMzLka$> (University of Texas Press, 2009). His current research includes work on Latino immigration in the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia area, much in collaboration with Dr. Ana Maria Aragonés, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

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This event is part of a series of events tied to the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit, an international participatory art project sponsored by the Undocumented Migration Project<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1530.1.53aa122528be0fbc48a12efc05b45e62__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN0arbGcX$>. The Humanities Institute and Mexican American and Latino Studies are installing the exhibit in Spring 2022. Hostile Terrain 94-Austin is a Difficult Dialogues project. Learn more about it HERE<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/2518?id=125138.1531.1.c12793e7a1535a9861b71bfcfed5756f__;!!KGKeukY!hXwRlLiYZeBgpuYndZscFtWoNJeSUGTIJKL4yWn3NUoQww3qVLeXrrUYwaxqN_ovg8Q0$>.

Support provided by the Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship.

We hope you can join us for a thoughtful and stimulating conversation!

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