The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) will host an international conference on "Bordered Life and the Right to Move" that brings together artists, activists, and scholars who examine borders, race, and migration today in the United States, Europe, and across the globe. Participants include filmmakers Dagmawi Yimer and Sylvain George. Speakers include Robert Barsky (French & Law, Vanderbilt University), T.J. Demos (History of Art & Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz), Layal Ftouni (Gender Studies and Critical Theory, Utrecht University), poet Cathy Park Hong (English, UC Berkeley), Lyndsey Stonebridge (English, Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham), Christina Varvia (Visual Culture, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London), and Leti Volpp (Law, UC Berkeley). A roundtable on the contemporary border regime will feature UC Berkeley faculty Courtney Desiree Morris (Gender and Women’s Studies), Stephanie Canizales (Sociology), Iggy Cortez (Film & Media), and Deniz Göktürk (German).

The conference will take place April 25 and 26. For details see the conference website.