On Thursday, March 25, at 6:30 EST, I’ll be delivering a lecture for the Boston Cinema and Media Seminar. I was invited by Bentley University, one of the member institutions of the Seminar, to talk about my border tunnels book project. Bentley Assistant Professor Jim Miranda will be the respondent. To receive the zoom meetingContinue reading “Televisual Tunnels and the Publics of the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Category Archives: Border Studies
The Platforms to the World Symposium
At the end of January of this year, twenty scholars interested in the intersections of media, urbanism, and migration convened at the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at the University of Texas at Dallas for the three-day symposium Platforms to the World. I organized the symposium in conjunction with my ATEC colleaguesContinue reading “The Platforms to the World Symposium”
Borders in the Time of COVID-19
It started with a Twitter joke. As the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, governments instituted different kinds of lock down procedures to limit the amount of people coming into their country in an effort to reduce the possibilities of contagion. These procedures varied widely, from shutting down all incoming flights, toContinue reading “Borders in the Time of COVID-19”
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