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UNO’s Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) is hosting a virtual panel discussion over "Migration and Borders" on Thursday, November 5 at 6:00 PM with Dr. Laura Alexander, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies & Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, Dr. Thomas Sanchez, Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and OLLAS Faculty member, and Dr. Cristián Doña-Reveco, OLLAS Director and Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology.

About the Talk:

This virtual panel discussion provides important context for the exhibition Hostile Terrain 94, on view at Amplify’s Generator Space November 5 - November 28th, with a conversation about Border crossing in Latin America, humanitarian aid at the US-Mexico Border, and the history of the Border Patrol.

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León. The exhibition is composed of ~3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found. This installation will simultaneously take place at a large number of institutions, both nationally and globally in 2020.

This event is free and open to all.