Upcoming Events

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Past Events

June 27 – July 1; July 4 -8, 2018: World on the Move @ 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival – National Mall (Washington, DC) 10 am – 5 pm (each day)

November 30, 2017: World on the Move Roundtable: Perspectives on Immigration, Migration, and Displacement- NYU-DC (Washington, DC) — 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

November 30, 2017:  “El mar la mar” – A World on the Move Special Film Event – NYU-DC (Washington, DC) — 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

June 29 – July 4; July 6 -9 2017: Smithsonian Folklife Festival – National Mall (Washington, DC) 10 am – 6 pm (each day)

March 24, 2017: “Film Screening: Risers (2012)– “Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (Washington, DC) — 2:00 pm -4:00 pm

February 25, 2017: Film Screening: “Igual Que Tú (2016)” — Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (Washington, DC) — 2:00 pm -4:00 pm

January 28, 2017:  Film Screening: “Chocolate City (2007)” — Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (Washington, DC)

November 17, 2016: World on the Move: Lightning Talks on Human Migration and Displacement –12:15 – 1:30 PM 2016 AAA Annual Meeting (Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis, MN)

October 25, 2016: “Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States,” at Busboys and Poets’ Hyattsville (Hyattsville, MD)

August 25, 2016: World on the Move Book Reading Series: Leyla J. Keough “Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe,” at Busboys and Poets’ Mt. Vernon Square (Washington, DC)

June 7, 2016: World on the Move Book Reading Series: Elzbieta M. Gozdziak “Trafficked Children and Adolescents in the United States: Reimagining Survivors,” at  Busboys and Poets’ Brookland (Washington, DC)

June 29 – July 4, 2016: Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Using structured scenarios, the American Anthropology Association will help visitors reflect on and embody the experience of migrants as they ask visitors to consider what mechanisms, tools, and resources they would use to cope in a new community.  (Washington, DC)