Core Connections Lectures 2011-12
Migrations
The 2011-12 Core Connections series focuses on the idea and implications of mass movement. What induces human and non-human animals to pick up and move? Is there a pattern to their migration? What are some of the political and historical factors that compel relocation, and are these inevitable? How do people respond to the experience of transience and resettlement?
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Hugh Dingle, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis and School of Life Sciences, University of Queensland
"Animal Migration: Behavioral Syndromes and Their Ecological Outcomes"
12:00 PM, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus
Abstract: Migration is an extraordinary behavior of often astonishing performance that has evolved repeatedly. It is defined by its behavioral and physiological characteristics including preemptive departure from deteriorating conditions and inhibition of responses that ordinarily end movement so that migration continues unabated. Data from organisms as diverse as aphids, salmon, and birds illustrate the defining characteristics of migratory behavior.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
William H. Moore, III, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida State University; Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
"Why Abandon Home? Dissent, Repression & Forced Migration"
12:00 PM, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus
Abstract: Apart from being forced to by nature few Americans have, during your life time, picked up what they can carry and left behind their housing, possessions, jobs, and communities due to the belief that their physical person, property, or even life was at risk should they not do so. Indeed, if we consider percentages, during your life time only a tiny fraction of the human beings on our planet have done so. Yet, if we examine news coverage of violent political conflicts over the past 20, 30, 40, etc. years we will readily encounter stories speaking of hundreds, thousand, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands and, in a few cases, millions of people doing precisely that.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Markus Rediker, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh
"Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion"
12:00 PM, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus
Abstract: This talk explores the famous and dramatic rebellion by 53 Africans aboard a Cuban slave ship in 1839 - one of the very few such successful revolts in the history of the slave trade and one that had profound consequences in the United States around the Atlantic.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Denise Brennan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University
"Global Workers, Trafficking into Forced Labor, and Life After"
12:00 PM, St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus
Bio: Denise Brennan is associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University. She is also faculty fellow of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown. She is the author of What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic (Duke University Press). She is completing a book on the resettlement of formerly trafficked persons in the United States, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and beginning the field research for a book on how families cope with detention and deportation, Shattered Families: Life After Deportation.