# Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 12 - September 13, 2019** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Harvard University (Multiple Locations)** Please note: All papers for this workshop are precirculated. For access to a given participant's work, please contact them directly or email . ([Click here to see event flyer!](/file_url/2623)) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 LOCATION | WILLIAM JAMES HALL 1550 9:00–10:00AM The Martyr in Argentine Siberia: Anarchism, Immigration, and the Mobilization of a Carceral Lexicon (1909–1930) Ryan Edwards (Princeton University) Comments: Christopher Capozzola (MIT) 10:00–11:00AM Free to Emigrate: Mapping Legal Landscapes & Borders in Colonial Punjab Hardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) Comments: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández (University of Texas at Austin) 11:15–12:15PM Indigenous Confinement and White Migration: The Reconceptualization of Indigenous Homelands as Uncle Sam’s Farm Balraj Gill (Harvard University) Comments: Lorgia García-Peña (Harvard University) 2:00–3:00PM Free Migrants to Revolutionaries: Reflections on the Komagata Maru’s 1914 ‘Middle Passage’ Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) Comments: Robert Diaz (University of Toronto) 3:30–5:00PM | KEYNOTE The Commerce (Clause) in Sex and Migration in the Life of Lucille de Saint-Andre Grace Peña Delgado (University of California, Santa Cruz) Comments: Walter Johnson (Harvard University) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 LOCATION | ROBINSON HALL, BASEMENT SEMINAR ROOM 10:00-11:00AM A Free Race of Cultivators: The Haitian Revolution, Migration, and Racial Formation in Colonial Trinidad, 1797–1839 Catie Peters (Harvard University) Comments: Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University) 11:15-12:15PM “Never Go Out of the City”: The Laws and Customs of Slavery in the Upper South on the Eve of the Civil War Alisha Hines (Wake Forest University) Comments: Vivek Bald (MIT) 2:00-3:00PM The Revolving Door: Importing and Deporting Mexican Migrants to and from the Imperial Valley Jessica Ordaz (University of Colorado at Boulder) Comments: Kendra Field (Tufts University) 3:00-4:00PM Sovereignty’s Edges: The Gentlemen’s Agreement and the Geopolitics of Mobility in the Early 20th Century Comments: Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt University) Erez Manela (Harvard University) COSPONSORED BY Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) Canada Program (WCFIA) Harvard University Asia Center Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Harvard University History Department David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies CONTACT INFORMATION: CATIE PETERS PhD Candidate, Harvard University HARDEEP DHILLON PhD Candidate, Harvard University MIGRANTHERSTORY.COM See also:- [ History Events ](/events/history) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1460457/event-feed.ics) Copy link link