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Race and the Borderlands: Human Rights, Human Triumphs, and Forging Peace on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Call for Papers

We invite papers that broadly consider any of the following themes, and/or related topics:

  • Racial capitalism and borders
  • Human rights on the borderlands and shifting ideas of legality, violence, and permissible cruelty as forms of deterrence
  • Forging peace: What does peace on the border look like? What would a peace-able border be? How are organizations, scholars, and activists working creatively and collectively towards a horizon of peace and justice on the border? 

Conference fees

  • Presenters with institutional support pay $100
  • Presenters without institutional support pay $50
  • Students/organization and community members/activists without institutional support may request conference fee waiver

We are no longer accepting submissions for this conference.

This conference is co-organized by the Center for Human Rights and the Fred J. Hansen Peace Chair, with the generous support of The Peacemakers Fund at the San Diego Foundation, as well as the Bruce E. Porteus Professor of Political Science and the Center for Latin American Studies.