Scholar Colloquia
Each fall, SAR resident scholars present their research to the public in the Scholar Colloquia series. Presentations take place in SAR’s historic Dobkin Boardroom for an in-person audience and on YouTube Live for online audiences.
Across a Threshold: People, Animals, and Landscapes in Central New Mexico
SAR 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThe Tiguex War of 1540 marked the start of a dramatic socio-economic transformation of central New Mexico. Was this transformation a gradual process, with each step having a cumulative impact, or was the transition more of an abrupt change in environmental processes and/or species composition in a formerly resilient landscape?
Managing Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State
SAR 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesDrawing on multi-sited fieldwork, Flores traces the digitalized border, focusing on the CBP One app and its resulting sociotechnical relations away from the territorial boundary, documenting its impact on migrant shelters’ humanitarian work, people’s im/mobility strategies, and possibilities for solidarity and digital resistance.
Prisoners of Our Dreams: Eritrean Diaspora Politics in ‘Red’ Italy
SAR 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThis is a multi-sited ethnography of refugee political activism in Europe. Dr. Berhane demonstrates that Eritrean migrations to Italy have been inextricably enfolded in larger questions over the meaning of the colonial past, the transformation from state socialism to neoliberalism globally, and racial nationalism.
Present Interruptus: Sovereignty’s Reincarnation in the Golan Heights
SAR 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThis project explores the powerful and locally pervasive figure of the reincarnated subject: Druze men and women of the Golan Heights who recall their vivid past-life memories, but whose memories belong to histories that contradict and often trouble the present in the here and now.
Relationality and Being: Indigeneity, Space, and Transit in Global Contemporary Art
SAR 660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesWorking at the intersection of art history and Native American and Indigenous studies, Robbins’ project puts critical pressure on the emergent category of global contemporary indigenous art to understand how indigeneity serves as a relational analytic in the work of artists from Australia, Canada, and the U.S.