The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of Immigration Enforcement and Resistance, An NYU Migration Network Public Conversation held jointly with the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

This Public Conversation is presented jointly with the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

April
16
5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
General Public
Date:
April 16, 2026
Time:
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Main Event Space, Rm. 101, 105 East 17th Street
Audience:
General Public

The NYU Migration Network Public Conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and its political stakes. At The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of Immigration Enforcement and Resistance NYU's Gayatri Gopinath will be in discussion with rafa esparza and Cassils. esparza is Los Angeles-based practicing artist whose work is in major collections aroudn the world and Cassils is a Canadian transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances.

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