All filming and editing done by Vicente Cueto, Urban Democracy Lab.
Week 1: “Sanctuary Now!”: Historical and Contemporary Movements for Sanctuary
Andrew Ross, NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Alina Das, NYU Professor of Clinical Law
Week 2: “No Wars, No Borders”: Why We Need Sanctuary
Molly Nolan, NYU Professor of History
Monica Kim, NYU Assistant Professor of History
Sarah Sklaw, PhD Student, NYU Department of History
Week 3: Environmental Crises and Climate Refugees
Sonya Posmentier, NYU Assistant Professor of English
Andrew Ross, NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Julie Livingston, NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History
(Video edited by Amy Pelch).
Week 4:“No Bans on Stolen Lands”: Dispossession, Migration, and Settler Colonialism
Elizabeth Ellis, Assistant Professor of History (Video edited by Mark Yokoyama)
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Week 5: “No Person is Illegal:” Constructions of Citizenship
Christine Harrington, Professor of Politics (Video edited by Amy T. Pelch)
Cristina Beltrán, Associate Professor of Politics and Social and Cultural Analysis
(Video edited by Josh Gleiser)
Week 6: “Sin DACA, Sin Miedo”: Living and Being Undocumented
Diana Taylor, University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish (Video edited by Mark Yokoyama).
Tao Leigh Goffe, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis
Week 7: #MuslimBan”: Geopolitics and Everyday Life & “No Raids, No Broken Windows”: Police Violence
Sara Pursley, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Listen:Sinan Antoon (Associate Professor at NYU Gallatin), “If Death Is A Postman” (WNYC)
Listen: Nikhil Singh (Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis), “The Laundering of American Empire” (The Intercept)
Week 8: “Don’t Deport My Mom”: Regulating Intimacy, Family, and Reproduction
Crystal Parikh, Associate Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis (edited by Ahmed Allam)
Cecilia Márquez, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Week 9: Immigrant Justice in a Fake News World: Media as Structure, Media as Tools
Arun Kundnani, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Yoav Halperin, PhD Candidate, Media, Culture, and Communication
Week 10: “Si Se Puede!” Migrants and Workers
Natasha Iskander, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service
Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Gallatin School of Individualized Study (Video edited by Mark Yoneyama)
Week 11: Decolonizing the University: Dissent and the Right
Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies
Asli Igsiz, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, edited by Amy Pelch
Week 12: “Sanctuary is Solidarity”: Resources for Building and Practicing Sanctuary
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Associate Professor at NYU Gallatin
Vasuki Nesiah, Associate Professor of Practice at NYU Gallatin
Migration, Refugees & the Politics of Sanctuary 