Events

Professor of Art, Robert Knight, presents his project Strangers in a Strange Land, an interactive web-based film project that presents stories about the immigration detention system in the UK. Since 2019, Knight has collaborated with Refugee Tales and Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, two UK nonprofits that work to raise awareness about the indefinite detention of asylum seekers in the UK. Knight's work includes videos and photographs, and juxtaposes the architecture of detention, migration, and border protection and their associated bureaucracy...

A Community Conversation on International Travel: Benefit or Burden? Register Here With global borders fully open post-COVID, 2024 marked a full recovery for international tourism. Over 1.4 billion tourist arrivals were recorded worldwide in 2024 and tourism spending was estimated at $11.1 trillion. At the same time, anti-tourism protests in many parts of Europe made news. In Barcelona, overwhelmed locals shot tourists with water guns. In Venice, residents protested Jeff Bezos’ tourist-filled wedding and, in Paris, staff of the Louvre staged a ...