Just Passing Through?

April 7th, 2011 by Deepak

A couple of Dominican colleagues and I have come up with a panel on the scales and landscapes of migration in the Dominican Republic. If you’re interested, join us on April 22nd. You can also pass it along to folks who might like to converse with three relatively young scholars interested in Dominicanness, place and transnational livelihoods. Details are included in the decent promo art (see below).

Here’s a bit of info on the scales, speakers and topics:

Trans_Local
Emil Rodríguez Garabot MIT- Humphrey Fellow, Dominican Republic 2010-2011
“The Mirador Sur Park and the 1998 Tsunami False Alarm” Anticipation, mobilization and outrageousness for a new ecological urbanity in Santo Domingo .

Trans_National
Deepak Lamba-Nieves- MIT-lDG, PhD Candidate
“Social Remittances and Development Logics” Social Trans(actions) from Boston to Baní, and from Baní to Boston.

Trans_Regional
Shaney Peña Gómez- Prof. Landscape Arch. PUCMM, Dominican Republic – Fulbright Scholar 2006.
“Binational Ecological Park at the Frontier between Dominican Republic and Haiti” How to foster these exchange opportunities
through a good design? (1st Prize -X Bienal lnternacional de Arquitectura del Caribe 2010)