Speakers

Miriam Ticktin is professor of anthropology at CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center and director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She publishes widely on topics such as migration, borders, humanitarianism, and racial and gendered inequalities, and, most recently, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (2012) and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (2010). Her latest book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. She is currently working on her next book, Containment and Commoning: From Bordered Worlds to Collective Life. Ticktin writes in public venues such as Truthout, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Open Democracy, and organizes with migrant social justice groups in the US and France.