From October 28 through November 17, JSRI staff hosted a compelling series of events for students, faculty, staff, and the wider community as part of our annual conference titled “People on the Move and the Common Good—Migration, Poverty, and Racism, Converging Concerns for Our Future.” Seven separate events moved participants from the experience of the “internally displaced people” of Katrina’s New Orleans in the first week to the migrating peoples of the South in the second to the plight of immigrant peoples of the United States in the third to the internationally displaced in the last week.
More than 400 people participated in one or another of the conference events made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (Other students, faculty, or community activists heard speakers in classes or meetings arranged to complement the main events.)