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Speaker Series: Kalyani Ramnath

ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL

This speaker will present virtually, with the option to view in-person at the ABF. To register, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  Kalyani Ramnath is an Assistant Professor in the department of History at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is a historian of modern South Asia, with research and teaching…

Speaker Series: Kevin Kenny

ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL

Today the United States considers immigration and border control a federal matter. Before the Civil War, however, the federal government played virtually no role in regulating immigration. In this presentation, based on his recently published book The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States, (Oxford University Press, 2023), Kevin…

Speaker Series: Bryan Sykes

ABF Offices, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Chicago, IL

This speaker will present in-person at the ABF, with the option to view the presentation virtually. To register, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.  Bryan Sykes is an Inclusive Excellence Term Chair Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology and Public Health); a Faculty Affiliate in The…