Daniel Trilling is a journalist, editor, and author. He is the author of "Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe" and editor of "New Humanist". Learn more about the Roots and Routes Speaker Series here.

Join Religions and Public Life at the Kenan Institute for Ethics to discuss the role of religion and migration in European politics with Dr. Erhard Busek, former Vice Chancellor of Austria.

Free & open to the public.

Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research, Miriam Ticktin is the author of "Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France". Dr. Ticktin works at the intersections of the anthropology of medicine and science, law, and transnational and postcolonial feminist theory. Her research has focused on what it means to make political claims in the name of a universal humanity: she has been interested in what these claims tell us about universalisms and difference,…

Faculty and staff working in long-term partnerships with local refugee, immigrant or migrant populations (newcomer communities) are invited to gather together to share and learn from each other. Lunch is provided. Please forward to others who may be interested. Please contact Leslie Parkins with any questions.   This is a collaboration of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Community-Based Language Initiative with Duke Service-Learning, Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum with Romance Languages, and the Duke Office of Civic Engagement.