Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders Speaker Series — Mediating the U.S.–Mexico Border: A Conversation about Border Tunnels

Please join us for the next event in our speaker series, Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders, with our esteemed speaker, Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, associate director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, and affiliate faculty with the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarly research encompasses media and globalization, streaming media, border studies, infrastructure studies, and Latin American film and television.

 

He will present his book, Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), which argues for underground tunnels as media figures that reimagine the stakes of border-making practices.

 

His work has also been published in journals such as Social Text; Feminist Media Histories; Television and New Media; Film Quarterly; Lateral; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as several edited collections.