BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11942-c290298b7053890839b82294795424cf@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260415T034649Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T130000 SUMMARY:“Uncovering the Stories at the U.S.–Mexico Border” DESCRIPTION:\nJoin Penn State alumnus and anthropologist Jason De León t o hear about his work studying the migration of clandestine migrants cro ssing the U.S.–Mexico border.\n\nJason is a professor of anthropology an d Chicana/o studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He is also executive dire ctor of the Undocumented Migration Project\, raising awareness about mig ration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants in reuniting with their loved ones.\n\nJason is the author of the award -winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant T rail (featuring photos by Michael Wells). His new book\, Soldiers and Ki ngs\, is an in-depth look at the daily lives of smugglers moving migrant s across Mexico. He is also a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.\n\nThe t alk\, which is part of the College of the Liberal Arts' “Moments of Chan ge: Immigration\, Identity\, and Citizenship” theme\, will be followed b y a reception.\n\nSponsored by:\n\nPenn State Harrisburg\nCollege of the Liberal Arts\nDepartment of Anthropology\nPopulation Research Institute \nMigration and Diversity Initiative in the Social Science Research Inst itute\nWarren C. Robinson Memorial Fund in the Population Research Insti tute\nGordon F. and Caroline M. De Jong Lectureship in Social Demography Endowment\n\nFor more information on Jason De León\, please visit www.p rhspeakers.com. You can also listen to Jason on the Democracy Works podc ast hosted by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State.\n\nQ uestions about the event can be directed to Jennifer Van Hook at jxv21@p su.edu.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/de-leon/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join Penn State alumnus and anthropologist Jason De León to hear about his work studyin g the migration of clandestine migrants crossing the U.S.–Mexico border.

Jason is a professor of anthropology and Chicana/o studies and di rector of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of Calif ornia, Los Angeles. He is also executive director of the Undocumented Mi gration Project, raising awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants in reuniting with their lov ed ones.

Jason is the author of the award-winning book The Lan d of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (featuring photos by Michael Wells). His new book, Soldiers and Kings, is an in-depth look at the daily lives of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico. He is also a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

The talk, w hich is part of the College of the Liberal Arts' “Moments of Change: Immigration, Identity, and Citizen ship” theme, will be followed by a reception.