Anouar Majid serves on panel at European immigration symposium

amajid_2Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, participated in a symposium on immigration in Europe, which was held at the University of Minnesota on April 19-20, 2013.  The symposium was titled “Burning the Sea:  Clandestine Migration in the Age of Globalization.”

Majid served on a panel that focused on African immigration to Europe.  He spoke on “Conquests and Migrations:  Reflections on the Making of the Modern World.”

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