BU CFD Sawyer Seminar Series

The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars were established to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. 

Our Sawyer Seminar, US-Mexico and EU-Balkans Border Externalization Regimes: Ethics, Identities, and Impacts is an interdisciplinary comparison of US and EU border externalization policies and practices. Whereas border externalization has mostly been approached from the perspectives of international relations and political science, we seek to focus on the humanistic elements of the crisis by centering ethical questions; identities, histories, and cultures; arts and narratives; technologies and health care; and models of hospitality.