Events - 2008
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January
Southwest Border: Emerging Issues Minicourse
Jan. 7-9, 2008, Tempe/Nogales
The North American Center for Transborder Studies and the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council hosted a seminar on border issues at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona on January 7-9, 2008. This program familiarized graduate students and other participants with the current border situation and emerging freight transportation issues in North America from both a public and private sector perspective. The program included a presentation on the Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The minicourse was the second in an ongoing series sponsored by NACTS.
North American Curriculum Development Workshop
January 10, Tempe
The United States is deeply dependent on the North American economic system. Canada is our largest trading partner and Mexico is just behind China as our third leading partner. Many of the critical issues that we will confront in the next decade must be viewed in a North American context. These include environmental protection, energy, national security, competitiveness and population movements. The workshop will present ASU professors with a framework from which include some North American content in courses in programs across the university, from political science and business to courses on environmental issues and social movements.
Border Regions in Transition Conference
January 11-15, Vancouver, BC
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together about 100 international scholars who have been researching borders and borderlands since the implementation of post 9/11 security regimes on borders around the world. The meeting is conceived as a unique opportunity for these scholars to systematically analyze and compare the implications of new security measures on borders, border regions, borderland culture, economic transactions, transportation systems and transborder governance arrangements.
February
Southern Border Security Consortium Meeting
February 5, Tucson
The SBBC is a joint venture of nine U.S. universities in the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to develop and promote scientific and policy solutions to issues facing the United States-Mexico border region. The SBSC offers a comprehensive, multi-institutional set of capabilities to relevant agencies such as the federal departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Energy and Transportation.
Arizona State University Media Fellowship 2008: Immigration: The Southwest Border
February 6, Tempe
NACTS Director Rick Van Schoik will address to a group of journalists selected to participate in the second annual ASU Media Fellowship on border issues. The highly competitive program provides an opportunity for reporters to tap into cutting-edge ideas and gain new perspectives away from the daily pressures of the newsroom. ASU's program offers journalists the chance to study immigration issues at the heart of the national debate.
Advancing North American Governance
Feb. 13, Tempe
This public event will culminate the first of an annual series of "cross-talks" between practitioners and scholars of the U.S.-Canadian and the U.S-Mexican borders. The presenters will discuss the best North American border management practices and lessons learned, with the aim of optimizing the North American governance of the continental "commons." Professor Daniel Drache of York University will provide a Canadian perspective on the future of North America. Professor Paul Ganster of San Diego State University will summarize views from the United States, while a Mexican point of view will be provided by Raúl Rodriguez, former CEO and Managing Director of the North American Development Bank. ASU's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Executive Dean Alan Artibise will serve as moderator at the event. Event information: 480.727.8538, nactsevents@asu.edu
Border Officials "Cross-Talk"
February 13, Tempe
While a robust cadre of U.S.-Canadian border specialists and commissioners think about and work on the issues of transboundary capacity, governance, and sovereignty in that border region; and another group of specialists and commissioners think and work the same issues on the U.S-Mexican border, the opportunity for a meaningful and continuing comparative cross-talk between and among them has not existed ... until NACTS. The opportunity and substantial benefit to have the two groups engage with each other in an ongoing dialogue was identified and given high priority. Agencies invited to participate include the U.S-Canadian International Boundary Commission; the U.S-Canadian International Joint Commission; the U.S.-Mexican Border Environment Cooperation Commission; the North American Development Bank; and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, among many others.
NACTS Board of Advisors meeting
February 14, Tempe
Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute Workshop
February 20-21, Phoenix
NACTS represent ASU within the new Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute, created by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours in September 2007. The Arizona Water Institute coordinates Arizona's contribution to this unique collaboration. A workshop for the Institute will be held at the Arizona Department of Water Resources on Feb. 21. More information...
NACTS DC Visit
February 27-29, Washington, DC
Director Van Schoik will visit partners, U.S government sponsors, and potential funders while in the U.S. capital. The proceedings of the Cross Talk will be shared with Congressional members.
March
Southern Border Security Consortium Meeting
March 11, Washington, DC
The SBBC is a joint venture of nine U.S. universities in the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to develop and promote scientific and policy solutions to issues facing the United States-Mexico border region. The SBSC offers a comprehensive, multi-institutional set of capabilities to relevant agencies such as the federal departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Energy and Transportation.
Border Environmental Institutions panel at 2008 NNASC Conference, "North American Issues: Designing Institutions, Choosing Policies,"
March 14-15, Vancouver, British Columbia
The North American Center for Transborder Studies will prepare papers and present findings on a panel on border environnmental institutions at a conference organized by the Network on North American Studies in Canada (NNASC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The theme of the conference and panel will afford an examination of both national and border environmental institutions and polices at both borders thus a chance to discover, export, and import the best management practices from each nation and both borders. Each of the NACTS partner universities has been invited and at least one paper from both Canada and U.S and two papers from Mexico will be presented.
Good NeighborEnvironmental Board Meeting:
"Environmental Advisors across Borders"
March 19-20, Washington, DC
The Good Neighbor Environmental Board is an independent federal advisory committee. Its mission is to advise the President and Congress of the United States on good neighbor practices along the U.S. border with Mexico. Its recommendations are focused on environmental infrastructure needs within the U.S. states contiguous to Mexico.
North American Transportation Scenarios
March 27, Tempe
NACTS' North America Transportation 2050 initiative will consider, compare, and contrast the evolving role of trucks, rail, and sea routes and modes; emerging new North American seaports, the possibility of privatization; the option of mass cross-international border public transit; joint/shared facilities (i.e., a proposed San Diego-Tijuana airport), alternative fuels and delivery infrastructure, continental greenhouse gas cap and trade programs, etc. This process of envisioning future realities and "backcasting" will take into account input from planners, policy specialists and decision-makers.
April
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Life Courses, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the U.S.
April 3-5, Tempe
The conference will examine migration from a North American perspective. The three North American states - or five cultural regions if Quebec is viewed as distinct and the Caribbean societies are included - have come to form an integrating/ integrated macro-region with respect to economic and migration issues and changing demographics (in chronological sequence to the Atlantic migrations and the Pacific post-1960s migrations). This is usually not reflected in research, teaching, and public opinion. The conference will result in an edited volume that will provide a survey of the field and state-of-the-art reports on migration and borderlands scholarship by some of the leading experts in the field.
Security and Environment talk
April 8-9, Washington, DC
Director Van Schoik has been invited to speak about environmental security at the Second Annual Border Security Conference. He will talk about the immigration, border, and sovereignty consequences of water, climate, ecological, and health changes in North America.
North America Post-Bush Workshop
April 17, Tempe
NACTS board member and York University political scientist Daniel Drache convenes an elite group of U.S., Canadian and Mexican thinkers to discuss the continent's near future.
Commission on Environmental Cooperation Fourth Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade,
April 22-24, Tempe
The North American Center for Transborder Studies is pleased to host the Commission for Environmental Cooperation's Fourth North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Affects of Trade. The event will have three main components: Greening North America's Trade Corridors; the Symposium itself; and a public forum that will examine lessons learned from previous CEC Trade and Environment symposia. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation is a unique trinational institution that was established to complement the environmental provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). More information...
May
CANAMEX Task Force Meeting
May 1, Phoenix
NACTS hosted a lunch meeting on ASU’s involvement with the Arizona Mexico Commission. Participants shared their experiences/best practices and heard input from Placido dos Santos with the Arizona Water Institute, one of NACTS’ partners. The meeting was key in sharing communication with all members and supporting transparency through the process now and in the future.
“Drivers” meeting
May 6-8, Halifax
NACTS hosted a lunch meeting on ASU’s involvement with the Arizona Mexico Commission. Participants shared their experiences/best practices and heard input from Placido dos Santos with the Arizona Water Institute, one of NACTS’ partners. The meeting was key in sharing communication with all members and supporting transparency through the process now and in the future.
Triumvirate
May 26-30, Montreal
The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) is a non-profit organization based in Montreal which aims to address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region. The Triumvirate is an innovative event which allows a hundred Canadian, American and Mexican university students to better understand the North American dynamic as well as the challenges faced by the NAFTA partners. ASU is one of the Triumvirate's participating universities.
NACTS Faculty Advisory Council meeting
May 12, Tempe Campus
The NACTS Faculty Advisory Council convened its second organizational meeting at the end of the spring semester. Chair Francisco Lara presided. The agenda included a review of NACTS mission, organization and capacity; an overview of NACTS’ recent events and future opportunities; and recent and ongoing faculty engagement opportunities in NACTS activities; and proposal to form a transborder scholars network (TransNet) at ASU.
ASU and the Arizona Mexico Commission
May 20, Tempe Campus
NACTS hosted a lunch meeting on ASU’s involvement with the Arizona Mexico Commission. Participants shared their experiences/best practices and heard input from Placido dos Santos with the Arizona Water Institute, one of NACTS’ partners. The meeting was key in sharing communication with all members and supporting transparency through the process now and in the future.
NACTS Mexico City Outreach Trip
NACTS hosted a lunch meeting on ASU’s involvement with the Arizona Mexico Commission. Participants shared their experiences/best practices and heard input from Placido dos Santos with the Arizona Water Institute, one of NACTS’ partners. The meeting was key in sharing communication with all members and supporting transparency through the process now and in the future.
June
Canadian Transportation Research Forum
June 1-4, Fredericton, New Brunswick
North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council director Stephen Blank will present a strategic "manifesto" on drivers of change in North American freight transportation at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum's annual meeting.
NACTS/Woodrow Wilson Center "Connective" Infrastructure Project
June 2, Washington DC
The Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and the North American Center for Transborder Studies are cooperatively sponsoring the development of a meta-estimate of "connective" infrastructure needs both across the border as well as between the south of Mexico and the interior and the north; a series of short white papers framing the issues; and a top-level discussion of innovations and collaborations across borders and sectors of civil society.
Arizona-Mexico Commission Spring Plenary Session
June 20-21, Tucson
NACTS will build on its participation at the Fall 2007 Plenary Session in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora in concert with numerous other ASU units.
USTDA Mexican Customs trade delegation
Tempe, June 2008
CANAMEX Corridor Coalition has asked NACTS to speak with a delegation of Mexican customs officials participating in USTDA’s Global Customs Initiative. The intent is first to enable best practice sharing between U.S. and Mexican officials and secondly, to infuse the discussion with private sector concerns and issues.
July
Border Legislative Conference Meeting
July 17, Anchorage
Director Van Schoik will speak at the Council of State Government’s Border Legislative Conference on border cooperation.
August
The La Paz Agreement on Environmental Cooperation at its 25th Anniversary: A Convenient Truth
August 13, 2008, San Antonio del Mar, Tijuana, Baja California
In commemoration of the La Paz Agreement, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and Arizona State University (ASU) will host a half-day event in Tijuana, celebrating the accord’s successes while examining possibilities for future cooperation. A series of papers by COLEF and NACTS will frame the issue and we will ask respected members from advocacy/NGO, government, and private sectors, on both sides of the border to provide perspective. Various dignitaries, including those at the signing, will also be asked to speak. Findings will be carried by the organizers to the Border Governors Conference and to the National Coordinators Meeting.
Border Security Conference: A Binational Strategy for Border Protec tion and Effective Commerce
August 11-12, El Paso, Texas
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), in conjunction with the Office of Congressman Silvestre Reyes, will host the Border Security Conference: A Binational Strategy for Border Protection and Effective Commerce on August 11-12, 2008 on the UTEP campus. Now in its fifth year, this annual conference is unique in that it brings together several hundred leaders from the public and private sectors in the United States and Mexico to explore how best to safeguard our common borders, while simultaneously fostering the continued human and economic development of our two nations.
Border Governors' Conference 2008
August 13-15, Hollywood, California
The Border Governors Conference (BGC) is an important binational venue made up of the ten U.S. and Mexico border states. The XXVI BGC will be in Hollywood, California and will be hosted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. NACTS Director Rick Van Schoik and Board Chair Raul Rodriguez will participate.
September
Western Canada Studies Association meeting
September 9-12, Tempe
ASU hosts the Western Canada Studies association with a one-day colloquia on the topic of “On the Edge” looking at anticipated changes in US-Canadian relations in the next administration.
North American Freight Transportation Data Conference
September 22-23, Irvine
NACTS will present the findings of the TRC year-long transportation work at the National Research Board’s inaurual confrenc eon North American freight.
October
Canadian Transportation Research Forum: Future Development of NAFTA Surface Freight Transportation Infrastructure and Operations II
October 24, Calgary, Alberta
Members of NACTS' Faculty Advisory Council, Board of Advisors and staff will participate in this year's Forum, which will feature panel discussions on port and marine developments, rail developments, gateways and borders, and the future of North America's freight transportation system.
Border Energy Forum
October 23-24, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
NACTS Director Rick Van Schoik will participate at the Border Energy Forum XV.
November
Border Governors Conference
Date TBD, Hollywood
December
Border Institute X
Date TBD, Rio Rico
NACTS will co-sponsor the tenth in a recurring series of US-Mexican border policy development conferences. This year the topic is Comparative Environmental Risk Assessment and use of Binational Sustainability Indicators to monitor progress at alleviating that risk.