Building Awareness

Arizona State University is a public university, and the North American Center for Transborder Studies does everything it can to transfer knowledge to a broader public with a highly engaging series of initiatives for the broader North American public.

Key Initiatives

Advancing North American Governance - Feb.13, 2008
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

Migrants and Migration in Modern North America - April 3-5
NACTS visiting professor Dirk Hoerder will co-chair this conference that looks at migration from a North America 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.

North America Post-Bush Conference - April 10-11
NACTS board member and York University political scientist Daniel Drache will convene a select group of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican thinkers to discuss the continent's near future. The proceedings will result in an edited volume.

Triumvirate, Montreal - May 26-30
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.

Building North America
The "Building North America" website project aims to serve as a resource for teaching and research on North American issues (http://www.asu.edu/clas/nacts/bna/).

North America 101 - Fall 2008
North American is an ASU undergraduate survey course taught by the staff of the North American Center for Transborder Studies. The course aims to challenge students to approach issues facing the United States, Mexico and Canada from a trilateral perspective. The course is scheduled to be taught at ASU starting in the fall of 2008.