The University of Delaware's spring semester Fulbright Lecture Series will offer fresh perspectives on a topic hitting news outlets and dinner tables everywhere: migration.

The series, entitled “Fostering Mutual Understanding: Refugees, Identities & Our Shared Journeys,” will feature three Fulbright recipients who, through their research, contribute insights into migrant communities across the globe and draw threads of connection to a shared human experience. All lectures take place at 6 p.m. in room 103 of Gore Hall.

On Thursday, Feb. 28, Noelle Brigden will present, “The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America,” drawing upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States.

On Thursday, March 21, Lisa Poggiali presents “Waiting to Move, Moving to Wait: Security in the Age of Mass Displacement.” Poggiali, a 2010 Fulbright-Hays Fellow to Kenya, is a Price Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

On Thursday, April 11, Phillip Ayoub, a 2011 Fulbright Schuman Fellow to the European Union and associate professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College, explores the relationship between migration and networks of LGBT rights activism in “Migrant Communities and Diaspora Impact in Facilitating Transnational Queer Mobilizations.”

The series is sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies in collaboration with the Center for Global and Area Studies.

The Fulbright Program, the flagship international education exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government, is designed to foster mutual understanding between people of the U.S. and other countries by funding research and teaching opportunities worldwide. Learn more about the UD Fulbright Initiative at www.udel.edu/fulbright.