Third SU Anti-Human Trafficking Conference Set January 29

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University’s Center for Healthy Communities and School of Social Work host their third annual Anti-Human Trafficking Conference in a virtual format 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday, January 29.

Dr. Pardis Mahdavi, dean of social sciences and director of the School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University, delivers the keynote, “Love, Labor and the Law Across Border: Trafficking in Context.”

Mahdavi invites participants to question received categories for classifying and understanding forms of human trafficking and labor migration by examining them as a type of intimate labor that fundamentally reshape constructions of family, citizenship, labor, gender and sexuality across borders.

Dr. Alicia Peters, associate professor of anthropology at the University of New England, presents “Defining Human Trafficking, Assessing Vulnerability and Exploring the Effects on Survivors” in the afternoon.

Her talk historicizes the human trafficking response by exploring how legal compromises in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act have contributed to an implementation approach focused on “ideal victims.” She also highlights examples drawn from ethnographic research with law enforcement officials, NGO service providers and survivors of trafficking that illustrate the harms resulting from uneven implementation strategies and the ways survivor narratives contest commonly held misconceptions about trafficking.

Cost is $75. The conference is open to the public. To purchase tickets visit the online registration page.

For more information call 410-677-3947 or visit the SU website.