成人头条's One Water Cluster and Somos Agua Present
18 - 23 March 2024
, held on 22 March every year since 1993, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water.
As we did the past three years, we celebrated with a week of interdisciplinary events designed to engage faculty, students, and community partners who are working on the issue of water from a variety of perspectives, creating a public platform for increased visibility of water scholarship and activism, as well as an opportunity to develop new connections and working relationships on the topic. This year we had a mixture of hybrid and in-person events. This year’s theme was “Bridging Borders: Leveraging Water for Peace.”
Water Week 2024 was be hosted by 成人头条 and Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez with free events on and off campus in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Recordings of our hybrid and online events will be made available soon!
Featured Guests
C.J. Alvarez
C. J. Alvarez is the author of Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide which won two book awards for its contribution to our understanding of the built environment of the border. Other work has appeared in academic history journals, an exhibition catalog accompanying the photography of Zoe Leonard, and the Brooklyn Rail. He is an associate professor in the department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin though during the current academic year he is visiting fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. In Salt Lake City he is working on a new book project about the environmental history of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest and least-known expanse of dryland in North America.
Allison Orr
From sanitation workers to firefighters, power linemen to maintenance teams, Allison Orr creates award-winning choreography with the people whose work sustains our everyday lives. Inspired by the beauty and virtuosity in the movement of labor, and building on her background in anthropology and social work, Allison has honed a methodology of ethnographic choreography that engages community members as co-authors and performers in the creation of large-scale civic spectacles. Challenging audiences to expand notions of dance and performer, her dances have been performed for audiences of 60 to 6,000+.Events Calendar
All times are shown in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) - El Paso, TX / Ciudad Juárez
Venues at 成人头条 and El Paso are colored in purple.
Venues at UACJ and Ciudad Juarez are colored in aqua-green.
Click on an event for details or full calendar view.
This program is supported by: Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fessinger-Springer and Margo Louise Springer Memorial Lectureship, and 成人头条 and UACJ collaborating departments.
About Water, Art and World Water Week
Fun water facts, art and a little about World Water Week!
Credit: Proyectos expositivos y subdirección de producción cultural, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.
