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September 2022
A Conversation between Mae Ngai and Cathy Park Hong
Mae Ngai, Columbia University Cathy Park Hong, Rutgers University, Newark Moderated by Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark
Find out more »Finding Common Ground: The Promises and Perils of Immigrant and Interracial Organizing
Deepa Iyer, SolidarityIs, Building Movement Project Vivian Truong, Swarthmore College Ellen Wu, Indiana University Bloomington Diane Wong, Rutgers University, Newark Chaired and moderated by Jamie Lew, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »Make Us Visible: The Fight to Incorporate AAPI and Immigrant Histories in K-12 Education
Jason Chang, University of Connecticut Julia Wang, Immigrant History Initiative Kathy Lu, Immigrant History Initiative Chaired and moderated by Jack Tchen, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »October 2022
Politics Across Borders: Immigration, Nativism, Activism and Trans-Border Political Sentiment
In the context of the scapegoating of immigrants and intensified nativism in US politics, it is often taken for granted by scholars and journalists that members of immigrant communities in the US would automatically reject such politics. However, many immigrants hold seemingly contradictory political positions, informed by multi-national political and economic trends that complicate this simple picture. This seminar examines the complexity of political sentiment and action among some immigrant communities in the Newark area and beyond. It concludes with…
Find out more »The Global Right Across Borders
The Global Right Across Borders Hindu Supremacists in a White World Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University, Newark Bolsonaristas in the US: 2018 and 2022 Vânia Penha-Lopes, Bloomfield College The Anti-Democratic Wave in Brazil Isabela Kalil, University of São Paulo
Find out more »Immigrant Communities and Global Politics
Immigrant Communities and Global Politics Indian American Political Activism Prema Ann Kurien, Syracuse University Political Opinions of Brazilians living in the United States Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, North Carolina Central University The Construction of Hinduphobia in the UK Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton
Find out more »Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers
Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers Eduardo Vianna, City University of New York and organizer, formerly with Defend Democracy in Brazil and BRADO Natalia de Campos, Performance artist and activist, Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee, NY In conversation with the panelists Moderator: Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University, Newark
Find out more »November 2022
Migration, Displacement, and the Arts
Co-organizers: Kim DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, Newark Tim Raphael, Professor, Arts, Culture, and Media, Rutgers University, Newark Mayte Green-Mercado, Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University, Newark Co-sponsored by Mediterranean Displacements Project, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and Center for Migration and the Global City Scholarship on migration and displacement focuses mostly on the conditions that force people to leave their places of origin or the challenges that people face during their departure or arrival.…
Find out more »Migration, Displacement, and the Arts: Performances and Party
Co-organizers: Kim DaCosta Holton, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, Newark Tim Raphael, Professor, Arts, Culture, and Media, Rutgers University, Newark Mayte Green-Mercado, Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University, Newark Co-sponsored by Mediterranean Displacements Project, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and Center for Migration and the Global City 6:00-11:00 pm Performances and party after the seminar at ODR Studios Marcy DePina, DJ and MC Performances by Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers ensemble Janétza Miranda, singer-songwriter and classical Spanish…
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