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Events from September 20, 2023 – March 8, 2023 – Sawyer Seminar Events from September 20, 2023 – March 8, 2023 – Sawyer Seminar

Responding to Anti-Asian Hate: Politics, Organizing, and Education

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Anti-Asian racism has roared back with the COVID-19 pandemic. The sentiments that have fueled soaring hate crimes against AAPI communities, including killings of Asian American women in New York City and Atlanta and serial brutalization of the Asian American elderly, didn’t come from nowhere. This kick-off seminar for the 2022-2023 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, “Natives and … Read More

A Conversation between Mae Ngai and Cathy Park Hong

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

Mae Ngai, Columbia University Cathy Park Hong, Rutgers University, Newark Moderated by Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark

The Global Right Across Borders

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

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 … Read More

Immigrant Communities and Global Politics

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

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 … Read More

Migration, Displacement, and the Arts

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, 2nd floor, Room 213, Newark

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 … Read More