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Past Events from September 28, 2022 – October 27, 2022 – Page 2 – Sawyer Seminar Past Events from September 28, 2022 – October 27, 2022 – Page 2 – 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 in Brazil Isabela Kalil, University of São Paulo

Immigrant Communities and Global Politics

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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

Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers

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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