Past Events
The Columbia University Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race present a Book Talk and Q&A on, “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran” with Beeta Baghoolizadeh. She is a historian and Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Her first book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) examines questions concerning race, gender, historiography, and visuality through the lens of enslavement and abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Color Black has won the Scholars of Color First Book Award at Duke University Press.Baghoolizadeh’s work has been published in the American Historical Review (AHR), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Prior to joining Princeton, Beeta was an Assistant Professor of History and Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and she has also been a Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center and a Regional Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 12-2pm
420 Hamilton Hall, CSER Seminar Room
Refreshments will be provided!
It is with great pride that we send this announcement on behalf of Dr. Echeverría, the CSER Project Seminar professor who once again is enthusiastically organizing our 16th Annual CSER Symposium on Friday, April 5 from 10 am to 2:00 pm.
The Senior Research Symposium is a crucial component of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race academic experience, which seeks to generate innovative thinking about race, ethnicity, indigeneity and other categories of difference in order to better understand their role and impact in modern societies.
The symposium offers CSER honor students an opportunity to share and receive feedback on their original research. This event also enables students the chance to hone their oral presentation skills in order to supplement their analytical projects they have been exploring over the course of the last academic year.
In this spirit, we are thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to be a part of this extraordinary event, where you will have the opportunity to witness the incredible work our emerging scholars have dedicated themselves to throughout the academic year.
If attending in person isn’t feasible for you, fear not! We’ve made provisions for virtual participation via Zoom. Simply complete the RSVP form linked here: RSVP for 16th Annual CSER Symposium at Columbia University and we will ensure you receive the Zoom link well in advance of the symposium.
CSER presents our third speaker of the Spring 2024 seminar series, Dr. Dylan Rodríguez of the University of California, Riverside as he presents his talk, Counterinsurgency Machine: Reframing the U.S. “Social Justice (etc.)” Ensemble on April 4, 2024.
He is a professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. In his talk, he will discuss how, “as the smoke and dust settle from multi-scaled mobilizations and autonomous radical actions in places from Minneapolis and Mauna Kea to Standing Rock and Stop Cop City, an ensemble of “social justice” initiatives emerges to enlist and empower ostensible abolitionists, decolonizers, and revolutionaries (insurgents), redirecting their labor and political energy to activities that restore the functionality, if not the legitimacy, of state power and the extended apparatuses of global capital.”
Location: 420 Hamilton Hall, CSER Seminar Room
Join CSER on April 4th to hear from recent authors in Political Theology from the special issue on Settler Colonialism and Political Theology on the Palestinian struggle for liberation and its relationship to discourses in political theology.
Join CSER Student Advisory Board for their spring semester coffeehouse. Sign up to perform using their QR code—musical, film, literary, poetic, and art performances are all encouraged.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race invite you to a panel discussion with two Human Rights Advocates, part of ISHR’s Human Rights Advocates Program
Jamuna Tamang, Treasurer of the National Indigenous Disabled Women Association of Nepal
Challenge and Status of Indigenous Women with Disabilities
Andrea Tock, Director of Impact and Learning for the Women’s Justice Initiative
Legal Empowerment by Indigenous Women in Guatemala
Moderator: Elsa Stamatopoulou, Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, ISHR
Location: 420 Hamilton Hall, CSER Seminar Room
Join CSER on March 26, 2024 as we present the second speaker of our Spring 2024 Seminar Series, Dr. Sandy Grande of the University of Connecticut as she presents her talk, Corporis Nullius: Biopolitics and the Indigenous BioElsewhere’s of Aging. She is a Professor of Political Science and Native American & Indigenous Studies as well as the Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative.
In her talk, Dr. Sandy Grande will undertake a (re)valuation of elderly bodies, particularly the oldest-old, or those labeled as “Fourth Age” adults. In so doing, she will build upon theorizations of Indigenous refusal as a political practice and methodological strategy that disrupts settler conceptualizations of citizenship, sovereignty, and biopolitics.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 4 – 6 PM
CSER Seminar Room, 420 Hamilton Hall
Dr. Bryan Wagner’s talk examines a demotic tradition in African American music, folklore, and vaudeville comedy based on the jurisprudence of the police court. Looking to writers and performers ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Dewey Markham, it finds in this tradition an alternative philosophy of law attuned to roles rather than rights, asymmetry rather than notional equality, and improvisation rather than reasoned restraint.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
4:10 – 5:30 PM
754 Schermerhorn Extension
Join CSER for the Asian American Diasporic Writers Series on February 26th at 6:30 PM for the book launch of two exciting, new, brilliantly written AAPI memoirs that involve finding one’s place in the world: “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” and “I Would Meet You Anywhere.”
Join CSER on Monday, February 26, 2024 for our Spring Open House. Stop by and learn how declaring the Ethnicity and Race Studies major or concentration works. Free food and light refreshments will be served.
