HRAP Advocates Panel

 

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

Featuring:
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

Monday, April 1, 2024, 10 – 11 AM
CSER Seminar Room, 420 Hamilton Hall

Karl Jacoby Receives 2024 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Karl Jacoby, Allan Nevins Professor of American History – Department of History, was named as a recipient of the 2024 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for his deep commitment to teaching and mentoring, his curricular advancements in areas such as the history of the borderlands, Indigenous peoples, ethnicity and racialization, and the environment, and his role in strengthening the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race as its co-director.

Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

 

Known throughout his lifetime as the “undisputed, unofficial Asian American photographer laureate,” the late photojournalist Corky Lee documented Asian American and Pacific Islander communities for fifty years, breaking the stereotype of Asian Americans as docile, passive, and, above all, foreign to this country. Corky Lee’s Asian America is a stunning retrospective of his life’s work—a selection of the best photographs from his vast collection, from his start in New York’s Chinatown in the 1970s to his coverage of diverse Asian American communities across the country until his untimely passing in 2021.

 

Join Hua Hsu, David Henry Hwang, Akemi Kochiyama, and Mae Ngai for this event, moderated by Chris Kwok and cohosted with Asian American Bar Association of NY.

 
Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 PM
Asia Society 725 Park Ave 

Chinatown Book Launch Party: Corky Lee's Asian America

 

Join us for the groundbreaking book launch of “Corky Lee’s Asian America.” In honor of 2024 AAPI Heritage Month, “Corky Lee’s Asian America” offers a profound reflection on Asian American history and activism. Featuring never-before-seen photographs alongside Corky’s most renowned images, the book encapsulates his lifelong commitment to documenting moments of inclusion, resistance, and ethnic pride.

 

Saturday, May 4 2024

4 – 6 PM

Manny Cantor Center: 197 East Broadway, New York, NY 

CSER Student Advisory Board Spring Coffeehouse

 

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.

 

 

 
Wednesday, April 3, 7 – 9 PM
Q House 

Spring 2024 Seminar Series - Counterinsurgency Machine: Reframing the U.S. “Social Justice (etc.)” Ensemble

 

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.”

Thursday, April 4, 2024

4 – 6 PM

420 Hamilton Hall

CSER Spring 2024 Seminar Series

 

Presenting 3 distinguished speakers for our Spring 2024 Seminar Series:

Dr. Michelle Stephens of Rutgers University
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Dr. Sandy Grande of the University of Connecticut
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Dr. Dylan Rodriguez of the University of California-Riverside
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Dr. Sandler Published in The Baffler

 

Matt Sandler, Program Director for MA in American Studies, published an essay in The Baffler about the novelist, screenwriter, critic, and folklorist Cecil Brown. “Stand Up and Spout” focuses on his hard-fought and quixotic attempt to revive, using artificial intelligence technology, the enslaved poet George Moses Horton.

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee Published in New York Times and Bomb Magazine

Writer in Residence at CSER, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, was recently published in both the New York Times and Bomb Magazine.

Annette Kolodny Prize Won by Carlos Alonso Nugent & Emma Shaw Crane

 

Carlos Alonso Nugent and Emma Shaw Crane were awarded the 2022 Annette Kolodny Prize, given by the Environmental Justice Caucus, and awarded to the best environmentally-themed paper presented at the annual American Studies Association Meeting.

 

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Follow CSER's New Instagram Account!

 

Follow The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race on our new Instagram page @columbiascser2023 to learn about upcoming events within our Center and other events in related Departments!

 

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Join us for CSER's SAB Student Lounge!

 

Come hang out with fellow CSER students and catch up on work every Monday!

All are welcome – drinks and snacks are provided!

Time/Location: 12-2 PM at Hamilton 420

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