CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Important Notice about Webinar Events: As a registrant for all CSER Webinar events, you will be receiving an individualized link, unique to you and non-shareable, directly from CSER’s Zoom account. To claim your reserved spot on the day of the event, please use the unique link to sign in. If you are no longer able to participate or have any further questions, please email CSER@columbia.edu.

Unforgetting: Central American Migration, Gangs, and Revolution with Robert Lovato

On Tuesday, February 23rd at 6:30pm, join us in conversation with Roberto Lovato to discuss his book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas (HarperCollins, 2021).

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

On Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm, join us to speak with Alice L. Baumgartner (University of Southern California) to discuss her book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books, 2020).

University Life Forum: COVID-19 Update: A Year Into the Global Pandemic

Dr. Aisha Holder, Clinical Psychologist at Columbia Health, shared valuable advice about how to build your emotional resiliency – your ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. In particular, she advises:

Maintaining a daily routine
Connecting with your community
Accepting that change happens
Practicing self-compassion
Practicing gratitude
Seeking professional help, even if you are not in crisis

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COVID-19 Inspires New Courses That Push Students to Think Themselves Out of the Pandemic

Sayantani DasGupta’s course for CSER, Abolition Medicine, is featured in an article in The Columbia Spectator.

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Student Spotlight: Jennie Nelson

GS Student and Human Rights major, Jennie Nelson, brings an exceptional amount of real-world experience to her area of study working with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers with Detention Resistance. Detention Resistance is a grassroots, nonhierarchical prison abolitionist collective based in San Diego, California.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) serves as Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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