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.

Gold Rush: A Reconsideration of the American West

October 27th, 7PM: Join us for the first Asian American Diasporic Writers Series event of the semester! Professor Gabe Hudson moderates a conversation with C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Riverhead Books, 2020), and Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020).

Celebrating Recent Work by Deborah Paredez

October 27th, 5PM: Deborah Paredez’s new book, Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2020) will be featured in an event hosted by the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Panelists include Aracelis Girmay, BK Fischer, Saidiya Hartman, and Timothy Donnelly. Co-Sponsored by CSER.

Support CSER this CU Giving Day

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, give through Columbia by supporting CSER so more Columbians can turn knowledge into action, working for the world and with the world. Join thousands of alumni, students, parents, friends, neighbors, faculty, and staff for our ninth Columbia Giving Day.

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Event: New Book from CSER's Dr. Sandler

October 30th, 12-1:30 PM: Dr. Matt Sandler will discuss his new book, The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery (Verso, 2020), in the English & Comparative Literature Department’s “First Book” series, which spotlights the publications of former graduate students.

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International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Policy

Columbia’s ISHR and CSER are now accepting applications for the 2021 ISSP until Oct. 31, 2020. All application materials and any questions should be sent to columbia.indegenous@gmail.com

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The Student Organization of Latinxs Book Club: Café con Leche

Café con Leche is where our community can come together as we are spread across the country. This semester, we’ll be meeting bi-weekly & reading Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.

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CSER's Response to the Murder of George Floyd

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and all of our brothers and sisters, in grief and protest over the brutal murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer on May 25.

“When we revolt, it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” – Frantz Fanon

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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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