CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latinx Immigrants

Join Mary C. Waters (PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology at Harvard University) for this Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Workshop from Columbia University’s Department of Sociology. Please email columbia.REM@gmail.com for the zoom link and passcode.

Experiments in Skin: ||Resting|| History, Intimate Labor, and the Chemical Afterlife of Vietnam

Thursday, February 3 at 5-6:30 PM in 411 Fayerweather. Thuy Linh Tu is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and the author, most recently, of Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke UP, 2021). For inquiries about this event, please contact the Columbia Research Initiative of Global Sexualities.

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Made in Korea Book Tour

Join writer Jeremy Holt for a NYC area tour, the author talk will be moderated by CSER’s own Marie Myung-Ok Lee. This co-sponsored event will be in person on Saturday, January 29th 4 to 6 pm at Yu and Me Books. No registration required.

IRAAS/AAADS Spring 2022 Programming

Click the link to learn more about this semester’s events hosted by Columbia’s Institute for Research for African American Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies Department.

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School of the Arts awards Deborah Paredez for the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Columbia University School of the Arts awards CSER’s Deborah Paredez for the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. Nominated by students, colleagues, chairs, and deans, these faculty represent “the highest achievements of research, teaching, and service to Columbia and to the world.” Congrats!

Office of the Provost awards Frances Negron-Muntaner & Colleagues for Addressing Racism: A Call to Action for Columbia Seed Grant

The Office of the Provost awards CSER’s Frances Negron-Muntaner and colleagues for their proposal, The Sky Is For Everyone, The Land Isn’t, seed grant funding for projects designed to address structural racism. Congrats!

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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