CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

CSER Fall 2025 Open House

Join students, faculty, and staff at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) to learn about the Ethnicity and Race Studies major and minor, as well as CSER’s programming slate and student-led initiatives! Lunch will be provided.

Hear from CSER’s Director of Undergraduate Studies about the major and minor in Ethnicity and Race Studies, as well as from current students, faculty, and staff about CSER’s vibrant student community, robust history, and integral role as Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity and race.

Encuent(r)os Fall 2025

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and Asteri(x) Journal, in collaboration with Casa Hispánica, present Encuent(r)os Fall 2025, a new programming series that highlights the diversity of Latinidad and Latinx Studies. Since our communities have ties to every corner of the Americas, and since our fields consider these communities from every possible angle, the series will be interdisciplinary, bringing together writers, artists, filmmakers, and more. See here for our fall 2025 event series lineup!

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The Plains and the Pampas: Comparative Indigenous Borderlands Across the Americas

Join CSER for a 2-day conference in collaboration with UConn’s Department of History, CU’s Department of History, and the University Seminars. This conference will revisit the discussion on the comparative historiography of indigenous borderlands, bringing together scholars working in History, Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and related fields.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) is 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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