Past Events
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society.
This convening explores the ongoing impact of this Luso-Hispanic moment in shaping identities, social distinction, histories of merchant and commercial capitalism, and histories of aesthetic production and performance. Working with a broad notion of Luso-Hispanic globality, which dates to the fifteenth century and beyond, we are interested in how Luso-Hispanic trade relations, settlements, and intimacies constituted a critical aspect of Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion to the Americas, Asia, and Africa. We are especially keen to understand how Portuguese presence in South Asia markedly reshaped social structures of caste, gender, and religion, even as they set the terms by which new mixed race communities would emerge in Southeast Asia, or along coastal Africa, and how these processes relate to the trade in human chattel, and new extractive economies–that assemblage which is today referred to by the term racial capitalism–which effected an epochal geohistorical transition away from more dispersed, if complexly organized social formations of early modernity, to enable the ideological and the economic dominance of the North Atlantic.
The schedule is as follows:
DAY: Friday, December 2, 2022
TIME: from 10 AM to 4 PM
Venue: Heyman Common Room
10:00- 10:15 Introduction/presentation/welcome
Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao
10:20-NOON
CONNECTION AND HISTORICAL COMPARISON
10:20- 10:45
Rochelle Pinto, “Iberia: race, caste, conquest” (in person)
10:45-11:10
Stuart Mcmanus, “African Diasporas” (virtual)
11:10-11:25
Response: Amy Chazkel
11:25-Noon
General Discussion
12 pm – 13:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 pm – 15:30 pm
THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM: LABOR AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE
1:30-1:55
Henrique Espada, “Labor and Freedom in the context of the Iberian Mundialization” (in person)
2:00- 2:25
Ananya Chakravarti, “Slavery, Mobility and Identity in the Making of the Konkan” (virtual)
2:30-2:55
Bahia Munem, “Muslim/Palestinian Diaspora” (in person)
2:55-3:20
Response: Iuri Bauler
3:25- 3:50
João Pina
Presentation on Visual Compositions
4:00- 4:45PM
General Discussion, Wrap Up
After Party!
CSER/LAICS/ILCS – Join us for the end of term – Holiday party with music, dance, and good food!!!!
Jerome Greene Annexe (Law School)!
Contact icls@columbia.edu for any questions.
Chaired by Samuel K. Roberts
The hundred-year anniversary of the historic Thind decision presents itself as an occasion for critical reflection about how we make sense of this particular past, our identification within it, and its relevance to our contemporary moment. Thind has been read primarily as a case about the racialization and exclusion of Indian immigrants from the United States. This talk will explore some of the limits of that framing, arguing that, among other things, it reifies the apparent givenness of racial form while obscuring the historic forces that gave urgency to its formation.
With Nina Alvarez (Columbia School of Journalism) and Claudio Lomnitz (Anthropology and CSER)
Moderated by Ed Morales (CSER)
Juan D. González Richard D. Hefner Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter who spent 29 years as a columnist for the New York Daily News. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award, he is co-host of Democracy Now!, author of “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America,” and a founder and past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Before beginning his career in journalism, González spent several years as a Latino community and civil rights activist, helping to found and lead the Young Lords Party during the late 1960s. He is a graduate of Columbia College.
Date/Time: Friday, November 18, 2022, 4:10 pm
Echoes of Attica, a music/theater piece about the 1971 Attica Prison revolt, will be performed by formerly incarcerated actors and musicians, to raise awareness about its relevance to the current outbreak of state violence against communities of color.
Monday, November 14, 2022 at 6:00 PM
Reception to follow the presentation
The Forum at Columbia University
605 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
For tickets, please click here.
For questions or comments, feel free to email centerforjustice@ columbia.edu or check out our website for info on this and future events.
Download the flyer here.
Indigeneity and Indigenous Voices Series
Adolfo Millabur Ñancuil: El trabajo del primer alcalde mapuche en Chile y su experiencia en el proceso constituyente Chileno.
*This event will be in Spanish.
MODERATOR: Ben Orlove
ilas-info@columbia.edu
Registration is not required.
Read more here.
This workshop and performance will feature a new Grammy-nominated Afro-Andean funk band and their debut album, A Sacred Leaf, which brings the legacy of Afro-Andean music and traditions and is mixed with the musical styles and culture of Quechua. Don’t miss out!
Friday, November 11, 5-6:30 PM
622 Dodge Hall
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Ly Tran’s author of a recently published and widely celebrated memoir entitled House of Sticks, will discuss her work in the context of the aftershocks of the Vietnam War, the particularly under-discussed issue of Vietnamese reeducation camp imprisonment, and the specifics of a New York-based diasporic and immigrant experience.
Date: Friday, November 11
Time: 4:10 – 5:30 PM ET
To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. *Please note that non-CUID holders need to show proof of their primary series and one booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a treasured voice in Korean American literature. Her latest novel, The Evening Hero, follows the trials and travails of Korean obstetrician Dr. Yungman Kwak. In the wake of the Korean War, Kwak left his family and village to pursue the American Dream in rural Minnesota. Lee’s poignant, time-jumping narrative encompasses “rural hospital closures, anti-Asian racism, and how war trauma seeps into everyday life for an immigrant – themes that have become suddenly more urgent and topical” (Simon & Schuster). Lee is also an accomplished YA writer. Her groundbreaking Finding My Voice, first published in 1992, is thought to be the first contemporary-set young adult novel written by an Asian American author and featuring Asian American protagonists. It was rereleased in 2021. In addition to her own writing, Lee is co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and director of the Asian American Diasporic Writers series at Columbia University.
