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Big Tech, Democracy and Human Rights in South Asia
11.12.2025 | 3 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

History for Peace: Experiments in Counter-Memory in India
10.24.2025 | 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Meena Megha Malhotra, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India

Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World
10.22.2025 | 5:00 PM | UC Berkeley
with Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations

South Asia Migrations, Archaeologies of Death
10.07.2025| 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Boston University

UAPA and the Case of Umar Khalid

02.12.2025 | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)

Gambia v. Myanmar and The Rohingya: Fault Lines Across Southeast and South Asia

12.03.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with M. Arsalan Suleman (Partner, Foley Hoag’s International Litigation & Arbitration Practice)

The Light at the End of the World

11.14.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with author Siddhartha Deb

Join us for a conversation with author Siddhartha Deb and Dr. Angana P. Chatterji, Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at UC Berkeley. 

Quarterlife: Nationalism and the Great Indian Novel 

09.25.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with author Devika Rege

Join us for a conversation with author Devika Rege and Dr. Angana P. Chatterji, Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at UC Berkeley. 

The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

09.12.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) 
with author Alpa Shah

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

04.26.2024  | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

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Countering Falsehoods / Discourses Of Power: Love Jihad and Other Fictions

03.13.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with CRG's Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, Sreenivasan Jain (Journalist, Broadcaster, and Co-author of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley)
and Leti Volpp (UC Berkeley School of Law).

Coming Out As Dalit: Surviving India's Caste System

02.13.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with Yashica Dutt (Journalist and Author of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley).

Event co-sponsored with the Institute for South Asia Studies.

Majoritarian & Ethnic Violence in Manipur

11.13.2023 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM  |  155 Dwinelle Hall 
with Dr. Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)
and Niang Hangzo (Co-Founder, NAMTA: North American Manipur Tribal Association).

Join us for a discussion on the rights of the Indigenous and the ongoing violence in Manipur, India, which has displaced thousands since May 3rd.

Atrocity in Nuh: Racialization, Islamomisia, and the Hindu Right

11.11.2023  | 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM EST | Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

Introduction by Ziya Us Salam (Journalist, The Hindu Newspaper (Delhi, India)), and concluding remarks by Dr. Amritjit Singh (Professor Emeritus, Ohio University). 

Bollywood: Representations of Muslims in Culture & Society

10.03.2023 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) 

with Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Actor, Appeared in more than 40 films, including "No One Killed Jessica," "Raees," "Article 15," and "Mission Mangal," and Prime and Netflix Series, “Tandav“ and “Scoop“)
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender, and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia 

04.26.2023  | 4 - 5:30 PM  | 370 Dwinelle Hall 

"Where is My Story?":  Erasure, Violence and Counter-Memory

01.29.2023 | 5:00 PM IST / 3:30 AM PST | Virtual - Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist, Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender).

Majoritarian Nationalism and Islamophobia in India Today

The Role of Counter-Memory in Contexts of Majoritarian Nationalism and Illiberal Democracy

08.25.2022  | 9:00 AM | Kulturhuset

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initative).

Monograph Release, “Breaking Worlds: Religion, Law and Citizenship In Majoritarian India -- The Story Of Assam”

09.09.2021| 9:00 – 10:30 AM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar