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February 12, 2025

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)

December 3, 2024

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)

November 14, 2024

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. 

September 25, 2024

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. 

September 12, 2024

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

April 26, 2024

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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March 13, 2024

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).

February 13, 2024

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.

November 13, 2023

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.

November 11, 2023

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). 

October 3, 2023

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).

April 26, 2023

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia 

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

January 29, 2023

"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).

November 4, 2022

Majoritarian Nationalism and Islamophobia in India Today

August 25, 2022

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).

September 9, 2021

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

November 27, 2018

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law 

11.27.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

April 11, 2018

What Is “Populism”?  From Zombie Neoliberalism To Racial Nationalism In Global Right Organizing

04.11.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

with Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley

April 3, 2017

Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society

04.03.2017 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

Opening Remarks: Paul Alivisatos, Vice Chancellor for Research and Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UC Berkeley

November 10, 2016

Sambo: A (Post)Colonial (Mis)Education

11.10.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  Maude Fife Room, Hearst Annex D-37, UC Berkeley

with Abdul R. JanMohamed, English

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley