"My Seditious Heart: Freedom, Fascism and Fiction"
04.12.2022 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Mather Redwood Grove & Amphitheater, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Arunhati Roy, in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji, Founding Co-Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender, Abdul R. JanMohamed (invited), Professor of English, Raka Ray (invited), Dean of Division of Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology and South & Southeast Asian Studies, Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic - Berkeley Law, and Leti Volpp, Director of the Center for Race and Gender, and Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law; followed by Q&A.
Q&A moderated by Niha Masih, India Correspondent, The Washington Post.
Welcome Remarks by Linda Haverty Rugg, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and Professor of Scandinavian.
Keynote Bio:
Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was published by Hamish Hamilton and Haymarket Books. Her latest book is Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Learn more.
Hosted by the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by CRG’s Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Berkeley’s Division of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, Institute for South Asia Studies, Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, Multicultural Community Center, Othering and Belonging Institute’s Religious Diversity Cluster, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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