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Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World

October 22, 2025

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

In conversation with Angana P. Chatterji, Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley
Munis D. Faruqui, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies and Associate Professor, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Director, Institute for South Asia...

South Asia Migrations, Archaeologies of Death

October 7, 2025

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

Jyoti Puri is a feminist sociologist whose research and teaching are enriched by the intersections of sociology, sexuality and queer studies, critical death studies, and postcolonial, decolonial, and anticolonial theories. Her work primarily focuses on the structural and institutional forms of regulation from the perspectives of marginalized...

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

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

Join us for a virtual event to release the monograph,BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law, Citizenship in Majoritarian India -- The Story of Assam with a keynote from Dr. Navi Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2008-2014...

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

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

Speaker Introduced by: Angana Chatterji, Visiting Research...

Majoritarian Nationalism and Islamophobia in India Today

November 4, 2022

Majoritarian Nationalism and Islamophobia in India Today

11.04.2022 | 4:00 PM EST| Zoom Webinar

Mohsin And Fauzia Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies' - Khalid and Diana Mirza Distinguished Lecture Series
with Dr. Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist and Founding Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race...

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

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).

Hosted by Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative. Co-sponsored by...

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia

April 26, 2023

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia

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

with Saman Zia-Zarifi (Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights; and Former Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists)
and Christine Chung (Human Rights Expert).

The panel explores the heightening of political conflict and the use of law by nationalist and far-right cultures and movements in South Asia today in areas where state and vigilante actions pose majoritarian groups as authentic and those...

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

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).

Event hosted by the...

Bollywood: Representations of Muslims in Culture & Society

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).

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