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...
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.
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).
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).
Sreenivasan Jain is a CRG Distinguished Journalist-...
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).
History-writing, remembrance, and erasure are powerful political tools in the hands of victors and rulers – but also serve as modalities of resistance for subaltern and oppressed groups. In this keynote, Dr. Chatterji discusses the role of counter-memory and the archive, in establishing foundations for...
Political Conflict and Gender Rights in South Asia
03.03.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM | 170 Boalt Hall
with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Event Introduced by Professor Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Director, Center for Race and Gender and Professor (Emerita), Departments of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies
Speaker Introduced byAngana Chatterji, Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and...
with Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University and Fulbright Scholar, 2015-1016, at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
Discussant: Samera Esmeir, Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Event introduced by Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies...
The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?
10.28.2016 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Institute for South Asia Studies Conference Room, 10 Stephens Hall
with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris: Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King College, London.
Presided and Moderated by:Professor Paola Bacchetta,...
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 Anthropologist and Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and...
