Events

The RDI Diasporas Workshop welcomes Professor Renisa Mawani from the University of British Columbia on Thursday, October, 24, 2024 in Kelly Hall Room 108 (5848 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL). A pre-circulated paper will be made available to participants. 

Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xwmaOkwaýam) peoples. From 2022-2025 she is a Global Professorial Fellow at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Renisa is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020). With Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost, she is co-editor of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).

The RDI Diasporas Workshop welcomes Professor Nitasha Tamar Sharma from the Northwestern University on Thursday, November, 7, 2024 in Kelly Hall Room 108 (5848 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL). A pre-circulated paper will be made available to participants. 

Nitasha Sharma is a professor of Black Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University where she directs the Asian American Studies Program and is co-director of the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies. Sharma is the author of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness (Duke UP 2010) and Hawai‘i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP 2021). Sharma was also the associate editor of American Quarterly.

The RDI Diasporas Workshop welcomes RDI Postdoctoral Instructor Maya Singhal on Thursday, December, 5, 2024 in Kelly Hall Room 108 (5848 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL). A pre-circulated paper will be made available to participants. 

Maya Singhal is a Postdoctoral Instructor interested in crime and mutual aid for African and Chinese diasporic populations. Their research and teaching also deals more broadly with race, capitalism, racial capitalism, and intergenerational conflicts. Their book project titled Safer: Black and Chinese Community Defense in New York City was accepted to the Atelier series at the University of California Press.