Global Caste Symposium
In the wake of recent landmark efforts in the United States to address caste discrimination in the workplace and in educational settings, caste, as a form of social stratification and as a set of practices upholding a hereditary system of social exclusion, can no longer be seen as a problem confined to India or South Asia. This symposium will bring together scholars exploring the global ramifications of the caste system, through comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives, and to discuss the challenges of anti-caste work in the context of globalization.
Panelists:
Katherine Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs of the University of California
Chinnaiah Jangam, Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University, Canada.
Waqas Butt, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Dalit Rights Activist and Executive Director of Equality Labs
Diana Kim, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University
Moderator:
Arjun Shankar, Assistant Professor, Culture & Politics, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
To request accommodations due to a disability, contact Annalise Burke at annalise.burke@georgetown.edu no later than 03/25/2023. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill all requests made after this date.