Geography Speaker Series: South Africa in the Chinese Century

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Friday, October 10, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
tillet-246, liv

In this talk, Huang provides an overview of racial capitalism’s travels across South Africa and North America and three illustrations of Chinese racial accumulation: the exploitation of Black labor (heigong), Chinese proprietary relations, and channels for the circulation of surplus.

Placing Racial Capitalism: South African Genealogies, Chinese Difference

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Friday, October 10, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Tillet Hall, Room 246, Livingston Campus

Since the turn of the millennium, the return of the People’s Republic of China to the African continent has been framed as a neocolonial scramble or revival of south-south cooperation.

Denotified Groups in India: Colonial Shadows and Contemporary Realities

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Friday, August 29, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Event Type: Discussion

The Human Factor: Work as Science in Modern Fiction

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Friday, May 9, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Academic Building 4052 (West Wing)

In this talk, I trace the history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the 1990s, focusing on how this systematic study of work and the workplace reflected shifts in the meaning and value of labor and of science over those decades.

"Raised in Hiroshima, Fought in Vietnam": A Conversation with Takeshi Furumoto

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library, 169 College Ave

Sixth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (hosted by RCCS)

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Monday, April 28, 2025
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Workshop
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 35 Seminary Place, Hageman Hall Conference Room, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Sixth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (hosted by RCCS)

Ambedkar-Phule Jayanti 2025

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Saturday, April 12, 2025
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
33 Livingston Ave, Room 110, New Brunwick, NJ

You are invited to an evening of conversations (teach-ins), art, songs, and free food.

Philosophies of Caste, Class, Gender & their Modus Operandi

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Friday, March 28, 2025
10:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion

Welcome to the March edition of the monthly panel series organized by the Global Anti-Caste Thought Graduate Working Group, and co-hosted by Fatima Ambedkar Birsa Periyar Phule Savitribai Students & Workers Association.

Repairing Historical Harm in Philippine Colonial Collections

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library Teleconference Room, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick

This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and US- and Philippine-based community partners to develop and enact reparative approaches to these collections.

Depoliticizing Labor: Oil and Governance in the Arabian Sea

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Monday, March 3, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Rutgers Academic Building, West Wing, Seminar Room 6051

Book Talk with Dr. Andrea Wright Distinguished Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies William & Mary

Understanding Caste, Market and the Urban Question

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Friday, February 21, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Event Type: Discussion
🔗 Registration: bit.ly/GlobalAntiCaste

FROM STUDYING WAR TO FORGING PEACE: Building Solidarities between Rutgers and Ritsumeikan

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Thursday, February 13, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Type: Workshop
Teleconference Hall, 4th Floor, Alexander Library, New Brunswick, NJ

Bringing together students from Rutgers and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) to explore university connections and issues of war and peace.

Discrimination and Resistance in Higher Educational Institutions

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Friday, January 31, 2025
9:30 AM
Event Type: Discussion
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The panel is hosted by the Global Anti-Caste Thought Graduate Working Group, Global Asias, Rutgers University and co-hosted by Fatima Ambedkar Birsa Periyar Phule Savitribai Students and Workers Association, Rutgers University.

Permutable Stratosphere: Overflights and a Geopoetics of Transpacific Top Secrecy (1958-2024)

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Friday, December 6, 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Tillett Hall, Room 246, Livingston Campus

This talk explores how the stratosphere has taken shape as a front in the shifting geopolitics of China, Taiwan, and the United States.

Vision of a Land

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Monday, December 2, 2024
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place

Speaker: Moinak Biswas Professor of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Join Minako Ota for the Sumi-e Ink Painting Workshop

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Thursday, November 21, 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Type: Workshop
Pane Room, Alexander Library

Minako Ota is a Japanese artist trained at a traditional school of classical Japanese painting techniques. Minako is currently teaching at Rutgers University.

Intimacies of Empire: Race, Religion and Belonging

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Monday, November 18, 2024
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Book Talk
Seminar Room, Academic Building 6061 | 15 Seminary Pl, New Brunswick, NJ

A conversation with authors on their new books

The Military Origins of the Mail-Order Bride

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Monday, November 4, 2024
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Pl

Speaker: Arissa H. Oh, Department of History, Boston College

Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Tillet Hall 232

This talk explores the dynamics of state–society relationships in the global arena, focusing on how migrant-sending states, especially China, engage with their diasporas.