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November 2018
The Three Patriarchs of Embattled Love: Caste, Religion and State
In this talk, Meena Kandasamy, Gallatin’s Global Faculty-in-Residence and author of The Gypsy Goddess (Harper, 2014), discusses her site-responsive chronicle of the Dharmapuri atrocity which occurred in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On one day in October 2012, in response to the love affair between a caste-Hindu Vanniyar woman and a…
Find out more »Call Her Ganda – Screening and Discussion
A film screening & discussion with PJ Raval RSVP required at apa.nyu.edu A modern David and Goliath story, Call Her Ganda follows a cast of willful women as they take on some of the most powerful institutions in the world. Fusing personal tragedy, human rights activism and the little known history, and complex aftermath, of…
Find out more »Gelatt Dialogue: East Asia, America & International Law
About the Dialogue: This year's dialogue explores the theme of “East Asia and International Law,” and marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Expert panelists will also assess the roles of international legal institutions in dispute resolution, including issues relating to the East and South China…
Find out more »Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Governments are disappearing people at an alarming rate, often in conjunction with policies carried out in the name of repressing terrorism, organized crime, or plain political dissent. Reports of undercover extraterritorial abductions of people in foreign countries are on the rise. The widely-reported case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi…
Find out more »In Search of Civil Rights: Race, Policy, and the Pursuit of Educational Equity
Panelists will focus on issues of discrimination in education and discuss how intersecting legal, policy, and social forces relate to equity concerns. Speakers: Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Touro College Natasha Strassfeld, Assistant Professor of Special Education, NYU Steinhardt Vincent M. Southerland, Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality,…
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