India Teach-In: on India’s Citizenship Amendment Act

Join us for a teach-in on India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and protests surrounding it in recent weeks. The teach-in will host experts on a range of topics pertinent to the issue at hand, including,
- Mona Bhan, a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University whose research focuses on the role of development in counterinsurgency operations and people’s resistance movements to protracted war, especially in Indian occupied Kashmir.
- Mishi Choudhary, a technology lawyer and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center which advocates for online civil liberties in India and the USA.
- Elizabeth Cohen, a professor of political science at Syracuse University who studies immigration and citizenship.
- Karuna Mantena, a professor of political science at Columbia University with specialization the politics and theory of non-violence, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy.
- Suchitra Vijayan, a lawyer, photographer, and founder of the Polis Project, an organization that seeks to democratize journalism and amplify voices directly impacted by conflicts and crises.