<div dir="ltr">Passing along this flyer<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dylan Rodríguez</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com">dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:38 AM<br>Subject: Caste Abolition online event: Monday April 24, 6 pm PST<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com">dylanrodriguez73.cis@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg3705630747627228806"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-3600747965952700669WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(please circulate/post to students, community members, and other interested potential attendees)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(flyer attached)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From Caste as a Protected Category to Caste Abolition<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Apr 24, 2023 06:00 PM <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Free Zoom registration required: <a href="http://bit.ly/casteabolitionApr24" target="_blank">bit.ly/casteabolitionApr24</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="825" height="1031" style="width:8.5972in;height:10.743in" id="m_-3600747965952700669Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:18799e9e7834ce8e91" alt="Graphical user interface, website

Description automatically generated"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bringing together leaders from the anti-caste movement in the U.S., this panel will highlight the efforts made to further caste protections in higher education institutions across the country, discuss the limitations of merely adding caste as a protected category without institutional commitment, and share visions of caste abolition.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Panelists: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jasmine (they/she), Vidya (she/they), Shahira Bangar (she/her), and Manu Kaur (they/them)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moderator: Anusha Kedhar (she/her), Associate Professor of Dance (UCR).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?) initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Dance, UCR Religious Studies and Holstein Family and Community Endowed Chair, UCLA Center for India and South Asia<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">ingat/peace<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">dylan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">(please send Center for Ideas and Society related emails here: </span><a href="mailto:dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Dylan Rodríguez<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor, Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Co-Director, </span><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Center for Ideas and Society</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><br></span><a href="https://caseygrants.org/freedom-scholars/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">2020 Freedom Scholar</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Past President, American Studies Association (2020-2021)<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dylanrodriguez" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">@dylanrodriguez</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dylanrodriguez73/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">@dylanrodriguez73</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">“If one were forced for the sake of clarity to define [fascism] in a word simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’”<br>-George Jackson<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">organizations i support:<br></span><a href="http://www.socallib.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">http://www.socallib.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0"><br></span><a href="https://www.umedics.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">https://www.umedics.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.criticalresistance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:blue">www.criticalresistance.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0"><br></span><a href="http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0070c0">http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>