CSREG Speaker Series
CSREG’s speaker series is driven by faculty interests in organizing and bringing to campus outside scholars around a topic related to the Center’s mission. Funds and administrative support are available to the faculty organizer. Topics are wide ranging and the approach to the series is open in regards to what kinds of events and activities are included.
2025–26 CSREG Speaker Series
Dimensions of Caste
The series continues through the 2025-26 academic year.
Film Screening: Origin
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.
Gallery Theatre (ELC 301)
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The Critical Pedagogy of Caste on Campus
Gaurav Pathania, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Peacebuilding
Eastern Mennonite University
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
Holmes Hall (HOLM 116)
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Panel Discussion: An Introduction to Caste through Lived Experiences
Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 at 12 p.m.
ELC Center Room (ELC 256)
A panel discussion with Gaurav Pathania (Sociology & Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University), Rajesh Kumar (Computer Science, Bucknell University) and Soundarya Chidambaram (Political Science, Bucknell University), moderator.
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Past events from the 2024-'25 Speaker Series
Student lunch
Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at 11:30 a.m.
Where do Asian Americans Fit? The Construction of Asian Americans as a Racialized Minority Group.
Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at 7 p.m.
Elaine Langone Center Forum (ELC 272)
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Cultures of Asian Indenture: Musical Hybridity and Resistance in the Plantation Americas.
Benjamin Barson, Assistant Professor of Music
Bucknell University
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Bertrand Library, Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
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Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Claire Kim, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Asian American Studies
University of California, Irvine
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 at 7 p.m.
Elaine Langone Center Forum (ELC 272)
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Book Discussion: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Claire Kim, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Asian American Studies
University of California, Irvine
Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.
Bertrand Library, Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
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"We Are Not American": A Queer Diasporic Reading of Noor Hindi's Poetry and Malaka Gharib's Graphic Novel
Steven Beardsley, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Bucknell University
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
Traditional Reading Room (BERT 213)
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US Anti-Racist Critique and Transnational Feminism at the Intersections of Asian American, Arab American, and SWANA Studies
Carol W.N. Fadda, Associate Professor in English
Syracuse University
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 7 p.m.
Elaine Langone Center Forum (ELC 272)