“Persecuted Identities of Rohingyas in India: State and Media Complicity”

Priyanca Mathur, PhD

Wednesday, March 8 / 6:30 – 8:00
This event is free and open to the public

Attend in-person (Friends Hall) or Online via Zoom with advanced registration
Pizza and refreshments will be served

Co-Sponsored by the Law and Society Program and the Schomburg Scholars Fund

Dr. Priyanca Mathur

Refugees have been fleeing the southeast Asian state of Myanmar and taking refuge in India’s capital city New Delhi and its north-eastern states of Manipur and Mizoram. The lives of these refugees are totally dependent on the ad hoc and politically expedient policies of the Indian state, which is neither a signatory of the UN Refugee Convention nor basing its actions on any national legislation.

Dr. Mathur will speak about the hyper-securitized lens through which the Indian state is approaching Myanmarese refugees and media complicity. 

This lecture is part of our “Open Classroom Series.” Dr. Mathur will visit Dr. Jacob Labendz’s “Holocaust Media” course. Gross Center guests are invited to view the livestream and, with deference to Ramapo students, ask questions of Dr. Mathur.

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