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Humanities Forum — Nishant Upadhyay: Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity

Humanities
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.

View Event – Humanities Forum — Nishant Upadhyay: Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity, Thursday, November 5, 2026

Humanities Forum — Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo: Puerto Rico, Historical Thinking, and the Politics of Forgetting in the Caribbean

Humanities
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm • Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Puerto Rican history has been a contested space ever since its early days. From Fray Íñigo Abad y la Sierra’s 1788 book to Paul G. Miller’s Historia de Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century, the production of history has served different political purposes. This lecture will explore the ways that history teaching and writing gave way to racialized tropes of Puerto Rican docility and laziness.

View Event – Humanities Forum — Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo: Puerto Rico, Historical Thinking, and the Politics of Forgetting in the Caribbean, Thursday, November 19, 2026

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