Event time:
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location:
295 Crown Street
Event description:
Nayan Shah’s research examines historical struggles over bodies, space and the exercise of state power from the mid- 19th to the 21st century. His scholarship has contributed to studies of race, sexuality and gender and to the history of migration, health, law and governance. Shah will give a talk titled “Refusing to Eat: Asian Pacific American Bodily Defiance from Tule Lake Stockade to Refugee Detention” as a part of the Asian American Studies series from the Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Sponsored by RITM.