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Dr. Angana P. Chatterji Speaking at ICNA CSJ Annual Banquet 

This year the theme of our banquet is “Exposing Hindutva: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism in the United States.”  Join us on October 1st 2022 at 6:00PM EST at the Crystal Gateway Marriott on 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. 

Amongst a great line up of speakers, the keynote speaker is Dr. Angana P. Chatterji of the University Of California, Berkley. 

Dr. Angana P. Chatterji is Founding Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at the Center for Race and Gender at University of California, Berkeley. A cultural anthropologist, she focuses her scholarly work on issues of political conflict; gender, power and violence; majoritarian nationalism, minoritization and racialization; religion in the public sphere, religious freedom; and reparatory justice and cultural survival. Professor Chatterji’s scholarship bears witness to post/colonial, decolonial conditions of grief, dispossession, and agency. In Kashmir, Chatterji co-founded (2008), and was co-convener of (2008-2012), the People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice. She was a Member of the Drafting Committee on Minimum Standards, Second World Congress on Psychosocial Restitution in 2010. In 2005, Chatterji founded the People’s Tribunal on Religious Freedom and Human Rights in Odisha. In 2004, Chatterji served on a two-person independent commission on displacement and rehabilitation in the Narmada Valley. In 2017, she was appointed a Research Fellow at the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University. In 2015-2016, Chatterji was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University. Chatterji taught doctoral seminars in anthropology and philosophical foundations of education in 2013-2014 at the University of San Francisco’s School of Education as Adjunct Professor. Between 1997-2011, Chatterji served on the faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Between 1989-2002, Chatterji worked with the Indian Social Institute and Planning Commission of India, and as Director of Research at the Asia Forest Network, initially housed at the University of California, Berkeley. Chatterji has served on human rights commissions and offered expert testimony, including at the United Nations, European Parliament, United Kingdom Parliament, and United States Congress. Her sole and co-authored publications include: Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (2019); Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal (2016); Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia (2012); Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011) Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present (2009); and reports: Access to Justice (2015); BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir (2009); Communalism in Orissa (2006); and Without Land or Livelihood (2002).

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The climate crisis is one that is spoken of as far away, not in reach, something that the world is progressing towards. The recent floods in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi tell a different story though. 

In Pakistan, 1,300 people are dead as a third of Pakistan is considered to be under floodwater. Weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains have caused flooding in central and southern Pakistan, and glaciers melting in northern Pakistan have wreaked havoc. The climate minister of Pakistan has said that the global emission targets and reparations should be considered given the nature of the climate crisis. Pakistan has contributed less than 1% in greenhouse gas emissions.