| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 3, 2023 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Online Event, This event was held online viai Zoom |
East Asia Seminar Series
ABOUT THE EVENT
Join this expert discussion on current events in Asian and the broader issue of transnational repression.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, is a Sessional Instructor for the Department of History at the University of Fraser-Valley.She earned her MA degree in 2008 from UBC’s Asian Studies department which looked at the 18th century court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Her PhD, completed in April 2022, from UBC’s Department of History looks at museums as spaces of belonging through a critical race theory lens. Sharn is the first Sikh person to graduate from UBC History’s PhD program. She is the former coordinator of the South Asian Studies Institute at UFV, having worked there for more than 12 years, and through that, co-managed and co-curated award-winning exhibits at the National Historic Site, Gur Sikh Temple and Sikh Heritage Museum. She continues to teach sessional in the Department of History at UFV.
Noura Al-Jizawi, is a Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She is also and activist and spokesperson. Her work takes an in-depth look at digital transnational repression, digital authoritarianism and human rights, and digital surveillance more broadly.
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