ACS Related Programming – Caste in Canada: A Roundtable


Event time: Saturday, June 1, 6:15 – 8:15 PM
*Reception starting at 6:15 PM and Roundtable discussion will begin at 7 PM.

Location: C. K. Choi Building Atrium and Room 120

Join us for dialogue about caste discrimination and the forms it takes in Canada, with a diverse group of speakers, including activist and community leader Jai Birdi of the Chetna Association of Canada, an anti-caste discrimination activist group; Sasha Sabherwal, Ph.D. candidate at Yale University whose work centres on caste and gender dynamics in the greater Vancouver South Asian community; Satwinder Bains, director of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Vallery; Anita Lal, Community Relations Specialist at Windmill Microlending and widely involved in community development and advocacy; and Inderdeep Dhaliwal, recent UBC graduate in International Relations; moderated by Anne Murphy, Co-Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research.

For more information, please visit CISAR’s event page.

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