The violence of imperialism, dispossession, and settlement has been challenged by invoking the rights of indigenous peoples in a range of global contexts. This panel will consider what work can be done by considering the rights of Palestinians and Puerto Ricans as a matter of indigenous peoples' rights. How might questions of soverignty, dispossession, nationhood and citizenship be understood in these contexts if framed in relation to indigeneity?

What: Comparative Indigeneities: Dispossession, Belonging and Human Rights in Palestine and Puerto Rico
Where: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall room 104
When: Wednesday, November 19th at 5:15-7:15 p.m.

Panelists

Katherine Franke, CCR Board Member and Columbia Law School Professor
Steven Salaita, CCR Client and Independent Scholar
Christina Ponsa, Columbia Law School
Elsa Stamatopoulou, Director of Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and the Center for Palestine Studies.