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Our FIRST roundtable will take place next Thursday! RSVP HERE! forms.gle/Xc9nw5YcPmKEs9… Roundtable 1: The Power and Peril of Latinx/Caribbean Archives Thursday, March 12, 2026, 4PM Butler Library Rm. 523 A reception with food and refreshments will follow

In collaboration with the Greater Caribbean Studies Program at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, CSER presents: Imborrable: Conversations on Latinx/Caribbean Diaspora Archives See below for event information!

**REPOSTING WITH UPDATES: this event will take place in 501 Dodge, and non-CUID holders can email cser@columbia.edu for campus access** cser.columbia.edu/cser-events/as…

Interested in the study of ethnicity and race? Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) for our Spring 2026 Open House to learn about pursuing a major or minor in Ethnicity and Race Studies!

CSER's Asian American Diasporic Writers Series presents: Mixed-Race Literature Panel, a panel discussion on the state of mixed-race Asian American literature. More info and full panelist bios here ! cser.columbia.edu/cser-events/as… ❤️🧡

🌷🌺🌼🌱 Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race as we celebrate the beginning of the semester with our Spring 2026 Welcome Back Social! Dinner from Roti Roll will be provided.

We're back 😎 with our FIRST event of the semester! Join CSER for a talk by Pauline Peretz on her new book, A Black Army: Segregation and the U.S. Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941-1945. Peretz is a professor of American history at Université Paris 8.

Join us for the next installment of ENCUENT(R)OS FALL 2025! 🌟🌟 📚Conversation and Dinner with Alex Rivera: Cinema, Cyberpunk, and the Border Mind Virus 💫Tuesday, November 18th, 6-8PM Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St.) DINNER PROVIDED!

Please join us for dinner on Tuesday, October 28th from 6-7:30PM as we welcome New York Times bestselling novelist @patricia_engel for another installment of Encuent(r)os! We'll be waiting for you at @CasaHispanicaNY!🍽️ #NYTimes #bestseller

🍁🍂🍁Join students, faculty, and staff at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race's (CSER) Open House to learn about the Ethnicity and Race Studies major and minor, as well as CSER's programming slate and student-led initiatives!

We’re back with another installment of Encuent(r)os, featuring PULITZER PRIZE- and TONY AWARD-WINNING playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes! 🌟💫 Join us for a dinner and conversation with @quiaraalegria on Thursday, October 16th at 6PM at @casahispanicany. Hope to see you there! 📚✏️

The SECOND installment of Encuent(r)os is here! Acclaimed photographer and author Erika Morillo will host a text / image workshop and Q&A presented by CSER at Casa Hispanica on September 30th! Free books and dinner will be provided. Please bring a family photo to participate 📸.

We are launching an exciting new programming series! Encuent(r)os will highlight the diversity of Latinidad and of Latinx Studies. Details for our FIRST event of the semester are below!

CSER presents a lecture titled Northern Profits & Southern Plantations: Telling the Truth about Harvard Slavery. Our guest speaker, Richard Cellini, formerly directed the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program. See flyer for details!

Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race for a back-to-school celebration with CSER students, faculty, and staff. Dinner from Tropical Sensation will be provided! Wednesday, September 17th 6-7:30PM 420 Hamilton Hall

Join us at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race on the last day of classes for dinner and screen printing, in celebration of the end of the semester! Feel free to also bring your own clothing, bags, etc.

Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) on Friday, May 2nd at 6PM in 420 Hamilton for our final installment of Scholarship as Practice, our series focused on how our academic disciplines influence and inform our lived practices.

Join us Tuesday April 8th for an opening reception for Antipodes: Gary Okihiro & Ethnic Studies, our new exhibition at CSER. ✨️✨️✨️ Curated by Ari X and Assistant Director May Niiya, in consultation with Interim Associate Director Matt Sandler.

Join CSER for Depicting Difference: Race and Ethnicity in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Comics, a panel on racial and ethnic identity in graphic design, illustration, and comics, featuring artists and scholars who deal with visual representations of marginalized groups 👩‍🎨✨

📢 Join CSER this Thursday, March 6th, at 6 PM in 420 Hamilton for an engaging convo with Dr. Tamara Walker, Claire Tow Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard! See you there! ✨