Wed Sep 10, 2008

DREXEL EVENT: Panel on Immigration Reform and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, Wed Sep 17 2008 @ 2:30pm

Rinku Sen with Fekkak Mamdouh, The Accidental AmericanJoin us on Wednesday, September 17th for a panel discussion on immigration policy and the challenges of organizing and advocating on behalf of immigrant workers, featuring Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh. In their new book, The Accidental American, Sen and Mamdouh “argue[] that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor”:

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Wed Apr 16, 2008

NYC EVENT: SABANY Public Interest Fellowship Benefit, Apr 24, 2008 @ 7:00pm

On Thursday April 24, 2008, the South Asian Bar Association of New York will host its fifth annual public interest fellowship benefit. The benefit raises money to provide fellowships for law students working in unpaid, public interest summer internships. At the event, the 2008 recipients will be announced. Information about past SABANY fellowship recipients is available here.

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Fri Jan 18, 2008

NYC EVENT: Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, “Making Sense of a Senseless Pakistan,” Jan 24, 2008 @ 6pm

Military Inc.Ayesha Siddiqa is a military and political analyst and the author of the recent book, Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy. She is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and writes columns for various international and Pakistani newspapers. She previously was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Ford Fellow, and has served as a correspondent for Jane’s Defense Weekly. She also has served as a civil servant in Pakistan and is the only woman to have served as the Director of Naval Research. Siddiqa earned a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College, London.

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Fri Sep 28, 2007

NYC MUSIC: Kiran Ahluwalia “Wanderlust” CD Release – Joe’s Pub, Oct 17 @ 7:30pm

Kiran AhluwaliaOn her new album “Wanderlust” — Kiran Ahluwalia melds the centuries old tradition of ghazal, with contemporary song craft, sophisticated jazz tonality and a multitude of global influences — from fado, to Saharan blues. The Village Voice says she is a “rising international star” and after seeing her at The Getty in Los Angeles, Don Heckman of the LA Times wrote, “her crystal clear voice arched airily above rhythms that coursed through audience . . . an evening of fascinating, newly revealed music.”

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Thu Apr 26, 2007

NYC EVENT: Achal Prabhala on Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Public Health in India, Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:00pm

On Monday, April 30, 2007, Fordham Law School will be hosting Achal Prabhala, an activist and journalist from India. Achal has been working on a variety of projects linked to patents and public health issues with the Lawyer’s Collective and the Alternative Law Forum in India on a series of recent challenges to the Indian Patent Act. In one high profile case that has far-reaching implications for the intersection between intellectual property and public health, a Swiss pharmaceutical company is appealing the rejection by the Indian Patents Office of its application for a particular cancer drug — raising questions about whether property rights should limit public health considerations.

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Tue Apr 3, 2007

NYC EVENT: SABANY Public Interest Fellowship Benefit, Apr 19, 2007 @ 7:30pm

On Thursday April 19, 2007, the South Asian Bar Association of New York will host its fourth annual public interest fellowship benefit. The benefit raises money to provide fellowships for law students working in unpaid, public interest summer internships. At the event, the 2007 recipients will be announced. Each of them will be awarded a minimum $3,000 fellowship. Information about past SABANY fellowship recipients is available here.

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Sun Mar 25, 2007

NYC EVENT: Poetry Reading, Slide Show, and Book Signing with Purvi Shah, Apr 3, 2007 @ 12:30pm

Purvi Shah serves as Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic violence organization. She has presented routinely on Sakhi’s 16 years of work to build community awareness and change attitudes which perpetuate violence, and has been a featured speaker at national women’s conferences, government convenings, and policy panels.

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