Special Event

Date: 

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Bowie Vernon Room, Room K262, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Across Oceans of Law

Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Law and Society Program, University of British Columbia

Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

Abstract: In 1914, the S.S. Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and eventually deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru, drawing on what she terms “oceans as method”—a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea.

For more details on this event, please visit: Across Oceans of Law

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
Cosponsored by the Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and by the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration Rights

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