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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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