Event Archive

A day-long event for K-12 educators, Rutgers students and faculty, artists, and community leaders to learn strategies for promoting the educational values of orality, storytelling, multilingualism, and community engagement through a Global Hip Hop framework, along with perspectives on youth movements and practices throughout the world.

Come join us for a workshop to learn about setting realistic learning outcomes for your language students. We will explore new ways of thinking about assessment and learn about how to use grading to encourage growth and not as a punitive system.

A talk with Ramy Khouili

Create a recipe scrapbook with your favorite Desi dishes!

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers – Nadeem and Saud – devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amidst the city’s environmental toxicity and social unrest, the brothers spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital.

Rochona Majumdar is Professor in the departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago

In Nazarband, acclaimed filmmaker and theatre director, Suman Mukhopadhyay takes us on a visceral journey through Kolkata with an unlikely pair.