This event is sponsored by the Center for South Asia and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Speakers
Aküm Longchari is an educator in peacebuilding, co-founder and publisher of The Morung Express (2005), an independent English-language newspaper based in Nagaland. Aküm holds an LLB, MA in Conflict Transformation, and a PhD which focused on Self Determination as a Resource for JustPeace.

C. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University.  He is also the Director for the Institute for Research in the Social Science’s Secure Data Center and formerly directed Stanford’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE).  Before moving to Stanford in 1996, he was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison.  He has been a Research Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Event details
Dr. Longchari will be in conversation with Dr. Matt Snipp about shared indigenous experiences in the Indian context and the US. The conversation will be followed by a Q and A and a reception.