Book Talk Lecture and Panel
Join us for a book talk and discussion on Nishant Upadhyay’s “Indians on Indian Land: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity” alongside short film, “No Past to Long For” by director Monica Cheema.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
This event is sponsored by UBC Asian Studies and the Onkarbir Toor Memorial Punjabi Enhancement Fund, and co-sponsored by Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR).
Date & Time:
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | 6:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Location:
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver
Events in Conjunction
Open Graduate Seminar
This event will be held online and in-person. Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Monday, September 22, 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
Location:
Online via Zoom and Room 351, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver
Speakers
Nishant Upadhyay is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. In their new book, Nishant unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.
Monica Cheema is a Punjabi filmmaker, researcher and community facilitator. Recent shorts Let Us Try Again (Ao Phir Koshish Karie) and When It Falls Apart reflect on land, labor, and resource extraction as it relates to colonial railway histories and ‘ghost’ towns.
