Research Meeting: Renisa Mawani

October 22, 2025, 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Buchanan Penthouse UBC

Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Renisa Mawani

This Research Meeting features a presentation by Renisa Mawani. Dr. Mawani is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Law and Society, Oceans and Maritime Worlds, and Settler Colonialism and Migration. She has authored Colonial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018), and she is currently working on a book project, Enemies of Empire: Commerce and Confinement in Colonial India, Burma, and Siam, 1914-1920. She has many other research contributions in the form of edited volumes and articles.  

Title: “Inclement Weather as Anticolonial Ally”
Speaker: Renisa Mawani, Professor, Department of Sociology, UBC
Date: October 22 
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Location: Buchanan Penthouse

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that our research cluster and the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Global History of Anticolonial Thought

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