Comic Renderings: From Argentina to Zimbabwe

You’ve probably heard of Bruce Wayne and Gotham City. And you may know of Clark Kent’s high-flying alter ego in Metropolis. Then there’s Charles Xavier and his School for Gifted Youngsters. Three for three? Okay. How about Aya from the Ivory Coast? The Persepolis Series of Iran? Or Kampung Boy in Malaysia? These are the […]

Chai Wai Series: Gender-Based Violence in the Global South—South Asia and Beyond

by Katrina Spencer November 12, 2014 The Chai Wai Series Tackles Gender-Based Violence Is there a difference between the laws that protect a woman who is raped in a dark alleyway by a stranger and a woman who is raped in her marital bed by her husband? Does the selective termination of pregnancies based on […]

Chai Wai Series: Migrants, Immigrants & Refugees

The Chai Wai Series Launches with “Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees” by Katrina Spencer “What does it take for someone to leave what they’ve worked for their whole life?” he asked. In one of the more provocative statements made at the International and Area Studies Library’s (IASL) first Chai Wai event, Ricardo Díaz of the C-U […]

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