Professor Lydia H. Liu, co-director of the CSSD project Bandung Humanisms, recently collaborated on the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium, working alongside Professor Elsa Stamatopolou of the Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. The symposium will take place on Saturday, April 21st in the Jerome Greene Annex at Columbia University.

Presented as part of the Sawyer Seminar on Global Language Justice, a two-year seminar initiated by Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium seeks to “bring to the forefront the critical work done by researchers, educators, institutions, organizations, and communities; work that is necessary to make meaningful headway in actualizing language justice.” In addition to collaborating on the symposium, Professor Liu will moderate a panel during the event entitled “Indigenous Languages: Strengthening and Revitalization”.

Along with serving as a project co-director and member of the Executive Board for CSSD, Liu is currently Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.