Exhibition Opening: "Taxi-Wallahs of Berkeley: Photographs and
Narratives by Aditya Dhawan"
With photographer Aditya Dhawan
April 5, 5 pm
Center for South Asia Studies, 10 Stephens Hall
Exhibition will continue until June
Opening followed by a lecture:
"Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City"
Biju Mathew, Rider University
7 pm, 220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, EKTA, and the Labor
Resource Center
Aditya Dhawan is an architect and photographer from India. He is a
graduate from the Masters in Design (Visual) program at the University
of California at Berkeley. Aditya is a recepient of the Eisner Award
in Photography and has previously exhibited his works in both India
and the USA. More works can be viewed online at www.adityadhawan.com.
Biju Mathew is an Associate Professor in the College of Business Administration
at Rider University in New Jersey. He has also worked as a lead organizer
for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance for several years now, in addition
to writing, speaking, and organizing around issues such as communalism
and Homeland Security. His work revolves around three primary thematics:
Hindutva, migration, and globalization, and attempts to explicate the
inter-relations between them. Mathew's lecture will draw from his recent
book on the taxi industry, which shares the same title as his lecture
(New Press).
