Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities
Presenter:
"The Silence of Difference: Race, Sexuality, & Disability in Soviet Pantomime After Stalin," Anastasia Kayiatos
Presenter2:
"Erasing the Race-Gender Nexus in Moral Discourses of Kinship: The American Stuttering English Speech Community as Case Study," Nathaniel W. Dumas, Anthropology
Date:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
691 Barrows
SPEAKING THROUGH SILENCE & ERASURE: RACE, SEXUALITY, & EXPRESSION IN MARGINALIZED LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
The Silence of Difference: Race, Sexuality, & Disability in Soviet Pantomime After Stalin
Anastasia Kayiatos, Slavic Literature & Languages
Families on the Faultlines: Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, & Care
Date:
Thursday, April 29, 2010 (All day) - Friday, April 30, 2010 (All day)
FAMILIES ON THE FAULTLINES:
Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, & Care
A CRG Conference
Apr 29-30, 2010
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'I Would Not Bear My Mother's Name As Surname': Colonial Anthroponomy and Gender Identity in a Former Slave-Trading Society
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By virtue of being an aspect of language, naming expresses power and social change. From this perspective, systems of surnames in precolonial Africa and their transformation during the colonial period is a narrative of power relations in precolonial Africa on the one hand and between empire and its colonial/postcolonial subjects on the other.
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Made in Chitaly
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The symbolic and material economies of Italy shaped a specific space around the figure of the East Asian immigrant, especially living in central Italy. Drawing from recent data about Italy and sociological analysis of economic and cultural integration patterns, Dr.
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Foreign Bodies: Gendering Transnational Migration in Contemporary Italy and Ireland
Presenter:
"Made in Chitaly," Dr. Laura Fantone, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Presenter2:
"'Opening Doors': The Domestic Worker's Support Group and Performing Migrant Women's Labor in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland," Charlotte McIver, Performance Studies
Date:
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
691 Barrows Hall
FOREIGN BODIES: GENDERING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY AND IRELAND
**Re-scheduled to Sep 17th to acknowledge university walkout on Sep 24th**
The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the 'Right To Fight'
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Liz Montegary examines how calls for the repeal of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, mainstream lesbian and gay organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) often rely on the testimonies of lesbian and gay service members who “come out” against the federally mandated ban on openly homosexual conduct in the military.
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Documents and Disguises: Transgender Politics, Travel, and U.S. State Surveillance
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Toby Beauchamp draws on the critical lens of transgender studies to examine contemporary modes of state surveillance, suggesting that gender-nonconforming bodies are bound up in surveillance practices intimately tied to state security, nationalism, and the "us/them," "either/or" rhetoric that underpins U.S. military and government constructions of safety.
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Michael Jackson: Critical Reflection on a Life & a Phenomenon
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Date:
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 3:00pm - 6:00pm
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED!
VIDEO OF THE PRESENTATIONS WILL BE INCLUDED SOON!!
MICHAEL JACKSON: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON A LIFE & A PHENOMENON
A symposium sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
New Location:
BECHTEL ENGINEERING CENTER
SIBLEY AUDITORIUM
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Scholars & artists reflect on the legacy of Michael Jackson on performance & artistry, racial & sexual politics, and cultural representations. Featuring the following presenters:
Prof. Ruthie Gilmore, CRG Distinguished Lecturer
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Date:
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture
Center for Race & Gender & the Geography Department present...
LIFE IN HELL
...Or, How Capitalism Saving Capitalism From Capitalism
SHOULD FIRE OUR POLITICAL IMAGINATION!
Contact Zones: California Public Schools and Encounters Across Lines of Racialized Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class
Presenter:
"The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California," Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology
Presenter2:
"Negotiating "Otherness": Exploring the Contact Zone of University-Community Partnerships in an Urban Context," Emily Gleason, Education
Date:
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
691 Barrows Hall
CONTACT ZONES: CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ENCOUNTERS ACROSS LINES OF RACIALIZED ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CLASS
The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California
Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies
