2021 - 2022 CRG Forum Series
Bios reflect speakers' status at the time of their presentation at the Center for Race and Gender.
"Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic"
04.21.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
A conversation with Sherally Munshi (Georgetown Law) and Fantasia Painter ((Salt River Pima-Maricopa) UC Davis). This event will explore the colonial dimensions of the U.S. southern border to critically examine the political stakes of border enforcement, particularly in the face of Indigenous displacement and migration (Munshi), and will position O’odham land at the center of analysis to ask how borders and borderlands are produced and negotiated by resident communities, employing vocabularies of space, place, and Indigeneity (Painter).
Hosted by CRG’s Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, and Native American Studies Program.
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“Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense”
02.17.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
A conversation with Quynh Nhu Le (University of South Florida), author of Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas (Temple University Press, 2019) and Juliana Hu Pegues (Cornell University), author of Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (UNC Press, 2021).
Hosted by CRG’s Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies, Asian American Research Center, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
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“The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes And Global Politics — A Conversation With Mae Ngai”
11.19.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
How did Chinese migration to the goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa both upend the global economy and forge modern conceptions of race?
Join us for a conversation with historian Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor Asian American Studies, and Professor of History at Columbia University) about her remarkable new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (Norton, 2021), with discussants Harvey Dong (Continuing Lecturer of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies) and Christopher Tomlins (Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law), and moderator Lok Siu (Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies).
Presented by Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, the Asian American Research Center, the Center for Race & Gender, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, the IGS Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium, and the Center for Chinese Studies.
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“Canceling Critical Race Theory and The "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks”
10.07.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
What is Critical Race Theory and why is it the sudden target of fierce right-wing attacks?
Join us for a panel conversation with leading scholars who will investigate connections between the attack on Critical Race Theory and a reckoning with racist pasts and presents, the preoccupation with "cancel culture" and the "'woke' agenda," backlash against #MeToo, and the transnational circulation of discourses on identity.
Khiara Bridges (Professor of Law at Berkeley Law), Devon Carbado (Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law), Ian Haney López (Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at Berkeley Law), and SA Smythe (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA), will be in conversation with Russell Robinson (Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, and Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture) and Leti Volpp (Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice at Berkeley Law, and Director of the Center for Race & Gender).
Presented by the Center for Race & Gender, and the Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture. Co-sponsored by the Center for Racial and Economic Justice at UC Hastings Law.
READ -- Click here for an article on this event that was posted to the Berkeley Law website in October 2021.