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The self-ministered deification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya and the nationalisation of prejudicial citizenship both signal the erasure of the Muslim from Hindu-India, portentous of the unfolding grotesque.

Homesteading and The American Dream

03.14.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | 141 Law Building

with K-Sue Park (Professor of Law, UCLA Law)

The Camera and The Law

02.15.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | 141 Law Building

with Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance, Columbia University; Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University of London School of Law).

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

02.08.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | 141 Law Building

with Giuliana Perrone (Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara).

Education, Equality and the Supreme Court

10.19.2023 | 12:50 - 2:00 PM |  Hybrid - 100 Law Building & Zoom Webinar

Seeing Others:  How Recognition Works -- And How it Can Heal a Divided World

10.04.2023| 4:00 – 6:00 PM |  820 Social Sciences Building (Social Science Matrix)

Book talk with Michèle Lamont (Author of Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Simon & Schuster); Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies; Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University).

"Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures":  Book Talk with the Editors

04.13.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.

Queer Visual Resistance

03.16.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow(writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora). 

Report on CRG Forum "Canceling Critical Race Theory and the "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks" held via Zoom on Oct. 7, 2021.

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"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" - Film Screening and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey

10.06.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

The Aftermath of Dobbs: Putting the Movement for Reproductive Justice in Conversation with the Fight for Trans Justice

09.15.2022| 4:00 – 5:15 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview

09.08.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

The Telegraph writer Prasanta Ray discusses Angana Chatterji’s co-authored book, Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India. 

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Angana Chatterji, a scholar at the University of California, Berkeley notes that the Rajasthan murder is horrible in its specifics, but has to be considered in the larger context of repeated targeting of unarmed, ordinary Muslims by Hindu nationalist violence. “Systemic violence by state institutions and Hindu vigilante groups against Muslims are bound to commence cycles of violence,” she says.

"My Seditious Heart: Freedom, Fascism and Fiction"

04.12.2022 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  Mather Redwood Grove & Amphitheater, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley 

Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity

03.10.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Citizenship, Illegalization, and Insularity
with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) and Joel Sati (Yale – UC Berkeley)

Critical elections are proceeding in five states in India, including in its most populous state and political nerve center, Uttar Pradesh.

"On Trains: To All Migrants Past, Present, And Future" with Angel & Keish, and special guest, poet, danilo machado

02.10.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar