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Exclusion By Design: Migrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status
11.13.2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with CRG Visiting Scholar (Summer + Fall 2025)
Ming H. Chen, Professor of Law, Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, and Faculty Director, Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship & Equality (RICE), UC Law SF

Big Tech, Democracy and Human Rights in South Asia
11.12.2025 | 3 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

The Anti-DEI Movement: Subverting the Law and Destroying Equal Opportunity
10.30.2025 | 1 - 2 PM | 105 Law Building
with 

History for Peace: Experiments in Counter-Memory in India
10.24.2025 | 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Meena Megha Malhotra, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India

Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World
10.22.2025 | 5:00 PM | UC Berkeley
with Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations

South Asia Migrations, Archaeologies of Death
10.07.2025| 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling
04.23.2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Charlotte Karem Albrecht (Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
and
discussant Amir Aziz (2023-2025 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley)

Media & Migration in a Digital Age

04.16 + 04.17

Suspect Policing and State Violence Against Chinese Women: 1877 and 2017

04.08,2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with CRG's Visiting Scholar Laura Hyun Yi Kang (Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies,and 2022 - 2025 Chancellor's Fellow at UC Irvine)

Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien"

03.04.2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Moritz College of Law - Ohio State University)

UAPA and the Case of Umar Khalid

02.12.2025 | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)

Administrating Hate, Circulating Violence: Re-making Solidarity

01.29.2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Chandan Reddy (Associate Professor of Comparative History of Ideas, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle)

Gambia v. Myanmar and The Rohingya: Fault Lines Across Southeast and South Asia

12.03.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with M. Arsalan Suleman (Partner, Foley Hoag’s International Litigation & Arbitration Practice)

ANNOUNCEMENT | December 1, 2024

The Promise of Hate

11.01.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM  | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Kandice Chuh (Professor of English, American Studies, and Critical Social Psychology, CUNY/The Graduate Center)

THRESHOLD

10.18.2024 - 10.20.2024 | Mondavi Center, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, UC Davis

Threshold, a dual program by choreographer Claudine Naganuma of dNaga Dance Co. and choreographer SanSan Kwan, offers a feminist response to anti-Asian violence and Asian American invisibility.

Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman”

10.07.2024 | 3 - 4:30 PM | 142 Dwinelle Hall

with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon

The Center for Race and Gender and the Institute of European Studies along with our co-sponsors invite you to a film screening of Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman” with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon, followed by a discussion with Akasemi Newsome, Associate Director of Global, International and Area Studies/Institute for European Studies. 

Quarterlife: Nationalism and the Great Indian Novel 

09.25.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with author Devika Rege

Join us for a conversation with author Devika Rege and Dr. Angana P. Chatterji, Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at UC Berkeley.