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November 27, 2018

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law 

11.27.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

April 11, 2018

What Is “Populism”?  From Zombie Neoliberalism To Racial Nationalism In Global Right Organizing

04.11.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

with Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley

April 3, 2017

Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society

04.03.2017 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

Opening Remarks: Paul Alivisatos, Vice Chancellor for Research and Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UC Berkeley

November 10, 2016

Sambo: A (Post)Colonial (Mis)Education

11.10.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  Maude Fife Room, Hearst Annex D-37, UC Berkeley

with Abdul R. JanMohamed, English

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley

October 28, 2016

The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?

10.28.2016 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM |  Institute for South Asia Studies Conference Room, 10 Stephens Hall

with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris: Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King College, London.

April 16, 2016

Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine

04.12.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

with Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University and Fulbright Scholar, 2015-1016, at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Discussant: Samera Esmeir, Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

March 3, 2016

Political Conflict and Gender Rights in South Asia

03.03.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  170 Boalt Hall

with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Event Introduced by Professor Evelyn Nakano GlennDirector, Center for Race and Gender and Professor (Emerita), Departments of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies