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September 22, 2022

Crossed by the Border: Migration and the Crisis Imaginary

09.22.2022| 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  In Person, 554 Social Sciences Building

What is Critical Race Theory and why is it the sudden target of fierce right-wing attacks? 

A conversation with Debarati Sanyal (Professor of French, UC Berkeley), Cristiana Giordano (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis), and Rhiannon Welch (Associate Professor of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley) focused on migration and the Mediterranean. 

September 15, 2022

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

September 8, 2022

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

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

August 29, 2022

The Telegraph Online

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

July 29, 2022

ohchr.org

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves 

UN OHCHR statement premised on findings in BURIED EVIDENCE: 2,700 unmarked and mass graves containing more than 2,940 bodies in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Graves Report: http://www.kashmirprocess.org/reports/graves/01Front.html

July 1, 2022

TIME

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.

April 21, 2022

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

04.21.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

April 12, 2022

"My Seditious Heart: Freedom, Fascism and Fiction"

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

March 10, 2022

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)

February 17, 2022

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).

February 14, 2022

Just Security (Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law).

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

February 10, 2022

"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

November 19, 2021

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?

October 28, 2021

The Space Between Body, Spirit and Migration: A Poetry Reading and Drag Performance

10.28.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

October 18, 2021

The Guardian

“These evictions in Dhalpur are part of the BJP’s drive to politicise and dismantle the citizenship rights of the Bengali Muslims in Assam, and this is a very dangerous path,” saidAngana Chatterji, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley, who recently wrote a study on the alleged abuses in Assam.

October 11, 2021

The Radical Capacities Of Ghosts, Auto-Deportation, And Art

10.11.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

October 7, 2021

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? 

October 3, 2021

The Washington Post

A spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the matter.

September 28, 2021

Grassroots Organizing For Immigration Justice:  A Multi-Racial Conversation

09.28.2021| 3:00 – 5:00 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

September 9, 2021

Monograph Release, “Breaking Worlds: Religion, Law and Citizenship In Majoritarian India -- The Story Of Assam

09.09.2021| 9:00 – 10:30 AM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar