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The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

09.12.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) 
with author Alpa Shah

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

04.26.2024  | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with 

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)

Countering Falsehoods / Discourses Of Power: Love Jihad and Other Fictions

03.13.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with CRG's Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, Sreenivasan Jain (Journalist, Broadcaster, and Co-author of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley)
and Leti Volpp (UC Berkeley School of 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).

Coming Out As Dalit: Surviving India's Caste System

02.13.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with Yashica Dutt (Journalist and Author of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley).

Event co-sponsored with the Institute for South Asia Studies.

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).

Majoritarian & Ethnic Violence in Manipur

11.13.2023 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM  |  155 Dwinelle Hall 
with Dr. Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)
and Niang Hangzo (Co-Founder, NAMTA: North American Manipur Tribal Association).

Join us for a discussion on the rights of the Indigenous and the ongoing violence in Manipur, India, which has displaced thousands since May 3rd.

Atrocity in Nuh: Racialization, Islamomisia, and the Hindu Right

11.11.2023  | 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM EST | Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

Introduction by Ziya Us Salam (Journalist, The Hindu Newspaper (Delhi, India)), and concluding remarks by Dr. Amritjit Singh (Professor Emeritus, Ohio University). 

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).

Bollywood: Representations of Muslims in Culture & Society

10.03.2023 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) 

with Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Actor, Appeared in more than 40 films, including "No One Killed Jessica," "Raees," "Article 15," and "Mission Mangal," and Prime and Netflix Series, “Tandav“ and “Scoop“)
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender, and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia 

04.26.2023  | 4 - 5:30 PM  | 370 Dwinelle Hall 

Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal

04.25.2023  | 4:00 - 5:30 PM  | 554 SSB

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

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

CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase

04.06.2023  | 4:00 - 5:30 PM  | 691 SSB

Join us for an afternoon as our Visiting Scholars share their works in progress.

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.