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

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

“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.

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

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

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

Grassroots Organizing For Immigration Justice:  A Multi-Racial Conversation

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

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

Weekly podcast series called “USCIRF Spotlight” hosted by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body.  Click here to listen to the episode.

RELIGION, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP IN ASSAM, INDIA
SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

Blog originally posted on April 23, 2021, on the Stanford Libraries site, Special Collections Unbound by Laura Wilsey.

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release:  April 9, 2021
Contact: Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender (PCRes-CRG), email: rng2@berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley-Stanford Collaborative Project “From Nation to Homeland: Religion, State and Belonging in South Asia” Receives $370,000 Grant from Henry Luce Foundation 

Epidemic of Anti-Asian Violence: Connections and Resistance -- Helen Zia in conversation with Leti Volpp

04.08.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

“[T]his was part of an escalating strategy where public intellectuals, civil society advocates, and human rights defenders who are progressive, liberal, with a certain idea of the free university and freedom of speech in a democratic society, were being identified, discouraged, and targeted…it is dangerous to speak up in India today.”

Sana Sana: Live Zoom Reading & Interview On Poetic Practice and Healing with Ariana Brown

03.11.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

Join us for a special evening with a live reading and interview on poetic practice and healing with Ariana Brown. 

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Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

02.18.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

01.28.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Black Trans Intimacies:  On Building Futures in the Present

10.29.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

"Abolition Feminism"

10.22.2020 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  Virtual - Zoom Webinar

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

09.17.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

We invite you to join us for the first installment of “Radical Kinship,” a new series curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alan Pelaez Lopez.

“One year ago today, India revoked Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status. It is a place of no rights, shackled in concertina wire, suffocating in a state of interminable lockdown.”

Angana Chatterji, Research Anthropologist and Co-chair of CRG’s Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, authored an article that was released today for Just Security, titled “Kashmir: A Place Without Rights.” 

Research Scholar and Co-Chair ofPolitical Conflict, Gender & People’s Rights Initiative,Angana P. Chatterji, recently announced the opening of theArchive on Legacies of Conflict in South Asia: The Right to Heal.

"Ojichaagwag Waaseyaaziwag (Radiant Souls): Four Women Masters of Social Self-Expression (Emma Goldman -- Margaret Sanger -- Gertrude Bonnin -- Maude Klegg)

11.14.2019 | 4:00 – 6:30 PM |  Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

CRG invites our Fall 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Scholar and poet Margaret Noodin of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee reflects on the writings of Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Gertrude Bonnin and Maude Klegg through an Anishinaabowin framework.