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October 4, 2023

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).

September 21, 2023

Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence

09.21.2023  | 4:00 - 5:30 PM  | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room) 

September 14, 2023

"State Violence as Gender Violence"
Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press):  Second Part of Three-Part Event

09.14.2023  | 4:00 - 5:30 PM  | 370 Dwinelle Hall

April 25, 2023

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

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

April 13, 2023

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

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

April 6, 2023

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.

April 4, 2023

The Wire

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.

March 16, 2023

Queer Visual Resistance

03.16.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow(writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora). 

February 23, 2023

Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention

02.23.2023  | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT  | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Nayan Shah (Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California).

February 2, 2023

Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention:  Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison

02.02.2023  | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT  | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Elliott Young (Professor of History, Lewis & Clark).

January 26, 2023

Angel Island:  History and Movement

01.26.2023  | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT  | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Erika Lee (Regents Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities; Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; and Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University (as of July 2023)).

October 20, 2022

Archipelagos and Specters: Refugee Settlers and Climate Refugees

10.20.2022  | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT  | Zoom Webinar

October 15, 2022

Berkeley Law website

Report on CRG Forum "Canceling Critical Race Theory and the "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks" held via Zoom on Oct. 7, 2021.

Click on the link below to read the full article. 

October 6, 2022

"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" - Film Screening and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey

10.06.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

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.