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Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

10.18.2012 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Blues Narratives and Indigenous Imaginaries: On a Critical Filipino/American Poetics of Place
Thea Quiray Tagle, UC San Diego

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

04.12.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley 1969: A Counter-Hegemonic Struggle for Radical Pedagogy & Revolutionary Curriculum
Ziza Delgado, Ethnic Studies

Political Encounters & Engagements:  A Spotlight On Undergraduate Student Research On Race & Gender

04.05.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Join CRG for our annual forum on emerging research by UC Berkeley undergraduate student grant recipients.  Facilitated by Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies

“AzNpRyDE”: Pan-Asianism and Youth Culture in an Age of Cyberspace
Son Chau, Ethnic Studies & American Studies

Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

03.22.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Presented at the CRG Thursday Forum, Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America, March 10, 2012

Family Sacrifices: Chinese American Neo-Confucianism
Prof. Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University

Interventions In Decolonial Thought & Whiteness Studies

03.02.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Who’s Afraid of Whiteness Studies?: Toward a Minoritized Analysis of Abolition
Prof. Zeus Leonardo, Education

Visual Constructions Of Race And Stigma In Europe

02.23.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Gay Poster-Posturing: Queer Racialized Disjunctions in the (French) Hom(m)o-Republic
Prof. Paola Bacchetta, Gender & Women’s Studies

School and Home: Racialized and Gendered Connections

02.09.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall 

Construction “Appropriate” Families: Education, Inequality, and Teacher Subjectivities
Jessica S. Cobb, Sociology

Contemporary Dance as Subversive Pedagogies

01.26.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Techniques for Black (Male) Re/Dress
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin, 
Performance Studies

Cultural Interventions in Colonial Projects

12.01.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Race, Subjectivity, & Legibility In Literature

11.17.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Harlem as a ‘Community in Transition’ in Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred
Nilofar Gardezi

The Future In The Present: Preliminary Thoughts On The Roots Of The Occupy Movement And Other Challenges To Neoliberalism

11.14.2011 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

Join Professor Robin D.G. Kelley in a discussion locating the economic, political, and social roots of both the crisis of capitalism and the national and global conditions that helped mobilize the current push-back.  What are we fighting for and how are these struggles linked to the various crises that got us here?

Racializing Sexual Economies: Sex Trade, Trafficking, And The Political Agency Of People Of Color & Indigenous People

11.08.2011 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

A roundtable of activists and scholars will explore and challenge the political tensions in debates on sex trades, sex trafficking, public policy, institutional violence, and community organizing

Speakers:

Political Parties & Grassroots Resistance:  New Texts On Race, Immigration & Political Action

10.20.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Join Prof. Taeku Lee, Political Science, Prof. Kim Voss, Sociology, and Prof. Irene Bloemraad, Sociology, in a discussion of their recent publications on race, immigration, and political action.

Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Holistic Healing

10.06.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

09.26.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003
Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology

Moral Panics & the Fantastic Future Family

09.22.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

What’s a Feminist to Do? How New Anti-abortion Strategies and New Technologies are Reconfiguring the Debate over Sex Selection, Race and Abortion
Dr. Sujatha Jesudason, Generations Ahead

Catalyzing Knowledge In Dangerous Times

Center For Race & Gender Ten-Year Anniversary Conference

04.14.2011 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

Catalyzing Knowledge in Dangerous Times will explore the ways in which knowledge is politicized, embodied, and imagined within a volatile political climate that targets education as a racialized and gendered battleground for defining legitimacy, visibility, and access.

Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities

11.16.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Secularism, Sexuality, and Religious Liberty: A Postcolonial Genealogy
Prof. Saba Mahmood, Social Cultural Anthropology