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

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

"My Seditious Heart: Freedom, Fascism and Fiction"

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

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).

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

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?

“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.

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? 

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.

Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

04.15.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Christine Jacobsen (Professor of Social Anthropology, and Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)), and Marry-Anne Karlsen (Researcher, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)) with commentary by Samera Esmeir (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley).

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

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender, and Law

04.05.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  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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Design Politics, The Border, and The Passport

03.04.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

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