News

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). 

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).

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).

"Where is My Story?":  Erasure, Violence and Counter-Memory

01.29.2023 | 5:00 PM IST / 3:30 AM PST | Virtual - Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist, Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender).

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)).

Majoritarian Nationalism and Islamophobia in India Today

Archipelagos and Specters: Refugee Settlers and Climate Refugees

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

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. 

"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

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. 

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

"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview

09.08.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

The Telegraph writer Prasanta Ray discusses Angana Chatterji’s co-authored book, Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India. 

The Role of Counter-Memory in Contexts of Majoritarian Nationalism and Illiberal Democracy

08.25.2022  | 9:00 AM | Kulturhuset

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initative).

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves 

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.

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.