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

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

Election 2020 Roundup

11.12.2020| 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

Restoring Rights, Returning Ancestors, And Building Relationships

10.01.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  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.

The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

09.10.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

“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.

Savannah Shange And The Black/Girlhood Imaginary

02.20.2020 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Choreographing Transnational Modernities: Imbrications of Race And Gender In Dance Performance And Spectatorship

02.13.2020 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh of UC Davis discusses “spectator saviorship” in relation to Iranian dance post-1979, and Usha Iyer of Stanford University analyzes the making of the first “dancing girl” of Indian cinema in the 1940s, in a program centered on transnational circuits of dance, media, gender, and performance.

How I Write

12.09.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Get inspired for end-of-the-term writing with reflections and advice from Christian Paiz, assistant professor of Ethnic Studies; Carolyn Smith, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow; and Rachel Lim, graduate student in Ethnic Studies.

Water and War: Environmental Justice In Flint, Detroit, and Northern California

11.07.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Beth Rose Middleton Manning of UC Davis presents “Currents of Resistance: Water Quality/Quantity Struggles in Indigenous Northern California Homelands,” and Michael Mascarenhas of ESPM offers “Thirsty for Environmental Justice: Flint, Detroit, and the War over Michigan’s Water.”

"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.

Over the summer, I asked abuela Belem to tell me a story about my mother. Although my grandmother and mother only lived together for twelve years before my mother became a perpetual migrant, my grandmother decided that the story I needed was not a story about my mother, but a story of shape-shifting people and rituals in our community.

This is a story I won’t repeat, but what I will share is that ever since being offered this story, I have re-oriented my relationship to my entire family and to an understanding of stories as theory, transgression, and archives.

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Carceral (Im)Mobilities: Architectures Of The Migrant Camp, The Refugee Camp, and The Labor Camp

10.24.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Berkeley architectural historians Desiree Valadares, Laura Belik, and Heba Al-Najabaoffer papers on camps in Brazil, Syria, and Canada to explore how camp “architectures” have operated to shape, detain, and enable forms of movement.

Amplifying Memory Through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings

10.17.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall 

Alutiiq choreographer and performer Tanya Lukin Linklater shares her work and discusses the museum as performance space with TDPS scholars Bélgica del Río and Jeni(f)fer Tamayo

Frontline writer Shaikh Mujibur Rehman reviewed Angana Chatterji’s (Co-chairPolitical Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) co-authored book, Majoritarian State

The Business Insider interviewed Angana Chatterji (Co-chair,Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) for its article about the crisis in Kashmir.

Fearing The Black Body

09.12.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Join us for the first CRG Thursday Forum as author Sabrina Strings of UC Irvine discusses her new book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, with the Henderson Center’s Savala Trepczynski

Event co-sponsored by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law.