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#SURVIVEDANDPUNISHED: Building Radical Coalitions to End The Criminalization Of Survivors

10.24.2015 | 3:00 – 7:00 PM | 10 Evans Hall

Foundational Violence: Settler Colonial Articulations

04.13.2015 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D-37

A one-day symposium examining the production of settler colonialism as a foundational paradigm for racialization, labor, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. Speakers will consider how settler colonialism intersects with other logics of domination, and identify points of theoretical contestation and possibility.

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11:00 am Opening Invocation

The Serialization Of Sexuality: Lorraine Hansberry, The 1950s, And Anti-Colonialism

02.11.2015 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM |  Durant Hall, 2nd Floor

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2015 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Roderick A. Ferguson.

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Precarity After Rights: On Queer Of Color Critique

10.20.2014 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM |  Alumni House

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Fall 2014 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Chandan Reddy.

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It Was All A Dream:  A Celebration of Undocumented Student Anthology Reading

10.17.2014 | 6:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D-37

Join us for a celebration of a beautiful, multimedia anthology of undocumented student writing. The anthology will include essays, poetry, findings from a research report on the campus climate for undocumented students, and beautiful visual art

Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

05.01.2014 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

"Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender" with Dorothy Roberts

03.07.2014 | 5:00 - 7:30 PM |  Alumni House, UC Berkeley 

Join us for a discussion with Professor Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.

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Decolonizing Feminism In The Age Of Intersectionality

04.02.2013 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2013 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Linda Martín Alcoff.

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Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science & Survival

03.15 & 16.2013 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM |  Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Annex D

Race, Domestic And Sexual Violence: From The Prison Nation To Community Resistance

02.28.2013 | 5:00 PM |  105 Boalt Hall
03.01.2013 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |  110 Boalt Hall

Join us on February 28 for a featured guest lecture from Professor Beth E. Richie who will discuss her new book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Undocunation

02.15.2013 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM |  Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Annex D

Evening Performance | 7:00  - 10:00 PM |  International House

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

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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.

Families on the Faultlines:  Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, Care

04.29 & 30.2010 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

Michael Jackson: Critical Reflection On A Life & A Phenomenon

10.01.2009| 3:00 – 6:00 PM |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Scholars and artists reflect on the legacy of Michael Jackson on performance & artistry, racial & sexual politics, and cultural representations.  Featuring National Poetry Slam Champion, BLAIR. 

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Panel A: DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH: ARTISTRY, LEGACY, & PERFORMANCE

Inaugural CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture

“Martial Races” And “Ladies’ Drinks”: How Racialized Gender Has Militarized The World

04.29.2002 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM |  Bancroft Hotel (2630 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA)

The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) is a new interdisciplinary research and outreach unit at UC Berkeley dedicated to fostering explorations of race, gender, and their intersections.