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
Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks
01.28.2021| 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
