News

US-based Chatterji’s detailed study onBuried Evidence: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves, brought focus on the unmarked graves found in Kashmir for the first time. The unearthing happened in March 2008, and thereafter, Chatterji and her groups identified 2,700 such unknown, unmarked and mass graves that contained over 2,900 bodies in 55 villages in Bandipora, Baramulla, and Kupwara districts of Kashmir.

Tariq Ali of New York Review quoted CRG Research ScholarAngana Chatterji(Co-Chair,Political Conflict, Gender, & People’s Rights) in a recent article about Kashmir.

Narendra Modi’s op-ed in The Guardian includes Angana P. Chatterji’s (Co-chairPolitical Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) co-authored book, Majoritarian State to discuss the political climate in India.  

The Indian Express’ interview with Angana P. Chatterji (Co-chair,Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) discusses her bookMajoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India.

Diversity and Power In Global Christian Communities

04.18.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Candace Lukasik, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Transnational Anxieties: Shaping a Minority Community between Egypt and the United States

Hannah Waits, PhD Candidate in History, UC Berkeley
Missionary, Go Home: Contesting the Global Activism of American Evangelicals in the Postcolonial Era

CRG Student Research Symposium

04.12.2019| 9:00 AM -34:00 PM | Tilden Room, MLK Jr. Student Union 

Join the Center for Race & Gender as we host our inaugural Student Research Symposium! This event will gather our larger CRG community – undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and affiliated faculty – to show case and highlight CRG students’ work and accomplishments.

PROGRAM:

9:00 – 9:15 AM:  Welcome

9:15 – 10:45 AM:  Session 1 – On Carcerality & Feminisms 

Staging Justice

04.11.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Deniz Göktürk, Associate Professor, Department of German, UC Berkeley
Art as Counter Forensics: Reflections on Structural Racism Following the NSU-Trial

"Across Oceans of Law"

03.18.2019 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM |  Anthony Hall

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia. 

Celebrating Black Girls in Liberatory Spaces

03.14.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Border Surveillance and the Black Mediterranean: Alternative Imaginaries of Refugees, Race and Rights

02.28.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Camilla Hawthorne, Assistant Professor of  Sociology, UC Santa Cruz“Citizenship and Diasporic Ethics in the Black Mediterranean”

Get Home Safe: Cross­-Genre Routes Through Everyday Racism

01.31.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

#MeToo:  One Year Later with Roxane Gay

01.18.2019| 1:00 - 4:00 PM |  Booth Auditorium 175

"Race and the Apparatus of Disposability"

11.29.2018 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Fall 2018 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Sherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA.

Counter-Memory and Justice In Armed Conflicts

11.01.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall 

Angana P. Chatterji, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project and Visiting Research Anthropologist, Center for Race & Gender

Mariane C. Ferme, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Curator of African Ethnology at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

What’s New About New Materialism?: Black and Indigenous Scholars On Science, Technology and Materiality

10.11.2018 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Genetic Sensibilisation: Reconfiguring the Materiality of Genetic Ancestry in Cameroon
Victoria M. Massie, Anthropology

In Xochitl, In Cuicatl: Flowers, Songs and the Poetry of Photosynthesis
Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, Ethnic Studies

Archives of Justice and Abolition

10.04.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

In the (After) Life: Black Lesbian Spatialities under the Emergence of Homonationalism
by Kerby Lynch

The Place of Paris In Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction

09.27.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children In Migration

09.27.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  820 Barrows Hall, Social Science Matrix

“It is a crime to be young here”: Violence against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States
Leisy J. Abrego, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA

Histories Of Empire and Transcolonial Circuits Of Freedom

09.13.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall 

The Persistent Geography Of The Indio Bárbaro:  Racial Representation, Racism, And The Mexican Migrant

04.10.2018 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2018 Distinguished Guest Lecture and The Campus Climate Speaker, Affirmation and Empowerment Series with Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.