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April 12, 2019

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 

March 18, 2019

"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. 

March 14, 2019

Celebrating Black Girls in Liberatory Spaces

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

February 28, 2019

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”

January 31, 2019

Get Home Safe: Cross­-Genre Routes Through Everyday Racism

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

Beth Piatote, Associate Professor, Native American Studies
The Indigenous Everyday

January 18, 2019

#MeToo:  One Year Later with Roxane Gay

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

November 29, 2018

"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.

November 27, 2018

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law 

11.27.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

November 1, 2018

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

October 11, 2018

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

October 4, 2018

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

September 27, 2018

The Place of Paris In Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction

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

September 20, 2018

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

September 13, 2018

Histories Of Empire and Transcolonial Circuits Of Freedom

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

April 11, 2018

What Is “Populism”?  From Zombie Neoliberalism To Racial Nationalism In Global Right Organizing

04.11.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

with Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley

April 10, 2018

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.

April 5, 2018

Bodies Of Knowledge: Race, Power & Pedagogy

04.05.2018 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  140  Barrows Hall

All You Need is Love: “Benevolent Whiteness” and Love Language as Colonial  Violence
Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer, PhD

March 21, 2018

Invisible No More: A Symposium On Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women & Women Of Color

03.21.2018 | 4:00 – 7:30 PM |  Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union

03.22.2018| 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |  Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union

Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance.

March 8, 2018

Bodies In Process: Trans Politics & Possibilities

03.08.2018 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

The Urgent Problem of a Travesti Nosotrx
Giancarlo Cornejo, Department of Rhetoric

February 18, 2018

The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and The Nation of Islam

02.15.2018 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM |  Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, Hearst Annex D-3, UC Berkeley

The CRG Thursday Forum Series & Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center present…

The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Taylor, African American Studies