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May 26, 2015

Gendering and Racializing the Philippine Migrations: Women in the Global Economy of Care and Marriage Market

Gendering and Racializing the Philippine Migrations: Women in the Global Economy of Care and Marriage Market

05.26.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

April 30, 2015

Constructing Criminals: Xenophobia and the Politics of Panic

Constructing Criminals: Xenophobia and the Politics of Panic

04.15.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Perceptions of Threat and the Racialization of Illegality: Explaining Immigrant Group Participation in New York’s 2006 Protests
Prof. Chris Zepeda-Millán, Ethnic Studies

April 16, 2015

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

04.16.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

April 13, 2015

Foundational Violence: Settler Colonial Articulations

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.

PROGRAM:

11:00 am Opening Invocation

April 9, 2015

Gendered Political Cultures of Iranian American Un/Belonging

Gendered Political Cultures of Iranian American Un/Belonging

04.09.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

“Women Can Do Anything Men Can Do”: Gender And Sexuality in the U.S. Iranian Student Movement, 1961–1979
Dr. Manijeh Moradian, UC Davis

March 19, 2015

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

03.19.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Sovereignty Struggles: Native Californian Women and the Politics of Federal Recognition
Olivia Chilcote, Ethnic Studies

March 5, 2015

Gendering the Early American Marketplace: Slavery, Sexuality, and Trade

Gendering the Early American Marketplace: Slavery, Sexuality, and Trade

03.05.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

February 12, 2015

Race, Disability, Unstable Epistemologies

Race, Disability, Unstable Epistemologies

02.12.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

February 11, 2015

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

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.

Keynote Bio:

December 9, 2014

Retracing, Repurposing, and Reimagining: Critiquing Contemporary Engagements With Colonial Expeditions

Retracing, Repurposing, and Reimagining: Critiquing Contemporary Engagements With Colonial Expeditions

12.09.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

December 4, 2014

Space as Weapon: Mapping Repression in Tahrir Square & Cape Town

Space as Weapon: Mapping Repression in Tahrir Square & Cape Town

12.04.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall 

Re-scripting the City: Race, Gender and Architecture in Cape Town’s Migrant Labour Hostels
Sharone L. Tomer, Architecture

November 6, 2014

Family Routes: Transnational Adoption & the Production of Nationhood

Family Routes: Transnational Adoption & the Production of Nationhood

11.06.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy, Ethnic Studies

October 20, 2014

Precarity After Rights: On Queer Of Color Critique

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.

Keynote Bio:

October 16, 2014

Negotiating “Feminisms” through Time & Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Problematic Legacy of Feminism in Egypt & the United States

Negotiating “Feminisms” through Time & Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Problematic Legacy of Feminism in Egypt & the United States

10.14.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Postcolonial Feminism and the Egyptian Context
Sara Salem, Ethnic Studies

September 18, 2014

Racial-Sexual Ontologies of the Other

Racial-Sexual Ontologies of the Other

09.18.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Ritual Murder versus Sexual Perversion: Antisemitism, Liberalism, and the Hilsner Affair (Austria 1900)
Johanna Rothe, UC Santa Cruz

September 11, 2014

Queer Rhythms: The Makings of Race & Rehearsal

Queer Rhythms: The Makings of Race & Rehearsal

09.11.2014| 4:00 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Ordinary Failures: Reciting Diaspora
Ianna Hawkins Owen, African American Studies

May 1, 2014

Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

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

April 29, 2014

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

04.29.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

04.29.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

April 24, 2014

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

04.24.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall