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October 10, 2013

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

10.10.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Presenters share findings from their recent publications on 1960s revolutionary US social movements for racial justice.

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

10.10.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Presenters share findings from their recent publications on 1960s revolutionary US social movements for racial justice.

Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Prof. Waldo Martin, History

September 26, 2013

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

09.26.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

09.26.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

This panel explores the ways in which sound articulates race, nation, culture, and sexuality. Examining the work of several artists, we illustrate the varied aesthetic strategies they have used to pose alternative possibilities for the expression of marginalized identities in the sonic realm and beyond.

Sounding Unity: Paul Robeson’s Afro Asian Interruption
Prof. Tamara Roberts, Music

September 12, 2013

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

09.12.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Prof. Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Respondent: Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies, Gender Women’s Studies

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

09.12.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Prof. Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Respondent: Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies, Gender Women’s Studies

May 2, 2013

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

05.02.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Movement Methodologies: Embodied Conocimiento, Memory & Remembrance
Elisa Diana Huerta, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

05.02.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Movement Methodologies: Embodied Conocimiento, Memory & Remembrance
Elisa Diana Huerta, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center

April 18, 2013

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

Geographies of Violence and Resistance:  A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

04.18.2013 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Arizona: A Contested Story, Whose History?
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza, History

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

Geographies of Violence and Resistance:  A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

04.18.2013 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Arizona: A Contested Story, Whose History?
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza, History

April 4, 2013

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

04.02.2013 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall


Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Prof. Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

04.02.2013 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall


Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Prof. Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University

Beauty = Power: Blade the Vampire Hunter and Homoerotic Super-Heroism
Prof. Darieck Scott, African American Studies

April 2, 2013

Decolonizing Feminism In The Age Of Intersectionality

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.

Keynote Bio:

March 21, 2013

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

03.21.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom:
Mulattoes in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States
A.B. Wilkinson, History

Why Our Post-Race Society Still Has A Race Problem: How Race and Freedom Go Hand-in-Hand
Michael McGee, African American Studies

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

03.21.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom:
Mulattoes in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States
A.B. Wilkinson, History

March 15, 2013

Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science & Survival

Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science & Survival

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

February 28, 2013

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

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

February 12, 2013

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

02.12.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

02.12.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

“Thanks to Berkeley…” Managing Multiculturalism in an Age of Austerity
Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies
Dr. Michael Cohen, American Studies African American Studies

October 18, 2012

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

10.18.2012 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM |  691 Barrows Hall

Blues Narratives and Indigenous Imaginaries: On a Critical Filipino/American Poetics of Place
Thea Quiray Tagle, UC San Diego