Catalyzing Knowledge In Dangerous Times

Event flyer for 4-14-2011 Catalyzing Knowledges
April 14, 2011

Catalyzing Knowledge In Dangerous Times

Center For Race & Gender Ten-Year Anniversary Conference

04.14.2011 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM |  370 Dwinelle Hall

Catalyzing Knowledge in Dangerous Times will explore the ways in which knowledge is politicized, embodied, and imagined within a volatile political climate that targets education as a racialized and gendered battleground for defining legitimacy, visibility, and access.

Conference participants will interrogate the meaning and practice of scholarship in a time shaped by militarism, economic crisis, gender policing, and persistent racism.  They will consider methodologies used inside and outside of academia to challenge what and who is known and identify transformative possibilities stemming from the transgression of traditional epistemological boundaries, academic discipline, gender, and nation.


PROGRAM:

9:30 am - Center for Race & Gender at Ten Years

Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Center for Race & Gender

10:00 am - Media, Maps, & Motion

Moderated by Margaret Rhee, UC Berkeley

Speakers will map the ways in which widely-used technologies can transmit information related to survival strategies across geographic boundaries while subverting policed pathways of communication.

Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism for LGBTQ Communities of Color
Madeleine Lim & Kebo Drew, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project

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Micha Cardenas, UC San Diego

A Tale to Two and Half Investigation: Measuring Institutional Insecurities and Contestational Knowledge
Ricardo Dominguez, UC San Diego

“Like Seeds”: A Cosmic Ecology of Black Feminist Education as Transformation
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind as a project of BrokenBeautiful Press and the co-creator of the Mobilehomecoming Project

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11:30 am - Women of Color Feminist Knowledge

Moderated by Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley

Speakers will explore the race and gender politics of accessing, teaching, and transforming knowledge.

Looking for Resistance in all the Right Places: Centering LGBTQ Youth Testimony in Times of Crisis
Cindy Cruz, UC Santa Cruz

Imperial Pedagogies: Imagining Internationalist/Feminist/Antiracist Literacies
Piya Chatterjee, UC Riverside

Pedagogy, Performance, and the Decolonial
Laura Perez, UC Berkeley

12:50 pm: LUNCH PROVIDED

1:40 pm - Educators Organizing Across Borders

Moderated by Erica Boas, UC Berkeley

Presenters will discuss the legacy, perils, and promise of educators organizing across prison borders and colonial projects.

Activist Scholars and the Antiprison Movement
Julia Oparah (formerly Sudbury), Mills College

Reimagining HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Within A Jail System
Isela González, MPA and Allyse Gray, Forensic AIDS Project

Academic Freedom, or Academic Responsibility? Agency within the Brain of the Monster
Nada Elia, Antioch University

Administering Palestine on Campus and Constructed “Check-Points.”
Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley

3:00 pm -Sparking, Defending, and Envisioning Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley

Moderated by Harvey Dong, UC Berkeley

Presenters will explore the inception and political imagination of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Ethnic Studies at Forty: Scholarship, Art, and Activism in the Formation of a Transdisciplinary Field
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, UC Berkeley/Rutgers University

Staging Hunger, Embodying Pain: Some Queer Thoughts on Campus Organizing
Sara Kaplan, UC San Diego

*Tokenized, Romanticized, and Professionalized*: Establishing the Significance and Urgency of Decolonizing the University
Ruben Elias Canedo Sanchez, UC Berkeley

From 1969 to the Present: A Brief History Outlining the Critical Role of Women of Color in the Struggle for Ethnic Studies
Ziza Delgado, UC Berkeley

4:30 pm - Conference Synthesis

5:30 pm - Reception

6:00 pm - Keynote Talk:

From Academic Freedom To Academic Abolition
Prof. Andrea Smith, UC Riverside


Featuring poets & performers, Luna Maia, OLO, Jezebel Delilah X, & Maya Chinchilla

PLUS an exhibit of Ethnic Studies political art by
Favianna Rodriguez, Jesus Barraza, & Natalia Garcia Pasmanick,
curated by Elisa Diana Huerta, Multicultural Community Center, UC Berkeley


Made possible by the generous support of the Multicultural Community Center, Department of Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies,African American Studies, Center for New Racial Studies, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Gender & Women’s Studies Department, Center for the Study of Social Change, Berkeley Center for New Media, Mixed Blood: A Literary Journal, Department of Rhetoric, the Haas Diversity Research Center, the Cal Corps Public Service Center, American Cultures Engaged Scholarship, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and the Women of Color Initiative