As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist ― usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color – organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and...
The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia.
In 1914 the S.S. Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and eventually deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani...
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.
Disposability, a condition written on the body, is a racial project. Populations that stand in the way of the progress of capital accumulation, are targeted for disposability, and relegated to the realm of “sub-humanity.”...
"Ojichaagwag Waaseyaaziwag (Radiant Souls): Four Women Masters of Social Self-Expression (Emma Goldman -- Margaret Sanger -- Gertrude Bonnin -- Maude Klegg)
11.14.2019 | 4:00 – 6:30 PM | Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
CRG invites our Fall 2019 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Scholar and poet Margaret Noodin of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee reflects on the writings of Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Gertrude Bonnin and Maude Klegg through an Anishinaabowin framework....
"No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity"
02.09.2017 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and...
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.
How does the citizenry of the United States arrive so frequently at the representation of the Mexican migrant as...
Who Will Speak For The Migrant? -- Migrant Struggle In The Age Of Illegality
10.17.2017 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
The Center for Race and Gender presents the Fall 2017 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Alicia Schmidt Camacho
This talk will examine how migrants insert their voices into debates over border governance, in order to theorize migrancy itself as a vital social practice in the Americas. Across the span of their travels...
Untying the Knot: Hawaiian Nationalism & the (De)Colonial Politics of Sexuality
04.27.2016 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall
The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2016 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.
Keynote Bio:
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. After transferring from Irvine Valley College in 1989, she earned her B.A. in Women’s Studies at the...
The Center for Race and Gender presents the Spring 2015 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Roderick A. Ferguson.
Keynote Bio:
Roderick A. Ferguson is faculty in the Department of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-director of the Racialized Body research cluster at UIC....
