CRG Forum Series

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

April 21, 2022

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

04.21.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Sherally Munshi (Georgetown Law) and Fantasia Painter ((Salt River Pima-Maricopa) UC Davis). This event will explore the colonial dimensions of the U.S. southern border to critically examine the political stakes of border enforcement, particularly in the face of Indigenous displacement and migration (Munshi), and will position O’odham land at the center of analysis...

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

February 17, 2022

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

02.17.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Quynh Nhu Le (University of South Florida), author of Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas (Temple University Press, 2019) and Juliana Hu Pegues (Cornell University), author of Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (UNC Press, 2021).

Hosted by CRG’s Native...

Design Politics, The Border, and The Passport

March 4, 2021

Design Politics, The Border, and The Passport

03.04.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation between Ronald Rael(Professor of Architecture, Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture, UC Berkeley) and Mahmoud Keshavarz (Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg and Research Associate at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University (Sweden)). Their discussion will...

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender And Law

April 5, 2021

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender, and Law

04.05.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Shannon Speed ((Chickasaw) Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology, and Director of the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA), Kristen Carpenter (Council Tree Professor of Law, and Director of the American Indian Law Program at University of Colorado Law School), and Angela Riley ((Potawatomi) Professor of Law,...

Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

April 15, 2021

Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

04.15.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Christine Jacobsen (Professor of Social Anthropology, and Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)), and Marry-Anne Karlsen (Researcher, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)) with commentary by Samera Esmeir (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley).

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Policing Blackness and Black Fugitivity: On Bert Williams’s A Natural Born Gambler (1916)

February 1, 2024

Policing Blackness and Black Fugitivity: On Bert Williams’s A Natural Born Gambler (1916)

02.01.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with Althea Wasow (Associate Professor, Department of Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara).

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors...

Bodies as Borders: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

March 23, 2017

Bodies as Borders: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

03.23.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

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Istifaa Ahmed, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies

The performance we will analyze is Untitled (2012), by black artist Tameka Norris, directly inspired by Ana Mendieta’s performance piece, Untitled (Body Tracks) (1974). In her work, Norris paints a wall using her body as both tool and medium. Norris runs a knife through a lemon before cutting her tongue...

Lynch Law, Migration Control, the Regulation of Racial Meaning

October 20, 2016

Lynch Law, Migration Control, the Regulation of Racial Meaning

10.20.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Litigating Unwritten Law: Reading Sam Hose’s Brutal Murder, White Newspaper Opinion, and Ida Wells’ Anti-Lynching Campaign as Legal Discourse and Recourse Kavitha Iyengar, Jurisprudence and Social Policy

Race, Discretion, and Summary Deportation at the US-Mexico Border: An Examination of Voluntary Return, Past and Present Mina Barahimi, Jurisprudence and...

Theorizing Race, Gender & Citizenship in Black Europe: Issues, Debates and Frameworks, Inside & Outside the Academy

February 14, 2017

Theorizing Race, Gender & Citizenship in Black Europe: Issues, Debates and Frameworks, Inside & Outside the Academy

02.14.2017| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Theorizing Race, Gender & Citizenship in Black Europe: Issues, Debates and Frameworks, Inside & Outside the Academy
Prof. Stephen Small, African American Studies

Scholarly research at universities across Europe on the sociology and political economy of gender and intersectionality focuses inordinately on white women. Most research on women of...

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

October 18, 2012

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

This talk engages with transformations in the poetics and politics of Filipino American decolonial cultural productions made by San Francisco Bay Area-based artists and activists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Beginning from the blues poetry of Al Robles, my...