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....
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:
Chandan Reddyis Associate Professor of English and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State (Duke University Press, 2013) which won...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
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
In Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism, Nadine Naber tells the stories of second generation Arab American young adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of whom are political activists engaged in two culturalist movements that draw on the conditions of diaspora, a Muslim global justice and a Leftist Arab movement.Writing from a transnational...
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...
"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...
