CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture

Precarity After Rights: On Queer Of Color Critique

October 20, 2014
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...

Vocabularies Of Vulnerability: Hum/Animal/Blackness

November 8, 2015

Vocabularies Of Vulnerability: Hum/Animal/Blackness

11.02.2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

The Center for Race and Gender presents the Fall 2015 Distinguished Guest Lecture with Professor Sharon P. Holland.

Introduction by Professor Brandi Catanese, Theater, Dance, Performance Studies & African American Studies at UC Berkeley.

Keynote Bio:

Sharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American...

Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

May 1, 2014

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...

“Martial Races” And “Ladies’ Drinks”: How Racialized Gender Has Militarized The World

April 29, 2002

Inaugural CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture

“Martial Races” And “Ladies’ Drinks”: How Racialized Gender Has Militarized The World

04.29.2002 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM | Bancroft Hotel (2630 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA)

The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) is a new interdisciplinary research and outreach unit at UC Berkeley dedicated to fostering explorations of race, gender, and their intersections.

We invite you to CRG's Inaugural Distinguished Guest Lecture with Cynthia Enloe, Professor of Government...

The Future In The Present: Preliminary Thoughts On The Roots Of The Occupy Movement And Other Challenges To Neoliberalism

November 14, 2011

The Future In The Present: Preliminary Thoughts On The Roots Of The Occupy Movement And Other Challenges To Neoliberalism

11.14.2011 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Join Professor Robin D.G. Kelley in a discussion locating the economic, political, and social roots of both the crisis of capitalism and the national and global conditions that helped mobilize the current push-back. What are we fighting for and how are these struggles linked to the various crises that got us here?

Introduction by Professor Waldo...

Decolonizing Feminism In The Age Of Intersectionality

April 2, 2013

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:

Linda Martín Alcoff is a Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her writings have focused on social identity and race, epistemology and politics, sexual violence, Foucault, and Latino issues in philosophy....