CRG Events

"State Violence as Gender Violence" Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press): Second Part of Three-Part Event

September 14, 2023

"State Violence as Gender Violence"
Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press): Second Part of Three-Part Event

09.14.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

with Inderpal Grewal (Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and of American Studies, Yale University), Nadera Shalhoub- Kevorkian (Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and...

Undocumented Students And Campus Climate At UC Berkeley

October 8, 2020

Undocumented Students And Campus Climate At UC Berkeley

10.08.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Liliana Iglesias, Program Director of Undocumented Student Program (USP), Fabrizio Mejia, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Division of Equity & Inclusion, Martha Ortega-Mendoza, Ph.D. Student in the Graduate School of Education, Diana Peña, Mental Health Coordinator & Licensed Psychologist at USP, Theo Cuison, Director and...

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes And Global Politics — A Conversation With Mae Ngai

November 19, 2021

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes And Global Politics — A Conversation With Mae Ngai

11.19.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

How did Chinese migration to the goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa both upend the global economy and forge modern conceptions of race?

Join us for a conversation with historian Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor Asian American Studies, and Professor of History at Columbia University) about her remarkable new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold...

"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview

September 8, 2022

"black god mother this body" - Book Release and Author Interview

09.08.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Join the Center for Race and Gender for a reading and celebration of Dr. Raina J. León’s poetry collection, black god mother this body (Black Freighter Press, 2022). Dr. León’s collection integrates biomimicry, technology, afrofuturist practices and afrosurrealist revelations, and generational engagement across human and nonhuman worlds to boldly encounter the horrors of (digital) lynchings in the murders of black and brown peoples...

The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

September 10, 2020

The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

09.10.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an epidemic of anti-Asian violence, fueled by a president who has labelled COVID-19 “kung flu” and “the Chinese virus.” This panel features Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press, 2018...

Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence

September 21, 2023

Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence

09.21.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)

with Rose Cuison Villazor (Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School; Fellow in Residence, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU School of Law (AY 2023-2024)) and Prabha Kotiswaran (Professor of Law and Social Justice, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London)....

Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal

April 25, 2023

Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal

04.25.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 554 SSB

with Charles H.F. Davis III (Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education; Director of the Campus Abolition Research Lab, University of Michigan).

In the wake of the ongoing state and state-sanctioned violence disproportionately impacting racially and other minoritized communities, municipalities as well as colleges and universities...

Election 2020 Roundup

November 12, 2020

Election 2020 Roundup

11.12.2020| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

UC Berkeley faculty experts gathered for a conversation about the November 3 election. The panel featured Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, and Professor in the Graduate School of Education; Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law; Taeku Lee, Associate Dean and Chair of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and George Johnson Professor of...

Restoring Rights, Returning Ancestors, And Building Relationships

October 1, 2020

Restoring Rights, Returning Ancestors, And Building Relationships

10.01.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Thirty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), only one-third of Native American ancestral remains have been repatriated from museums. UC Davis NAGPRA Project Manager Megon Noble presents case studies and discusses ongoing consultation and repatriation efforts with Native American governments and communities, in conversation with Lauren Kroiz,...

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...