CRG Events

CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase

April 6, 2023

CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase

04.06.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 691 SSB

Join us for an afternoon as our Visiting Scholars share their works in progress.

Marijke Bassani (Human rights Lawyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Australia)) Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz (Ph.D. Candidate in Welfare Law, Department of Culture and Society, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden)) Rachel Rosenbloom (Professor of Law, Northeastern University and...

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

February 8, 2024

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

02.08.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with Giuliana Perrone (Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara).

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp(link is external)...

The Camera and The Law

February 15, 2024

The Camera and The Law

02.15.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance, Columbia University; Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University of London School of Law).

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law) and Bryan Wagner (Department of English) and is supported by the...

Homesteading and The American Dream

March 14, 2024

Homesteading and The American Dream

03.14.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with K-Sue Park (Professor of Law, UCLA Law)

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law) and...

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

April 29, 2014

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

04.29.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

A Case for Concern in Lakota Language Revitalization: A Glimpse at Who’s Learning Lakota Today and Why Tasha Hauff, Ethnic Studies

Estimates from the 2000 Census show that only 15 percent of Lakota people ages 5 and over have Lakota speaking ability. In addition, these numbers show that most fluent Lakota speakers are over 65 years...

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

April 24, 2014

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

04.24.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mary Susman, Gender Women’s Studies, Sociology Ella Bastone, Gender Women’s Studies Rachel Upton, Gender Women’s Studies

We exist during a changing landscape of U.S. “equality,” with certain once-outcast identities now seduced by the neoliberal, capitalist economy and assimilated into normative notions of belonging. While certain bodies become recognizable subjects, other bodies are narrowly constructed as...

Unsettling Sonic Space Through Indigenous Testimony

April 3, 2014

Unsettling Sonic Space Through Indigenous Testimony

04.03.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sonic Sovereignty in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded
Prof. Beth Piatote, Native American Studies

This presentation examines the employment of sound, particularly Salish singing and drumming, in articulating alternative boundaries of Flathead/Salish communities that extend beyond the reservation and the visual surveillance scope of the law. Drawing upon the context of the reservation as a legally...

Eating Theory: The Racial Politics of Food Farming

March 20, 2014

Eating Theory: The Racial Politics of Food Farming

03.20.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mediating an Intimate Public: Chino Latino Restaurants and Emergent Forms of Sociality
Prof. Lok Siu, Ethnic Studies

Chino Latino Restaurants in New York City represent the most prominent public cultural institutions that index the transnational migratory circuits of Chinese from Asia to Latin America to the United States. This migratory itinerary through different social-cultural systems informs the...

Shifting Fault Lines of Race Reproduction in Latin America

March 13, 2014

Shifting Fault Lines of Race Reproduction in Latin America

03.13.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Untangling Discursive Reproduction: Negras, Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in Brazil Ugo F. Edu, Anthropology, History, Social Medicine

This paper takes the bodies of black women, particularly their fertility and reproductive system, as its primary focus to explore “the forms of violence and domination enabled by the recognition of humanity, licensed by the invocation of rights and...

Military Optics and Bodies of Difference

February 27, 2014

Military Optics and Bodies of Difference

02.27.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Reading Domestic Uses of Military Aerial Perspective: Domestic Abuse Photography and the Framing of Terror Kelli Moore, Rhetoric

Our experience of the Iraq war is conditioned by frenzied production of documentary images of war on one hand and the rational, administrative suppression of images of gender and sexual violence by the U.S. government on the other. This paper contributes to work in feminist studies of...