CRG Events

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

October 22, 2009

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

10.22.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Colonial Anthroponomy and Gender Identity in a Former Slave-Trading Society
Prof. Ugo Nwokeji, African American Studies

By virtue of being an aspect of language, naming expresses power and social change. From this perspective, systems of surnames in precolonial Africa and their transformation during the colonial period is a narrative of power relations in precolonial Africa on the one hand and...

Lawyers in Wartime

October 8, 2009

Lawyers in Wartime

10.08.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Lawyering in the Shadow of War: A Study of Attorneys Representing Guantánamo Detainees
Prof. Laurel Fletcher, Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic

Who are the attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees? What is the nature of this representation? What lessons can we learn from the experience of habeas counsel about the role of lawyers during this chapter in United States legal history? This paper...

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

September 10, 2009

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

09.10.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the ‘Right To Fight’
Liz Montegary, UC Davis

This paper examines how calls for the repeal of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, mainstream lesbian and gay organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) often rely on the testimonies of lesbian and gay service members who “come out” against the federally mandated ban on...

Producing Belonging and Identity: Performing Citizenship and Identity

May 7, 2009

Producing Belonging and Identity: Performing Citizenship and Identity

05.07.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Producing Fruitvale: Latinidad, Immigration, and the Development of a “Village”
Juan Herrera, Ethnic Studies

“Breaking Character: Women’s Theater Workshops and the Incorporation of Immigrants in France”
Emine Fisek, Performance Studies

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CRG Undergraduate Grantee Spring 2009 Forum

March 19, 2009

CRG Undergraduate Grantee Spring 2009 Forum

03.19.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Near Eastern Studies, traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where she analyzed artistic shifts in 19th-century visual representations of the Sultan Hassan Mosque. She argues that the gradual movement from objective depictions by European colonial artists, from static architectual renderings and paintings that the emphasized structural forms, to more personalized, highly subjective representations of individual figures and...

Contextualized Formations of Black Identity

March 5, 2009

Contextualized Formations of Black Identity

03.05.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Professor Daniel Perlstein, Education
Professor Na’ilah Suad Nasir, African American Studies / Education

The Brooklyn, New York based civil rights activist Sonny Carson once noted that the schoolhouses he attended were like prisons, and that the prisons themselves were posing as schoolhouses—metal bars ran down the windows of both. Various authors such as playwright George Bernard Shaw, sociologist Michel Foucault...

Racial Affinities: Interacial Verbal Interactions & Intra-Race Policing

February 19, 2009

Racial Affinities: Interacial Verbal Interactions & Intra-Race Policing

02.19.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Molly Babel, Linguistics
Trevor Gardner, Sociology

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Hyper-Black & Hyper-White Characterizations in Film

February 5, 2009

Hyper-Black & Hyper-White Characterizations in Film

02.05.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Linda Haverty Rugg, Scandinavian Studies

Linda Williams, Film Studies

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Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

March 22, 2012

Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

03.22.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Presented at the CRG Thursday Forum, Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America, March 10, 2012

Family Sacrifices: Chinese American Neo-Confucianism
Prof. Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University

This paper explores the worldviews and moral frameworks of non-religious Chinese Americans, with a particular focus on Confucian values. Through in-depth interviews of 20 Chinese...

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...