CRG Events

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

April 18, 2013

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

04.18.2013 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Arizona: A Contested Story, Whose History?
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza, History

In 2010, the Arizona legislature banned the teaching of Ethnic Studies in public schools (K-12) via House Bill 2281. This bill specifically targeted Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program. According to the proponents of this bill, the MAS program was “dangerous”...

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

April 12, 2012

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

04.12.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley 1969: A Counter-Hegemonic Struggle for Radical Pedagogy & Revolutionary Curriculum
Ziza Delgado, Ethnic Studies

This presentation will discuss the struggle for Ethnic Studies at UCB via the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), as a counter-hegemonic project within the Euro-centric patriarchal...

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

May 2, 2013

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

05.02.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Movement Methodologies: Embodied Conocimiento, Memory & Remembrance
Elisa Diana Huerta, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center

This paper explores the nuanced tensions and poetics of ethnographic research praxis. Drawing upon my dissertation research, I explore the ways in which I, as the ethnographer/researcher/inside-outsider, navigate disciplinary and...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison

February 2, 2023

Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison

02.02.2023 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Elliott Young (Professor of History, Lewis & Clark).

Event organized by CRG's Director, Professor Leti Volpp, and co-sponsored by the...

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...

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

April 21, 2022

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

04.21.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Sherally Munshi (Georgetown Law) and Fantasia Painter ((Salt River Pima-Maricopa) UC Davis). This event will explore the colonial dimensions of the U.S. southern border to critically examine the political stakes of border enforcement, particularly in the face of Indigenous displacement and migration (Munshi), and will position O’odham land at the center of analysis...