CRG Events

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...

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

February 17, 2022

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

02.17.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Quynh Nhu Le (University of South Florida), author of Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas (Temple University Press, 2019) and Juliana Hu Pegues (Cornell University), author of Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (UNC Press, 2021).

Hosted by CRG’s Native...

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)....

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,...

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender And Law

April 5, 2021

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender, and Law

04.05.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Shannon Speed ((Chickasaw) Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology, and Director of the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA), Kristen Carpenter (Council Tree Professor of Law, and Director of the American Indian Law Program at University of Colorado Law School), and Angela Riley ((Potawatomi) Professor of Law,...

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...

Contemporary Dance as Subversive Pedagogies

January 26, 2012

Contemporary Dance as Subversive Pedagogies

01.26.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Techniques for Black (Male) Re/Dress
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin, 
Performance Studies

Waacking/punkin’ is a street dance sometimes confused with vogue but claiming West Coast roots in gay black and Latino club culture of 1970’s Los Angeles. The style was rebirthed into the global mainstream through mass media appearances on last season’s So You Think You Can Dance. Today it is generally straight-identified...

Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

April 15, 2021

Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

04.15.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Christine Jacobsen (Professor of Social Anthropology, and Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)), and Marry-Anne Karlsen (Researcher, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)) with commentary by Samera Esmeir (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley).

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Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Holistic Healing

October 6, 2011

Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Holistic Healing

10.06.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Writing the Body into (Well-) Being
Tala Khanmalek, Ethnic Studies

As almost all research on the Iranian diaspora states, studies about psychopathologies of Iranian immigrants including first-, second-, and third-generations are scarce although this population experiences a mental health disparity. The few studies that have been done apply limited understandings of mental...

Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention

February 23, 2023

Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention

02.23.2023 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Nayan Shah (Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California).

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