CRG Events

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...

Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present

October 29, 2020

Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present

10.29.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

In this roundtable, trans and nonbinary artists and scholars came together to discuss the ways in which intimacy is rendered and re-imagined in our contemporary moment, and how intimacy serves as a world-building tool. Dora Santana of John Jay College, SA Smythe of UCLA and Micky Bradford of the Transgender Law Center will share their craft(s) and speak of their work as a form of intimacy with the...

Archipelagos and Specters: Refugee Settlers and Climate Refugees

October 20, 2022

Archipelagos and Specters: Refugee Settlers and Climate Refugees

10.20.2022 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Neel Ahuja (University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Maryland), author of Planetary Specters: Race, Migration and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (UNC Press, 2021), and Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (University of California, Los Angeles), author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization...

Angel Island: History and Movement

January 26, 2023

Angel Island: History and Movement

01.26.2023 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Erika Lee (Regents Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities; Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; and Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University (as of July 2023)).

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

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

February 21, 2021

Afro-Latinx Feminisms in the URL & IRL Spheres

02.18.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Garifuna journalist and founder of award-winning platform, “Ain’t I Latina?,” Janel Martinez, will join Dominican visual artist and sociocultural critic, Zahira Kelly, in a roundtable discussion on Afro-Latinx feminist practices as they play out in online and offline spaces. Centering their digital reporting and criticism, this roundtable asks: How has social media expanded the ways Black Latinxs see themselves...

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

October 4, 2012

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

10.04.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mon petit chien de guerre: Conflating Jewish and Homosexual Identity during the Dreyfus Affair
Cameron McKee, History and History of Art

The Dreyfus Affair, as the scandal came to be known, was sparked in 1894 when Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer, was accused of communicating confidential military documents to the German attaché. Dreyfus’s show trial and subsequent conviction...

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...

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...

"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico"

October 6, 2022

"Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" - Film Screening and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey

10.06.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Join the Center for Race and Gender for a Zoom screening of "Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico" (21 mins), and Q&A with director, Ebony Bailey. The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico...

"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...