CRG Events

Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine

04.12.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM | Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

with Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University and Fulbright Scholar, 2015-1016, at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Discussant: Samera Esmeir, Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Event introduced by Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies...

Sambo: A (Post)Colonial (Mis)Education

11.10.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM | Maude Fife Room, Hearst Annex D-37, UC Berkeley

with Abdul R. JanMohamed, English

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley

Speaker Introduced by: Angana Chatterji, Visiting Research Anthropologist and Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and...

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law

11.27.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

Judge Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay will speak to her work spanning the struggle for freedom in South Africa, on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, on the International Criminal Court, and as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

Amplifying Memory Through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings

10.17.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Alutiiq choreographer and performer Tanya Lukin Linklater shares her work and discusses the museum as performance space with TDPS scholars Bélgica del Río and Jeni(f)fer Tamayo

Lukin Linklater will contextualize her practice in performance alongside and in relation to Indigenous objects or cultural belongings as gestures towards repatriation. She will speak to her thinking...