CRG Events

"Where is My Story?": Erasure, Violence and Counter-Memory

January 29, 2023

"Where is My Story?": Erasure, Violence and Counter-Memory

01.29.2023 | 5:00 PM IST / 3:30 AM PST | Virtual - Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist, Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender).

Hosted by Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative. Co-sponsored by...

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia

April 26, 2023

Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia

04.26.2023 | 4 - 5:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

with Saman Zia-Zarifi (Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights; and Former Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists)
and Christine Chung (Human Rights Expert).

The panel explores the heightening of political conflict and the use of law by nationalist and far-right cultures and movements in South Asia today in areas where state and vigilante actions pose majoritarian groups as authentic and those...

Atrocity in Nuh: Racialization, Islamomisia, and the Hindu Right

November 11, 2023

Atrocity in Nuh: Racialization, Islamomisia, and the Hindu Right

11.11.2023 | 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM EST | Zoom Webinar

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

Introduction by Ziya Us Salam (Journalist, The Hindu Newspaper (Delhi, India)), and concluding remarks by Dr. Amritjit Singh (Professor Emeritus, Ohio University).

Event hosted by the...

Bollywood: Representations of Muslims in Culture & Society

October 3, 2023

Bollywood: Representations of Muslims in Culture & Society

10.03.2023 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Actor, Appeared in more than 40 films, including "No One Killed Jessica," "Raees," "Article 15," and "Mission Mangal," and Prime and Netflix Series, “Tandav“ and “Scoop“)
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender, and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley).

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Majoritarian & Ethnic Violence in Manipur

November 13, 2023

Majoritarian & Ethnic Violence in Manipur

11.13.2023 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM | 155 Dwinelle Hall
with Dr. Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)
and Niang Hangzo (Co-Founder, NAMTA: North American Manipur Tribal Association).

Join us for a discussion on the rights of the Indigenous and the ongoing violence in Manipur, India, which has displaced thousands since May 3rd.

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Countering Falsehoods / Discourses Of Power: Love Jihad and Other Fictions

March 13, 2024

Countering Falsehoods / Discourses Of Power: Love Jihad and Other Fictions

03.13.2024 | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with CRG's Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, Sreenivasan Jain (Journalist, Broadcaster, and Co-author of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley)
and Leti Volpp (UC Berkeley School of Law).

Sreenivasan Jain is a CRG Distinguished Journalist-...

Coming Out As Dalit: Surviving India's Caste System

February 13, 2024

Coming Out As Dalit: Surviving India's Caste System

02.13.2024 | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with Yashica Dutt (Journalist and Author of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System),
in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley).

Event co-sponsored with the Institute for South Asia Studies.

The Role of Counter-Memory in Contexts of Majoritarian Nationalism and Illiberal Democracy

August 25, 2022

The Role of Counter-Memory in Contexts of Majoritarian Nationalism and Illiberal Democracy

08.25.2022 | 9:00 AM | Kulturhuset

with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initative).

History-writing, remembrance, and erasure are powerful political tools in the hands of victors and rulers – but also serve as modalities of resistance for subaltern and oppressed groups. In this keynote, Dr. Chatterji discusses the role of counter-memory and the archive, in establishing foundations for...

Political Conflict and Gender Rights in South Asia

March 3, 2016

Political Conflict and Gender Rights in South Asia

03.03.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM | 170 Boalt Hall

with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Event Introduced by Professor Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Director, Center for Race and Gender and Professor (Emerita), Departments of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies

Speaker Introduced by Angana Chatterji, Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and...

Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine

April 16, 2016

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...