CRG Events

The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?

October 28, 2016

The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?

10.28.2016 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Institute for South Asia Studies Conference Room, 10 Stephens Hall

with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris: Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King College, London.

Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta,...

Sambo: A (Post)Colonial (Mis)Education

November 10, 2016

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...

Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society

April 3, 2017

Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society

04.03.2017 | 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

Opening Remarks: Paul Alivisatos, Vice Chancellor for Research and Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UC Berkeley

Introductions by Angana P. Chatterji,...

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

November 27, 2018

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...

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

April 26, 2024

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

04.26.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with

Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley Thomas Blom Hansen (Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Stanford University) Audrey Truschke (Professor and Asian Studies Director, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers...

Amplifying Memory Through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings

October 17, 2019

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...

To Asia and Back: The Excursions & Incursions Of White Domesticity

March 4, 2010

To Asia and Back: The Excursions & Incursions Of White Domesticity

03.04.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Maternal Soldiers of Empire: Domesticity, English Instruction, & the Thomasites in the American Philippines
Funie Hsu, Education

Racialized Toxins & Sovereign Fantasies: Lead, Panics, and Transnational Toys
Professor Mel Chen, Gender and Women’s Studies

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Foreign Bodies: Gendering Transnational Migration In Contemporary Italy and Ireland

September 17, 2009

Foreign Bodies: Gendering Transnational Migration In Contemporary Italy and Ireland

09.17.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Made in Chitaly
Dr. Laura Fantone, Beatrice Bain Research Group

The symbolic and material economies of Italy shaped a specific space around the figure of the East Asian immigrant, especially living in central Italy . Drawing from recent data about Italy and sociological analysis of economic and cultural integration patterns, I analyze opportunities...

The Persisting Plantation: Laborers In The Field & Literature

December 10, 2009

The Persisting Plantation: Laborers In The Field & Literature

12.10.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Costs of Certified Food: Just Pineapple Production in Costa Rica
Dr. Sang Lee, College of Natural Resources

The dramatic increase in the production and export of tropical and off season fruits produced in the global south has distanced consumers and producers. It has created consumer anxieties around food production practices related to hygiene, environment, and labor. In...

Violence, Gender, and The Construction Of Communities In The Twentieth Century Indian Novel: Some Case Studies

September 8, 2010

Violence, Gender, and The Construction Of Communities In The Twentieth Century Indian Novel: Some Case Studies

09.08.2010| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Caste, Gender and Sexuality: On the Figure of The Dalit Woman in P. Sivakami’s Fiction
Kiran Keshavamurthy, South and Southeast Asia Studies

The narratives of P. Sivakami’s novels The Grip Of Change(1989) and Author’s Notes: Gowri (1999) critique the sexualized and supposedly violable caste body of the dalit woman. In The...