CRG Events

Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities

March 18, 2010

Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities

03.18.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Silence of Difference: Race, Sexuality, & Disability in Soviet Pantomime After Stalin
Anastasia Kayiatos, Slavic Literature & Languages

This paper considers the role of “full” speech in the fabrication of ideal Soviet subjectivity under late socialism; and the role of silence or vexed speech in coextensive...

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...

Embodiments Of Memory: African American Remains & Representations

September 22, 2010

Embodiments Of Memory: African American Remains & Representations

09.22.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Brief History of Collecting, Researching, and Displaying African American Human Remains in the United States
Samuel J. Redman, History

Dozens of museums in the United States possess diverse collections of human remains. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, anthropologists and medical scientists collected, researched, and displayed human bodies in an effort to...

Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones

October 5, 2010

Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones

10.05.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience
Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies

This presentation focuses on the developmental trajectory of the portrayal of mixed race people in mainstream media. Primarily looking at film, but also analyzing other media texts such as photography, stand-up comedy and...

Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities

November 16, 2010

Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities

11.16.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Secularism, Sexuality, and Religious Liberty: A Postcolonial Genealogy
Prof. Saba Mahmood, Social Cultural Anthropology

The relegation of religion and the family to the private sphere is widely regarded as a key feature of modern secular societies. While postcolonial states of South Asia and the Middle East are heir to this arrangement, they are also distinct in that they...

The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

September 26, 2011

The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

09.26.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003
Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology

In the past few decades a dedicated collection of scholars have examined the matter of skin tone stratification within the Black American population and found that complexion has significant net effects on a variety of stratification outcomes. These analyses relied heavily on data collected between 1950 and 1980. In...

Moral Panics & the Fantastic Future Family

September 11, 2011

Moral Panics & the Fantastic Future Family

09.22.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

What’s a Feminist to Do? How New Anti-abortion Strategies and New Technologies are Reconfiguring the Debate over Sex Selection, Race and Abortion
Dr. Sujatha Jesudason, Generations Ahead

One of the more incendiary tactics by anti-choice advocates recently has been to propose legislation to ban abortion for reasons of sex and race. Conflating charges of sex selection with claims of “race-selective...

Race, Subjectivity, & Legibility In Literature

November 17, 2011

Race, Subjectivity, & Legibility In Literature

11.17.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Harlem as a ‘Community in Transition’ in Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred
Nilofar Gardezi

My paper works to recover the “lost years” of the 1940s-1960s in African American poetry and culture. I will focus on three critically neglected African American poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden and Melvin Tolson and their understudied mid-century poetry to examine, formally as well as...

Political Parties & Grassroots Resistance: New Texts on Race, Immigration & Political Action

October 20, 2011

Political Parties & Grassroots Resistance: New Texts On Race, Immigration & Political Action

10.20.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Join Prof. Taeku Lee, Political Science, Prof. Kim Voss, Sociology, and Prof. Irene Bloemraad, Sociology, in a discussion of their recent publications on race, immigration, and political action.

Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
edited by Prof. Kim Voss, Sociology;...

School and Home: Racialized and Gendered Connections

February 9, 2012

School and Home: Racialized and Gendered Connections

02.09.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Construction “Appropriate” Families: Education, Inequality, and Teacher Subjectivities
Jessica S. Cobb, Sociology

Classic sociological studies of teachers have examined how teachers establish a professional identity and make meaning in their work through relations with students, parents, colleagues and administrators. However, these studies have been largely decontextualized from conditions of...