CRG Events

Visual Constructions of Race and Stigma In Europe

February 23, 2012

Visual Constructions Of Race And Stigma In Europe

02.23.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Gay Poster-Posturing: Queer Racialized Disjunctions in the (French) Hom(m)o-Republic
Prof. Paola Bacchetta, Gender & Women’s Studies

This talk takes as its point of departure the assemblage constituted by the first to final drafts of the 2011 French Annual Gay Pride March poster that became, in serial mode, centers of passionate polemics around queer, racism and colonialism in France and parts...

Political Encounters & Engagements: A Spotlight On Undergraduate Student Research On Race & Gender

April 5, 2012

Political Encounters & Engagements: A Spotlight On Undergraduate Student Research On Race & Gender

04.05.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Join CRG for our annual forum on emerging research by UC Berkeley undergraduate student grant recipients. Facilitated by Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies


“AzNpRyDE”: Pan-Asianism and Youth Culture in an Age of Cyberspace
Son Chau, Ethnic Studies & American Studies

Throughout the ’90s and early 2000s, the earlier...

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

September 17, 2020

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

09.17.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

We invite you to join us for the first installment of “Radical Kinship,” a new series curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alan Pelaez Lopez.

In this first installment, Amber Starks...

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

January 28, 2021

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

01.28.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Join us in celebrating two new poetry collections, I love you and I’m not dead by Sade LaNayand america, MINE by Sasha Banks. Released at the beginning of COVID-19, both poets’ work cannot be any more timely. LaNay and Banks’ collections each take the approach of archival resurrection to name and imagine Black life outside conditions of social death. In I love you and I’m...

Queer Visual Resistance

March 16, 2023

Queer Visual Resistance

03.16.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow(writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora).

In We Left Them Nothing (2021), queer Indigenous (Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá & Tódích'íí'nii) artist, Demian DinéYazhi´writes, “witness how a new world emerges in the decaying flesh of colonizer manipulation, illusions of supremacy, & deceptive justice.”...

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

October 22, 2009

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

10.22.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Colonial Anthroponomy and Gender Identity in a Former Slave-Trading Society
Prof. Ugo Nwokeji, African American Studies

By virtue of being an aspect of language, naming expresses power and social change. From this perspective, systems of surnames in precolonial Africa and their transformation during the colonial period is a narrative of power relations in precolonial Africa on the one hand and...

Lawyers in Wartime

October 8, 2009

Lawyers in Wartime

10.08.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Lawyering in the Shadow of War: A Study of Attorneys Representing Guantánamo Detainees
Prof. Laurel Fletcher, Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic

Who are the attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees? What is the nature of this representation? What lessons can we learn from the experience of habeas counsel about the role of lawyers during this chapter in United States legal history? This paper...

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

September 10, 2009

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

09.10.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the ‘Right To Fight’
Liz Montegary, UC Davis

This paper examines how calls for the repeal of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, mainstream lesbian and gay organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) often rely on the testimonies of lesbian and gay service members who “come out” against the federally mandated ban on...

Producing Belonging and Identity: Performing Citizenship and Identity

May 7, 2009

Producing Belonging and Identity: Performing Citizenship and Identity

05.07.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Producing Fruitvale: Latinidad, Immigration, and the Development of a “Village”
Juan Herrera, Ethnic Studies

“Breaking Character: Women’s Theater Workshops and the Incorporation of Immigrants in France”
Emine Fisek, Performance Studies

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CRG Undergraduate Grantee Spring 2009 Forum

March 19, 2009

CRG Undergraduate Grantee Spring 2009 Forum

03.19.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Near Eastern Studies, traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where she analyzed artistic shifts in 19th-century visual representations of the Sultan Hassan Mosque. She argues that the gradual movement from objective depictions by European colonial artists, from static architectual renderings and paintings that the emphasized structural forms, to more personalized, highly subjective representations of individual figures and...