CRG Events

Contextualized Formations of Black Identity

March 5, 2009

Contextualized Formations of Black Identity

03.05.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Professor Daniel Perlstein, Education
Professor Na’ilah Suad Nasir, African American Studies / Education

The Brooklyn, New York based civil rights activist Sonny Carson once noted that the schoolhouses he attended were like prisons, and that the prisons themselves were posing as schoolhouses—metal bars ran down the windows of both. Various authors such as playwright George Bernard Shaw, sociologist Michel Foucault...

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Racial Affinities: Interacial Verbal Interactions & Intra-Race Policing

February 19, 2009

Racial Affinities: Interacial Verbal Interactions & Intra-Race Policing

02.19.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Molly Babel, Linguistics
Trevor Gardner, Sociology

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Hyper-Black & Hyper-White Characterizations in Film

February 5, 2009

Hyper-Black & Hyper-White Characterizations in Film

02.05.2009 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Linda Haverty Rugg, Scandinavian Studies

Linda Williams, Film Studies

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Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

March 22, 2012

Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

03.22.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Presented at the CRG Thursday Forum, Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America, March 10, 2012

Family Sacrifices: Chinese American Neo-Confucianism
Prof. Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University

This paper explores the worldviews and moral frameworks of non-religious Chinese Americans, with a particular focus on Confucian values. Through in-depth interviews of 20 Chinese...

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Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

April 18, 2013

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

04.18.2013 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Arizona: A Contested Story, Whose History?
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza, History

In 2010, the Arizona legislature banned the teaching of Ethnic Studies in public schools (K-12) via House Bill 2281. This bill specifically targeted Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program. According to the proponents of this bill, the MAS program was “dangerous”...

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Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

April 12, 2012

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

04.12.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley 1969: A Counter-Hegemonic Struggle for Radical Pedagogy & Revolutionary Curriculum
Ziza Delgado, Ethnic Studies

This presentation will discuss the struggle for Ethnic Studies at UCB via the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), as a counter-hegemonic project within the Euro-centric patriarchal...

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Homesteading and The American Dream

March 14, 2024

Homesteading and The American Dream

03.14.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with K-Sue Park (Professor of Law, UCLA Law)

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law) and...

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Election 2020 Roundup

November 12, 2020

Election 2020 Roundup

11.12.2020| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

UC Berkeley faculty experts gathered for a conversation about the November 3 election. The panel featured Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, and Professor in the Graduate School of Education; Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law; Taeku Lee, Associate Dean and Chair of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and George Johnson Professor of...

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The Camera and The Law

February 15, 2024

The Camera and The Law

02.15.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance, Columbia University; Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University of London School of Law).

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law) and Bryan Wagner (Department of English) and is supported by the...