CRG Forum Series

Dreams and Visions of Palestine: From Jerusalem to the San Francisco Bay Area -- The Power of Portraits in Narratives

February 18, 2016

Dreams and Visions of Palestine: From Jerusalem to the San Francisco Bay Area -- The Power of Portraits in Narratives

02.18.2016| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Scholarship exploring the significance of photography in oral history narratives has been increasing in recent years. Building on this scholarship, this panel suggests that photographs add another dimension to narratives. More specifically, photographs provide an opportunity for interviewees to assert their agency through nonverbal expressions and the settings they inhabit.

To...

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

March 19, 2015

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

03.19.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sovereignty Struggles: Native Californian Women and the Politics of Federal Recognition
Olivia Chilcote, Ethnic Studies

In the United States, Native American tribes are placed within a contrived hierarchy as either federally recognized or unrecognized tribes. Federally recognized tribes are considered sovereign nations with a government-to-government...

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

April 16, 2015

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

04.16.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Transnational Feminist Approaches to the Identities and Experiences of Asian TCK Women at Cal
Jinoh Ryu (Kahn), Gender and Women’s Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies

Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a term that refers to “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture.” TCKs accompany their parents across...

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

September 12, 2013

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

09.12.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Prof. Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Respondent: Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies, Gender Women’s Studies

This year marked a history-making trial when former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans by his own country’s judicial system. Prof. Beatriz Manz testified at the trial as...

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

September 26, 2013

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

09.26.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

This panel explores the ways in which sound articulates race, nation, culture, and sexuality. Examining the work of several artists, we illustrate the varied aesthetic strategies they have used to pose alternative possibilities for the expression of marginalized identities in the sonic realm and beyond.

Sounding Unity: Paul Robeson’s Afro Asian Interruption
Prof. Tamara Roberts, Music

Tamara will...

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

October 10, 2013

Catalyzing Race Revolution: The Black Panthers and the Brown Berets

10.10.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Presenters share findings from their recent publications on 1960s revolutionary US social movements for racial justice.

Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Prof. Waldo Martin, History

Black against Empire...

Performing Justice: Guatemalan Women Reconfiguring Resistance through Activism and Performance

October 24, 2013

Performing Justice: Guatemalan Women Reconfiguring Resistance through Activism and Performance

10.24.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Tejiendo La Memoria: Guatemalan Women Contesting Violence during La Guerra Civil and its aftermath”
Carolyn Vera, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/a Studies

In this paper, I interrogate the performance art of two Guatemalan performance artists, Regina Jose Galindo and Maria Adela Diaz, emphasizing the ways they use performance art to intervene in Guatemala’s history of...

Race and Social Movements: What Reproductive Justice Teaches Us

November 14, 2013

Race and Social Movements: What Reproductive Justice Teaches Us

11.14.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Panelists will discuss race, gender and social movements based on their practical experience and research with the reproductive justice movement.

Impossible Conversations: The Bottleneck of Race in the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice and Movement Building
Dr. Sujatha Jesudason, CoreAlign, UCSF

In every conversation that CoreAlign (a national sexual and reproductive justice movement...

Remixing Black Pasts and Futures: Representation Belonging

November 21, 2013

Remixing Black Pasts and Futures: Representation Belonging

11.21.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Cotton Framed Revolutionaries: T-Shirt Culture and Black Power Iconography
Kimberly McNair, African American Studies

Over the past four decades Black Power iconography has been evoked within advertisements, posters, and apparel that appeals to consumers of political paraphernalia. I explore the histories of these images mediated across genres in American popular culture from the late 1960s and early...

Bodies of Difference and Desire

December 5, 2013

Bodies of Difference and Desire

12.05.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Meditations on Mammy: Asexuality and Blackness
Ianna Hawkins Owen, African Diaspora Studies

The Asexual Visibility and Education Network functions simultaneously as a message board based community and as an advocacy organization advancing the claim that asexuals are “just like everybody else.” In this context, black asexuals on AVEN have created threads/posts seeking out other black asexual users. Non-POC responses in these...