CRG Forum Series

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...

Hacking Gender Performance: Fat Queer Bodies Negotiating the Politics of Marginality On/Offline

February 13, 2014

Hacking Gender Performance: Fat Queer Bodies Negotiating the Politics of Marginality On/Offline

02.13.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Constructing Performing the ‘Fat Bitch’: Irreverence as Queer Cultural Production Virgie Tovar, Independent Scholar

In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity scholar Jose Munoz posits that “queer cultural production is both an acknowledgement of the lack that is endemic to any heteronormative rendering of the world and a building, a ‘world...

Military Optics and Bodies of Difference

February 27, 2014

Military Optics and Bodies of Difference

02.27.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Reading Domestic Uses of Military Aerial Perspective: Domestic Abuse Photography and the Framing of Terror Kelli Moore, Rhetoric

Our experience of the Iraq war is conditioned by frenzied production of documentary images of war on one hand and the rational, administrative suppression of images of gender and sexual violence by the U.S. government on the other. This paper contributes to work in feminist studies of...

Shifting Fault Lines of Race Reproduction in Latin America

March 13, 2014

Shifting Fault Lines of Race Reproduction in Latin America

03.13.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Untangling Discursive Reproduction: Negras, Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in Brazil Ugo F. Edu, Anthropology, History, Social Medicine

This paper takes the bodies of black women, particularly their fertility and reproductive system, as its primary focus to explore “the forms of violence and domination enabled by the recognition of humanity, licensed by the invocation of rights and justified on...

Eating Theory: The Racial Politics of Food Farming

March 20, 2014

Eating Theory: The Racial Politics of Food Farming

03.20.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mediating an Intimate Public: Chino Latino Restaurants and Emergent Forms of Sociality
Prof. Lok Siu, Ethnic Studies

Chino Latino Restaurants in New York City represent the most prominent public cultural institutions that index the transnational migratory circuits of Chinese from Asia to Latin America to the United States. This migratory itinerary through different social-cultural systems informs the culinary...

Unsettling Sonic Space Through Indigenous Testimony

April 3, 2014

Unsettling Sonic Space Through Indigenous Testimony

04.03.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sonic Sovereignty in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded
Prof. Beth Piatote, Native American Studies

This presentation examines the employment of sound, particularly Salish singing and drumming, in articulating alternative boundaries of Flathead/Salish communities that extend beyond the reservation and the visual surveillance scope of the law. Drawing upon the context of the reservation as a legally “...

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

April 24, 2014

Devalued Bodies in an Era of Neoliberal Choice

04.24.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mary Susman, Gender Women’s Studies, Sociology Ella Bastone, Gender Women’s Studies Rachel Upton, Gender Women’s Studies

We exist during a changing landscape of U.S. “equality,” with certain once-outcast identities now seduced by the neoliberal, capitalist economy and assimilated into normative notions of belonging. While certain bodies become recognizable subjects, other bodies are narrowly constructed as internal...

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

April 29, 2014

Continuity and Change: The Contemporary Politics of Language and Cultural Revitalization for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.

04.29.2014 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

A Case for Concern in Lakota Language Revitalization: A Glimpse at Who’s Learning Lakota Today and Why Tasha Hauff, Ethnic Studies

Estimates from the 2000 Census show that only 15 percent of Lakota people ages 5 and over have Lakota speaking ability. In addition, these numbers show that most fluent Lakota speakers are over 65 years of age...

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

October 4, 2012

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

10.04.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mon petit chien de guerre: Conflating Jewish and Homosexual Identity during the Dreyfus Affair
Cameron McKee, History and History of Art

The Dreyfus Affair, as the scandal came to be known, was sparked in 1894 when Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer, was accused of communicating confidential military documents to the German attaché. Dreyfus’s show trial and subsequent conviction on the...

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

October 18, 2012

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

10.18.2012 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Blues Narratives and Indigenous Imaginaries: On a Critical Filipino/American Poetics of Place
Thea Quiray Tagle, UC San Diego

This talk engages with transformations in the poetics and politics of Filipino American decolonial cultural productions made by San Francisco Bay Area-based artists and activists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Beginning from the blues poetry of Al Robles, my...