CRG Forum Series

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

March 21, 2013

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

03.21.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom:
Mulattoes in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States
A.B. Wilkinson, History

Why Our Post-Race Society Still Has A Race Problem: How Race and Freedom Go Hand-in-Hand
Michael McGee, African American Studies

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

February 12, 2013

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

02.12.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

“Thanks to Berkeley…” Managing Multiculturalism in an Age of Austerity
Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies
Dr. Michael Cohen, American Studies African American Studies

This paper takes the UC’s recent “Thanks to Berkeley…” private capital fund drive and its slick PR campaign – focused on a campus wide photographic project – as a site of contestation over issues of...

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

April 4, 2013

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

04.02.2013 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall


Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Prof. Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University

Beauty = Power: Blade the Vampire Hunter and Homoerotic Super-Heroism
Prof. Darieck Scott, African American Studies

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” because it...

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

May 2, 2013

Embodied Epistemologies: Performing Spirituality, Queering Latinidad

05.02.2013 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Movement Methodologies: Embodied Conocimiento, Memory & Remembrance
Elisa Diana Huerta, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center

This paper explores the nuanced tensions and poetics of ethnographic research praxis. Drawing upon my dissertation research, I explore the ways in which I, as the ethnographer/researcher/inside-outsider, navigate disciplinary and...

Queer Rhythms: The Makings of Race & Rehearsal

September 11, 2014

Queer Rhythms: The Makings of Race & Rehearsal

09.11.2014| 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Ordinary Failures: Reciting Diaspora
Ianna Hawkins Owen, African American Studies

In the face of overdetermined failure, ranging from policy to philosophy, artists and writers of the black diaspora have chosen to depict, recite, and repeat intraracial failure in their work. My concern with these recitations are their capacity to racialize the interventions of Heather Love’s Feeling Backward to...

Racial-Sexual Ontologies of the Other

September 18, 2014

Racial-Sexual Ontologies of the Other

09.18.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Ritual Murder versus Sexual Perversion: Antisemitism, Liberalism, and the Hilsner Affair (Austria 1900)
Johanna Rothe, UC Santa Cruz

Johanna Rothe is a PhD candidate in History of Consciousness (with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies) at UC Santa Cruz. She is finishing a dissertation on psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the politics of nationality in late Habsburg Austria.


Queerphilic Imperialism and...

Negotiating “Feminisms” through Time & Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Problematic Legacy of Feminism in Egypt & the United States

October 16, 2014

Negotiating “Feminisms” through Time & Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Problematic Legacy of Feminism in Egypt & the United States

10.14.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Postcolonial Feminism and the Egyptian Context
Sara Salem, Ethnic Studies

State Violence and the Quest for Race-Conscious Feminist Praxis
Rekia Jibrin, Social & Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Education

The question of “feminism” has long been contentious in...

Family Routes: Transnational Adoption & the Production of Nationhood

November 6, 2014

Family Routes: Transnational Adoption & the Production of Nationhood

11.06.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy, Ethnic Studies

Prof. Choy will discuss the findings explored in her recent publication, Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (NYU Press, 2013). In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has...

Space as Weapon: Mapping Repression in Tahrir Square & Cape Town

December 4, 2014

Space as Weapon: Mapping Repression in Tahrir Square & Cape Town

12.04.2014| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Re-scripting the City: Race, Gender and Architecture in Cape Town’s Migrant Labour Hostels
Sharone L. Tomer, Architecture

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Cape Town was represented as a ‘white’ city. Because the indigenous population at the Cape at the time of European colonization was ‘aboriginale’ rather than ‘black’ – meaning Bantu-speakers that migrated from East and...