CRG Forum Series

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...

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...

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...

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

February 8, 2024

The Failure of Abolition in American Law

02.08.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM | 141 Law Building

with Giuliana Perrone (Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara).

The Law & Humanities Forum Series is organized by Professors Leti Volpp(link is external)...

Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison

February 2, 2023

Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison

02.02.2023 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Elliott Young (Professor of History, Lewis & Clark).

Event organized by CRG's Director, Professor Leti Volpp, and co-sponsored by the...

CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase

April 6, 2023

CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase

04.06.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 691 SSB

Join us for an afternoon as our Visiting Scholars share their works in progress.

Marijke Bassani (Human rights Lawyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Australia)) Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz (Ph.D. Candidate in Welfare Law, Department of Culture and Society, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden)) Rachel Rosenbloom (Professor of Law, Northeastern University and...

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

April 21, 2022

Unsettling Borders: O’odham (Indigenous) Land As Intervention and Analytic

04.21.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Sherally Munshi (Georgetown Law) and Fantasia Painter ((Salt River Pima-Maricopa) UC Davis). This event will explore the colonial dimensions of the U.S. southern border to critically examine the political stakes of border enforcement, particularly in the face of Indigenous displacement and migration (Munshi), and will position O’odham land at the center of analysis...

Crossed by the Border: Migration and the Crisis Imaginary

September 22, 2022

Crossed by the Border: Migration and the Crisis Imaginary

09.22.2022| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | In Person, 554 Social Sciences Building

What is Critical Race Theory and why is it the sudden target of fierce right-wing attacks?

A conversation with Debarati Sanyal (Professor of French, UC Berkeley), Cristiana Giordano (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis), and Rhiannon Welch (Associate Professor of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley) focused on migration and the Mediterranean....

Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence

September 21, 2023

Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence

09.21.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)

with Rose Cuison Villazor (Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School; Fellow in Residence, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU School of Law (AY 2023-2024)) and Prabha Kotiswaran (Professor of Law and Social Justice, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London)....

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

February 17, 2022

Indigenous And Asian Entanglements: Space, Time, Tense

02.17.2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

A conversation with Quynh Nhu Le (University of South Florida), author of Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas (Temple University Press, 2019) and Juliana Hu Pegues (Cornell University), author of Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements (UNC Press, 2021).

Hosted by CRG’s Native...