CRG Forum Series

Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal

April 25, 2023

Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal

04.25.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 554 SSB

with Charles H.F. Davis III (Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education; Director of the Campus Abolition Research Lab, University of Michigan).

In the wake of the ongoing state and state-sanctioned violence disproportionately impacting racially and other minoritized communities, municipalities as well as colleges and universities...

The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

September 10, 2020

The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

09.10.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an epidemic of anti-Asian violence, fueled by a president who has labelled COVID-19 “kung flu” and “the Chinese virus.” This panel features Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press, 2018...

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes And Global Politics — A Conversation With Mae Ngai

November 19, 2021

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes And Global Politics — A Conversation With Mae Ngai

11.19.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

How did Chinese migration to the goldfields of California, Australia and South Africa both upend the global economy and forge modern conceptions of race?

Join us for a conversation with historian Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor Asian American Studies, and Professor of History at Columbia University) about her remarkable new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold...

"State Violence as Gender Violence" Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press): Second Part of Three-Part Event

September 14, 2023

"State Violence as Gender Violence"
Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press): Second Part of Three-Part Event

09.14.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

with Inderpal Grewal (Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and of American Studies, Yale University), Nadera Shalhoub- Kevorkian (Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and...

Canceling Critical Race Theory and The "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks

October 7, 2021

Canceling Critical Race Theory and The "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks

10.07.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

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

Join us for a panel conversation with leading scholars who will investigate connections between the attack on Critical Race Theory and a reckoning with racist pasts and presents, the preoccupation with "cancel culture" and the "'woke' agenda," backlash against #MeToo, and the transnational circulation of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...