CRG Forum Series

Lynch Law, Migration Control, the Regulation of Racial Meaning

October 20, 2016

Lynch Law, Migration Control, the Regulation of Racial Meaning

10.20.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Litigating Unwritten Law: Reading Sam Hose’s Brutal Murder, White Newspaper Opinion, and Ida Wells’ Anti-Lynching Campaign as Legal Discourse and Recourse Kavitha Iyengar, Jurisprudence and Social Policy

Race, Discretion, and Summary Deportation at the US-Mexico Border: An Examination of Voluntary Return, Past and Present Mina Barahimi, Jurisprudence and...

Islamophobia and the Body Politics of Public Space

October 27, 2016

Islamophobia and the Body Politics of Public Space

10.27.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Geographies of Islamophobia in Sydney and the San Francisco Bay Area: Mapping the Spatial Imaginaries of Young Muslim Residents
Rhonda Itaoui, Center for Race Gender

A rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the ‘West’ has invoked wide debate on the impacts of Islamophobia on Muslim citizens living as minorities in Western nations. The ‘Bay Area Muslim Study’ (Senzai and Bazian, 2013) reported that the number one...

Bio-Recognition: Speculating Race, Gender, and Health

December 1, 2016

Bio-Recognition: Speculating Race, Gender, and Health

12.01.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Bio-Recognition: Speculating Race, Gender, and Health
Commentary: Prof. Charis Thompson, Gender & Women’s Studies

Bioethical Matriarchy: Race, Gender, and the Gift in Genomic Research

Prof. James Battle, UC Santa Cruz

The 2013 sequencing of the epigenome and genome from Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cell line illuminated the bioethical intersections of genomics, race,...

Migrating The Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

March 2, 2017

Migrating The Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

03.02.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

A roundtable with Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies) and Prof. Heiki Raphael-Hernandez, University of Maryland

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels-has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective...

States of Apology: The Culture of Commemoration

March 9, 2017

States of Apology: The Culture of Commemoration

03.09.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sexual Slavery and the Memorialization of Comfort Women
Amandu Su, English

On December 28, 2015, more than seventy years after the end of World War II, Japan and South Korea reached a landmark agreement to resolve their dispute over Korean women who were forced to provide sexual services for soldiers in Japan’s Imperial Army. Though the Japanese government neglected to accept legal responsibility for...

Disappearing Acts: Domestic Violence & Black Legal Subjects

March 16, 2017

Disappearing Acts: Domestic Violence & Black Legal Subjects

03.16.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Racial Origins of U.S. Domestic Violence Law
Margo Mahan, Sociology

My dissertation investigates the historical emergence of wife-beating laws in the United States. I argue that southern wife-beating laws emerged from a white-supremacist post-Civil War project to control the labor and degrade the social status of black families. In contrast to the long-standing narrative of...

Bodies as Borders: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

March 23, 2017
Bodies as Borders: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

03.23.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

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Istifaa Ahmed, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies

The performance we will analyze is Untitled (2012), by black artist Tameka Norris, directly inspired by Ana Mendieta’s performance piece, Untitled (Body Tracks) (1974). In her work, Norris paints a wall using her body as both tool and medium. Norris runs a knife through a lemon before cutting her tongue. Pressing...

Visual Vocabularies & Queer Citizenships

April 20, 2017

Visual Vocabularies & Queer Citizenships

04.20.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Recuperating Afro-Indigenous Pasts: Collage Art and the Case of Undocumented Migration
Alan Palaez Lopez, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

What does it mean to live in the United States as an undocumented Black and Indigenous immigrant? What types of memories do the undocumented have access to? This paper serves as a preliminary exploration of the ways in which undocumented immigrants develop...

Investments in Vulnerability: The Limits of Charity & Protection

April 27, 2017

Investments in Vulnerability: The Limits of Charity & Protection

04.27.2017| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sustaining the Disability Community: The Weaving of Activism, Kinship, and Cash Economies
Juliann Anesi, Gender and Women’s Studies Department

Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai Schools are non-governmental organizations (NGOs), established in the 1970s for students with intellectual and physical disabilities in Samoa (an independent state in the Pacific). The impact of NGOs on “...

Louisiana Slave Conspiracies

September 21, 2017

Louisiana Slave Conspiracies

09.21.2017 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Bryan Wagner, English
Patty Frontiera, D-Lab
Amani Morrison, African Diaspora Studies
Shadrick Small, Sociology

We are a multidisciplinary research project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, transcribing, translating, and analyzing manuscripts from three Louisiana slave conspiracies. We are building a digital archive that will present these French and Spanish manuscripts alongside original transcription...