CRG Forum Series

Counter-Memory and Justice In Armed Conflicts

November 1, 2018

Counter-Memory and Justice In Armed Conflicts

11.01.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Angana P. Chatterji, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project and Visiting Research Anthropologist, Center for Race & Gender

Mariane C. Ferme, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Curator of African Ethnology at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Angana P. Chatterji: Afflicted by long-drawn-out political and foundational violence, including gendered and sexualized...

Get Home Safe: Cross­-Genre Routes Through Everyday Racism

January 31, 2019

Get Home Safe: Cross­-Genre Routes Through Everyday Racism

01.31.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Beth Piatote, Associate Professor, Native American Studies
The Indigenous Everyday

In this peripatetic meditation, I describe the ordinary routes of everyday life that are both symbol and structure of indigenous loss. To be indigenous in America is to think about death every day. But it is also to make jokes and songs and inspired gestures of protest, to recover words and histories and...

Border Surveillance and the Black Mediterranean: Alternative Imaginaries of Refugees, Race and Rights

February 28, 2019

Border Surveillance and the Black Mediterranean: Alternative Imaginaries of Refugees, Race and Rights

02.28.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Camilla Hawthorne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz“Citizenship and Diasporic Ethics in the Black Mediterranean”

This talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for...

Diversity and Power In Global Christian Communities

April 18, 2019

Diversity and Power In Global Christian Communities

04.18.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Candace Lukasik, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Transnational Anxieties: Shaping a Minority Community between Egypt and the United States

Hannah Waits, PhD Candidate in History, UC Berkeley
Missionary, Go Home: Contesting the Global Activism of American Evangelicals in the Postcolonial Era

This panel explores how subaltern actors and...

Celebrating Black Girls in Liberatory Spaces

March 14, 2019

Celebrating Black Girls in Liberatory Spaces

03.14.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

This cross-disciplinary panel explores the spatial fissures and possibilities for Black girls. We engage questions of liberation, celebration, and violation that shape the lived experiences and perspectives of Black girls living in the 21st century. It is here where we depart from static categories of who girls are, where they live, and the type of access they may have at their disposal. Instead, we share and engage conversation to illustrate the...

Staging Justice

April 11, 2019

Staging Justice

04.11.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Deniz Göktürk, Associate Professor, Department of German, UC Berkeley
Art as Counter Forensics: Reflections on Structural Racism Following the NSU-Trial

Between 2000 and 2006 members of the rightwing extremist terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) murdered nine small business owners – eight of Turkish and one of Greek descent – and one police woman in cities across Germany, all with the same handgun, a Ceska 83 Browning. The...

Fearing The Black Body

September 12, 2019

Fearing The Black Body

09.12.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Join us for the first CRG Thursday Forum as author Sabrina Strings of UC Irvine discusses her new book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, with the Henderson Center’s Savala Trepczynski

Event co-sponsored by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law.

Water and War: Environmental Justice In Flint, Detroit, and Northern California

November 17, 2019

Water and War: Environmental Justice In Flint, Detroit, and Northern California

11.07.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Beth Rose Middleton Manning of UC Davis presents “Currents of Resistance: Water Quality/Quantity Struggles in Indigenous Northern California Homelands,” and Michael Mascarenhas of ESPM offers “Thirsty for Environmental Justice: Flint, Detroit, and the War over Michigan’s Water.”

Currents of Resistance: Water Quality/Quantity Struggles in Indigenous Northern...

Amplifying Memory Through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings

October 17, 2019

Amplifying Memory Through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings

10.17.2019| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Alutiiq choreographer and performer Tanya Lukin Linklater shares her work and discusses the museum as performance space with TDPS scholars Bélgica del Río and Jeni(f)fer Tamayo

Lukin Linklater will contextualize her practice in performance alongside and in relation to Indigenous objects or cultural belongings as gestures towards repatriation. She will speak to her thinking...

Carceral (Im)Mobilities: Architectures Of The Migrant Camp, The Refugee Camp, and The Labor Camp

October 24, 2019

Carceral (Im)Mobilities: Architectures Of The Migrant Camp, The Refugee Camp, and The Labor Camp

10.24.2019 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Berkeley architectural historians Desiree Valadares, Laura Belik, and Heba Al-Najabaoffer papers on camps in Brazil, Syria, and Canada to explore how camp “architectures” have operated to shape, detain, and enable forms of movement.

As places of exception and mass incarceration, the camp constitutes a space set apart outside the boundaries of legal and civil...