CRG Forum Series

Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children In Migration

September 20, 2018

Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children In Migration

09.20.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 820 Barrows Hall, Social Science Matrix

“It is a crime to be young here”: Violence against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States
Leisy J. Abrego, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA

US government officials have labeled Central American young people arriving in recent years as everything from representatives of a “humanitarian crisis” to a “...

Archives of Justice and Abolition

October 4, 2018

Archives of Justice and Abolition

10.04.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

In the (After) Life: Black Lesbian Spatialities under the Emergence of Homonationalism
by Kerby Lynch

This dissertation explores the artifacts of a Black lesbian literary archive at the height of intersectional liberation movements (Black, Gay and Feminist). I attempt to spatialize the social dynamics of a post-Black Power era and map narratives of when Black lesbian poets contest the social devaluation of black women...

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.

Exclusion By Design: Migrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status

November 13, 2025

Exclusion By Design: Migrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status
11.13.2025 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with CRG Visiting Scholar (Summer + Fall 2025)
Ming H. Chen, Professor of Law, Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, and Faculty Director, Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship & Equality (RICE), UC Law SF

along with respondents
Cybelle Fox, Professor of Sociology
and
Leti...

Dreams and Visions of Palestine: From Jerusalem to the San Francisco Bay Area -- The Power of Portraits in Narratives

February 18, 2016

Dreams and Visions of Palestine: From Jerusalem to the San Francisco Bay Area -- The Power of Portraits in Narratives

02.18.2016| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Scholarship exploring the significance of photography in oral history narratives has been increasing in recent years. Building on this scholarship, this panel suggests that photographs add another dimension to narratives. More specifically, photographs provide an opportunity for interviewees to assert their agency through nonverbal expressions and the settings they inhabit.

To...

#IDENTITY by The Color Of New Media

November 2, 2017

#IDENTITY by The Color Of New Media

11.02.2017| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

CRG's Research Working Group, The Color of New Media, has recently completed its first manuscript for publication, an edited volume called #identity, about Twitter and race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. The two faculty organizers of The Color of New Media, and two contributing authors (one current Berkeley...

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

March 19, 2015

Unsettling the State: Native Women Derailing U.S. Indian Policy in Historical and Contemporary Articulations

03.19.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Sovereignty Struggles: Native Californian Women and the Politics of Federal Recognition
Olivia Chilcote, Ethnic Studies

In the United States, Native American tribes are placed within a contrived hierarchy as either federally recognized or unrecognized tribes. Federally recognized tribes are considered sovereign nations with a government-to-government...

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

April 16, 2015

Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research

04.16.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Transnational Feminist Approaches to the Identities and Experiences of Asian TCK Women at Cal
Jinoh Ryu (Kahn), Gender and Women’s Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies

Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a term that refers to “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture.” TCKs accompany their parents across...

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

September 12, 2013

Genocide, Memory, and Testimony: Challenges in Guatemala and Commemorations in Chile

09.12.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Prof. Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Respondent: Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies, Gender Women’s Studies

This year marked a history-making trial when former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans by his own country’s judicial system. Prof. Beatriz Manz testified at the trial as...

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

September 26, 2013

Hearing and Queering Convergence Across Sound and Text

09.26.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

This panel explores the ways in which sound articulates race, nation, culture, and sexuality. Examining the work of several artists, we illustrate the varied aesthetic strategies they have used to pose alternative possibilities for the expression of marginalized identities in the sonic realm and beyond.

Sounding Unity: Paul Robeson’s Afro Asian Interruption
Prof. Tamara Roberts, Music

Tamara will...