CRG Forum Series

Gendered Political Cultures of Iranian American Un/Belonging

April 9, 2015

Gendered Political Cultures of Iranian American Un/Belonging

04.09.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

“Women Can Do Anything Men Can Do”: Gender And Sexuality in the U.S. Iranian Student Movement, 1961–1979
Dr. Manijeh Moradian, UC Davis

While significant feminist scholarship exists regarding the gender and sexual politics of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and of the Islamic Republic established in its wake, very little attention has yet been paid to the revolutionary Iranian student movement in the...

Constructing Criminals: Xenophobia and the Politics of Panic

April 30, 2015

Constructing Criminals: Xenophobia and the Politics of Panic

04.15.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Perceptions of Threat and the Racialization of Illegality: Explaining Immigrant Group Participation in New York’s 2006 Protests
Prof. Chris Zepeda-Millán, Ethnic Studies

This presentation will utilize the case New York City to examine why certain immigrant groups participated in the 2006 protest wave more than others and why the city mobilized less compared with other major immigrant metropolises...

Gendering and Racializing the Philippine Migrations: Women in the Global Economy of Care and Marriage Market

May 26, 2015

Gendering and Racializing the Philippine Migrations: Women in the Global Economy of Care and Marriage Market

05.26.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Why are Filipina women so numerous in the global economy of care and the marriage market? How do gender and race shape their experience throughout their journey in the care/marriage industry? In a joint presentation, Julien Debonneville and Gwenola Ricordeau share their respective results from fieldwork research conducted in the Philippines and France regarding the migration of “Filipina domestic...

Revolution, Poetry, & Faith: Reflections on the Life of Rev. Pauli Murray

September 17, 2015

Revolution, Poetry, & Faith: Reflections on the Life of Rev. Pauli Murray

09.17.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Racial Justice & the Unconventional Activist
Jayme Goodwin, UC Berkeley Alum

Rev. Pauli Murray: Revisiting her Connections with Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhism, and Civil Rights
Dr. Purushottama Bilimoria, Institute for South Asia Studies

I will revisit the intriguing story of Rev. Pauli Murray, known also as ‘North Carolina’s Daughter...

A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America

September 24, 2015

A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America

09.24.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies

Commentary: Prof. Judith Butler, Comparative Literature Program in Critical Theory A Shadow over Palestine brings a new, deeply informed, and transnational perspective to the cultural forces that have shaped sharply differing ideas of Israel’s standing with the United...

Fresh Faithfuls: Transnational American Christianity and the Politics of Race and Sexuality

October 8, 2015

Fresh Faithfuls: Transnational American Christianity and the Politics of Race and Sexuality

10.08.2015| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

New Visions, New Burdens: The Global Politics of Asian American Transnational Evangelicalism Rachel Lim, Ethnic Studies

This paper utilizes the 2010 documentary film 1040: Christianity in the New Asia as a lens into the politics of transnational Asian American evangelicalism that seeks to influence formulations of the Pacific Rim as a new site of possibility within the...

Reconstructing Immigrant Women: Coercion, Criminalization, Commerce

October 22, 2015

Reconstructing Immigrant Women: Coercion, Criminalization, Commerce

10.22.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Producing Export-Grade Labor for the Global Economy: Indonesia’s Women Migrant Domestics at the Point of Production
Andy Scott Chang, Sociology

While a burgeoning body of migration literature has examined the subordination of women migrant domestic workers, who are increasingly relied upon to ameliorate the “care deficit” in industrialized countries, less attention has been paid to the ways...

Transforming Universal Love into Decolonial Love as an Indigenous Feminist Praxis

October 29, 2015

Transforming Universal Love into Decolonial Love as an Indigenous Feminist Praxis

10.29.2015 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Transforming Universal Love into Decolonial Love as an Indigenous Feminist Praxis: Pocahontas, The New World, and Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love
Dr. Chris Finley, Rutgers University

This paper disrupts narratives of universal love that frame the creation story of the United States as a settler colonial nation-state and capitalism. The creation story I refer to is...

Carnal Knowledge: Vanessa del Rio: 50 Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

November 5, 2015

Carnal Knowledge: Vanessa del Rio: 50 Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior

11.05.2015| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Juana María Rodríguez, Gender Women’s Studies

Using the biography,Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior, this paper considers how images and text function as complicated triggers for the attachments, identifications, desires, and traumas of our own corporeal embodiments and sexual histories. It reflects on those moments, when as readers and viewers, we encounter the limits of our own...

#BlackMasculinity: Race, Gender and the Politics of Twitter

February 25, 2016

#BlackMasculinity: Race, Gender and the Politics of Twitter

02.25.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

#MasculinitySoFragile: Dismantling Toxic Masculinity From the Inside Out
Anthony Williams, Sociology

This autoethnographic essay explores my experiences practicing public sociology through the medium of Twitter. I joined Twitter in 2009 and I gain followers daily as I tweet about #BlackLivesMatter as well as the targeted murders of brown, trans, indigenous, queer, and differently abled folks. By...