CRG Forum Series

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...

Theorizing Black Masculinity: Sexuality, Authenticity, Self-Construction

November 19, 2015

Theorizing Black Masculinity: Sexuality, Authenticity, Self-Construction

11.19.2015| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Between Class Lines: Politics of Respectability and the Ghetto Allure in the Romantic Relationships of Middle-Class Black Men
Joy Hightower, Sociology

Marriage and family literature has routinely emphasized Black poor and white middle-class comparisons. As a consequence, understandings about Black relationships are fundamentally about the poor, while studies of middleclass relationship...

The Politics of Performance: Fiesta, Dance, Creative Publics

December 3, 2015

The Politics of Performance: Fiesta, Dance, Creative Publics

12.03.2015| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Devil Moves: The figure of the devil in popular fiestas and carnivals of the Americas Prof. Angela Marino, Theater, Dance Performance Studies

The devil figure in fiestas and carnivals is one of the most beloved across the hemisphere. It shows up as vejigantes, cojuelos, jab jabs, and diablitos to name a few. By tracing these multiple devil figures in fiestas, religious manifestations and carnivals, they...

Lawful Conquest: Liberal Rights Colonial Legacies

March 10, 2016

Lawful Conquest: Liberal Rights Colonial Legacies

03.10.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Indigenous Rights as a Legacy of Colonialism?
Dr. Ulia Gosart, UCLA

An investigation into the origins of a legal idea “indigeneity” reveals a genealogical lineage between contemporary indigenous rights mechanisms and the norms constructed to discipline colonial populations at the last quarter of the 19th century. The legacy of colonial policy is exhibited in a somewhat paradoxical positioning of an...

A Taste for Palestine: The Politics of Consumption for a Disappearing Landscape

March 17, 2016

A Taste for Palestine: The Politics of Consumption for a Disappearing Landscape

03.17.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | Anthony Hall

Dr. Lila Sharif, Gender Women’s Studies
Prof. Minoo Moallem, Gender Women’s Studies

What happens when indigenous commodities become consumed transnationally through fair trade, organic, and other alternative food movement circuits? What are the impacts of these evolving consumption practices on native producers and consumers, and how can this contribute to what we know about the processes...

Market/Place: The Structural Emotional Violence of Food Politics

April 21, 2016

Market/Place: The Structural Emotional Violence of Food Politics

04.21.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Bodyscapes in Transformation; An Intersectional Feminist Political Ecology of Capitalist Agriculture and Environmental Epigenetics
Melina Packer, Environmental Science, Policy, Management

Capitalism has operated in tension with agriculture since its earliest inceptions, and contemporary food production continues to provoke socio-environmental crises and Marxist critique. Even as various...

Racial Formation in Israel: Gender, Diaspora, and Occupation

September 29, 2016

Racial Formation in Israel: Gender, Diaspora, and Occupation

09.29.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Commentary: Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies Gaza 2014 and the Mizrahi Predicament: Neoliberalism, Informal activism and Ultra-nationalism in Palestine-Israel Dr. Smadar Lavie, Beatrice Bain Research Group What insights can scholars interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict gain from a study of HaLo Nehmedim — the “Not-So Nice” or New Black Panthers, an informal activist group whose...

Racial Looking: Photo Archives of Intimacy, Orientalism, Global Power

October 6, 2016

Racial Looking: Photo Archives of Intimacy, Orientalism, Global Power

10.06.2016 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Moderated by Dr. Ariko S. Ikehara, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Through Okinawan Eyes: Race and Blackness in the Photography of Ishikawa Mao
Daryl Maude, East Asian Languages Cultures

In 1975, Okinawan photographer Ishikawa Mao took a job as a hostess in a bar catering to African American servicemen stationed in Okinawa. Newly returned from...