CRG Forum Series

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...

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...