CRG Special Events + Symposium

CRG Special Events + Symposium

Race, Domestic And Sexual Violence: From The Prison Nation To Community Resistance

February 28, 2013

Race, Domestic And Sexual Violence: From The Prison Nation To Community Resistance

02.28.2013 | 5:00 PM | 105 Boalt Hall
03.01.2013 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | 110 Boalt Hall

Join us on February 28 for a featured guest lecture from Professor Beth E. Richie who will discuss her new book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Followed by a one-day symposium with scholars and activists reflecting on domestic and sexual violence in light of the prison crisis, racialized structural...

Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science & Survival

March 15, 2013

Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science & Survival

03.15 & 16.2013 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM | Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Annex D

What will survival entail in near and far futures? In light of racialized violence and social control, massive technological innovation, and rapid transformations in science and biomedicine, this conference will engage the imperative to imagine, study, prepare for, and articulate future human life. We are interested in how science and technology shape the material and epistemological...

Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender

March 7, 2014

"Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender" with Dorothy Roberts

03.07.2014 | 5:00 - 7:30 PM | Alumni House, UC Berkeley

Join us for a discussion with Professor Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.

Speaker Bio:

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn...

Foundational Violence: Settler Colonial Articulations

April 13, 2015

Foundational Violence: Settler Colonial Articulations

04.13.2015 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D-37

A one-day symposium examining the production of settler colonialism as a foundational paradigm for racialization, labor, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. Speakers will consider how settler colonialism intersects with other logics of domination, and identify points of theoretical contestation and possibility.

PROGRAM:

11:00 am Opening Invocation

Corrina...

#SURVIVEDANDPUNISHED: Building Radical Coalitions to End The Criminalization Of Survivors

October 24, 2015

#SURVIVEDANDPUNISHED: Building Radical Coalitions to End The Criminalization Of Survivors

10.24.2015 | 3:00 – 7:00 PM | 10 Evans Hall

In 2006, a group of seven young Black lesbians were violently attacked in Greenwich Village by a man who shouted threats to sexually assault them, spat on one of the women, got on top of her and choked her. The women defended themselves and managed to get away, but they were stopped by local police, arrested, prosecuted, and four of the women were sent to prison, forever changing the course of their lives...

Black Feminist Radical: Florynce “Flo” Kennedy

February 11, 2016

Black Feminist Radical: Florynce “Flo” Kennedy

02.11.2016 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

with Prof. Sherie M. Randolph, University of Michigan

Introduction by Prof. Ula Taylor, African American Studies

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of...

The Insurgent Legacy of Evelyn Nakano Glenn

November 3, 2016

The Insurgent Legacy of Evelyn Nakano Glenn

11.03.2016 | 12:00 – 5:30 PM | Multicultural Community Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

After 43 years of transformative scholarship, Center for Race & Gender Founding Director, Prof. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, retired from her faculty position last spring. Prof. Nakano Glenn’s fearless writing,...

Invisible No More: A Symposium On Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women & Women Of Color

March 21, 2018

Invisible No More: A Symposium On Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women & Women Of Color

03.21.2018 | 4:00 – 7:30 PM | Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union

03.22.2018| 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union

Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance.

FEATURING...

White Supremacy, Gender, And Speech in The Wake of Charlottesville

October 10, 2017

White Supremacy, Gender, And Speech in The Wake of Charlottesville

10.10.2017| 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 140 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law

This symposium will focus on the roles white supremacy has played throughout U.S. history as well as its continued effects today, particularly in relation to the 2016 election and upsurge of white nationalist and white supremacist movements. It will address the intersections between white supremacy and gender construction, particularly masculinity as a rampant force in alt-right discourse, but also the...

CRG Student Research Symposium

April 12, 2019

CRG Student Research Symposium

04.12.2019| 9:00 AM -34:00 PM | Tilden Room, MLK Jr. Student Union

Join the Center for Race & Gender as we host our inaugural Student Research Symposium! This event will gather our larger CRG community – undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and affiliated faculty – to show case and highlight CRG students’ work and accomplishments.

PROGRAM:

9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome

9:15 – 10:45 AM: Session 1 – On Carcerality & Feminisms

Gabby...