CRG Special Events + Symposium

CRG Special Events + Symposium

Families on the Faultlines: Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, Care

April 29, 2010

Families on the Faultlines: Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, Care

04.29 & 30.2010 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Families who live on the fault lines of economic insecurity, geographic displacement, and ideological battles over who counts as a “family” are particularly at risk for suffering the fallout of current economic disasters, environmental crises, and local and global wars. These ruptures present not only profound challenges for the survival of kinship structures, but also opportunities for uncovering new or hidden...

Michael Jackson: Critical Reflection On A Life & A Phenomenon

October 1, 2009

Michael Jackson: Critical Reflection On A Life & A Phenomenon

10.01.2009| 3:00 – 6:00 PM | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Scholars and artists reflect on the legacy of Michael Jackson on performance & artistry, racial & sexual politics, and cultural representations. Featuring National Poetry Slam Champion, BLAIR.

PROGRAM:

Panel A: DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH: ARTISTRY, LEGACY, & PERFORMANCE

Michael Jackson: The Original Post Racial Soul Broth...

Catalyzing Knowledge In Dangerous Times

April 14, 2011

Catalyzing Knowledge In Dangerous Times

Center For Race & Gender Ten-Year Anniversary Conference

04.14.2011 | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Catalyzing Knowledge in Dangerous Times will explore the ways in which knowledge is politicized, embodied, and imagined within a volatile political climate that targets education as a racialized and gendered battleground for defining legitimacy, visibility, and access.

Conference participants will interrogate the meaning and practice of scholarship in a...

Racializing Sexual Economies: Sex Trade, Trafficking, And The Political Agency Of People Of Color & Indigenous People

November 8, 2011

Racializing Sexual Economies: Sex Trade, Trafficking, And The Political Agency Of People Of Color & Indigenous People

11.08.2011 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union

A roundtable of activists and scholars will explore and challenge the political tensions in debates on sex trades, sex trafficking, public policy, institutional violence, and community organizing

Speakers:

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Center for Race & Gender: Welcome & Introductions Annie...

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...