CRG Special Events + Symposium

CRG Special Events + Symposium

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,...

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...

#MeToo: One Year Later with Roxane Gay

January 18, 2019

#MeToo: One Year Later with Roxane Gay

01.18.2019| 1:00 - 4:00 PM | Booth Auditorium 175

This program will assess the impact of the#MeToo movement on law, business, and popular culture. One year after media reports about Harvey Weinstein led to his downfall, the Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice despite compelling testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Meanwhile, some of the men who were accused at the height of the movement have crept back into positions of power. Are businesses and the broader culture...

Grassroots Organizing For Immigration Justice: A Multi-Racial Conversation

September 28, 2021

Grassroots Organizing For Immigration Justice: A Multi-Racial Conversation

09.28.2021| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Virtual - Zoom Webinar

On the Same Page invites you to the first in a series of accompanying events to our August keynote lecture with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Join us for an informative conversation with Angela Chan (Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus...

Epidemic of Anti-Asian Violence: Connections and Resistance

April 8, 2021

Epidemic of Anti-Asian Violence: Connections and Resistance -- Helen Zia in conversation with Leti Volpp

04.08.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Virtual - Zoom Webinar

Almost 40 years ago activist, author, and journalist Helen Zia became the spokesperson for the campaign seeking justice for Vincent Chin, whose racist murder galvanized the Asian American movement. Join CRG’s Director and Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, Leti Volpp, for a conversation with Helen Zia about the current...

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works -- And How it Can Heal a Divided World

October 4, 2023

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works -- And How it Can Heal a Divided World

10.04.2023| 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 820 Social Sciences Building (Social Science Matrix)

Book talk with Michèle Lamont (Author of Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Simon & Schuster); Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies; Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University).

Event sponsored by...