Creating Connections for Research on Race, Gender, and Their Intersections
We invite you to check out CRG's upcoming events. All events are open to the campus community and the general public.
EVENT ACCESSIBILITY
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in any of the CRG events, please contact Ariana Ceja at centerrg@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
01.26.2023
4 - 5:00 PM PT | CRG Angel Island Forum Series
Zoom Webinar - Click here to register.
Angel Island: History and Movement
with Erika Lee (Regents Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities; Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; and Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard University (as of July 2023)).
Event organized by CRG's Director, Professor Leti Volpp, and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
The CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative.
"A Year on Angel Island" co-sponsors include the UC Berkeley Departments of Music; Theater, Dance & Performance Studies; Ethnic Studies; and American Studies, the Arts Research Center, the Center for Race and Gender, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, On the Same Page, and BAMPFA, with community partner the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
02.02.2023
4 - 5:00 PM PT | CRG Angel Island Forum Series
Zoom Webinar - Click here to register.
Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison
with Elliott Young (Professor of History, Lewis & Clark).
Event organized by CRG's Director, Professor Leti Volpp, and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
The CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative.
"A Year on Angel Island" co-sponsors include the UC Berkeley Departments of Music; Theater, Dance & Performance Studies; Ethnic Studies; and American Studies, the Arts Research Center, the Center for Race and Gender, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, On the Same Page, and BAMPFA, with community partner the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
02.23.2023
02.23 | 4 - 5:00 PM PT | CRG Angel Island Forum Series
Zoom Webinar - Click here to register.
Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention
with Nayan Shah (Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California).
Event organized by CRG's Director, Professor Leti Volpp, and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
The CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative.
"A Year on Angel Island" co-sponsors include the UC Berkeley Departments of Music; Theater, Dance & Performance Studies; Ethnic Studies; and American Studies, the Arts Research Center, the Center for Race and Gender, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, On the Same Page, and BAMPFA, with community partner the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
03.16.2023
NEW DATE
4 - 5:00 PM PT | Radical Kinship Series
Zoom Webinar - Click here to register.
Queer Visual Resistance
with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow (writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora).
In We Left Them Nothing (2021), queer Indigenous (Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá & Tódích'íí'nii) artist, Demian DinéYazhi´writes, “witness how a new world emerges in the decaying flesh of colonizer manipulation, illusions of supremacy, & deceptive justice.” In this event, Demian DinéYazhi´ will present an artist talk that explores Indigenous queer and trans resistance through art: How does Indigenous art teach us to witness Indigenous futures, denounce supremacy, and depart from deceptive justice? Joining DinéYazhi' is non-binary Chinese Canadian filmmaker, and visual artist, Jess X. Snow who will share about bringing the intimacy of queer life and inter-generational migrant experiences into public space. They will present on how murals, ad-take overs and storytelling can help us process racialized violence, build coalitions and kinships across cultures and imagine shared abolitionist futures. A Q&A with the two artists will follow.
The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. This series is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq), the LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster - Othering & Belonging Institute, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
03.16.2023 - Event Postponed
EVENT WAS POSTPONED DUE TO EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES - NEW DATE TBD
4 - 5:30 PM | CRG Forum Series
In Person, 105 Law Building
Genocide and Accountability: The Gambia v. Myanmar
with M. Arsalan Suleman (Counsel in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Practice), Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist, Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender), Laurel E. Fletcher (Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law), and Leti Volpp (Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, Berkeley Law; Director, Center for Race & Gender).
Hosted by CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative. Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, and The Hon. G. William And Ariadna Miller Institute For Global Challenges and the Law.
04.06.2023
4 - 5:30 PM | CRG Forum Series
In Person, 691 Social Sciences Building - Click here to register.
CRG Visiting Scholars Showcase
Join us for an afternoon as our Visiting Scholars share their works in progress.
- Marijke Bassani (Human rights Lawyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Australia))
- Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz (Ph.D. Candidate in Welfare Law, Department of Culture and Society, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden))
- Rachel Rosenbloom (Professor of Law, Northeastern University and Faculty Fellow, Northeastern University Center for Law, Equity and Race)
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Reclaiming space as the Indigenous ‘Other’. A Black Rainbow Homecoming
Temporary Legality and Local Border Regimes in the Welfare State of Sweden
In this talk, Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz will briefly present their Ph.D. project which explores the implications of the shift to temporary protection status in Swedish asylum legislation since 2015. This shift has given shape to a form of temporary legality where it is no longer sufficient to examine only national immigration law to understand the implications of temporary protection. As temporary legality is formalized by the state but shaped and administered locally by municipalities, Sofi traces how temporary legality devolves regulations of more permanent asylum protection locally through a number of ‘integration’ requirements. These requirements in practice take on new forms of bordering that function through a multitude of welfare actors, economic and social contexts, and racialized ideas of refugeeness that vary locally.
Race, Borders, and Birthright Citizenship
Rachel Rosenbloom’s work traces the history of efforts to restrict the scope of constitutional birthright citizenship since the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. This project provides a new perspective on contemporary calls to limit the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, situating them within a longer history of restrictionist efforts that emerged from anti-Asian movements in California and other western states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Contextualizing birthright citizenship restrictionism within the shifting dynamics of racialized and gendered borders, it also considers the relationship of these debates to the legal developments that have shaped Black and Indigenous citizenship in this period.
04.13.2023
4 - 5:00 PM PT | Radical Kinship Series
Zoom Webinar - Click here to register.
"Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures": Book Talk with the Editors
with Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Marshall Islander poet, performance artist, educator), Leora Kava (Hafekasi poet of mixed Tongan and pālangi descent, Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies, San Francisco State University), and Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru (Chamorro)(Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam)) poet, scholar, editor, publisher, essayist, critic, book reviewer, artist, environmentalist, and political activist).
The Radical Kinship Series is curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. This series is sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, the Multicultural Community Center, the Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq), the LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster - Othering & Belonging Institute, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
04.25.2023
4 - 5:30 PM | CRG Forum Series
In Person, 554 SSB (Barbara Christian Conference Room) - Click here to register.
Critical University Studies, a CRG Research Working Group presents:
Conceptualizing Campus Abolition and the Movement to Resist University Expansion and Urban Renewal
with Charles H.F. Davis III (Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education; and Director of the Campus Abolition Research Lab, University of Michigan).
In Conceptualizing Campus Abolition, Dr. Davis will explore how the university’s entanglement with and perpetuation of the carceral state creates the conditions that render always already vulnerable communities subject to state and state-sanctioned violence. More specifically, Dr. Davis will draw upon theories from the Black radical tradition, decolonization and settler colonialism, and ethnographic study of the Carceral University to consider the otherwise possibilities for higher education to reimagine itself as a life-affirming institution. Rather than reinforcing the notion that universities and prisons sit in opposition to one another, whereas the former is presumed to be a domain of solutions while the other is seen as a consequence of society as the domain of problems, Dr. Davis invites us to consider the ways carceral society is a product of the university’s negligence and betrayal of its promise to serve the public good.
Hosted by Critical University Studies, a CRG Research Working Group.Co-sponsored by the Chancellor's Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety (IAB), Berkeley School of Education, Center for Race & Gender, Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies, ESPM Graduate Diversity Council, and the Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley.
04.26.2023
4 - 5:30 PM | CRG Forum Series
In Person, 370 Dwinelle Hall - Click here to register.
CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative present:
Political Conflict and Accountability in South Asia
with Saman Zia-Zarifi (Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights; and Former Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists) and Christine Chung (Human Rights Expert).
The panel explores the heightening of political conflict and the use of law by nationalist and far-right cultures and movements in South Asia today in areas where state and vigilante actions pose majoritarian groups as authentic and those non-dominant as “Others” as “anti-nationals”, “insurrectionists” and “outsiders”. The panel examines the weaponization of religion and racialization of difference and the use of political violence--sanctioned through deep impunity and exclusionary changes to the law, and repressive government—and explores the need for accountability to political conflict in South Asia.
Saman Zia-Zarifi and Christine Chung will be joined in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Research Anthropologist and Co-chair of Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race & Gender), Laurel E. Fletcher (Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Berkeley Law), and Leti Volpp (Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice at Berkeley Law, and Director of the Center for Race & Gender).
Hosted by CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative. Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, and The Hon. G. William And Ariadna Miller Institute For Global Challenges And The Law.