Upcoming Events

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.


Upcoming Events (CRG Hosted, Co-sponsored and Supported)


01.17.2024


01.17.2024 | 12:45 - 2:00 PM  | CRG Co-hosted + Special Two-Day Event 
170 Law Building (Koret Room) - Click here to register.

The Center for Race & Gender and the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley present:

DAY ONE -- Guantánamo 22 Years In
WITNESSES OF THE UNSEEN: LAKHDAR BOUMEDIÈNE AND THE LEGACY OF BOUMEDIÈNE  V. BUSH

with Lakhdar Boumediène (Lead plaintiff in Boumediène v. Bush, Seven-Year Guantánamo Detainee) and moderated by Dan Norland (co-editor, Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantánamo).


Event organized by Dr. Amir Aziz, 2023-2025 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Event hosted by the Center for Race & Gender and the Human Rights Center, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, and the Institute of Governmental Studies.


01.18.2024


01.18.2024 | 12:45 - 2:00 PM  | CRG Co-hosted + Special Two-Day Event
110 Law Building - Click here to register.

The Center for Race & Gender and the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley present:

DAY TWO -- Guantánamo 22 Years In
THE MAURITANIAN:  A CONVERSATION WITH MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI

with Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Author, Guantánamo Diary, 14-year Guantánamo Detainee) and moderated by Amir Aziz (2023-2025 Chancellor‘s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley).


Event organized by Dr. Amir Aziz, 2023-2025 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Event hosted by the Center for Race & Gender and the Human Rights Center, and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law, the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, and the Institute of Governmental Studies.


02.01.2024


02.01.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.

The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 

POLICING BLACKNESS AND BLACK FUGITIVITY: ON BERT WILLIAMS'S A NATURAL BORN GAMBLER (1916)
with Althea Wasow (UC Santa Barbara).



The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley.  


02.08.2024


02.08.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.


The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 

THE FAILURE OF ABOLITION IN AMERICAN LAW
 
with Giuliana Perrone (UC Santa Barbara).



The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. 


02.22.2024


02.22.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.

The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 
PROMISES BEYOND MEMORY: AFTER VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA
with CRG's Spring 2024 Visiting Scholar Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom)).


The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. 


02.29.2024


02.29.2024 | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.

The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 
TRAVELING CONCEPTS: THE EXAMPLE OF MARRIAGE EQUALITY
with Marco Wan (University of Hong Kong (China)).


The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. 


03.07.2024


03.07.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.

The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 
THE LAWS OF THE SEA AND ANTI-BLACKNESS
with Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia (Canada)).


The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. 


03.13.2024


03.13.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM  | CRG Co-hosted Forum Series
10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) - Click here to register.


CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative presents:
COUNTERING FALSEHOODS / DISCOURSES OF POWER



Event co-sponsored with the Institute for South Asia Studies.


03.14.2024


03.14.2024  | 10 - 11:00 AM  | CRG Forum Series - Law & Humanities
141 Law Building - Click here to register.

The English Department and the Center for Race & Gender present: 
HOMESTEADING AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
with K-Sue Park (Georgetown Law).


The Law & Humanities Forum Series is supported by the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. 


04.10.2024


04.10.2024  | 5 - 6:30 PM  | CRG Co-hosted Forum Series
10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room) - Click here to register.


CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative presents:
HOW LONG CAN THE MOON BE CAGED?
with authors Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia.



Event co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies and the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.


04.18.2024


04.18.2024 | 4 - 5:30 PM  | CRG Forum Series
ZOOM Webinar - Click here to register.


CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative presents:

KASHMIR:  DISSENT, ARBITRARY DETENTION, AND THE LAW
 

with Haley Duschinski (Ohio University) and Ather Zia (University of Northern Colorado), in conversation with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley), and Leti Volpp (Director, Center for Race and Gender and Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law).