2020 - 2021 CRG Forum Series

2020 - 2021 CRG Forum Series

Bios reflect speakers' status at the time of their presentation at the Center for Race and Gender.


04.15.2021

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Chronopolitics And Knowledge Production In Migration Studies

04.15.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Christine Jacobsen (Professor of Social Anthropology, and Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)), and Marry-Anne Karlsen (Researcher, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)) with commentary by Samera Esmeir (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley).

Their conversation will examine the concept of “waiting,” and relationships of time and space, mobility and immobility, as a matter of power, lived experience, and affect.


Hosted by CRG's Native/Immigrant/Refugee - Crossings Research Initiative.  Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, the Department of Scandinavian, and supported by the Peder Sather Foundation.

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04.05.2021

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Decolonizing Indigenous Migration Violence, Settler Colonialism, Gender And Law

04.05.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Presentations by Shannon Speed ((Chickasaw) Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology, and Director of the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA), Kristen Carpenter (Council Tree Professor of Law, and Director of the American Indian Law Program at University of Colorado Law School), and Angela Riley ((Potawatomi) Professor of Law, and Director of Native Nations Law and Policy Center, UCLA School of Law). How is the violence to which indigenous women migrants are subjected related to “neoliberal multicriminalism” and settler structures of indigenous dispossession and elimination? And how might migration law consider the colonial origins and impacts that undergird state policies on territorial sovereignty and border regulation?


Hosted by CRG’s Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative.  Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Native American Studies at UC Berkeley, American Indian Studies Center at UCLA, Native Nations Law and Policy Center at UCLA Law, the University of Colorado American Indian Law Program, and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues at UC Berkeley.

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03.04.2021

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Design Politics, The Border, and The Passport

03.04.2021 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

A conversation between Ronald Rael(Professor of Architecture, Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture, UC Berkeley) and Mahmoud Keshavarz (Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg and Research Associate at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University (Sweden)). Their discussion will address how border transgressors and passport forgers use the capacity for design to dissent from immobility, as well as Rael’s seesaw installation on the U.S. Mexico border with Virginia San Fratello, winner of the Design Award of the Year 2020.


Hosted by CRG’s Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, College of Environmental Design, Department of Scandinavian, and the Latinx Research Center. 

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11.12.2020

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Election 2020 Roundup

11.12.2020| 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

UC Berkeley faculty experts gathered for a conversation about the November 3 election.  The panel featuredLisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, and Professor in the Graduate School of Education; Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law; Taeku Lee, Associate Dean and Chair of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and George Johnson Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; and Bertrall Ross, Chancellor’s Professor of Law.

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10.08.2020

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Undocumented Students And Campus Climate At UC Berkeley

10.08.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Liliana Iglesias, Program Director of Undocumented Student Program (USP), Fabrizio Mejia, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Division of Equity & Inclusion, Martha Ortega-Mendoza, Ph.D. Student in the Graduate School of Education, Diana Peña, Mental Health Coordinator & Licensed Psychologist at USP, Theo Cuison, Director and Clinical Supervising Attorney of East Bay Community Law Center’s (EBCLC) Immigration Unit, and Rebecca Romero, Paralegal in EBCLC’s Immigration Unit, discussed challenges faced by both DACA and non-DACA undocumented students, as well as resources available on campus.


Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, East Bay Community Law Center, Institute of Governmental Studies, Othering & Belonging Institute, and the Undocumented Student Program.


This event launched the public release of the report “Climate Study of Undocumented Students at UC Berkeley." Click here to download the report.

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10.01.2020

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Restoring Rights, Returning Ancestors, And Building Relationships

10.01.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

Thirty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), only one-third of Native American ancestral remains have been repatriated from museums. UC Davis NAGPRA Project Manager Megon Noble presents case studies and discusses ongoing consultation and repatriation efforts with Native American governments and communities, in conversation with Lauren Kroiz, Associate Professor of Art History and Faculty Director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.


Co-sponsored by the CRG's Decolonizing Museums Working Group.


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09.10.2020

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The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism

09.10.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM |  Zoom Webinar

The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an epidemic of anti-Asian violence, fueled by a president who has labelled COVID-19 “kung flu” and “the Chinese virus.” This panel features Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press, 2018), and Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity and History at USC and the author of Contagious Divides: Race and Epidemics in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001), who address how history helps us better comprehend our xenophobic present.


Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley.

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