Events

10.29 | 4 – 5:00 PM | Radical Kinship Series Black Trans Intimacies: On Building Futures in the Present ZOOM WEBINAR – Must register here to receive a personalized link to join. Join us for the second installment of the “Radical Kinship Series,” curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alán Pelaez Lopez. In this roundtable, trans and nonbinary artists and scholars come together to discuss the ways in which intimacy is rendered and re-imagined in our contemporary moment, and how intimacy serves as a world-building tool. Dora Santana of John Jay College, SA Smythe of UCLA and Micky Bradford of the Transgender Law Center will share their craft(s)…

VIRTUAL – LIVE STREAM EVENT Fall 2020 CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture ABOLITION FEMINISM with Angela Davis & Gina Dent As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist ― usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color – organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. This conversation will…

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#blackIrish: Some notes on becoming a trend In this talk on multiracial Ireland and Irish-America, Professor Kimberly McClain DaCosta (NYU Gallatin) will consider emergent public discussion among those who identify as Black and Irish. Coming as it does in the midst of an international reckoning with anti-blackness and white supremacy, what does this conversation help us understand about contemporary racial dynamics in Ireland and the US? How might it require us to reimagine our past? Register: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwodeGsqT8rGN3-SSdgYNTV9PHGh63Czk9C

Join our Graduate Advisor, Lindsey Villarreal for an informational meeting about the PhD program at UC Berkeley in African Diaspora Studies.   When: September 23, 2020 from 3:00-4:00 pm Where: Zoom link, via email request (lherbert@berkeley.edu)