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September 2008
Open house, GWS Conference Room
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
An Open House to reveal to you all our new location on the 6th Floor of Barrows Hall.
Open house, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, September 11, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
The Center for Race and Gender is pleased to invite you to our fourth annual open house! Come learn about the Center's programs and events, including student grants up to $2,000 for undergrads and grads, bi-weekly forums featuring forward-looking research, and working groups for the fall semester.
Enjoy refreshments and meet our staff!
Film Screening & Discussion, Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
Thursday, September 11, 2008
7:30 PM
Making Trouble
United States, 2007, 85 minutes, English
Directed by Rachel Talbot
Produced by the Jewish Women's Archive
Thursday September 11, 7:30pm
$5 members, $8 general 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
What is it that makes funny Jewish women so funny...and so Jewish? Is it a nose wrinkled just so, accompanied by a devilish grin or a sarcastic punch line? Is it the acerbic humor of generations of immigrant and first-generation women who fought for a place in America with their brains and their wit? This tribute honors six Jewish comediennes Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner who successfully moved from vaudeville and the Yiddish theatre to Broadway, from Ziegfeld's Follies to Saturday Night Live. Get ready to duck when the zingers fly and guffaw at this hilarious, insightful documentary an exhilarating mix of contemporary performance, interviews and rare archival footage.
Co-presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Gender & Women's Studies
Presented in association with the Jewish Women's Archive
Program note adopted from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, Jewish Women's Archive, Center for Study of Sexual Culture
Current Projects in Immigration and Critical Race Theory
Professor Angela Harris, Boalt Hall Faculty of Law
Professor Leti Volpp, Boalt Hall Faculty of Law
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, September 18, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Center for Race and Gender
Trinh Minh-ha
Lecture, 190 Barrows
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
4:00 PM
What is it that makes both talks and silences stained with shame? Sometimes the mind freezes and the heart goes on fasting: name, nation, identity, citizenship disappear. In the desert, the mind forgets but the body remembers. With every step, the world comes to the walker, and all around, on the immense screen of life, every event speaks.
The talk will be based on Trinh Minh-ha's two latest works: a book in progress that focuses on the small and large wounds of our time; and /Bodyscapes/, the work she has been doing in the desert of the American West with architect & photographer Jean-Paul Bourdier, which touches on desert life and uncanny hybrids, on the naked, the nude and the painted body, and on photography as event.
Center for Study of Sexual Culture
October 2008
Residential Location and Labor Market Outcomes
Anne McClintock
Lecture, Maude Fife Room 315 Wheeler Hall
Thursday, October 9, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
BBRG Keynote Lecture
Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Dept of Gender & Women's Studies, Dept of English, Dept of Film Studies, Dept of Rhetoric, Center for Race & Gender
Fighting Workplace Abuse and Dislocation Through Law and Activism
Francisca James Hernández, Department of Ethnic Studies
Cheryl Andrada, Boalt Hall Faculty of Law
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, October 16, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Center for Race and Gender
Vivienne Jabri
Lecture, 190 Barrows
Thursday, October 23, 2008
4:00 PM
Vivienne Jabri, Professor of International Politics, Department of War Studies, King's College London This lecture explores the implications for feminism of late modern manifestations of power. Specifically, and drawing on Michel Foucault’s analytics of modern power, the lecture suggests that feminism’s historical trajectory finds it comfortably located in liberal governmentality, in a sense rendering gender a technology in practices of government. At the same time, and in consequence, feminism is somehow complicit in liberal modes of power and domination now globally articulated. The challenge for a specifically internationalist feminism is hence centred on the capacity of its discourses to escape this hegemonic framing, while providing a distinct understanding of what it means to be political in the world today.
Center for Study of Sexual Culture
Lecture, To be determined
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Lecture with video (DVD) clips on marriage rights and religious-based opposition. The lecture is both educational and entertaining, and allows for Q & A time. Participants will learn some of the history of the marriage rights movement, the need for equal marriage rights and the oppositions' positions with pertinent critiques. As October is LGBT History Month and there is an upcoming election with profound consequences, this talk will be both timely and beneficial. Sylvia Rhue is the Director of Religious Affairs with the National Black Justice Coalition. Previously, she was employed as the California Freedom to Marry Coalition Manager, the Director of Equal Partners in Faith, and she worked with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights. She also worked at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center as the Assistant Director of Counseling, and then as the Policy and Public Affairs Advocate. A native Californian, she graduated from UCLA with a Masters Degree in Social Work and received a Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She is the first African American to receive this degree. Dr. Rhue is the co-producer of the award-winning film "All God's Children" and she is an expert on the "ex-gay" movement, which she calls “the cult of the annihilation of the authentic self”. Dr. Rhue is a noted public speaker, a documentarian, a religious scholar and a writer.
Center for Study of Sexual Culture, Gender and Women's Studies, Gender Equity Resource Center
November 2008
On An Other Page: Ang Lee's Queer Cinema
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Racial Inequalities in Health Status and Use of Health/Social Service
Professor Susan Ivey, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Professor Julian Chow, School of Social Welfare
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, November 6, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Center for Race and Gender
Professor Harvey Weinstein, School of Public Health; The Human Rights Center
TBA
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, November 20, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Center for Race and Gender
December 2008
Retreat, Westerbeke Ranch
Thursday, December 4, 2008 to Sunday, December 7, 2008
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) and the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture (CSSC) at the University of California, Berkeley invite applications from doctoral students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, interdisciplinary fields, and professional schools to participate in an interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshop retreat. Applicants should to be advanced to candidacy.
CSSC / CRG dissertation workshops are designed to encourage dialogue among doctoral students whose dissertation projects deal with the the topic chosen. We welcome applicants from the arts, humanities, social sciences, interdisciplinary fields, and the professional schools who have preparation in the area of race-gender-sexuality studies. Projects may be set in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. Historical and comparative projects as well as projects that focus on particular representational practices (e.g., a genre or an author) are welcome. Projects from the arts are also welcome.
The workshop is intended to encourage and assist doctoral students who are just beginning work on their dissertations, as well as those who are farther along. It will involve intensive discussion of the individual projects and also the larger theoretical and methodological issues that they raise. Possibilities for continuing networks among interested students and faculty will be explored.
Workshops are held over three days at the Westerbeke Guest Ranch, just outside of Sonoma, California beginning with dinner and running through lunch on Sunday. Approximately twelve students will be chosen and joined by several faculty members from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. The costs of the workshop, including meals and accommodations will be covered by the sponsoring Centers. Participants are responsible for their transportation to the workshop; funds are not available to bring students to the Bay Area from other locations. Applicants are encouraged to consult with the graduate advisor in their departments about sources of travel subsidies.
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Center for Race and Gender
The Racialization of Black and Puerto Rican Women's Bodies
Petra Raquel Rivera, African Diaspora Studies
Ariane Cruz, African Diaspora Studies
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows
Thursday, December 4, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Center for Race and Gender
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