Events

Events

Mon, April 01, 2019, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

Laura E. Perez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Chair of the Latinx Research Center

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Mon, March 18, 2019, 7:00 am

554 Barrows Hall

A Lunch Roundtable with Professors Thomas Biolsi, Khatharya Um, and Juana Rodriguez ...

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Mon, March 18, 2019, 7:00 am to Sat, August 31, 2019, 7:00 am

Brown Gallery located at 101 Doe Memorial Library

Whose University? explores the history and legacy of the TWLF through archives from the Ethnic Studies Library and Bancroft Library, photographs, and recently digitized audio recordings of the strike from the H.K. Yuen Social Movement Archive. The exhibit will be on display until August 31, 2019.  ...

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Fri, March 15, 2019, 11:00 pm to Sat, March 16, 2019, 1:00 am

Shorb House 2547 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94720-5670

Enrique Dussel, Philosopher

Friday, March 15  |  4-6pm Roundtable on Transmodernity and Decoloniality with Enrique Dussel and other Bay Area scholars This roundtable will present his concept of the "transmodern" as a critique of still-Eurocentric "post-modern" philosophy, and a third, decolonial way of advancing liberatory knowledge in this era of heightened economic inequities between rich and poor, within first and third world countries alike...

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Thu, March 14, 2019, 10:30 pm to Fri, March 15, 2019, 12:00 am

Shorb House 2547 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94720-5670

Enrique Dussel, Philosopher

  THURSDAY, MARCH 14  |  3:30 – 5PM TRANSMODERNITY AND DECOLONIALITY WITH PHILOSOPHER ENRIQUE DUSSEL Join the Latinx Research Center and the Chicana/o Studies Program in hosting a major Latin American and Third World intellectual. Dr. Enrique Dussel is an Argentine and Mexican philosopher and historian, a leading Third World philosopher, and a founder of Liberation Philosophy (1973), a critique...

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Thu, March 07, 2019, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

9 Lewis Hall UC Berkeley (followed by lunch in 554 Barrows Hall)

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Tue, March 05, 2019, 12:30 am to 2:00 am

554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

Ma Vang, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced

History on the Run: Hmong Refugees and Knowledge Formation Lecture | March 4 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall Speaker:  Ma Vang, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced Sponsors:  Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies This talk examines the critical narratives of refugee migration and community formation from a Hmong epistemological perspective. By analyzing...

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Fri, March 01, 2019, 2:00 am to 3:30 am

Free Speech Movement Cafe, Moffit Library, UC Berkeley

Panelists: Merrilee Proffitt, Victoria Robinson, Juana Maria Rodriguez   Though Wikipedia has in many ways democratized the information landscape, racial and gender bias in Wikipedia is well-documented. The alarming lack of women editors and editors of color has resulted in both biased and absent information in one of the most important collective knowledge repositories. The Art + Feminism...

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Thu, February 28, 2019, 12:00 am to 2:00 am

Professor Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Since 2014, the American Quarterly journal has been based outside of the (continental) United States and has been edited by a transnational team of scholars based in Hawai‘i and parts of Asia and the Pacific, including Canada, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The current editorial team is committed to soliciting, reviewing, and editing the best cutting-edge scholarship...

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Wed, February 27, 2019, 8:00 pm

370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies, Honors Program Director, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The Detours project takes seriously the power of form, and the reading practices and publics produced by the genre of the guidebook, which manifest the fantasy of Hawai‘i as an exotic island destination for the consumption of tourists. Detours deliberately perverts the guidebook to produce alternative narratives, tours, itineraries, mappings and images of the islands as...

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