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...
9 Lewis Hall UC Berkeley (followed by lunch in 554 Barrows Hall)
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...
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...
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...
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...
180 Doe Library, UC Berkeley
Duncan Williams, USC | Speaker Mark Blum, UCB | Discussant Carolyn Chen, UCB Ethnic Studies | Discussant Monday, February 25 | 4:00 – 6:00PM 180 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus Duncan Ryūken Williams (University of Southern California) will discuss his new book “American Sutra” about Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American internment. The fact that the vast majority of Japanese Americans...
554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Toll Room, Alumni House (UC Berkeley)
Dr. Selena Couture, Assistant Professor of Drama, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Desmond Jagmohan on Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Desmond Jagmohan, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University
https://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/event/2018-11-19/rhetoric-spring-colloquium-desmond-jagmohan ...