Announcing the Center for Race and Gender

Spring Semester 2007 Afternoon Forum Series

Thursdays

691 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

4:00 – 5:30 pm

February 1: Imagining Race and Nation

Chrissy Arce, Spanish and Portuguese “God Paints as He Pleases”: Representations of the Mulata in Mexican Literature and Cinema

Ju Hui Judy Han, Geography

Missionary Imaginations and Capitalist Deliverance: Korean/AmericanMissions in Uganda and Tanzania

Yuka Mizutani, Ethnic Studies

Interaction between Yaqui People and U.S. Citizen: “Isolation” as an Image

February 15: Making Authentic Identity

Jessica Vasquez and Christopher Wetzel, Sociology

Making Authentic Identity: Tradition and the Invention of Racial Selves

March 1: Portraitures of Emancipation: Independence-Era West Africa and Abolition-Era Brazil

Natalia Brizuela, Spanish and Portuguese

Souvenirs of Race

Jennifer Bajorek, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature

(Dis)locating Freedom in the West African Portrait

April 5: UC Berkeley Afro-Latino Working Group

Vielka Cecilia Hoy, African Diaspora Studies

Afro-Latin@ Triple Consciousness: An Existential Crisis

Asia Leeds, African Diaspora Studies

Gender, Sexuality, and ‘Dark Continent Discourse’ in the Making of the Costa Rican Nation, 1920-1940

April 19: Gender Politics and State-Law in Iran and Pakistan

Roshanak Kheshti, Gender and Women’s Studies
State-Sanctioned Sex Change: the Paradox of Sexuality Under the Islamic Republic of Iran

Fouzieyha Towghi, Medical Anthropology

Producing Gendered “Tribalism” for Natural Resources, Or Racializing the Tribal Social Body to Protect Women’s Individual Bodies in Balochistan, Pakistan

May 3: From Bodies and Commodities to Personhood and Objecthood: Slavery and its Legacy

Sarah Jane Cervenak, Performance Studies

Against Traffic: De/Formations of Race, Rationality and Freedom in the Art of Adrian Piper

Rebecca Hall, History

Gendering the Body Black: the Creation and Racialization of ChattelSlavery through Gender in British America

Center for Race & Gender

642 Barrows Hall, #1074

University of California, Berkeley

510-643-8488

http://crg.berkeley.edu