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1902/2012 South Africa & Translating Blackness

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Visiting Scholars

February 27, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

“1902/2012” traces the emergence of Blackness as an ontological category in South Africa. It offers an analysis of early twentieth century Black writing in order to make claims about what Blackness came to mean at the dawn of the last century. Victoria Collis-Buthelezi is director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class at […]

1902/2012 South Africa & Translating Blackness

Bodies as Territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender

Lectures

February 21, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Social Sciences Building Room 602, UC Berkeley

Leticia Sabsay, London School of Economics and Political Science

Response by Mel Y. Chen, UC Berkeley In this talk I reconsider the “coloniality of gender” to explore some feminist mobilizations of bodies as territories in contemporary Latin America. I start by revisiting Latin American decolonial, non-binary approaches that highlight the coloniality of knowledge that informs medical and racist constructions of gender. Taking as a […]

Bodies as Territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender

Civilizing through Food: French Fantasies about Gastronomy and the “Muslim Diet”

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Visiting Scholars

March 08, 2022 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
3335 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley, Face coverings required

Hourya Bentouhami, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès; ICCTP Visiting Scholar

In France, far-right movements have often called attention to how Muslims eat, characterizing ritual slaughter and Ramadan as atrocities and attacks on French national identity. But in recent years, this discourse has been taken up by people across the political spectrum who seek to defend “French cuisine” against Muslim culinary practices. Since Muslims do not […]

Civilizing through Food: French Fantasies about Gastronomy and the “Muslim Diet”

Archivists, Plumbers, and Foragers

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Visiting Scholars

December 08, 2021 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Calendar
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, Face coverings required

Jumana Manna, Artist, Visiting Scholar, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

In this lecture, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as sculptor and filmmaker, and the differing yet complimentary processes of abstraction and storytelling that she employs within both mediums. She will focus on her ongoing inquiry into the paradoxes of the modernist urge to categorize and preserve. An urge that often entails an […]

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

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December 11, 2020 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Calendar
Online Zoom Event, Register Here

Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Susana Draper (Princeton), Verónica Gago (UNSAM; Ni Una Menos; UBA), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY Graduate Center), Moderated by Natalia Brizuela (UC Berkeley)

Due to the popularity of this event, the first 500 participants to connect will participate in Zoom, and all other participants will be redirected to view the event as a livestream on our YouTube channel at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6ZVXkM2vrGveabQrTPvew/live

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

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