RSS FeedUpcoming EventsRISE! 2024 Women Leader Nominations DUE March 31, 2024, March 31https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/240713-rise-2024-women-leader-nominations-due-march-31

Recognize women\ *leaders! RISE! 2024 Leader Awards Nominations are due March 31, 2024 at 11:59pm, and are open to UCB and non-UCB women* leaders. Awardees will be honored at the RISE: Celebrating Women, Community Love and Leadership event to be held in Fall 2024.

The RISE Leader Awards are about highlighting the exceptional endeavors and efforts of women\ *leaders as they continue to support and empower our community of Berkeley women through their participation and representation. Please take the time to nominate a woman* leader (community member, staff/faculty/visiting scholar/postdoctoral appointee and/or student) who has demonstrated strong leadership, care and love for the community, as well as, inspired and empowered other women.

Nomination link at https://tinyurl.com/RISE24 (Please use one form per submission, self nominations are welcome.)

*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.

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Grant Farred | Diaspora-in-Place, April 2https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/243372-grant-farred-diaspora-in-place

This project stands as the mark of a previous insufficiency. In my recent monograph, The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education, one of the concepts on offer is diaspora-in-place. The concept was, however, not brought into its fullness – it remained as a provocation, a provocation demanding address. Thus, this writing – this still provisional – rendering of the diaspora-in-place. The recognition that the diaspora, much as it turns on departure, leaving, the dream of returning, making a place in an unfamiliar locale, also possesses a different dimension. Contains within it a mobility-in-stasis. To leave without departing. To be gone while remaining in place. That is the condition that this presentation subjects to thinking.

 

Please Note: For the pre-circulated paper, please write to Patty Dunlap at pattydunlap@berkeley.edu

 

Speaker Biography

Grant Farred is a Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and the author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football and T he Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy , and the editor of Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures (all Temple University Press), among several other books and pamphlets in theory, postcolonial studies, race, intellectuals, sport, and cultural and literary studies.

Sponsors

In generous collaboration with the Center for African Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Department of Geography, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Rhetoric, the Department of Sociology, the Institute for International Studies, the Irving Stone Chair in Literature, the Marion E. Koshland Chair in the Humanities, the Office of the Dean of the Social Science Division, the Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair in English, the Social Science Matrix, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

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Diaspora/Situations: Interstitial queer worldmaking, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/241936-diasporasituations-interstitial-queer-worldmaking

Part of the 2023-2023 Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality Lecture Series

Lecture Description

Despite obliteration, peripheralization, and subsequent erasure from white queer movements, decolonial queer diasporic theorization has resisted and survived in France. In contrast to the conventional queer mobilisation focused on same-sex marriage and other attendant economic and social rights, queer of color and queer migrant organisation, albeit occupying disparate temporal and spatial dimensions, has underscored the critique of coloniality of race/ethnicity in their inhabitation of queerness(-es). In so doing, such mobilization has theorized multiple ways of understanding intersections of power, producing multiple terminologies such as diaspora/situations (Tarek Lakhrissi), queers racisé·e·s, queers/trans révolutionnaires and other French-specific conceptual formations.

Informed by my work with the Decolonizing Sexualities Network, this talk focuses on ‘interstitial queer worldmaking’ as theorization specifically emerging from the ‘interstices’ of queer exilic and diasporic thinking in France. It concerns the spacemaking creativity of queer and trans artists, writers and activism scholarship to understand how certain manifestations of queer in the interstices of coerced economic deprivation, racism, coloniality, occupation and exile, and language produce multiple valences of queer futures that underscore both survival and thrival. Through an engagement with the productions of artists and wrtiers such as, Tarek Lakhrissi (Morocco/France), Alexandre Erre (New Caledonia/France), Kama La Mackerel (Mauritius/Canada), Abdellah Taia (Morocco/France), and activism scholarship, it reads a decolonial queer modality of thinking and doing into contemporary France through the various theorizations being developed in the interstices by queer diasporic and exilic enunciations.

Biography

Sandeep Bakshi researches transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies at Université Paris Cité. He coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,” and headed the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group (2020-2023). Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the co-founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (https://decolonizingsexualities.org).

About the Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality lecture series:

At present, scholars in many parts of the global south(s) - including the south(s) in the north(s) - are inventing extremely meaningful decolonial gender and sexualities approaches, concepts, methods, and other related theorizations. They generally build upon a long genealogy of such scholarship in their contexts and across the world. Unfortunately, due to a multiplicity of relations of power, most of this work remains unknown, marginalized or erased in the global north(s). This speakers’ series brings scholars of decolonial gender and sexuality together, across languages, regions, kinds of theorizations, in the hope of opening up a space for dialogue.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Gillian Edgelow at gilliane@berkeley.edu or 510-643-7172 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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Authors Meet Critics, “Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex,” Juana María Rodríguez, May 1https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/239503-authors-meet-critics-puta-life-seeing-latinas

Join us on May 1 for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez will be joined in conversation by Clarissa Rojas, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis, and Milena Britto, Associate Professor of Literature at the Federal University of Bahia and currently a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. The discussion will be moderated by Alberto Ledesma, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley.

The Social Science Matrix Authors Meet Critics book series features lively discussions about recently published books authored by social scientists at UC Berkeley. For each event, the author discusses the key arguments of their book with fellow scholars. These events are free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the UC Berkeley Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.

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About the Book

In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the puta—the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine excess. Rodríguez’s eclectic archive features the faces and stories of women whose lives have been mediated by sex work’s stigmatization and criminalization—washerwomen and masked wrestlers, porn stars and sexiles. Rodríguez examines how visual tropes of racial and sexual deviance expose feminine subjects to misogyny and violence, attuning our gaze to how visual documentation shapes perceptions of sexual labor. Throughout this poignant and personal text, Rodríguez brings the language of affect and aesthetics to bear upon understandings of gender, age, race, sexuality, labor, disability, and migration. Highlighting the criminalization and stigmatization that surrounds sex work, she lingers on those traces of felt possibility that might inspire more ethical forms of relation and care.

Panelists

Juana María Rodríguez is a cultural critic, public speaker, and award-winning author who writes about sexual cultures, racial politics, and the many tangled expressions of Latina identity. A Professor of Ethnic Studies; Gender and Women’s Studies, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, she is the author of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex (Duke UP 2023); Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (NYU Press 2014); and Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU Press, 2003). In 2023, Dr. Rodríguez was honored by The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies’ with the prestigious Kessler Award, in recognition of her significant lifelong contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.

Clarissa Rojas is a scholar activist, poet, mama, and movement maker. Her mother’s indigenous lineages in the Americas root her in the Arizona/Sonora deserts. Clarissa grew up in Mexicali/Calexico and San Diego/Chula Vista where her family migrated. She lives in Oakland in unceded Huichin and is faculty in Chicanx Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Davis. Clarissa co-founded INCITE! and has authored and co-edited multiple articles, special issues, and books on violence and the transformation of violence, including Color of Violence: the INCITE Anthology, Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence and most recently her writing appears in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Abolition Feminisms.

Milena Britto is an Associate Professor of Literature at the Federal University of Bahia and currently a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on gender, race, literature and strategies of legitimation in the cultural field. She is also a curator, publishing editor, and has worked in several positions of cultural public policy.

Alberto Ledesma (moderator) is Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. He grew up in East Oakland and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from UC Berkeley. He earned a Ph.D. in ethnic studies in 1996 and is a former faculty member at California State University, Monterey Bay, and a lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. He has held several staff positions at UC Berkeley, including director of admissions at the School of Optometry, and writing program coordinator at the Student Learning Center. He is the author of the award winning illustrated autobiography, Diary of A Reluctant Dreamer.

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