ASE Commons

COME BY TODAY FOR THIS EVENT! "Developmental" Politics and the Timing of Race and Disability Speaker: Mel Chen (UC Berkeley) Wednesday, April 23, 12-2pm, KAP 445

Mark your calendars: the final ASE Commons event of this spring will be hosted in KAP 445 from 12-2 on APRIL 28th! The event features a talk with Mel Y. Chen, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

Hey everyone! Be sure to join us this Thursday, Feb. 27th, for an event featuring speaker Joanne Barker - "In Debt: A Reconsideration of "Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime" from Manna-Hata" LOCATION: ... 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM University Park Campus Kaprelian Hall (KAP) Room: 460 SPEAKER BIO: Joanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska, 2005). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Co-sponsored by ASE Indigeneity and Decolonization Research Cluster

Make sure to join us for tomorrow’s ASE Commons event! Wedding the Nation: Spectacles of Indigeneity in Plurinational Bolivia Speaker: Nancy Postero (UC San Diego) Thurs, Feb. 13th, 2-4pm, KAP 460... Co-sponsored by ASE Indigeneity and Decolonization Research Cluster See more

Come to KAP next week Thursday for a talk with speaker Nancy Postero of UC San Diego! "Wedding the Nation: Spectacles of Indigeneity in Plurinational Bolivia" Speaker: Nancy Postero (UC San Diego) Thurs, Feb. 13th, 2-4pm, KAP 460... Co-sponsored by ASE Indigeneity and Decolonization Research Cluster See more

Check out all of the ASE Commons events set to take place this Spring Semester below! Also be sure to come out THIS WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29th, for Mishuana Goeman's Graduate seminar entitled "Native Women Mapping" (Send RSVP to [email protected]).

Come out this Thursday (1/23) to hear USC ASE Professor and author Shana Redmond speak about her book, "Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora" ANTHEM: A BOOK PANEL Speaker: Shana Redmond Commentary by: Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz), Deb Vargas (UC Riverside), Herman Gray (UC Santa Cruz) and C. Riley Snorton (Northwestern University)... Thursday, January 23rd, 4:00-6pm, SOS 250 See more

And if Chandan Reddy wasn't enough excitement for you, there's a double lecture feature with Lisa Lowe the next day, "Ruses of Freedom, Violence of Empire"

Not to late to RSVP for this Thursday's seminar with Chandan Reddy, ""The Question of Violence: Empire, Liberal Justice, and Queer of Color Critique" Email Jujuana Preston ([email protected]) to RSVP and receive a copy of the readings.

Looking for something to do tomorrow? Come check out "Reinas de Los Angeles" a new film that narrates the oral histories of the trans women and drag queen performers who bring to life the stages of Latino gay bars in LA. The film showcases the work, lives, and gender identity formation and expression, of the queens of Los Angeles from the '80s to present day. Click the link below to purchase tickets!

Check out our upcoming events for Fall 2013!

FINAL EVENT OF THE YEAR: The East Is Black - Cultural Contact between Black Americans and China Speaker: Taj Frazier (Annenberg)... Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:30 - 5:30pm, KAP 445 In this talk, Robeson Taj Frazier discusses sections of his forthcoming book, The East Is Black: Cold War China and Black Radical Imagination (Duke University Press, 2014). Frazier's study offers a cultural and intellectual history of black leftists and socialist oriented nationalists' travels and periods of exile in the People's Republic of China during the years of 1949-1976. He explores how different political actors utilized travel, transnational correspondence, and media to stimulate points of political intersection, tactical alliance, and anti-imperialist solidarity between U.S. black radical communities and communist struggles in Asia. From China and elsewhere, these activist-intellectuals identified and propagated points of shared struggle and communication between black Americans and Chinese, activities that led these radical travelers to center their political consciousness within more expansive and globally engaged conceptions of cultural citizenship and racial difference. The Mandarin idiom dongfang hei (the east is black) encapsulates some of the articulations and representations that resulted from their encounters and experiences in transit.