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SUMMARY:Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective
DESCRIPTION:RSVP! eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/RacializedViolence \nConference schedule now available! Download here or view online! \nQuestions? Email: rsv@csw.ucla.edu \n\nThe conference brings together scholars who work on racialized police violence in North America with others who work in Brazil\, Central America\, the UK\, the Caribbean\, and elsewhere to consider questions of pressing global importance including economic inequality\, state power\, racism and indigeneity\, legacies of imperialism and colonialism\, and gendered violence. Featuring intellectuals in the social sciences\, humanities\, and arts\, the symposium not only analyzes racialized state violence but also engages possibilities for justice. \n \n“Living With Certain Uncertainty: Violence\, Exile\, and Black Life”\nKEYNOTE by EDWIDGE DANTICAT\n \nMay 25\, 6 pm\, Lenart Auditorium\, Fowler Museum \nThe extraordinary novelist and public intellectual Edwidge Danticat (left) will deliver the conference’s keynote lecture on Wednesday evening May 25th\, with Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, associate professor\, Department of History\, UCLA\,  as respondent. Danticat is an award-winning author of short stories and novels that often engage with the history of her native Haiti. She also writes about the immigrant experience—what she calls “dyaspora”—and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her works include Breath\, Eyes\, Memory (1994); Krik? Krak! (1996); Claire of the Sea Light (2013); Mama’s Nightingale (2015); and Untwine (2015). She wrote and narrated the film Girl Rising (Haiti) in 2013. In 2007\, she received a National Book Award nomination for Brother\, I’m Dying. She was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Claire of the Sea Light in 2014. \nPANELS and ROUNDTABLE: May 26\, 9 am to 5:30. Royce 314 \nOn Thursday\, May 26th\, we will hold two panels of speakers and a lunch scholar-activist roundtable on policing in Los Angeles. \n  \nSPEAKERS \nMelina Abdullah\, Professor and Chair\, Pan-African Studies\, California State University\, Los Angeles\, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory. Abdullah was appointed to the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission in 2014 and is a member of the California State University Chancellor’s Taskforce for the Advancement of Ethnic Studies. She is currently writing a book manuscript that examines Hip Hop and political mobilization. \nMohan Ambikaipaker\, Assistant Professor\, Communications\, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts\, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies. His research aims to examine the shifting configurations of racism and racial structures that go beyond bipolar frameworks of analysis. He is the co-author (with Robert Berkeley and Omar Khan) of What’s New about New Immigrants in 21st Century Britain? (Runnymede Trust/Joseph Rowntree\, 2006). \nAisha Beliso-de Jesus\, Associate Professor\, African American Religions\, Harvard Divinity School\, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003. Her book\, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columbia University Press\, 2015) details the transnational experience of Santería\, in which racialized and gendered spirits\, deities\, priests\, and religious travelers remake local\, national\, and political boundaries and actively reconfigure notions of technology and transnationalism. Her current research\, “Policing African Diaspora Religions\,” draws on ethnographic research with police and religious practitioners in the United States exploring questions of race\, religion\, and policing. \nMaurice Magaña\, Lecturer\, Chicano/a Studies\, UCLA\, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States. He received his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Oregon in 2013 and was the Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher in Chicano Studies in 2013-14. His dissertation\, Youth in Movement: the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Youth Activism in Southern Mexico\, was named as one of the “50 Best Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology of 2013”. \nAna Muñiz\, Criminology\, Law\, and Society\, UC Irvine\, does research on gang injunctions\, social control\, state violence and surveillance\, militarization\, and race. She is the author of Police\, Power\, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Rutgers University Press\, 2015) which examines how the LAPD\, city prosecutors\, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered “dangerous” and how they should be policed in Los Angeles. \nLaurence Ralph\, Associate Professor\, African & African American Studies and Anthropology\, Harvard University\, researches how the historical circumstances of police abuse\, mass incarceration\, and the drug trade naturalize disease\, disability\, and premature death for urban residents\, who are often seen as expendable. He is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press\, 2014). \nAudra Simpson\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\, is energized by the problem of recognition\, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation\, self-description\, and subjectivity. Her work is motivated by the struggle of Kahnawake Mohawks to find the proper way to afford political recognition to each other\, their struggle to do this\, and the challenges of formulating membership against a history of colonial impositions. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press\, 2014) and co-editor with Andrea Smith of Theorizing Native Studies (Duke University Press\, 2014). \nChristen Smith\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas at Austin\, does research in the areas of performance\, race\, gender\, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation. Her book\, Afro-Paradise: Blackness\, Violence and Performance in Brazil (University of Illinois Press\, 2016) explores the visual and performatic economies of the Black body in pain as an ironic transfer point for the production of Brazil’s racial state. \nShannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of American Indian Studies and Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico\, and her research and teaching interests include indigenous politics\, legal anthropology\, human rights\, neoliberalism\, gender and feminist theory\, indigenous migration\, and activist research. She has published five books and edited volumes\, including Rights in Rebellion: Human Rights and Indigenous Struggle in Chiapas\, Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics\, Moral Engagements\, and Cultural Contentions\, and Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas. She serves on the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and as co-chair of the Otros Saberes/Other Knowledges section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)\, and on the editorial board of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. In 2013\, she was awarded the Chickasaw Nation’s Dynamic Woman of the Year\, and in 2014 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Bar of Texas Indian Law Section. \n \nRinaldo Walcott\, is Professor and Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary scholar Rinaldo has published on music\, literature\, film and theater and policy among other topics. All of Rinaldo’s research is founded in a philosophical orientation that is concerned with the ways in which coloniality shapes human relations across social and cultural time. Rinaldo is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insomniac Press\, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003); he is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac\, 2000); and the Co-editor with Roy Moodley of Counseling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemment Vontress in Clinical Practice (University of Toronto Press\, 2010). In all of Rinaldo’s research and publication he focuses on Black cultural politics; histories of colonialism in the Americas\, multiculturalism\, citizenship\, and diaspora; gender and sexuality; and social\, cultural and public policy \n  \nRESPONDENTS \nKelly Lytle Hernandez\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, UCLA\, does research on twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration on race\, migration\, and police and prison systems in the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her book\, MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010) is the first book to tell the story of how and why the U.S. Border Patrol concentrates its resources upon policing unsanctioned Mexican immigration despite the many possible targets and strategies of U.S. migration control. Her current research explores the social world of incarceration in Los Angeles between 1876 and 1965. \nSaree Makdisi\, Professor\, Department of English\, UCLA\, does research at the crossroads of several different fields\, including British Romanticism\, imperial culture\, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism\, and the cultures of urban modernity\, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces\, including London\, Beirut and Jerusalem. His recent books include Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton\, 2008; revised and updated\, with a new foreword by Alice Walker\, 2010) and Making England Western: Occidentalism\, Race and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2014). \nSarah Haley\, Assistant Professor\, Gender Studies\, UCLA\, does research on African American history\, critical prison studies\, social movements and labor studies. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies from 2010-2011. She is author of the book No Mercy Here: Gender\, Punishment\, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press\, 2016).\n__ \nOrganized by Hannah Appel\, Jessica Cattelino\, Norma Mendoza-Denton\, and Jemima Pierre \nCosponsored by Alessandro Duranti\, Dean\, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg\, Dean\, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley\, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila\, Associate Dean\, UCLA Office of Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA;  UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies. \nPhoto credits: Black Lives Matter march\, Minneapolis\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, July 31\, 2015\, Fibonacci Blue\, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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LOCATION:Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum
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SUMMARY:Chinyere Oparah
DESCRIPTION:Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life\nAfrican American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes\, our infants are twice as likely not to survive their first year. “Birthing while black” is a site of struggle\, which for too many leads to disabling\, trauma or even death. Birth matters in conversations about black life and death\, yet the reproductive autonomy of black women and trans/gender nonconforming pregnant and birthing individuals has only recently gained recognition with the #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName movements. Research justice is a strategic framework within which those directly affected by structural violence and discrimination use research tools in order to achieve self determination and lasting social change. Using a research justice approach\, Oparah worked alongside members of Oakland-based collective Black Women Birthing Justice to document black women’s experiences of childbirth\, and to  publish an anthology of critical essays and activist and personal testimonies on black bodies and birth justice. In this talk\, she explores the role of activist scholars in the movement to #LiberateBlackBirth. \nChinyere Oparah is an activist scholar\, social justice educator and experienced community organizer\, who is dedicated to producing critical scholarship in the service of progressive social movements.  Oparah is an African diaspora specialist\, whose interests span a number of different social concerns\, including activism by women of color\, violence against women\, women and the prison-industrial complex\, restorative justice\, queer and transgender liberation\, race and adoption\, research justice and birth activism. Her work is informed by personal experiences of crossing racial\, gendered and national boundaries as a biracial\, transracial/ transnational adoptee\, survivor of intimate violence and queer parent with ties to Britain\, Nigeria and the U.S. \nOparah is Associate Provost and professor and department chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. She played a leading role in the establishment of Mills’ Queer Studies Program and sits on the Advisory Committee for that program. She recently led the College’s Gender Expression and Identity initiative\, leading to the production of an important report on improving the experiences of transgender and gender-fluid students at Mills. \nOparah was awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship in Sex\, Race and Globalization in 2002\, and held the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Diversity at the University of Toronto from 2004-6. Educated at Cambridge University and Warwick University\, she has graduate degrees in Sociology and Ethnic Studies. In addition\, Oparah trained in community development. Prior to entering academia\, she coordinated a black women’s center in the UK\, and was executive director of a national development agency for non-profits serving communities of color. \nOparah is author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organizations and the Politics of Organization\, the only comprehensive history of the black women’s movement on Britain. She is editor of Global Lockdown: Race\, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex\, a seminal work that mapped the connections between globalization\, gender and mass incarceration. She is also co-editor of 3 books: Activist Scholarship: Antiracism\, Feminism and Social Change\, Color of Violence: the Incite! Anthology. and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. \nShe is working with the grassroots community organization Black Women Birthing Justice on a participatory action research project about black women’s experiences of pregnancy and childbirth\, and editing an anthology on black women in the birth justice movement. In her spare time she practices mindfulness meditation and vinyasa yoga\, sings along to gospel music\, hangs out with toddlers and is learning horse-riding. Oparah has Nigerian (Igbo) and British origins\, and immigrated to the US in 1995. She lives in East Oakland with her partner and daughter. \nEach of the six speakers in this series\, “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice\,” is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health. social inequity. race. gender. and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work. and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice. in the fields of law. healthcare. or social services. in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social. health. or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Repair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies. and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. \nOrganized by: UCLA Department of Gender Studies \nCosponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center
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