Events Calendar

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Jane Grant Room (330 Hendricks Hall).

 Salar Mameni, associate professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, will be leading a graduate student reading group on the theme of "war and ecology." Participants will read Mameni's book Terracene in connection with Munira Khayyat's book A Landscape of War and a short essay by the artist Jumanna Manna titled "Where Nature ends and Settlements Begin."

Registration deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, March 16 and is limited to first come, first served. Materials and lunch will be provided to registered participants.

Joyce Wei-Jo Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Music and Dance, “Cherchez la femme: Music by Baroque Women Composers.” 

Sanjula Rajat, Doctoral Student, Philosophy, “The Colonial Politics of Impurity: Anti-Trans Politics in India and the Consolidation of a Hindu Nation-State.” 

The 2026 Acker-Morgen speaker Durba Mitra will present a talk titled, "What If Gathering Together Liberated Us?"

Audrey Lucero, Professor, Education Studies, “‘I don’t know what I don’t know’: Female Teachers’ Discursive Uncertainty in Responding to Constraints on their Practice.”