5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race and Sovereignty

Mar 31–Apr 2, 2011
UC Los Angeles

An exploration of the relationship between race and sovereignty.

CRS Welcome and Opening Roundtable:

  • Angela Riley
  • Saul Sarabia
  • Addie Rolnick
  • Stacy Leeds
  • Kendra Taira-Field
  • Devon Carbado (moderator)

Screening of Hearing Radmilla: A Documentary by Angela Webb and discussion with Radmilla Cody

Plenary I: Settler Colonialism and Racial Management

  • Chris Anderson
  • Aziz Rana
  • Audra Simpson
  • Laura Gomez
  • Jessica Cattelino (moderator)

Plenary II: Sovereigns and Subjects

  • Leti Volpp
  • Maylei Blackwell
  • David Theo Goldberg
  • Gil Gott
  • Maivan Lam
  • Asli Bâli (moderator)

Plenary III: Defensive Sovereignty: Property, Race, Resistance

  • Rose Cuison Villazor
  • Rebecca Tsosie
  • Catherine Iorns
  • Julian Aguon
  • Sarah Krakoff
  • Angela Riley (moderator)

Friday Evening Keynote (April 1, 2011)

  • Mishuana Goeman
  • Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Plenary IV: The Politics of Recognition

  • Sumi Cho
  • Keith Camacho
  • Adjoa Aiyetoro
  • Melinda Lowery
  • Joanna Barker
  • Kimberle Crenshaw (moderator)

Plenary V: Enforced Belonging and Exclusion

  • Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Bethany Berger
  • Carlos Soltero
  • Hiroshi Motomura
  • Gerald Torres
  • Carole Goldberg (moderator)

Closing Roundtable:

  • Patrick Wolfe
  • Antony Anghie
  • J. Kehaulani Kauani
  • Cheryl Harris (moderator) 
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