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COMPLETE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE April 17-18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009 – 9:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 – 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
All sessions are free and open to the public.
No registration required.
Program - Friday,
April 17, 2009
175 Knight Law Center
1515 Agate Street, University of Oregon in Eugene
9:00
a.m.
Welcome |
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Scott Coltrane (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon), Margaret Hallock (Director of the Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon) |
9:15 a.m.
Opening Keynote Address |
Devon Carbado, UCLA
“After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challenges” |
10:15 a.m.
Panel I
“Race, Otherness and the Body” |
John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
"The Bodies of Black Judah: Emigrationism, Afrocentrism, and
the Public Sphere."
Catherine Lee, Rutgers University
“Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the
Post-Genomic Era”
Sherene H. Razack, University of Toronto
“‘A Culturally Different Enemy’ and Other Everyday Expressions of White Supremacy: Reflections on Torture”
Martin Summers, Boston College
“Racial Narratives of Insanity, the African American Medical Profession, and the Politics of Mental Illness, 1890-1945” |
Noon
Lunch Break |
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1:00
p.m.
Panel II
“Historical Formations of Race” |
Matt Garcia, Brown University
“The Culture of Grapes: Race and Cooperation in the Making of an
Agro-industry”
Neil Gotanda, Western State University
“Origins of Racial Categorization in Colonial Virginia: Exploring a Framework for Comparative Racial Analysis”
Michelle A. McKinley, University of Oregon
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Hybridity and Racial formations in Colonial Latin America”
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3:00 p.m.
Roundtable on Racial Formation in the United States |
Gary Delgado (Applied Research Center),
Priya Kandaswamy (Portland State University),
Nikhil Singh (New York University & University of Washington) |
4:00 p.m.
Plenary Session |
Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Winant, University of California Santa Barbara |
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p.m. |
Public Reception |
Program - Saturday,
April 18, 2009
110 Knight Law Center
1515 Agate Street, University of Oregon in Eugene
9:00 a.m.
Panel III
“Shifting Racializations, Violence and the Nation” |
Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State University
“Race, Nationality, and the Conundrums of Latino Identity”
Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of California, San Diego
“‘No-bodies’: Law, Raciality, and the Territory of Justice”
Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside
“Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy”
Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
“Unapologetic States: Coral Gardens, Rastafari, and the Jamaican Body Politic” |
11:00 a.m.
Closing Keynote Address |
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
“The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary Amerika” |
Noon
Symposium Closing |
Oneka LaBennett, Fordham University and Laura Pulido, University of Southern California |
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