Program:  Friday, April 17, 2009 – 9:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
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		  

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”
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
5:00 p.m. Public Reception

 

 

    

 
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