2006 Future of Minority Studies

Summer Colloquium

Identities, Individuals, Institutions

Friday, 28th July

Satya P. Mohanty (Director, FMS Summer Institute; English, Cornell University)
Paula M. L. Moya (English and CCSRE, Stanford University)

Keynote Address
Multiculturalism, Universalism, and the 21st Century Academy
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President, Syracuse University

Panel Event
Identity Threat, Identity Safety: Structuring Opportunities
Hazel Markus (Psychology and RICSRE, Stanford University)
Claude Steele (Psychology and CASBS, Stanford University)
Audience Question and Answer Session

Panel Event
Minority Identities and the Future of Critical Prison Studies
Michael Hames-Garcia (Ethnic Studies and English, University of Oregon)
Lawrence D. Bobo (Sociology and CCSRE, Stanford University)
Angela Davis (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Audience Question and Answer Session

Saturday, 29th July

Roundtable Book Discussion
Leslie Feinberg’s Drag King Dreams
Moderator: Ernesto Martinez (Women's and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon)
M. Jacqui Alexander (Women’s Studies, University of Toronto)
Gayatri Gopinath (Women’s Studies, University of California, Davis)
Ogaga Ifowodo (English, Cornell University)
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano (Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University)
Author's Response: Leslie Feinberg

Roundtable Book Discussion
Linda Martín Alcoff’s Visible Identities
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Women's Studies, Emory University)
Ronald Sundstrom (Philosophy, University of San Francisco)
Michele Elam (English and CCSRE, Stanford University)
Respondent: Linda Martín Alcoff (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Syracuse University)
Audience Question and Answer Session

Roundtable Discussion
The 21st Century Academy: Vision and Strategy
Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Women’s Studies, Spelman College)
Robert Jensen (Journalism, University of Texas-Austin)
Audience Question and Answer Session