Events

Symposium at Cornell
Organized by the Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS)

www.fmsproject.cornell.edu

29th July 2005 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Guerlac Room, The A. D. White House

“Historical Research and Political Commitment”

Participants:

David Roediger, University of Illinois

Alan Wald, University of Michigan

Angela Dillard, New York University

John Walter, University of Washington-Seattle

Program:

9:00 – 10.45: David Roediger, University of Illinois

“Narratives of Admission: Race, Identity, and History in American Higher Education”

11:00 – 1:00: Panel: The Practice of History

Alan Wald, University of Michigan
Angela Dillard, NYU
John Walter, University of Washington-Seattle

Panelists will address the following questions:

1. What is the relationship between history and politics? To what extent can (or should) political issues influence what we write and how we write about it?

2. To and for whom are we writing? To whom are we accountable?

3. What makes an interdisciplinary study one that is also considered history? Can we identify that essential ingredient that would mark a study as history rather than just historically inclined?

Note: Our thanks to Sandra Greene, chair of Cornell’s History Department, for suggesting these questions.