(NAME-MCE) Racial Formation in the 21st Century April 17-18, 2009 Eugene OR

[Anselmo Villanueva]

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Subject: Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium, Univ of Oregon,
April 17-18, 2009

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Symposium website:
http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html

Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium

April 17-18, 2009    University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

The symposium is free and open to the public.
No advance registration is required.

Featuring Michael Omi, UC Berkeley and Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara

Keynote Speakers: Devon Carbado, UCLA and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke
University

Confirmed panelists:

Catherine Lee, Rutgers University
Sherene  Razack, University of Toronto
Martin Summers, Boston College
John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania,
Matt Garcia, Brown University
Neil Gotanda, Western State University
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
Gary Delgado, Applied Research Center
Laura Gomez, University of New Mexico
Priya Kandaswamy, Portland State University,
Nikhil Singh, New York University & University of Washington,
Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State University,
Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of California, San Diego,
Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside,
Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania

Organized by:
Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Oneka LaBennett, Fordham University

Description:

Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and Michael Omi (UC Berkeley)
headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and
practices of racial formation.  The symposium is organized in anticipation
of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the original publication of Omi and
Winant's landmark book Racial Formation in the United States.

Omi and Winant's work—influential to a generation of scholars across the
social sciences and humanities—will serve as the point of departure for a
series of panels and presentations exploring the past, present and future of
racial formation.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Friday, April 17, 2009--175 Knight Law Center

9:15 AM Opening Keynote Address by Devon Carbado, UCLA. "After Obama: Three
Post-Racial Challenges"
10:15 AM Panel Session: "Race, Otherness and the Body"
1:00 PM Panel Session: "Historical Formations of Race"
3:00 PM Roundtable on Racial Formation in the United States, From the 1960s
to the 1990s
4:00 PM Plenary Session with Michael Omi, UC Berkeley and Howard Winant, UC
Santa Barbara
5:00 PM Public Reception

Saturday, April 18, 2009: 110 Knight Law Center

9 AM Panel Session: "Shifting Racializations, Violence and the Nation"
11 AM Closing Keynote Address by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University.
"The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in
Contemporary Amerika"