2005-2006
Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries
A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference bridging the Humanities and Social Sciences, presented by The Harvard Committee on Ethnic Studies and jointly supported by W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Department of Sociology
Harvard University , Cambridge , MA
Friday, November 4, & Saturday, November 5, 2005
Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Panels begin at 9:00am Friday / 8:00am Saturday
Kaynote Speaker: Fredrik Barth, University of Oslo
Participating Discussants: Margaret Crawford, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Michael Fortner, Alexander Keyssar, Michèle Lamont, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Andreas Wimmer
This national conference will bring together graduate students from the social sciences and the humanities who research ethnic, racial, and cultural boundaries. Sessions will be organized thematically to allow comparisons of boundaries from diverse regions and historical periods, as well as different disciplinary approaches. With this conference, we aim to shift attention toward the dynamics of boundaries: how they are created, imposed, defended, bridged, subverted, and transformed.
Thematic sessions include:
-Identity & Citizenship
-Community & Place
-Family & Lineage
-Hybridity
-Black Cultural Production in America
-Policy & the Law
This event is open to the Harvard University community. For more information, visit http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries , and please RSVP to < xbounds@fas.harvard.edu > so we can save you a seat!