The Institute for the Humanities
The African American Studies Department,
and Latin American and Latino Studies Program
present
THEORIZING RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
February 21, 2003, 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
This symposium examines the convergence of approaches to gender and sexuality, as these inform our understanding of racial and hybrid identities. It will also foreground the contributions of race and ethnic studies to the ways in which knowledge is produced in the traditional disciplines.
10:30-12:30
Gender, Sexuality and Race
Lecture: Dwight A. McBride, African-American Studies and English, Northwestern Univ.
“Straight Black Studies”
Roundtable: Cathy Cohen, Political Science and Center for the Study of Race, Politics and
Culture, University of Chicago
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-5:00
Transforming the Disciplines and Disciplining Ethnic Studies
Lecture: Charles Mills, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Philosophy and Race”
Roundtable: Frances Aparicio, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, UIC
Pedro Caban, Latina and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Chiang, English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rafia Zafar, African and Afro-American Studies and English, Washington University
