California Roundtable for Philosophy of Race: Past Programs

2009 Program


Hampshire College

Friday, October 2, 2009

 

Chair: Darrell Moore (DePaul)

9:30 am: Alia Al-Saji (McGill) “Cultural Racism and Muslim Veiling

10:30 am:  Irfan Khawaja (Felician) “Orientalism, Racism, and Islam: Edward Said Between Race and Doctrine

11:30-11:45 Break

Chair: Monique Roelofs (Hampshire)

11:45-12:45 Carole Tushabe (UC Riverside) “Did you Say ‘Closet’ in the ‘Jungle’?: Global Queer and Cultural Knowledge Production

12:45-2:00 pm Lunch Break

Chair: Mickaella Perina (U. Mass Boston)

2:00-3:00 pm: Razvan Amironesei (Laval) “Ideology, Power and Race in Foucault

3:00-4:00 pm: Avram Alpert, (U. Penn) “The Form of Racism: Re-considering Levinas on Race and Culture

4:00-4:30 break

Chair: Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire)

4:30-6:00 pm Keynote Address

Charles Mills, "De-Racializing Rawls"

 

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Chair: Elaine Brown (McGill)

10:00 am: Larry Blum (U. Mass Boston) “Corlett, Alcoff, and Gracia on the Nature of Race

11:00 am: Grant Silva (U. Oregon) “The Races Between Latin America and the United States: Two Dogmas of Racialization, Latino/a Immigration and the Mechanics of ‘Post-Racial’ Ideology

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

Chair: Michael McEachrane (U. Mass Amherst)

1:30 pm: Banu Subramaniam (U. Mass. Amherst) “Casting Race, Racing Caste: The Genetic Architecture Of Race And Caste

2:30 pm: Albert Mosley (Smith) “Should Racial Categories be Eliminated?

3:30-4:00 Break

Chair: Kyoo Lee (John Jay)

4:00 pm: Camisha Russell (Penn State) “The Artificial Reproduction of Race: Race and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

5:00 pm: Allison Wolf (Simpson) “The Medicalization of Reproducing Whiteness

All sessions are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, please register by dropping us a note at organizer@caroundtable.org.








2008 Program


UC Berkeley

Friday, October 3, 2008 
 

 
Chair: Charles Watson (Earlham College) Chair
 
9:30 am
Robin James (UNC-Charlotte), “Sensus communis and hegemonic ‘common sense’: race as interpretive horizon and distribution of the sensible” 
 
10:30 am
Susan Smith (U. at Buffalo), “Race as a Tool in Medical Diagnoses”
 
11:30 am-1:00 pm Lunch 
 
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Nelson Maldonado-Torres (UC Berkeley) Chair
Keynote Speaker: Maria Lugones (Binghamton University),
"The Coloniality of Gender and the Colonial Difference"

2:45-4:45 pm Gregory Velazco y Trianosky (CSU Northridge), Chair
 
2:45 pm 
Kyoo Lee (John Jay), “Still (Un)Written On the Face:
On The Artifactual Originality of the “Paper Sons” of Chinese America as a Spectral Resource for Citational Politics To Come” 
 
3:45 pm
Darrell Moore (DePaul U), “John Locke, Mary Rowlandson, and the Ontological Transformation of Space”  
 


Saturday, October 4, 2008 
 
10:00 am-12:00 noon Rita Alfonso (UC Berkeley), Chair
 
10:00 am
Shireen Roshanravan (Kansas State), “Long and Wide” South Asian Selves:
Feminist Implications of Horizontal Cross-Racial Identification”
 
11:00 am
Sarah Hoagland (N. Illinois U/Institute of Lesbian Studies), Colonial Practices/Colonial Identities: White Academic Feminist Deployment of Gender

12:00-1:30 Lunch 
   
1:30-3:30 pm Tina Botts (Arkansas-Little Rock/Memphis), Chair
 
1:30 pm 
Alexis Artaud de la Ferriere (EHESS, Paris), “Modernist Primitivism: Aesthetic Colonialism?” 
 
2:30 pm
Elizabeth Philipose (CSU Long Beach), “Feminism, International Law, and the Spectacular Violence of the ‘Other’: Decolonizing the Laws of War”


4:00-6:00 pm Crista Lebens (U. Wisconsin-Whitewater), Chair
 
4:00 pm
Elaine Chukan Brown (N. Arizona/McGill), “Theoretical Choice and Ethical Implications: A Critique of Andreasen's Cladistic Notion of Race”
 
5:00 pm
Michael Monahan (Marquette), “Racial Justice and the Politics of Purity"