Hello, all:

Below is the 2009 California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race Program,
held Oct. 2-3, 2009. We hope you will be able to join us.

See also www.caroundtable.org for additional details.

 *6th Annual California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race*

Amherst, Massachusetts

October 2-3, 2009 at
* *Hampshire College<http://www.caroundtable.org/Hampshire_logo.gif/Hampshire_logo-full;init:.gif>


   *CRPR 2009 Schedule*



Hampshire College Campus, Amherst, MA



*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)

*Charles Mills, Keynote Address*





*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*”