Apologies for cross-posting. Just a note to announce the most recent schedule for presenters below. It can also be found at www.caroundtable.org
2008 Program
The
California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race will hold its fifth annual
roundtable on October 3-4, 2008 at UC Berkeley. All sessions will be held at 554 Barrows Hall.
Friday, October 3, 2008
9:30-11:30 am Charles Watson, Chair
9:30 am
Robin James, "Sensus communis and hegemonic 'common sense': race as interpretive horizon and distribution of the sensible"
10:30 am
Susan Smith, "Race as a Tool in Medical Diagnoses"
11:30 am-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Chair
Keynote Speaker: Maria Lugones
2:45-4:45 pm Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Chair
2:45 pm
Kyoo Lee, "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, "John Locke, Mary Rowlandson, and the Ontological Transformation of Space"
5:00 pm Falguni Sheth, Chair
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, "Gender and Power: Black Skins, White Masks"
Saturday, October 4, 2008
10:00 am-12:00 noon Rita Alfonso, Chair
10:00 am
Shireen Roshanravan, "Long and Wide" South Asian Selves:
Feminist Implications of Horizontal Cross-Racial Identification"
11:00 am
Sarah Hoagland, Colonial Practices/Colonial Identities: White Academic Feminist Deployment of Gender
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm Tina Botts, Chair
1:30 pm
Alexis Artaud de la Ferriere, "Modernist Primitivism: Aesthetic Colonialism?"
2:30 pm
Elizabeth Philipose, "Feminism, International Law, and the
Spectacular Violence of the 'Other': Decolonizing the Laws of War"
4:00-6:00 pm Crista Lebens, Chair
4:00 pm
Elaine Chukan Brown, "Theoretical Choice and Ethical Implications: A Critique of Andreasen's Cladistic Notion of Race"
5:00 pm
Michael Monahan, "Racial Justice and the Politics of Purity"