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.

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”