Conferences
Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: April 4-5, 2008
This conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the ways in which constructions of race have influenced culture, art, politics, ideas of gender, and nation-building efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants will explore, for example, artistic representations of blackness and its relationship to the construction of individual and collective identity. They will also address the role and use of racial discourse in defining (and denying) citizenship, motivating state-sponsored multiculturalism policies, and informing academic discourses on the nation and the study thereof. The questions that participants engage with engage with the importance that academic organizations have come to afford to the study of race within a transnational context, and with the changing face of the study of blackness in the academy, which includes increasing numbers of positions focusing on blackness in the region, as well as on transnational black cultures in the Americas.
Conference Program
Thomas Holt (Chicago) and Peter Wade (Manchester) will be our keynote speakers. We are also fortunate to count the following scholars among our presenters:
Soraya Aracena (Colectivo Videoteca Chango Prieto, Dominican Republic)
Petrine Archer-Straw (Cornell University)
Stephen Berrey (IUB)
Whitney Edwards (IUPUI/Howard)
Lessie Jo Frazier (IUB)
Luis González (IUB)
Shane Green (IUB)
Vivian Halloran (IUB)
Javier León (IUB)
Alejandro Madrid (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Emily Maguire (IUB)
John McDowell (IUB)
Jason McGraw (IUB)
Alejandro Mejías-López (IUB)
Robin Moore (The University of Texas at Austin)
Jean Rahier (Florida International University)
Maritza Quinones Rivera (IUB)
Iris Rosa (IUB)
Sonia Beatriz dos Santos (The University of Texas at Austin)
Micol Seigel (IUB)
Stephen Selka (IUB)
Jennifer Thorington Springer (IUPUI)
Michelle Stephens (Colgate)
Marvin Sterling (IUB)
All sessions to be held in the Dogwood Room of the IMU. For more information about this conference, please check the American Studies home page or contact Deborah Cohn at dncohn@indiana.edu.
Rethinking Race in the Americas: Anthropology, Politics, and Policy: April 17-18, 2008
This symposium will bring to Indiana University an internationally renowned group of scholars from diverse sub-fields within the discipline of anthropology to present their latest research and debate the concept of race, its relation to anthropology, and its relevance to the politics of the present across the Americas. The symposium has been organized by Indiana University's Department of Anthropology to celebrate its 60th anniversary of scholarship and teaching.
Speakers include:
Lee Baker (Duke)
Charles Briggs (UC Berkeley)
Jane Hill (University of Arizona)
Jeff Long (University of Michigan Medical School)
Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside)
Deborah Poole (Johns Hopkins)
Ricardo Santos (The National Museum in Brazil)
Laurie Wilkie (UC Berkeley)
All sessions to be held in the Moot Court Room (#123) of the IU Law School. For more information on this conference, please check the conference website at Rethinking Race in the Americas .
First Biannual Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin American (STILLA) August 14-16, 2008
This symposium will scholars together to dicuss issues related to the teaching of Indigenous Languages and will cover issues including, but not limited to:
- Best practices, methodologies and strategies in teaching indigenous languages
Participants will include:
- Using multimedia and other multiple resources in language teaching
- The interplay of teaching and research
- Issues of language policy and planning in language teaching
- The importance of indigenous languages learning for fieldwork
- Impact of language attitudes and ideologies on teaching indigenous languages
- Connecting, celebrating and maintaining traditions through teaching
- Assessment and evaluation
- Issues of dialectology and standardization in language instruction
- Technology and indigenous languages
- Distance learning / online courses
- Strengthening indigenous languages as an international subject of study
Convenors:Serafín M. Coronel-Molina School of Education
John H. McDowell, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Jeff Gould, CLACSSpeakers:
Nora C. England (UT Austin)
For more informaiton please check the conference website STILLA 2008.
Jean-Jacques Decoster (Instituto de Investigación de la Lengua Quechua, Cusco, Peru)
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