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News, Conferences & EventsNewsThe Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) is pleased to announce its class of 2008-2009 Fellows. These successful candidates will join CCSRE's interdisciplinary community of over one hundred Stanford faculty in developing research and teaching on topics of race, ethnicity and culture. The Fellows will have an opportunity to participate in monthly research meetings and a faculty speaker series, as well as the many conferences and events scheduled throughout the year. The Center offers four different fellowship programs. Scholars and researchers from around the world, who share a comparative, multi-disciplinary and multi-racial approach to the study of race, ethnicity and culture, applied for the Visiting Fellows Program. The 2008-2009 scholars bring a diversity of perspectives from a variety of institutions and fields: Luke Harris (Political Science, Vassar College) "Notes from a Child of Apartheid" CCSRE also supports a group of Graduate Dissertation Fellows who join the Visiting Fellows in regular discussions of their research projects: Jocelyn Chua (Anthropology) "Circulating Death: Suicide, Sovereignty & Productions of Affects in Kerala, South India" The CSRE Undergraduate Program provides three Teaching Fellowships to graduate students whose work addresses issues of race and ethnicity. This fellowship offers the opportunity to gain practical experience in the classroom as Teaching Assistants and teachers of small group courses. Matthew Daube (Drama & Humanities) "Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor: Race and Ethnicity in the Emergence of Stand-up Comedy" The CSRE Graduate Fellowship is in its inaugural year for new doctoral students interested in the study of the meanings, processes, and consequences of race, ethnicity, and culture. This fellowship is a three-year award for outstanding doctoral students newly admitted by a department or program. Ellen Tani (Art and Art History) The Fellowship Programs have been generously supported by the Offices of the Provost and the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. ConferencesEducation & Opportunity: A forum on the Kerner Commission Forty Year Report Embracing Diversity: Making and Unmaking Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Difference in the 21st Century November 1, 2007, McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center Feminicide = Sanctioned Murder: Race, Gender and Violence in Global Context May 16-19, 2007, Tresidder, Oak West, Stanford University Race, Inequality, and Incarceration April 11, 2007, The Bechtel Center, Stanford University Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age: A Public Forum on Race-Based Drug Design Policing Racial Bias Project Initial Conference Interdisciplinary conferences on race,
ethnicity and culture Events2008 Autumn Quarter - Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election 2006 Autumn Quarter - Immigration: Rights and Wrongs 2005 Autumn Quarter - Confronting Katrina: Race, Class, and Disaster in American Society Art ExhibitsAdvocacy for the Women of Juarez, REDRESSING INJUSTICE, A Collaborative Art Installation |
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