Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity Politics
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CORNELL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Wednesday, November 14th: 701 Clark Hall

4:15 p.m. Welcome

Harry Shaw, Chair, Department of English

4:25 p.m. Roundtable on Experience, Identity, and the Study of History

James Adams (English)
Karen Graubart (History)
Sandra Greene (History)
Pete Wetherbee (English & Medieval Studies)
Chair: Sandra Greene (History)

6:25 p.m. Reception


Thursday, November 15th: 701 Clark Hall

4:15 p.m. Roundtable on Identity, Experience, and the Undergraduate Classroom

Elizabeth DeLoughrey (English)
Michael McDaniel (English)
Ernesto Martinez (English)
Barry Maxwell (Comparative Literature)
Alice Te Punga Somerville (English)

Chair: Barry Maxwell (Comparative Literature)

6:30 p.m. Break (on your own)

7:30 p.m. Screening of Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Nike Goldwin Smith, Rm. 142

There will be a panel discussion following the film with:
Anne Adams (Africana Studies)
Biodun Jeyifo (English)
Jean Young (Theater Arts)

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Friday, November 16th: A.D. White House

1:00 p.m. Introduction

Biodun Jeyifo (English)

1:10 p.m. Panel: The Public "I"

Paul Sawyer (English)
Helena Maria Viramontes (English)
Roger Gilbert (English)
Kenneth McClane (English)
Chair: Scottt McMillin (English)

3:40 p.m. Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. Panel: Identity and the Ethics of Reading

Harry Shaw (English)
Hortense Spillers (English
Laura Brown (English)
Jonathan Culler (English)
Chair: Biodun Jeyifo (English)

6:30 p.m. Buffet Dinner, A.D. White House

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Saturday, November 17th: A.D. White House

8:30 Breakfast

9:30 a.m. Introduction

Paula Moya (English and CCSRE, Stanford)

9:40 a.m. Panel: "Who Are Our Own People?"

Jack Tchen (A/P/A Studies and History, NYU)
Ramon Saldivar (English, CCSRE, Stanford)
Rosaura Sanchez (Literature and Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego)
Chair: Dominick LaCapra (History)

12:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch

1:30 p.m. Introduction

Linda Alcoff (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Syracuse)

1:40 p.m. Panel: Re-Imagining (Moral) Universalism

Tobin Siebers (Comp. Lit. and Global Ethnic Literatures Program, Michigan)
Jennifer Whiting (Philosophy)
Lewis Gordon (Africana and Religious Studies, Brown)
Chair: Michael Hames-García (English, Binghamton)

Designated General Discussants:

Anne Adams (Africana, Cornell)
Jacqui Alexander (Women's Studies, Connecticut College)
Avtar Brah (Sociology and Women's Studies, University of London, U.K.)
Zillah Eisenstein (Politics, Ithaca College)
Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography, University of Toronto)
Shalini Puri (English, University of Pittsburgh)
Katharine Rankin (Geography, University of Toronto)

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