Please join us in honoring all of our graduates with a presentation of certificates.
Food and beverages will be served.

A conference and roundtable discussion on the connections between international borders and social boundaries in the contemporary world.

Opening Remarks by Eric Fassin, Didier Fassin & Claudio Lomnitz

• Josiah Heyman [University of Texas El Paso] – "Checkpoints as Technologies of Power over Spatial Mobility"
• Nicolas Fischer [EHESS] – "Managing the Border: Control and Protection of Deported Foreigners in a French Immigration Detention Center"
• Chowra Makaremi [University of Montreal, Canada] – "Penalizing Movement, Reframing Borders: Alien Detention in France"
• Eric Fassin [EHESS] – "The Sexual Boundaries of Europe. National Identities and Transnational Intimacies"
• Mae Ngai [Columbia] – "'A Slight Knowledge of the Barbarian Language': Chinese Interpreters in Late-Nineteenth Century America"
• Rocío Magaña [Rutgers / American Academy of Arts and Sciences] – "'Searching the Desert for Truth': The Politics of Migrant Death and Body Recovery in the American Southwest"
• Adam McKeown [Columbia] – "World Migration and the Globalization of Borders"
• Elizabeth Povinelli [Columbia] – Discussant

"Outlaw Generation: A crackdown and its consequences for children in illegal immigrant families in the United States"

Reception to follow

• Marianne Braig [Free University Berlin, Germany] – "TransWorlds: Transnational Approaches to the Formation and Transformation of Space and Spatial Orders, Learning from Mexican Experiences"
• Markus-Michael Müler [Free University Berlin, Germany] – "The 'New Urban Frontier' Travels South: Criminalizing of Marginality and Space in Contemporary Latin American Cities"
• Rihan Yeh [University of Chicago] – "Crossing the Border and Passing on the Street: IDs of Various Sorts in Tijuana, Mexico"
• Audra Simpson [Columbia] – "Borders of Blood"
• Claudio Lomnitz [Columbia] – "The US-Mexican Border and the Origins of 'the Mexican Race'"
• Kornel Chang [University of Connecticut] – "Transnational Border Enforcement: Regulating Race, Nation, and Empire in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands"
• Didier Fassin [IRIS, EHESS and University of Paris North] – "National Boundaries as Moral Borders: The French Politics of Naturalization and Filiation"
• Nilufer Gole [EHESS] – Discussant

Closing Remarks by Eric Fassin, Didier Fassin, Claudio Lomnitz & Elizabeth Povinelli

Co-Organized by Columbia University's new Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD), its Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) & Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris

Keynote Speaker: Viviane Mahieux, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Fordham College
"Minority Voices in Urban Latin America: Buenos Aires and Mexico City, 1920's"

Selma Jackson is the co-founder of 4W Circle of Art & Enterprise, Inc., a retail arts incubator for 17 years in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 4W Circle’s legacy includes birthing 12 businesses in the surrounding communities that have contributed to community and economic development. A proponent of community and economic development throughout her career, Selma has been the recipient of numerous awards including Brooklyn’s Founder Award 2008, State Senator Montgomery’s Magnificent Dozen Award 1998, NCNBPW Sojourner Truth Award 1989, and YMCA Black Achiever in Industry 1977.

Lunch will be provided.

This is an interdisciplinary and transnational conference that seeks to explore the interrelationship between the changing status of textualities, the rise of informal economies and the global politics of circulation.  By changing textualities we mean the transformation in modes of support and circulation of artistic artifacts and legal documents (from different types of musics, to cinema as well as documents that make up the legal archive). The point of departure for the conference is the realization that there is a gap between practices of archiving, production and circulation of different forms of textualities and their juridical status. The association between property, technology, art forms and governmentality is being challenged from a broad spectrum of creative practices, but this is not just a problem about intellectual property. The migration of the discussion in the globalization of the arts to a legal terrain brings to the foreground the increasing incommensurability between the local, national and global politics of diversity, and governmentality. Thus practices of exchange of digital texts become a radical site for the audiovisualization of the global crisis of the political entailed by this incommensurability. The panels in which these different topics would be discussed are:

• A. Heritage, intellectual property and the digital archive
• B. Digital technologies, the arts and informal economies: case studies
• C. Memory, justice and the digital archive
• D. Circulation of textualities and legality: opportunities and closures

List of Presenters:

• Michel Bauwens  (P2P Foundation Belgium/Thailand)
• Carolina Botero  (Organización Karisma, Colombia)
• Kim Christen (Department of Comparative and Ethnic Studies, Washington State University)
• Alex Dent (Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University)
• Arilson Favareto (Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas)
• Universidade Federal da Região do ABC - UFABC, Sao Paulo)
• Aaron Fox (Music, Columbia University)
• Julio Gaitán (Law, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
• Brian Larkin (Anthropology, Barnard)
• Ronaldo Lemos (law and information society, Getúlio Vargas Foundation)
• Lawrence Liang (Alternative Justice Forum, India)
• Louise Meintjes (Music and Anthropology, Duke University, USA, South Africa)
• Ana María Ochoa  (Music and CSER, Columbia University)
• Elizabeth Povinelli (Anthropology and IRWAG, Columbia University)
• Chie Sakakibara (Music, Earth Institute and CSER, Columbia University)
• Anthony Seeger (Music, UCLA)
• Henry Stobart (Music, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
• Alan Story (Law, University of Kent, Copysouth, UK)

Co-organized by Ana Maria Ochoa & Claudio Lomnitz.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Ethnomusicology, The Music Department, Columbia University & Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University

An Expanded Politics of Musical Presentation -- works from the Computer Music Center.
Art Installation by Elena Climent and Santiago Cohen.

Co-organized by the Computer Music Center, The Music Library, The Center for Ethnomusicology with the collaboration of visual artist, Elena Climent. Pieces by: Brad Garton, Douglas Repetto and others. Topic: re-use, re-cycle, re-play....

Tanya Gallo is the Founder and Director of DreamYard’s A.C.T.I.O.N Project (Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhoods), an innovative arts and social activism program for teenagers living in the Bronx. Previously, Tanya was a Program Associate in the Arts-in-Education program at the New York State Council on the Arts from 2000-2003. She also has a background in dance and theatre and has co-authored a curriculum and conducted workshops in media literacy and education. In addition, she has worked as a counselor with youth in an alternative to incarceration program in New York City.

Lunch will be provided.

Cheryll Y. Greene, whose business name is The Editor’s Eye, is an independent editor who has also taught writing and organized literary events. She has been executive editor of Essence Magazine and managing editor of the Malcolm X Project and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society at Columbia University. A Malcolm X specialist, she was curatorial and research consultant for the 2005 exhibition at the Schomburg Center and developmental editor of Malcolm X: Make It Plain (Viking, 1994), companion volume to the award-winning Blackside, Inc./PBS documentary film.

Lunch will be provided.

Prospective majors and concentrators come meet faculty and students from CSER's three programs: Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies & Latino/a Studies. This is also a time for everyone to mingle and get to know others from your cohort.

Professor Gándarais co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. Her research focuses on educational equity and access for low income and ethnic minority students, language policy, and the education of Mexican origin youth. She has just completed a study (with R. Rumberger) entitled Resource Needs for California's English Learners, as part of the statewide adequacy project funded by four major foundations. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including "Understanding the Latino Education Gap, Why Latinos Don't Go to College", with Harvard University Press.

Co-sponsored with The Faculty Working Group on Latina/Latino Education and The Faculty Working Group on Latin American Migration

Jee Kim has been active in the racial justice and immigrant rights movement since the mid 90s. He was an editor at Stress Magazine, worked at 360hiphop.com and BET.com, and organized with CAAAV. While working at the Active Element Foundation, he edited the 9/11 anthology, “Another World is Possible” and “The Future 500,” a youth organizing directory. He received his academic training from Columbia and Oxford Universities. Jee is currently a program officer at the Surdna Foundation.

Lunch will be provided.

"The natural sympathies that unite all of our people": Latino Imagined Communities in the 1850

Co-sponsored with the Department of English

"The Museum of Resilience":Fashioning Sentiment, Memory and Citizenship in the Wake of Chicago Public Housing

A reception to follow the talk will take place in 465 Schermerhorn Ext from 5:30 - 6:30PM

Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology

The Transnational Poetics of José Garcia Villa

Co-sponsored with the Department of English

Talk Title TBA

A reception to follow the talk will take place in 465 Schermerhorn Ext from 5:30 - 6:30PM

Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology

Toxic Metropolis: Urban Waste and Community in Erdrich's The Antelope Wife and Butler's Parable Novels

Co-sponsored with the Department of English

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies

"Two Publics in a Mexican Border City"

A reception to follow the talk will take place in 465 Schermerhorn Ext from 5:30 - 6:30PM

Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology

We are having a meeting to discuss CSER’s academic review, already in progress, as well as the mission and direction of the Center.  The meeting is open to all students and faculty and is scheduled for 6:15 PM on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 in 420 Hamilton.  Dinner will be served.

Please, feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Best,
Leon Bynum
Assistant Director
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Dinner will be provided.
This meeting is open to all students and faculty .

Dr. Conchas is a Senior Program Officer, U.S. Special Initiatives, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1999 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Conchas has pursued three broad areas of study in the sociology of education that include urban education, immigration and education, and social policy and reform. His work has appeared in numerous academic journals that include the Harvard Education Review, Teachers College Record, New Directions for Youth Development, the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, and Research in Sociology of Education. He most recently published The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth (2006) and Small School and Urban Youth: Size, Culture and Personalization (2008).

Co-sponsored with The Latino/a and Latin American Education Faculty Working Group at Teachers College.

The Center for the Study of Human Rights presents a lecture in the series on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues: International Perspectives & Global Challenges, presented in co-sponsorship with the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The lecture will be followed by conversations with the audience.

Co-sponsored by UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Department of Anthropology, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and Institute for Latin American Studies.

September 17, 2008
Ray López is the Environmental Program Manager at LSA Family Health Service, Inc., a non-profit organization in East Harlem.  His program assists the households of asthmatic children to improve air quality through “hands-on” instruction and advocacy to reduce severity.  In 2005 his program received an EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award.  Ray advises tenants with bed bug infestations and has produced 2 instructional films: Learning About Mold and Mold Clean-Up Guidance for New Orleans Area Residents Affected by Hurricane Katrina.

October 1, 2008
Lisa Philp is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Philanthropic Services at the JPMorgan Private Bank. She previously served as a Program Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation, Director of Communications and Government Relations at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, and Manager of the Urban Consortium at Public Technology, Inc. Lisa earned a B.A. in Asian studies and economics at the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

October 15, 2008
Indira Kajosevic is the Executive Director of RACCOON, Inc. (Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network), a Balkan exile community-building program founded in 1997. She has extensive professional and research experience with major international organizations (International Organizations for Migration, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, American Friends Service Committee, and others). Indira teaches classes in conflict transformation, gender, human rights at universities. Also, Indira is the mother of a four-year-old-boy, and a passionate snowboarder.

October 29, 2008
Amanda Ream is the Coordinator of Political and Community Organizing for UNITE HERE, the North American hospitality workers’ union.  She leads Service Workers Rising, a joint effort of SEIU and UNITE HERE to bring justice and dignity to the lives of thousands of workers who provide subcontracted services in cafes at universities and businesses, laundries and elsewhere.  She has worked as a union organizer, strategic campaigner, strike captain, interfaith coordinator and at just about every other job in the labor movement.  She was the NYC organizer for the 2003 Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride.  She holds a BA from NYU.

November 19, 2008
Noah Budnick is Deputy Director at Transportation Alternatives (T.A.), New York City’s advocates for bicycling, walking and mass transit. He works with community groups and campaigns citywide to win complete streets and parks and public space that make city-friendly, healthy and green transportation safe, convenient and inviting for all New Yorkers. Noah is a founding member of Greene Acres community garden in Brooklyn, he chairs the board of directors of the Thunderhead Alliance and also serves on the boards of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization.

Food & beverage will be provided.
This event is free and open to the community.

"What do they talk about when they talk about death, in Malawi, in a time of AIDS?"

Adam Ashforth is a Professor of Anthropology and Political Science. Ashforth is the Dean of Graduate Studies in the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University.

Reception to follow talk and discussion.
This event is free and open to the community.

"From the Space In-Between to the Transcultural"

In this talk Denilson Lopes discusses the theoretical basis of his current research called Transcultural Landscapes in Contemporary Cinema, establishing a dialogue with the ideas by Silviano Santiago, Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai. At this talk  he also mentions the theoretical efforts of film criticism to address the issues of interculturality and multiculturalism. In exploring this issue, Denilson places Latin American critical theory in relation to authors who have addressed the topic of multiculturalism in film such as Robert Stam, Hamid Naficy, Laura Marks and Andréa Franca.

Denilson Lopes is a Professor at the School of Communications at Federal University Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and President of Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual (SOCINE). He is the author of A Delicadeza: Estética, Experiência e Paisagens [Delicateness: Aesthetics, experience and landscapes] (2007), O  Homem que Amava Rapazes e Outros Ensaios  [The man who loved young men and other essays](2002), Nós os Mortos: Melancolia e Neo-Barroco [We the dead: melancholia and neo-baroque] (1999). He is co-editor of Imagem e Diversidade Sexual [Image and Sexual Diversity] (2004) and editor of O Cinema dos Anos 90 [Cinema in the nineties] (2005).

This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Ethnomusicology.

This event is free and open to the public.

Pastoral indígena y neo-tradición en un pueblo nahua de la Huasteca (México) / Indigenous pastoral and neo-tradition in a Nahua village of the Huasteca region (Mexico)

Siguiendo las orientaciones más tolerantes del Concilio Vaticano II, la pastoral indígena tiende a revitalizar y valorizar prácticas religiosas autóctonas hasta entonces consideradas por la Iglesia como paganas. En esta ponencia, propongo analizar los efectos de esta corriente eclesiástica sobre las formas de religión local en un pueblo nahua de la Huasteca veracruzana, al noreste de México. El nuevo espacio que esta corriente católica proporciona al grupo étnico local revela las lógicas propias a cada partido de este diálogo ecuménico reglamentado y orquestado por la Iglesia. Nos permite también reevaluar los términos de 'tradición' y de 'neo-tradición' o 'neo-indianidad'.

Following the more tolerant orientations of the Vatican II Council, the Indigenous Pastoral tends to revitalize and to valorize native religious practices until then considered by the Church as pagans. In this presentation, I propose to analyze the effects of this ecclesiastical current on the forms of local religion in a Nahua village of the Veracruzan Huasteca region, in northeast of Mexico. The new space that this catholic current provides the local ethnic group reveals the logics proper to each side of this ecumenical dialogue regulated and orchestrated by the Church. It also allows us to reevaluate the terms of 'tradition' and of 'neo-tradition' or 'neo-indianity'.

*This presentation will be in Spanish.*

This event is free and open to the public.

Come meet Anjuli Kolb, CSER's Graduate Student Preceptor this year. The information session will provide information on the senior thesis process, including the Senior Thesis Seminar course in the Spring and the Annual Undergraduate Conference.

Anjuli will be your point person for all of these activities. She will be a great asset for those of you writing a thesis; please get to know her and start working with her early. Juniors who want to get an early start or even just an idea of what the thesis process will be like are welcome to attend. Seniors considering writing a thesis should attend this session. Any major who wishes to be considered for Departmental Honors must complete a Senior Thesis.

Seniors are strongly encouraged to attend. Juniors are welcome.
There will be refreshments.

Faculty, current students and anyone interested in finding out more about the CSER are welcomed to attend.

Special performance by Semilla

Founded in 2001, Semilla is a collective of young musicians and dancers performing Son Jarocho in the New York City area. Hailing from diverse parts of Mexico, the United States, and Europe, Semilla's focus is the traditional fandango - the party celebrated with sones jarochos. From fandangos in Veracruz to Mexico City, the members of Semilla have received essential lessons on how to play and dance the traditional son jarocho.
Semilla pioneered son jarocho in New York City, organizing fandangos every month in different venues such as Carlitos Cafe in East Harlem, HECHO EN DUMBO in Brooklyn, and Terraza Café in Queens. We have also performed in events and festivals at: Lincoln Center's La Casita, Queens Latino Festival, Celebrate Mexico Now!, the Caribbean Cultural Center among others. We also perform in clubs, city parks, schools, private parties, and on radio and TV.

There will be light refreshments.
This event is free and open to the community.

"A Streetcar Named Deseo"

Reception to follow talk and discussion.
This event is free and open to the community.

Please join us in honoring all of our graduates with a presentation of certificates.
Food and beverages will be served.

The conference is open to undergraduate juniors and seniors in all disciplines in New York City and surrounding areas. They are invited to address the broad range of questions that bear upon the ideas and ideologies of race and ethnicity in America and the modern world. We are looking for papers that deal with the art, lives and experiences of persons of Latino, Afro-American, Asian and Native American descent within North America and beyond.

SCHEDULE:

9:15 – 9:45
Registration & Breakfast

9:45 – 10:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:00 – 10:45
Race & Health ~ Emma Rebhorn (Columbia U.), Rachel House (Columbia U.)

10:45 – 11:00
Break

11:00 – 11:45
Race and Institutional Politics ~ Tiffany Davis (Columbia U.), Rakim Brooks (Brown University)

11:45 – 1:15
Lunch & Video Presentation by Ethnic Studies Suite, Intercultural Resource Center

1:15 – 2:15
Forming Identities in the U.S. & Beyond ~ Michael Partis (Fordham),  Erika Soto (Hunter College), Rudi Batzell (Columbia U.)

2:15 – 3:00
Race & the Arts ~ Khalilah Boone (Columbia U.), Chimdi Nwosu (Columbia U.)

3:00 – 3:15
Closing Remarks

Any questions can be sent to cserconf08@gmail.com.

by: PROF. JUAN PEDRO VIQUEIRA
Edmundo O’Gorman Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de Mexico

Juan Pedro Viqueira is a Professor and Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México and O'Gorman Senior Research Scholar with the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. Between 1986 and 1998 Viqueira lived in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, where he worked as a Professor and Researcher in the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste.

Welcome and Introduction-9:00am

• Thomas J. Trebat, Columbia University
• Lilia Schwarcz, Columbia University, USP

Racial Relations-9:30am

• Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Columbia University, USP
• Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
• Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Princeton University

Gender and Age (Part I) 11:00am

• James Green, Brown University
• Bila Sorj, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• Guita Grin Debert, UNICAMP

Gender and Age (Part II) 2:00pm

• James Green, Brown University
• Jerry Dávila, University of NC at Charlotte
• Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

The Institute of Latin American Studies, The Center for Brazilian Studies, and The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University

Jesusa Rodríguez is Mexico's leading cabaret and political performance artist, and the co-founder and co-director of the famous Teatro Bar El Hábito in Mexico City. In the aftermath of Mexico's highly contested 2006 presidential election, she organized more than 3,600 cultural activities for the millions who gathered in the streets and the central square of the Mexican capital. Jesusa is also a recipient of an Obie Award and the first Senior Fellow of the Hemispheric Institute.

Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Center for Jazz Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the School of the Arts at Columbia University. 

A time for everyone to mingle and get to know others from your cohort.

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D. Founder and Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Critical and Intuitive Thinking and Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas Across the Great Divide: Cultures on Manhood in the American West

The Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and the Departments of History, Anthropology, and Psychology are pleased to present “Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures: Native American Studies Today." This lecture series will feature five prominent scholars working at the cutting edge of contemporary Native American Studies.

Attendees should RSVP to Andrea Thomas at at2251@columbia.edu by Monday, February 18th.

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, Made in LA (2007) & Alex Rivera, The Sixth Section (2003)

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman’s life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.

The Sixth Section blends digital animation, home video, cinema verité, and interview footage to depict the transnational organizing of a community of Mexican immigrants in New York. The men profiled in the film form an organization called ‘Grupo Unión,’ that is devoted to raising money in the United States to rebuild the Mexican town that they’ve left behind. Grupo Unión is one of at least a thousand “hometown associations” formed by Mexican immigrants in the United States, and they are beginning to have a major impact in the politics and economics of both the U.S. and Mexico.

This event is being co-sponsored with the Institute for Latin American Studies.

Arturo Perez Torres, Wetback (2004)

Arturo Perez Torres's heartbreaking tale of Central American border crossers.

This event is being co-sponsored with the Institute for Latin American Studies.

Rosie Perez, Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas (2006)

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas! explores Rosie Perez's burning question: why are Puerto Ricans so damn proud? Her journey through Puerto Rico's history gains inspiration from the vibrant music, dancing and energy of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and she uses this starting point to speak to Puerto Rican people about their identity and culture. We follow Rosie and her collaborators through New York, Miami and to Puerto Rico to document what it really means to be "Boricua."

In her directorial debut, Rosie Perez ("Do the Right Thing," "White Men Can't Jump, Fearless") celebrates Puerto Rican pride. Alternately shocking and humorous, this documentary, which is narrated by Jimmy Smits ("The West Wing," "NYPD Blue"), puts the themes of family, language, and racism into a historical perspective. The film uncovers the complex and controversial history between Puerto Rico and the United States: Forced sterilizations and birth control testing in Puerto Rico; the imprisonment and torture of freedom fighter Pedro Albizu Campos; Pedro Pietri, the pre-eminent voice for Nuyoricans; The Young Lords, a group of activists agitating for Puerto Rican rights in New York City; and the protests against U.S. bombing of Vieques. Few Americans know about these subjects, which are not to be found in American history books. Academy Award-nominated producer Liz Garbus ("Girlhood," "The Farm: Angola, USA," "The Execution of Wanda Jean") and Emmy-nominated producer Rory Kennedy ("A Boy's Life," "Pandemic," "American Hollow") produce.

This event is being co-sponsored with the Institute for Latin American Studies.

Carles Bosch and Josep Mª Domènech, Balseros (2002)

In the summer of 1994, a team of public television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans, and their families, beginning a few days before their risky venture of setting out to sea in homemade rafts to reach the coast of the United States. When the balseros were finally allowed to go to the United States, the film crew went with them to a string of cities that included Miami; the Bronx; York, Pennsylvania; Grand Isle, Nebraska; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and a host of other places to which the lives of these immigrants carried them. Seven years later, the film crew visits them again, to discover what their destiny has been in the United States.

This event is being co-sponsored with the Institute for Latin American Studies.

BRIAN KLOPOTEK is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. His publications include “'I Guess Your Warrior Look Doesn't Work Every Time': Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema” in Across the Great Divide: Cultures on Manhood in the American West edited by Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, and Dee Garceau, Routledge, 2001 and “Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow” in Narrating Native Histories in the Americas (forthcoming, Duke University Press).

The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Ethnomusicology, the Columbia Native American Council, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Departments of History, Anthropology, and Psychology are pleased to present “Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures: Native American Studies Today." This lecture series will feature two prominent scholars working at the cutting edge of contemporary Native American Studies. The lectures are open to the public and to all members of the Columbia community.

Angel Muñiz, Nueba Yol (1995)

A hit in the Dominican Republic, the film follows the adventures of a good-natured man (played by Balbuena, one of the most popular actors on Dominican tv) who gives Nueba Yol (New York) a try, but goes back to the island in the end.

This event is being co-sponsored with the Institute for Latin American Studies.

JOE WATKINS is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. Among his publications are “Through Wary Eyes: Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology” in the Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005; “Archaeological Ethics and American Indians” in Ethical Issues in Archaeology, edited by Larry Zimmerman, Karen D. Vitelli, and Julie Zimmer, Alta Mira Press, 2003; and Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice, Alta Mira Press, 2000.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Ethnomusicology, the Columbia Native American Council, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Departments of History, Anthropology, and Psychology are pleased to present “Transcending Disciplines, Transcending Cultures: Native American Studies Today." This lecture series will feature two prominent scholars working at the cutting edge of contemporary Native American Studies. The lectures are open to the public and to all members of the Columbia community.

Come meet our new Assistant Director, Leon James Bynum, and Visiting Faculty, Carmen Lamas and Susanna Rosenbaum.

Refreshments will be provided.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and Eugene Lang College: the New School for Liberal Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

8:30am – 9:00am

Registration and Breakfast

9:00am – 9:15am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Claudio Lomnitz
Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University

9:15am – 10:15am

Keynote Address
Roopali Mukherjee, Queens College

10:30am – 11:45am

Race, Ethnicity, and Popular Culture

• Brian Lewis, “Real Recognize Real: Black Youth Culture and the Post Hip-Hop Moment” (Eugene Lang College)
• May Lin, “With the Mic as a Hammer We Gon’ Break the Mold: Asian American Hip-Hop in New York City” (Columbia University)
• Alison Desir, “Reggaeton” (Columbia University)
• Sang Yi Choung, “Blackness and Burapan: Eastern Takes on Western Images” (Columbia University)
• Moderator: Professor Christopher Johnson, Eugene Lang College

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Race, Ethnicity, and Questions of Identity

• Kelly Webster, “Minority 101:The Formation of Blackness in the College Classroom” (Eugene Lang College)
• Devon Dunlap, “Identity and Coping with Rejection: A Comparative Case Study of the Experiences of Multiracial Individuals” (University of California, Berkeley)
• Brenda Cepeda, “The Bodega: A Scope of the Effects of Transnationality on Dominicans in New York” (Columbia University)
• Zoe Towns, “Deferred: Undocumented Youth and the Dream Act” (Columbia University)
• Moderator: Professor Ferentz Lafargue, Eugene Lang College

1:15pm – 2:30pm

Lunch with Special Presentation: “The Sean Bell Project”
Jamila Thompson, Amaya Noguera, and Adam Safer of Eugene Lang College

2:45pm – 4:00pm

Race, Ethnicity, and Women’s Issues

• Farida Ali, “Mother, Maid, and Migrant Breadwinner: Recentering the Triple Role of Undocumented Filipino Domestic Workers in New York City” (Columbia University)
• Tania Valdez, “Mexican American and Native American Women: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Violence” (Colorado State University)
• Noa Mark, “Victimized or Empowered?: Representations in the Media of Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers” (Columbia University)
• Moderator: Professor Sandhya Shukla, Columbia University

4:15pm – 5:30pm

Ethnic Studies and the Community

• Candyce Phoenix, “Race in Sports Real Estate” (Columbia University)
• Vijaya Thomas, “Evaluation of Cultural Competency in Medical Education” (Brown University)
• Ayana Labossiere, “Romanticism in Black Activism” (Columbia University)
• Moderator: Professor Nicole Marwell, Columbia University

5:30pm – 6:00pm

The State of Ethnic Studies: A Student Report on Ethnic Studies at Columbia
Ethnic Studies Independent Studies Group, Columbia University

6:00pm – 6:15pm

Closing Remarks

6:15pm – 7:00pm

Reception

Jean & John Comaroff

Sandy Grande, Asssociate Professor of Education, Connecticut College

Audra Simpson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University

* This event is actually being presented by the Anthropology Department; it is tangentially a part of NALS.

The aim of this conference is to examine in depth what we are calling the public life of history. International and local speakers will share with us their experience of particular debates with a view to discerning emergent general patterns that may be suggestive of the future of the discipline. Among the themes and problems the conference will address will be those evident in Aboriginal history in Australia, legal cases involving gay history in the United States, debates on history text-books, the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the conflict over ‘Hindu’ history in India in the last two decades, and the work of the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand.

Organizers:

• Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
• Bain Attwood, Monash University
• Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University

Participants:

• Nadia Abu-el-Hadj, Barnard College
• Neeladri Bhattacharya, Nehru University
• George Chauncey, Yale University
• Miranda Johnson, University of Chicago
• Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
• Deborah Posel, University of the Witwatersand

Co-Sponsors:

• Department of Anthropology
• Department of History
• Journal of Public Culture
• University of Chicago

Eric and Didier Fassin, on their recent book De la question sociale à la question raciale?

• Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
• Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research
• Kendall Thomas, Columbia University

Scott Stevens, Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY)