EXP 91F
RACE and ETHNICITY: A GLOBAL INQUIRY
EPIIC 2000-01
Demiurge - Sherman Teichman
| WHEN and WHERE |
WHAT |
Tuesday, September 5
9:30am - 4:30pm
Miner Hall |
Experimental College Registration |
Tuesday, September 5
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
First Day of Class |
Tuesday, September 12
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Race and Ethnos in Classical Antiquity
Guest Lecturer
Professor Steven Hirsch, Department of Classics, Tufts University
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Thursday, September 14
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Olympic Resonance/Dissonance: Aboriginal Imperatives and Race and Ethnicity in Australia
Guest Lecturer
Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Cultural Survival; Author, Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming; Lecturer, Experimental College (Making Amends)
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Tuesday, September 19
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Definitions: Mapping the Terrain
Guest Discussant
Professor Paula Aymer, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Tufts University |
Thursday, September 21
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Race, Biology, and Physical Anthropology
Guest Lecturers
Professor Francine Chew, Department of Biology, Tufts University
Professor Stephen Bailey, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University |
September 22 - 24
Newry Center, Maine |
Outward Bound with Peter Rosenblum, Assistant Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School |
Monday, September 25
Cabot 702, 10:00-11:00am |
Special Event
Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied? Bosnian NGO's Speak About the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Report by two former EPIIC students on their two-year research abroad project - - Kristen Cibelli and Tamy Guberek |
Thursday, September 28
5:15pm
Cabot Auditorium |
Special Event
How Race Regulates and Organizes Life In Society
Speakers: Patricia Williams, a critical legal theorist and Columbia University law professor; Randy Matory, a Harvard social scientist who treats race in an international context; and Ellen Driscoll, an artist and theorist. Organized by the Black Cultural Studies Seminar at Tufts. |
| October 2 - 5 |
Interethnic Leadership in China: Toward a Constitutional Future |
Tuesday, October 3
7:30 pm
Pearson 106 |
Inter-Ethnic Leadership in China
Guests
Representatives from the Uighur, Han Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian communities
Roundtable Discussion on Ethnicity in China
In collaboration with the Foundation for China in the 21st Century and the Asia Institute of the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective |
Tuesday, October 10
7:30 pm
Tilton Lounge |
The Middle East Crisis and U.S. Politics
Speaker
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Sponsored by Residential Life and Tilton Hall Speakers Series
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Thursday, October 26
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Ethnicity in Israel
Guest Lecturer
Durgham Mara'ee, International Law Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation in Sharm el Sheik and Camp David; SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, Harvard University. Mr. Mara'ee is an Israeli Arab.
Guest Discussant
Yossi Shabtai, Department of Biotechnology, Tufts University
| Thursday, October 26
7:30 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
290 Harvard St., Brookline |
Special Event
Premier of the feature film Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth & ReconciliationSundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary 2000 Discussion following film featuring the filmmakers, Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela -- former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, and Margaret Burnham -- attorney, former Judge of the Motsuenyane Commission |
Tuesday, October 31
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Race and Identity
Guest Lecturer
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of African American Studies, Harvard University |
Thursday, November 9
7:30pm
Pearson 106 |
Prejudice in Politics
Guest Lecturer
Professor Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University, Departments of Sociology and Afro-American Studies and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar; Dr. Bobo is an expert on racial attitudes and relations, social psychology, public opinion, and political behavior. He has published numerous books and articles, and he is currently co-PI of the Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality Project. |
Tuesday, November 14
10:30- 11:20am
(Joining Professor John Gould's PS class)
Pearson 104 |
Making Amends - Special Lecture
Guest Lecturer
Bryan Rich, documentary Filmmaker of Breaking the Codes: Genocide and Truth in Burundi; former director, Studio Ijambo, Bujumbura, Burundi; former Producer, Search for Common Ground (Russian TV, ethnic relations: Estonia, Nargono-Karabak, Tadjikistan, Ukraine, Crimea, China, Macedonia); Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
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Tuesday, November 14
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Tisch 316 |
Whiteness
Guest Lecturer
Professor Noel Ignatiev, History and Sociology, Mass College of Art |
Tuesday, November 21
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Nigeria
Guest Lecturers
Darren Kew, Ph.D. Candidate, The Fletcher School (EPIIC'94)
Mohammed Bulama, Fulbright Research Fellow, The Fletcher School |
Tuesday, November 28
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Race and Intelligence
Guest Lecturer
Professor Sal Soraci, Department of Psychology, Tufts University |
Tuesday, November 28
7:00 pm
Pearson 106 |
Special Event
Race, the Environment, and Development: The Mapuche in Chile |
Thursday, November 30
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Tisch 316 |
Race and Class in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Haiti
Guest Lecturer
Nancy Dorsinville, Bell and Kellogg Fellow, The Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University; United Nations Liaison, International Leadership Academy, Amman, Jordan |
Tuesday, December 5
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Tisch 316 |
"Looking Forward, Looking Black"
Guided Tour of University Art Gallery Exhibit
Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor of English, Tufts University |
Thursday, December 7
4:00 - 6:00pm
Tisch 316 |
Race and the Census
Guest Lecturer
Melissa Nobles, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT; Fellow, Institute for Race and Social Discrimination, Boston University |
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Texts, in part and in whole, required and recommended, for the fall and spring semesters include:
- The Mismeasure of Man (revised edition), Stephen Jay Gould
- The Skull Measurer's Mistake: and Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism, Sven Lindquist (ed.)
- French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants, Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Minorities At Risk: A Global View of Ethno-Political Conflict, Ted Robert Gurr
- Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, Charles Taylor (ed.)
- Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil, Anthony Marx
- Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race: Nation, and Gender, Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
- The Comparative Imagination: On History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements, George Frederickson
- Power and Prejudice: The Politics of Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination, Paul Gordon Lauren
- Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line, Paul Gilroy
- Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann
- Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, Georgia Persons, The National Political Science Review, Volume 7
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez
- Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, Joseph Montville, Editor
- Riots and Pogroms, Paul Brass, Editor
- Beyond Racism: Embracing an Interdependent Future -- Brazil, South Africa, The United States
- Overview Report
- Three Nations at the Crossroads
- In Their Own Voices
- Color Collage
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