[EDLING:2282] [Fwd: Cornell summer seminar]

[Tamara Warhol]

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> *FMS 2007 Summer Seminar
> July 23 - August 3, 2007
>
>
> "Intersecting Identities and Social Justice:
> Realist Explorations"
>
>
>
> **Seminar Leaders
>
> Linda Martín Alcoff
> Philosophy and Women's Studies
> Syracuse University
>
> &
>
> Satya P. Mohanty
> English
> Cornell University
>
>
> Seminar Description:
>
> *Can social identities be studied "objectively"?  What are the 
> philosophical and political differences among realist, essentialist, 
> strategic-essentialist, and postmodernist approaches to identity?  Why 
> is a realist theoretical approach important for or relevant to the 
> quest for social justice?
>
> This interdisciplinary seminar will address such questions and focus 
> centrally on the ways our social identities "intersect," overlapping 
> and often mutually constituting one another. Readings from a range of 
> fields in the humanities and the social sciences, including such 
> thinkers as Richard Boyd, Kimberle Crenshaw, W. E. B. Du Bois, Leslie 
> Feinberg, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Robert Gooding-Williams, Ian 
> Hacking, Daniel Little, Tobin Siebers and Iris Young.
>
> For a more detailed course description (and to download a 8 x 11 
> poster), visit_  http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu
>
> _The seminar will incorporate three workshops taught by:
>
> o * Richard Boyd* (Philosophy, Cornell University)
>
> o * William Darity, Jr.* (Economics; Sociology; Institute for African 
> American Research, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Duke)
>
> o  * Rosemarie Garland-Thomson* (Women's Studies, Emory) and* Tobin 
> Siebers* (Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
>
> Seminar members will participate in the two-day colloquium organized 
> by the Future of Minority Studies Research Project on July 27-28.
>
>
> *Eligibility:
> *Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their 
> Ph.D. work and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions 
> who are working on minority issues. Minority scholars and those who 
> are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially 
> encouraged to apply. For the twelve scholars selected to participate 
> in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, 
> board, and (if needed) travel costs. FMS does not charge tuition or fees.
> *Application deadline: January 30, 2007.*
> /*The FMS Summer Institute is funded through a grant from the Andrew 
> W. Mellon Foundation*/


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Sally McConnell-Ginet
Professor of Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA
607-255-6469  fax: 607-255-2044