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<div>I tho't this summer seminar might be of interest to some
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"><b>FMS 2007 Summer
Seminar<br>
July 23 - August 3, 2007<br>
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"Intersecting Identities and Social Justice:<br>
Realist Explorations"<br>
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</b></font><b>Seminar Leaders<br>
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Linda Martín Alcoff<br>
Philosophy and Women's Studies<br>
Syracuse University<br>
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Satya P. Mohanty<br>
English<br>
Cornell University<br>
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Seminar Description:<br>
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</b><font face="Times New Roman">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?<br>
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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.<br>
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For a more detailed course description (and to download a 8 x 11
poster), visit<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu<br>
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</u></font>The seminar will incorporate three workshops taught by:<br>
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</font><font face="Symbol">o</font><x-tab> </x-tab><font
face="Times New Roman"><b> Richard Boyd</b> (Philosophy, Cornell
University)<br>
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</font><font face="Symbol">o</font><x-tab> </x-tab><font
face="Times New Roman"><b> William Darity, Jr.</b> (Economics;
Sociology; Institute for African American Research, U of North
Carolina - Chapel Hill; Duke)<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><b> Rosemarie Garland-Thomson</b> (Women's
Studies, Emory) and<b> Tobin Siebers</b> (Comparative Literature,
University of Michigan)<br>
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</font>Seminar members will participate in the two-day colloquium
organized by the Future of Minority Studies Research Project on July
27-28.<br>
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<b>Eligibility:<br>
</b>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.<br>
<b>Application deadline:<font color="#0000FF"> January 30,
2007.</font></b><br>
<i><b>The FMS Summer Institute is funded through a grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</b></i></blockquote>
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<div>Sally McConnell-Ginet<br>
Professor of Linguistics<br>
Morrill Hall, Cornell University<br>
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA<br>
607-255-6469 fax: 607-255-2044</div>
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