Cornell summer seminar

[Sally McConnell-Ginet]

I tho't this summer seminar might be of interest 
to some subscribers to this list.

>FMS 2007 Summer Seminar
>July 23 - August 3, 2007
>
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>"Intersecting Identities and Social Justice:
>Realist Explorations"
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>Seminar Leaders
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>Linda Martín Alcoff
>Philosophy and Women's Studies
>Syracuse University
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>Satya P. Mohanty
>English
>Cornell University
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>Seminar Description:
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>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:
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>o	 Richard Boyd (Philosophy, Cornell University)
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>o	 William Darity, Jr. (Economics; 
>Sociology; Institute for African American 
>Research, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; 
>Duke)
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>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.
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>
>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

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