International Conference on Global Racism

 

International Conference on Global Racism

University of Kentucky, Lexington

February 22, 2013

– Free event

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

5:00-6:30 pm

The White Racial Frame: Buttressing Oppression

Joe Feagin, Texas A&M

PANEL 1 - RACIALIZATIONS

9:00-11:00 am

White supremacy in Hollywood films

Hernán Vera, University of Florida

Fairer is Beauty: Racism in Postcolonial India

Sasikumar Balasundaram, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Kentucky

Racialization and "Moveable Citizenship: On the Latino/a Dialectics of “Citizenship” And “Belonging”

Suzanne Oboler, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY

The ‘We/Other’ Cognitive Schema: The Anatomy of Social Transformation in South Africa

Olajide Oloyede, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town/College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky

PANEL 2 - RACELESS RACISM

11:15am-1:15pm

Mestizaje logics: lessons from the workings of racism in Mexico and the struggle for recognition

Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Newcastle University

Racesless Racism? Frenchness and the Future of France

Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University

From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Domination: Reflections on the Use of Métissage through Time and Space in Racialist and Racist Discourses

Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University

PANEL 3 - COUNTER RACISM

2:30-4:30pm

Racism, casteism and the potential of counterracist strategies in India and South Africa

Laura Dudley Jenkins, University of Cincinnati, Associate Professor of Political Science

This is Our Home: Multiracial Democratic Transformation of/in New Orleans

Hyun Sook Kim, Wheaton College, MA

An Evolving Global Frame: City College Students Challenge Racism, 1930-1975

Daniel A. Sherwood, The New School for Social Research

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WT Young Library Auditorium

Annual Luckens Prize Lecture in Jewish Studies

Annual Luckens Prize Lecture in Jewish Studies

Tania Tulcin, Yeshiva University

"Looking Down from the 'Tip of the Yud': Judah Leib Gordon's Critique of Rabbinic Culture in Late Imperial Russia."

Monday, January 28, 2013

7:00 pm

W.T. Young Library, Auditorium

The Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize for Jewish Thought & Culture: The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished original essay by a graduate student or recent PhD.  The Luckens Prize is administered by the University of Kentucky Jewish Studies Program and carries a prize of $1000, made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Mark Luckens.

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WT Young Library Auditorium
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A Mistake on the Edge of Time: Rusty Barrett on the Mayan Calendar

Most of us heard that the world was going to possibly end on December 21st, 2012, and that it was predicted by the traditional Mayan calendar. In this podcast, Rusty Barrett, a linguist and scholar of Mayan culture and history, explains the superstitions and misunderstandings surrounding December 21st, and a little bit about how the Mayan calendar works.

Language Contact in the Guaranitic Area - Honors Thesis Presentation

 Wednesday December 5, 2012 at 4.30 at Niles Gallery Benjamin Kinsella, will present his undergraduate Honors Thesis and share the results of his research on the use of prepositions in Spanish with the movement verb ir. (see attached poster)

Based on the data of the ALGR (Guarani-Romance Linguistic Atlas) and under the supervision of Prof. Haralambos Symeonidis, Kinsella has identified evidence of the influence of Guarani on Spanish/Portuguese in the Guaranitic area in South America and for the first time presents his original research on linguistic maps.

The presentation will be in Spanish.

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Niles Gallery - Lucille Little Fine Arts Library

2nd Lecture in Jewish Studies Speaker Series Nov. 12, 8pm W. T. Young Library

Israel’s democracy has been often described in academic literature as “unique”, “extreme” or “a significant exception”. Nevertheless it is almost impossible to properly understand the Israeli political experience without recourse to comparative research. In this talk, Harel-Shalev analyzes minority-majority relations in Israel by comparing Israel to other deeply divided societies that have chosen to pursue the democratic path. The lecture will analyze strategies that divided democracies utilize to cope with the complexities of minority-majority relations, while sustaining democratic processes, in the face of religious, ethnic, and national conflicts. Specifically the lecture will focus on the Arab minority in Israel and compare it to other homeland minorities in deeply divided societies, including the Muslim Minority in India, the Albanian minority in Macedonia, the Turkish minority in Cyprus, and the Tamil minority in Sri-Lanka.

AYELET HAREL-SHALEV is a Lecturer at the Conflict Management and Resolution Program and The Department of Politics and Government Department, Ben-Gurion University. During the current academic year, Harel-Shalev is a research Fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and the Department of Political Science, UCLA.

Harel-Shalev is the author of The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies - Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel - Lexington, 2010. Her book has won the Israeli Political Science Association (ISPSA) prize for the best book of 2010. A second edition of the book is about to be published in India by Foundation Books and Cambridge University Press, India, 2012/2013. Harel-Shalev specializes in Comparative political studies; Ethnic conflicts; Gender studies; Indian politics and society; and - Israeli politics and society.

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8 pm W.T. Young Library
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Following the Campaign Trail: Currents Fall 2012

Fall of 2012 was the perfect time to conduct a class about American electoral politics - so it was taken up as the topic for Currents, a class offered to incoming Freshmen. The course explores the 2012 election from a variety of academic perspectives - including, but not limited to, philosophy, economics, history, and, of course, political science. In this podcast, five Currents students shared their experiences with the class. 

Bryan Hanks and Jean-Luc Houle, Presentations on Archeology in Russia and Mongolia

Hanks' presentation will focus on the role that hyper-nationalism has played in archaeology since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The speaker has been leading collaborative field research since 2005 with several Russian universities at Bronze Age (2100-1700 BCE) sites in the Southern Ural Mountains region. These sites, and the archaeological evidence associated with them, have become a popular resource for what has emerged as a dynamic socio-political discourse on the prehistoric and mythic past (proto-Slavs and Indo-Aryans). Such views contrast sharply with the archaeological evidence from recent field research. The important question of how these issues may continue to influence politicized perspectives of the past, and the negative effect this may have on programs of education and cultural heritage, will be examined.

Houle's presentation will examine ethnographic and archaeological data gathered this past summer in the Altai region of western Mongolia and contrasting this with data from the Khanuy Valley region of north-central Mongolia, the region he worked in previously.

 

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Bryan Hanks, University of Pittsburgh and Jean-Luc Houle, Western Kentucky University
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