FEBRUARY 5-7, 2004

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Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
University of California Berkeley

The inaugural Center for Race and Gender conference, Con/Vergences: Critical Interventions in the Politics of Race and Gender, will be held February 6-7, 2004, Scholars in numerous fields have asserted that race cannot be understood in isolation from gender and other domains of difference, such as class, sexuality, generation, and nationality. The theoretical and empirical work of capturing and articulating the simultaneity, tensions, and interplay of these tangled strands remains a major challenge. Simply bridging current theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries is difficult work. Reintegrating, or recasting, the fields these boundaries have created - and thus questioning the relationships among culture and structure, language and materiality - is even more difficult. If nothing else, such efforts demand that we confront both fundamental intellectual issues and powerful political tensions around questions of identity, community formation, and coalition building. The annual CRG conference is intended to highlight cutting edge research that is undertaking these challenges.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Bancroft Hotel

7:30 pm/Opening Reception
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Lowe, Literature, UCSD

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

8:00 am/Coffee Service

8:30-9:00/Welcome and Greetings

9:00-10:45/Panel 1
Race, Gender and the Nation-State

Panelists:
1) Lauren Berlant , English, U. Chicago
2) Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Geography, UCB
3) Margo Okazawa-Rey, Women's Studies, Mills College

Commentator : Paola Bacchetta, Women's Studies, UCB

10:45-11:00/Break

11:00-12:45 am/Panel 2
Race and Masculinities

Panelists:
1) David Eng, Liberature, Rutgers
2) Judith Halberstam, Literature, UCSD, Literature
3) Abdul JanMohamed, English, UCB

Commentator: Sau-ling Wong, Asian American Studies, UCB

12:45-2:00/Break

2:15-4:00/Panel 3
Toward an Indigenous Feminism: Nationalism and Gender in Native American Studies

Panelists
1. Laura E. Donaldson , English Cornell
2. Kathryn Shanley, Native American Studies, U.. Montana
3. Joanne Barker, Native American Studies, UCD

Commentator: Hertha Wong, English, UCB

4:30-5:30/Coffee Service Reception

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

8:30-9:00 am/Coffee Service

9:00-10:45/Panel 4
Sexualizing the Racial Body

Panelists:
1. Evelynn Hammonds, African American Studies, Science Studies, Harvard
2) Horacio N. Roque-Ramirez, Chicano Studies, UCSB
3) Gayatri Gopinath, Women and Gender Studies, UCD

Commentator: Judith Butler, Rhetoric, UCB

11:00-12:45/Panel 5
Transnational Political Economies

Panelists
1) Grace Chang, Women's Studies, UCSB
2) Inderpal Grewal, Women's Studies, UCI
3) Angie Chabram Dernersesian, Chicano Studies UC Davis

Commentator: Colleen Lye, English, UCB

12:45-2:00/Lunch Break

2:15-4:00/Panel 6
Reconstructing History and Resistance

Panelists: :
1) Elsa Barkley Brown, History, U. of Maryland
2) Etienne Balibar, French, UCI
3) Emma Perez, History, University of Texas, El Pass

Commentator: Tyler Stovall, UCB

4:15-5:45/Roundtable
New Directions in Race-Gender Studies

The roundtable is intended as a space to talk about and speculate about new directions in scholarship on race and gender.  

The roundtable will be made up of 3-4 student presenters and 3 faculty commentators. We invite submissions from students of short papers (1000 words) on the following question:   what are the political  implications of the move toward transnationalism/post-nationalism in race and gender studies?

Three to four papers will be selected for presentation; however, all the submissions will be duplicated and made available to conference participants.

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