Summer Institute 2008- Minority Studies --Deadline Jan 15 2008

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The Fourth Annual Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute > > > July 28 - August 8, 2008 > > > Seminar: > > THINKING TRANSNATIONALLY: FEMINIST VISIONS > > > Seminar Leaders: > > Beverly Guy-Sheftall > Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English, Spelman College > & > > Chandra Talpade Mohanty > Professor of Women's Studies and the Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University > > Seminar Description: > Over the past several decades, feminists around the world have variously and successfully transformed lives, communities, and institutions. Nevertheless, questions of social and economic > justice, identity and self-determination, psychic and social decolonization, and solidarity and alliance-building across class, race, sexual and national borders, remain at the heart of feminist > work. This seminar explores interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks for addressing the above issues, focusing directly on the challenge academic researchers face to "think transnationally" without losing sight of local contexts and issues. > > The seminar incorporates workshops led by: > > M. Jacqui Alexander, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Toronto > > Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York > University > > Mark Anthony Neal, African American Studies, Duke University > > Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on > August 1st and 2nd. > > > Eligibility: > Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their Ph.D. work, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions who are working on minority issues, are > invited to apply to the 2008 FMS Summer Institute. Minority scholars and those who are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouraged to apply. For the 12 - 14 > scholars selected to participate in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, board, and (if needed) travel costs. > > Application deadline: January 15th 2008; results announced by March 7th 2008. > > The 2008 FMS Summer Institute will be held at Cornell University, > Ithaca, NY. For more information, visit http:// > www.fmsproject.cornell.edu, or email Alice Cho, Coordinator, FMS > Summer Institute, at fmsproject@cornell.edu. > > *The FMS Summer Institute is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. > Mellon Foundation* > -- > Alice Cho > Coordinator, The FMS Project > Cornell University > 250 Goldwin Smith Hall > Ithaca, New York 14853 > Phone (607) 255-3391 > Fax (607) 255-6661 Helen Mederer Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 hmederer@uri.edu (401) 874 - 4144 fax: (401) 874 - 2588 Barbara Silver, Ph.D. ADVANCE Program Director 001 Carlotti Hall, 75 Lower College Rd. University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 (401) 874-5289 fax: (401) 874-5780

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