Summer Institute 2008- Minority Studies --Deadline Jan 15 2008
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The Fourth Annual Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute
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> July 28 - August 8, 2008
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> Seminar:
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> THINKING TRANSNATIONALLY: FEMINIST VISIONS
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> Seminar Leaders:
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> Beverly Guy-Sheftall
> Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English, Spelman College
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> Chandra Talpade Mohanty
> Professor of Women's Studies and the Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University
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> 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.
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> The seminar incorporates workshops led by:
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> M. Jacqui Alexander, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Toronto
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> Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York
> University
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> Mark Anthony Neal, African American Studies, Duke University
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> Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on
> August 1st and 2nd.
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> 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.
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> Application deadline: January 15th 2008; results announced by March 7th 2008.
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> 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.
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> *The FMS Summer Institute is funded by a grant from the Andrew W.
> Mellon Foundation*
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> 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