A Center for Ethnic Studies Workshop/Working Meeting on Critical Ethnic Studies for Ohio Scholars

Center For Ethic Studies
January 25, 2019
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Barnett Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall

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2019-01-25 09:30:00 2019-01-25 17:00:00 A Center for Ethnic Studies Workshop/Working Meeting on Critical Ethnic Studies for Ohio Scholars Critical Ethnic Studies in Ohio: A Gathering of Faculty and Graduate StudentsOrganized by Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College, and Theresa Delgadillo, OSUHosted by Center for Ethnic StudiesBarnett Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall, The Ohio State University. Nearest Parking is Ohio Union Visitor Garage. We will provide parking stickers/permits for participants to use upon exit.We are circulating PDFs of select chapters to discuss, but we encourage all to access and read other portions of the two books from which we are excerpting. We will also remain flexible on schedule, spending more or less time on what the group leans toward.Please see the schedule below:Proposed Agenda10:00 a.m. Introductions and Coffee10:30 a.m. Remembering Luis Leon, a brilliant Latinx and Religious Studies scholar who passed away in 201811:00 a.m. Discussion of We Demand: The University and Student Protests by Rod Ferguson (2017), p. 1-34. 12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own (Several lunch places on High Street across from Sullivant Hall, plus Heirloom Café in Wexner Center for the Arts, or Student Union cafeteria Nearby)2:00 p.m. Ethnic Studies in Ohio Discussion.Each participant reports on ethnic studies at their campus, raises questions or topics for discussion, issues on which assistance needed, discussion of possible statewide collaborations.3:30 p.m. Break3:45 p.m. Discussion of The Borderlands of Culture by Ramón Saldívar, “Idioms of Race, Nation, Identity,” p. 318-3434:45 p.m. Adjourn7:00 p.m. Meet for Dinner Together at TBALodging Info for those staying over: Hampton Inn in the Short North, Columbus. From the Hampton Inn, you can take COTA Bus #1 North on High to 18th street, cross street to Sullivant Hall. Barnett Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall America/New_York public

Critical Ethnic Studies in Ohio: A Gathering of Faculty and Graduate Students

Organized by Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College, and Theresa Delgadillo, OSU
Hosted by Center for Ethnic Studies

Barnett Collaboratory, Sullivant Hall, The Ohio State University. Nearest Parking is Ohio Union Visitor Garage. We will provide parking stickers/permits for participants to use upon exit.

We are circulating PDFs of select chapters to discuss, but we encourage all to access and read other portions of the two books from which we are excerpting. We will also remain flexible on schedule, spending more or less time on what the group leans toward.

Please see the schedule below:

Proposed Agenda

10:00 a.m. Introductions and Coffee

10:30 a.m. Remembering Luis Leon, a brilliant Latinx and Religious Studies scholar who passed away in 2018

11:00 a.m. Discussion of We Demand: The University and Student Protests by Rod Ferguson (2017), p. 1-34. 

12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own (Several lunch places on High Street across from Sullivant Hall, plus Heirloom Café in Wexner Center for the Arts, or Student Union cafeteria Nearby)

2:00 p.m. Ethnic Studies in Ohio Discussion.

Each participant reports on ethnic studies at their campus, raises questions or topics for discussion, issues on which assistance needed, discussion of possible statewide collaborations.

3:30 p.m. Break

3:45 p.m. Discussion of The Borderlands of Culture by Ramón Saldívar, “Idioms of Race, Nation, Identity,” p. 318-343

4:45 p.m. Adjourn

7:00 p.m. Meet for Dinner Together at TBA

Lodging Info for those staying over: Hampton Inn in the Short North, Columbus. From the Hampton Inn, you can take COTA Bus #1 North on High to 18th street, cross street to Sullivant Hall.