A Conversation on Indigeneity, Ethnicity, and Race in Scholarship
Thursday, February 7, 2019
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Thompson Library 165
Free to the public

In the first part of the program, the Center for Ethnic Studies is happy to host this panel that brings together three scholars whose brilliant work in Asian American Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, and Native American Studies productively engages with the overlap and intersections between these terms in considering performance, history, literature, film, and politics.

We invite all to join in this conversation. 

Featuring: 

Professor Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (NYU), author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States

Professor Tamara Ho (U of California Riverside), author of Romancing Human Rights: Gender, Intimacy, and Power between Burma and the West

Professor Brenda Child (U of Minnesota), author of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

Mini-Workshops on Critical Questions in Ethnic Studies Today
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

In this second part of the program, we invite participants to join in discussions about activism and scholarship, collaborative research, ethnic studies program building and more.