Transnational Studies Working Group

The Transnational Study of Race and Social Identity
Discussion Series 2011-2011

The Transnational Studies Working Group at Tufts University is organizing a series of lectures to discuss the future of race and ethnicity in the United States both as concrete social experiences, and as public concepts in the context of modern globalization. We are inviting scholars who have redefined the study of Race and Ethnicity in American undergraduate education within comparative and connective frameworks, with attention to intersectional, traveling and mixed identities. In different ways, these scholars trace the intersections of race in the United States with other social identities, and highlight the experiences, politics and policy implications of global displacements and linkages of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This series is sponsored by a grant from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Upcoming Events

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November 15, 2011
"Situating Africana Studies: Analytic Purview, Institutional Location"
5:30-7:30pm
Barnum Hall 008

Lecture by:
Phillip Brian Harper
Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University

November 17, 2011
"The Nature of Race: Exploring Concepts of Human Difference"
3:30-5:30pm
Tisch 314

Lecture by:
Anne Morning
Associate Professor of Sociology
New York University

February 29, 2012
"Dimensions of Diaspora. Black Europe, Africana Studies and Queer of Color Critique"
Barnum Hall 008
5:30-7:30pm

Lecture by:
Fatima El Tayeb
Associate Professor of Literature/Ethnic Studies/Critical Gender Studies
University of California, San Diego

April 18, 2012
"African American Studies for Post-Race Universities"
Barnum Hall 008
5:30-7:30pm

Lecture by:
Michele Elam
Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of Literature
Stanford University