Friday, November 4, 2005

8:30am: Coffee (CES Lobby)

 

9:00am: Introductions (CES Conference Room)

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies and G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

 

9:15 - 11:15am: Identity and Citizenship (CES Conference Room)

“Closer Than You Think”: Traversing Boundaries in Ethno-Cultural Organizations
Tracy Matsuo, Sociology, University of Toronto

Godly Lawlessness: The Moral Logic of Undocumented Latino/a Pentecostal Christians
Tony Tian-Ren Lin, Sociology, University of Virginia           

Beyond the Mason-Dixon Line: Migrating North in 20th Century African American Literature
Kristin Moriah, English, McGill University    

Discussant:
Alexander Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University       

Session Chair: Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

 

11:30-1:30pm: Community and Space   (CES Conference Room)

Bywater Historic District: Preservation, Gentrification, and Racialized Boundaries
John Davenport, Geography, University of Kentucky           

Culture, Cohorts, and the Construction of Community Boundaries: Explaining the Relationship between Neighborhood Transition and Social Exclusion
Andrew Deener, Sociology, UCLA           

Invisible Ethnicity: How Albanians Became Italian in the Pizza Business
Ervin Kosta, Sociology, CUNY

Discussant:
Margaret Crawford
Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Session Chair: Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

 

1:30-2:30pm: Lunch  (William James Hall Rm. 1550)

 

2:45-4:45pm: Family and Lineage (CES Conference Room)

Three Men, Different Coloured Skins, and a 7-Eleven: Exploring the Shape of Colour Lines for White Children and their Families
Sarah Dargouth, Clinical Psychology and Human Development, Boston University

Accessing the Sacred in Neo-Babylonian Temples
Asher Ragen, Near East Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Discussant:
Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies, Harvard University

Session Chair: Helen Marrow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

                                           

5:00-6:00pm: Keynote Address

Fredrik Barth, Professor of Anthroplogy, Boston University and the University of Oslo

 

6:30pm: Dinner at John Harvard's for Presenters and Discussants

 

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Saturday, November 5, 2005

8:00-8:30am: Coffee (CES Lobby)

 

8:30-10:30am: Hybridity (CES Conference Room)

When the Hybrid Met the Therapeutic: Academic Boundaries and Everyday Lives
Avi Shoshana, Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University           

Ethnicity’s Entanglements: Working the Boundaries of Chinese Minority Studies
Chris Vasantkumar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Moi, francais(e)?: The Assertion of Social Identity as Response to Hegemonic Representations amongst Second Generation French of Sub-Saharan African Descent in Paris
Jovonne J. Bickerstaff, Social Psychology, University of Cambridge- St.Johns

Discussant:
Michael Fortner
PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University

Session Chair: Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

 

10:45-12:45pm: Black Cultural Production in America (CES Conference Room)

American Afrobeat: Transnational, Intercultural, and Multiracial
Matt Sakakeeny, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University           

Black Cultural Capitalists: African American Elites and the Organization of the Arts in Boston 1918-1930
Crystal Marie Fleming, Sociology, Harvard University
Lorraine Roses, Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College            

Becoming Black:  Consumption of Visual Art and the Construction of Racial Identity
Patricia Banks, Sociology, Harvard University

Discussant:
Selwyn Cudjoe
Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College

Session Chair: Michael Jeffries, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

                                        

1:00 - 2:00pm: Lunch (CES Lobby)

 

2:00 - 4:00pm: Policy and the Law (CES Conference Room)

Constructing Boundaries: Buddhism, Hinduism, and U.S. Courts, 1848-1924
Isaac Weiner, Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill           

Conquest, Colonization and Intra-ethnic Mexican Relations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1900-1930
Trinidad Gonzales, History, University of Houston           

Boundaries on the Reservation: Indian ‘Reform’ and 19th-Century Standardization
Christy Rogers, Geography, Ohio State University

Discussant:
Malinda Lowery
Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

Session Chair: Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University

 

4:15pm: Concluding Panel (CES Conference Room)

Fredrik Barth
Professor of Anthropology, Boston University and the University of Oslo

Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Andreas Wimmer
Visiting Professor for Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Harvard and Professor of Sociology at UCLA         

                                     

5:00pm – Reception (CES Lobby)