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Report from the Ethnic Studies Committee 2005
Fall Report 2005
October 9, 2005
For the 2005 Annual Meeting, we have built on the success of the Atlanta Meeting, and have proposed - and had accepted - three complementary sessions arranged, once again, in consecutive sessions as an extended Comparative Ethnic Studies Seminar. All of the sessions are scheduled for Saturday. Our only formal paper panel, “Race and Surveillance in the Age of Empire,” explores the relationship between the state, racial formation, and the present crisis in the Middle East. The other two sessions are roundtables, or “workshops,” with no formal paper presentation and a good deal of conversation between the panelists, the audience members, and the chair. These two roundtables - “Pedagogy and Ethnic Studies” and “Ethnic Studies in Public Spaces” - take the conference theme “Groundwork” seriously, and consider the classroom and the museum as two different, though parallel, venues for the discussion of race in America. The panel and the two roundtables bring together scholars and public intellectuals from a wide range of institutions and backgrounds.
As the Annual Meeting approaches, we continue to look forward to the chance of collaboration with other ASA Committees. This year, we’ll be discussing the future of our Comparative Ethnic Studies article prize, which we hope will be announced next year. We’ll also be discussing the future of the seminar, and the chance that we’ll be offering - or co-sponsoring - a breakfast workshop in the near future.
Respectfully submitted,
Matthew Guterl
Committee on Ethnic Studies
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