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Ethnic Studies Committee
Report from the Ethnic Studies Committee 2006
Annual Report, September 2006
In 2005 we proposed three panels for the 2006 Annual Meeting—“The U.S. Pacific Rim as a Geographic Imaginary and Colonial Horizon,“ “Where does Latin American Studies End and American Studies Begin?, and Social Activism in the Bay Area.“ The first two panels were accepted for inclusion in the 2006 program. Both take the conference theme very seriously.
The first, a panel on the U.S. Pacific Rim relocates the west coast of the United States within a global context, and does so using postcolonial theory, geography, and subaltern studies. The second, a roundtable discussion on the convergence of Latin American Studies and American Studies features scholars from Latin American Studies, American Studies, and Pacific Rim Studies. We had requested for these panels to be arranged in consecutive sessions as an extended Comparative Ethnic Studies seminar. Although the two sessions are not scheduled consecutively, we believe that they work very well together.
In the future, we will continue to request consecutive sessions, a format that has been very successful in the past. Scheduling sessions as a block ensures a strong carryover audience and conversation, creating a space for the prolonged exchange of ideas on the relationship between Ethnic Studies and American Studies. Therefore, we will continue to advocate for our sessions to be not just clearly marked on the program but also scheduled for the same physical space, or room, at the conference site.
In addition, this year we called for submissions for the first ever Comparative Ethnic Studies essay prize, to be awarded at the Oakland meeting. We will also co-sponsor the Women’s Committee/Queer Caucus/Minority Scholar’s Committee reception. And we will be participating in the Program Director’s breakfast, which features a panel discussion on “Ethnic Studies and American Studies.“
Respectfully submitted,
Sarika Chandra, chair
Committee on Ethnic Studies
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