Conference program (link corrected)

2009-03-04T18:25:00.001-08:00

http://college.usc.edu/ase/pdf/crossingbordersprogram_000.pdf

Nearby Hotels

2009-02-16T22:23:00.001-08:00

The following is a list of hotels near the USC Campus:

Vagabond Inn Los Angeles (USC): vagabondinn-los-angeles.com (213) 746-1531
Radisson Hotel: radisson.com (213) 748-4141
Figueroa Hotel: figueroahotel.com: (213) 627-8971
Standard-Downtown Los Angeles: standardhotels.com : (213)627-8971
Wilshire Grand Hotel and Center: wilshiregrand.com: (213) 688-7777
Milner Hotel: milner-hotels.com: (213) 627-6981
Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel : starwoodhotels.com: (213) 488-3500
Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites: westin.com : (213) 624-1000

7th Annual Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference

2008-10-14T16:52:00.000-07:00

"Serve the People: Ethnic Studies between Theory and Practice"

Hosted by: Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California

March 6-8 2009

The 7th annual Crossing Borders Conference, hosted by the University ofSouthern California, coincides with the 40-year anniversary of the killings of UCLA students John Huggins and Bunchy Carter, leaders of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and the 1968 Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) student strike at San Francisco State University that led to the creation of Ethnic Studies. Informed by an internationalist politics of the late sixties, including anti-war and anti-colonial movements around the world, Huggins, Carter, and the TWLF strikers are part of a legacy of the formation of Ethnic Studies as a contested and contradictory site for scholar-activism and the institutionalization of marginalized experiences and knowledges. This includes grappling with the inception of new technologies of discipline, periods of intensification of state monitored anti-insurgency, and the inability of some revolutionary visions to pay attention to issues such as gender and sexuality.

From the historical and intellectual genealogies of our inception in the academy to a presidential victory indicative of the paradoxes of U.S. multiculturalism, we find ourselves in a moment that challenges the ways in which we make decisions and participate in the production of knowledge about power and difference. With the institutionalization of Ethnic Studies on university campuses and in this moment of epistemological, cultural, political and economic change, how do we radically envision what engaged scholarship means? What will be the direction of critical (race) theory,critique, pedagogy, and praxis? What roles do we play in the economies of the academy, capitalism(s), and ongoing or emerging struggles, of all kinds,for social change and futurity?

In an effort to continue our conversations across institutions and disciplines, we invite graduate students to submit proposals for papers,panels, and roundtables with an interdisciplinary focus that includes history, English, anthropology, sociology, multimedia studies, film/TV,communications, art history, geography, ethnomusicology, performance studies, and legal studies. Papers may address: race, gender and the law,illegality and citizenship, social movements, immigration, transnationalism,and globalization.

Submissions

We welcome submissions for panels, individual papers, and roundtable discussion. Panels should consist of 3-4 presenters, and 1 discussant, whomay also be a presenter. Roundtables should consist of 4-6 slated participants who will briefly present their material and engage the audience in dialogue, and one chair who will introduce the topic and facilitate discussion. Individual papers will be considered, but priority will begiven to prearranged panels.

Submission guidelines: Individual submissions must include: a 1) 250-wordpaper abstract and 2) a curriculum vitae. Panel presentations must include:1) a 250-word description of the panel and 2) 250-word abstracts for eachpaper, and 3) a curriculum vitae for each presenter and the discussant.Roundtable submissions should include: 1) a 1-2 page description of theproposed discussion and 2) curriculum vitae for each slated participant.

Please note that all proposals must be compiled into one Microsoft

Word document and sent to crossingborders09@gmail.com.
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2009