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Wismer Professorship for Gender & Diversity
2006-07 INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Intersections
of Race and Gender:
(Re) Imagining
the Family
April 12 - 14, 2007 at Seattle University
Imagining adoptive, alternative, biracial, endangered, holy, ideal, intergenerational, othered and transnational families
All are welcome to attend! No registration fee!
This upcoming conference will provide an opportunity for scholars, activists and community members from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds to engage in discussions concerning race, gender, and their intersections. Narrower in scope than the 2005 conference, (Re) Imagining the Family will focus on the roles of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexual orientation in the context of the family.
Articles inspired by the conference:
The Seattle Times: Families no longer fit a mold (04/16/2007)
Colors NW: Cover Story - Proud Parents (June 2007)
Colors NW: Editor's Note - Same-Sex Parenting (June 2007)
Conference schedules:
Day 1: Thursday, April 12, 2007
Day 3: Saturday, April 14, 2007
Conference flyers:
f e a t u r i n g
Juan Battle, Professor, Department of Sociology
Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
We (Really) Are Family: (Black) Race and (Homo)
Sexuality
Adrienne Davis, Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Loving Against the Law: Some Critical Race Feminist
Reflections on Family in the 21st Century
Yen Le Espiritu, Professor, Department of Ethnic
Studies
University of California, San Diego
Families Unbound: A Critical Approach to
Asian/American Transnational Families
Conference Planning Committee:
Bridget Hiedemann (Wismer Professor), Department of Economics
Maria
Bullon-Fernandez (Women Studies Director),
Department of English
Vanessa Castaņeda, Wismer Center & CSJS
Margaret Chon (CSJS Director), School of Law
Billie Ann Davis, School of Theology & Ministry
Mako Fitts, Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work
Lydia McAllister, College of Nursing
Gary Perry, Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work
Jeanette Rodriguez, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Julie Shapiro, School of Law
REGISTRATION: There is no registration fee to participate in (or attend) the conference, but participants are encouraged to register to assist with organization and conference planning. Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses. Information about hotel accommodation with special university rates will be made available to all participants (listed above). For registration purposes, please send an email to wismer@seattleu.edu with your contact information (name, address, phone, email, academic institution and/or organization) to be added to our email distribution list (listserv) to receive further information regarding the 2007 conference.
HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS: A block of rooms have been reserved at the Silver Cloud Hotel - Broadway (located right across the street from Seattle U) offering a discounted rate. Please reserve your room under the "SU Intersections of Race & Gender Conference" group and ask for the group rate.
Special Thanks To Our Conference Sponsors
The Albers School of Business & Economics, Albers Global Business Center, the Center for the Study of Justice in Society, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work, Endowed Mission Fund, Global African Studies Program, Magis: Alumni Committed for Mission, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, Division of Student Development, SU School of Law, SU Women Studies Program and the Wismer Professor