[URBANTH-L] CFP: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries

[Angela Jancius]

CFP: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the Committee
for Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This national conference will bring together graduate students from the
social sciences and the humanities who research ethnic, racial, and cultural
boundaries. Sessions will be organized thematically to allow comparisons of
boundaries from diverse regions and historical periods, as well as different
disciplinary approaches. With this conference, we aim to shift attention
toward the dynamics of boundaries: how they are created, imposed, defended,
bridged, subverted, and transformed.

Possible themes might include:
Properties of boundaries: permeability, permanence, salience, etc.
Boundary processes: exclusion, bridging, imposition, etc.
Historical research on racial and ethnic formations over time.
Ethnographic findings on how boundaries are negotiated in everyday life.
Boundaries in cultural production and reception: contesting authenticity,
dynamics of collaboration and competition, etc.

Imagery of boundaries in cultural artifacts and performance How boundaries
operate in the expression of collective identity, through cultural and
linguistic practices.

Keynote Speaker: Fredrik Barth, Department of Anthropology, University of
Oslo
Faculty Sponsor: Michele Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

All graduate students in accredited AM or PhD programs are invited to submit
titled abstracts of no more than 300 words to xbounds at fas.harvard.edu no
later than August 1. Abstracts should describe the argument of the paper and
the text/material/evidence on which it draws. Students selected for
presentation will be notified by September 1. They will be asked to submit a
completed paper by October 14. Please note that conference attendees will be
responsible for finding support for their travel and accommodation expenses
at their home institutions. For more information, please visit the
conference website at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries.

Conference organizers:
Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology
Marc Gidal, Department of Music
Michael Jeffries, Department of African & African American Studies
Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Faculty Sponsor: Michele Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Conference organizers:
Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology
Marc Gidal, Department of Music
Michael Jeffries, Department of African & African American Studies
Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Email: xbounds at fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries.