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Post-Colonial and Feminist Scholarship after 9-11

A Symposium at Smith College, February 25-26, 2005
http://www.smith.edu/wst/postcolonial.html
Free and open to the public

One casualty of the War on Terror is critical thought. Those both within and outside the US academy who are invested in the complexity of human endeavors across the planet face rebuke for disloyalty to the War. Complexity must give way to partisanship: either you are for us, or against us. Postcolonial and feminist scholarship has resisted such polemical forms of understanding the world. This symposium addresses the shrinking of the academic sphere and the special urgency of postcolonial and feminist scholarship today.

All events will be held in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall at Smith College and are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, the Dorius/Spofford Fund for the Study of Civil Liberties and Freedom of Expression and the Women's Studies Program at Smith College.

Friday, February 25:

5:00 p.m.
Opening Panel: What is the new surveillance? An overview of current conditions

Moderator: Elisabeth Armstrong, Women's Studies, Smith College
Seteney Shami, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, Social Science Research Center
Nicolas Xenos, Political Science, UMASS Amherst
Johanna Fernandez, American Studies, Trinity College

Saturday, February 26:

9:30-11:00 a.m.
The Research in our Teaching: Critical Scholarship at our Home Institutions

Moderator: Jennifer Guglielmo, History, Smith College
Shahnaz Rouse, Sociology, Sarah Lawrence College
Nerissa Balce, Comparative Literature, UMASS Amherst
Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology, Rutgers University

11:30-1:00 p.m.
To Cross Borders, Transnational Collaborations and Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Moderator: Josna Rege, Five College Women's Studies Research Center
Joy James, Africana Studies, Brown University
Vijay Prashad, International Studies, Trinity College
Gary Garrison, Assistant Director Middle East and Asia, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

2:30-4:00 p.m.
Roundtable: Strategies to Move Forward

Moderator: Amrita Basu, Women and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Elise Young, History, Westfield State College
Seteney Shami, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, Social Science Research Center
Augustin Lao-Montes, Sociology, UMASS, Amherst

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