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This seminar will address the fundamental issues that have engaged thinkers through the periods of slavery, colonization, emancipation(s), and modernity. It will suggest and reflect upon genealogies of discourses of individual and group identities, both self-identities and interpellations. Discourses of "race" and hybridity, "material" and metaphorical realities that invoked biological and cultural legitimacy, dominated the social, economic, and legal classifications of Diaspora subjects, providing them with-or imposing upon them-frames within which to work, or against which to rebel. Diaspora subjects developed and continually adapted strategies of conditional conformity, subversion, and open confrontation, especially in societies that circulated egalitarian, enlightenment, and emancipatory principles as the foundations of the civic order. Whether as "racial," ethnic, linguistic, sexual, national, or transnational subjects, they negotiated the obstacles and opportunities to forge creative social positions that erupt in cultural productions.
Module One:
July 11-15
Deconstructing Racial Knowledge: Questioning Methodologies
Joseph Graves, Fairleigh Dickenson University
Module Two:
July 18-22
The African Diaspora: Contesting the Heteronormative
Lola Young, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture, UK
Module Three:
July 25-29
Mapping the African Diaspora: Fragmented Geographies and Positionalities
Nalini Persram, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Module Four:
August 1-5
African Diaspora: Hybridities Against Race?
Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
Summer 2006: Performing African Diasporas
Check our website for details on the seminar’s format, deadline information, guest instructors, and for updates on seminars for Summers 2005 and 2006: www.fiu.edu/~interad
SIGNIFICANT FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR ALL THOSE ACCEPTED
African-New World Studies at Florida International University
3000 N.E. 151st Street, North Miami, Florida 33181
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