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The Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at the Yale Graduate School is pleased to announce that the 5th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education will take place on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2008. The theme for the conference this year is Public Intellectuals and Scholar Activists: Negotiating the Boundaries of Academia, Identity, and Civic Responsibility. Kurt L. Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore and current dean of the Howard UniversitySchool of Law will give the keynote address. Additional information about the conference, including the Call for Proposals, is available at http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/diversity/news1.html The deadline for proposals is February 28. They can be emailed to grad.diversity@yale.edu
We welcome the participation of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and administrators from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The Yale Bouchet Conference, named for Yale graduate Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn the Ph.D. in the United States (Physics, 1876), especially encourages students of color, women and other underrepresented students to present their research. Proposals may deal with questions or topics other than those related to the theme stated above. PROPOSALS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES ARE WELCOME.
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