The Third Annual
Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute
2007

FMS Summer Colloquium
Program

Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University

Friday, 7/27

9.15 – 9.30: Welcome; Announcements – Satya P. Mohanty, English, Cornell University

9.30 – 9.45: FMS: An Introduction – Tobin Siebers, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

9.45 – 11.45: “Eugenics as Oppression” Workshop with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (English and Women’s Studies, Emory University) and Tobin Siebers (University of Michigan)
Chair: Ken McClane, English, Cornell University

Background Readings:

1. Baynton, Douglas, C. “ Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History.” The New Disability History: American Perspectives. Ed. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umamsky. NY: New York UP, 2001. Pp. 33-57.

2. Friedlander, Henry. “The Setting.” The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. 1-22.

3. Johnson, Harriet McBryde. “Unspeakable Conversations.” The New York Times Magazine, 16 February 2003, pp. 50-55, 74, 78-79.

1 – 3: “Postmodernism vs. Realism: What’s at Stake?” Talk by Richard Boyd (Philosophy, Cornell University)
Discussant: Daniel Little, Philosophy, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Chair: Linda Martín Alcoff, Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Syracuse University

3.15 – 6: “We Shall Overcome” -- Video

Speakers: Winston Grady-Willis (African American Studies, Syracuse University), Derek Chang (Asian American Studies and History, Cornell University), Sandra Greene (History, Cornell University), and Richard Polenberg (History, Cornell University)
Chair: Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Women’s Studies, Spelman College)

Saturday, 7/28

9 – 11: “The TransAmerican Imaginary:  Thinking Transnationally”

Speakers: Ramon Saldívar (English, Stanford University), Paula Moya (English, Stanford University)
Discussant: Silvio Torres-Saillant (English and Latino Studies, Syracuse University)
Chair: Helena María Viramontes (English and Latino Studies, Cornell University)

Background Readings:

1. Moya, Paula M.L., and Ramon Saldivar. "Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary." Modern Fiction Studies 49.1 (20033): 1-18.

2. Saldivar, Ramon. "The Postwar Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary: The Occupation-Era Writings in Pacific Stars and Stripes and El Universal." The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 344-94.

11.15 – 1.15: “Minority Studies: Preparing the Ground”

Rashel Dorleans (Cornell Class of 07)
Kate Foley (Cornell Class of 08)
Stephanie Fryberg (Psychology, University of Arizona)
Ernesto Martinez (Women’s and Gender Studies; Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon)
Chair: Michael Hames-García (Ethnic Studies and English, University of Oregon)