Racial Formations: Thinking at the Limit

Date: December 11-12, 2008

Location: Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona (SSS), 1 Prospect St, Room 114

Keynote: Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics

Program:

Racial Formations and the Politics of Sound
Cam Mackellar, University of Sydney
Michael Ralph, New York University

Respondents: 
Michael Veal, Yale University
Reginald Jackson, Yale University

Racial Formations in a Biotechnological World
Alondra Nelson, Yale University
Charles Briggs, UC Berkeley

Respondents: 
Kamari M. Clarke, Yale University
Carlos A. Miranda, Yale University

Racial Formations On New Cultural Fronts 
Vron Ware, The Open University
Jafari Allen, Yale University

Respondents: 
Matthew Jacobson, Yale University
Amina El-Annan, Yale University

Closing Remarks: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University