Fall 2008


'False Media, We Don't Need it Do We?': Embracing Change
Kimberly Brown
August 24, 2008
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Whites' Backstage Racism and Presidential Politics
Joe Feagin
October 2, 2008
AT 7:00pm
Rudder 504
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What Immigration Has to Teach US: U.S. Immigration Detention Center Reality
Sister Kathleen Erickson
October 2, 2008
AT 3:00pm
Evans 504E
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Living Black History: How Re-imagining the African-American Past Can Re-make America's Future
Manning Marable
October 14, 2008
AT 7:30pm
Evans Library 204E
Sponsor(s): Africana Studies, RESI

Workshop for Students and their Advisors on Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships
October 15, 2008
AT 1:30pm till 3:00pm
Room 111 Koldus Bldg

The workshop is for current graduate students who plan to pursue a PhD and their faculty advisors, and for senior undergraduates who plan to attend graduate school and pursue a PhD. Preparing a competitive Ford Fellowship application requires a joint effort of the student and his/her advisor. Faculty graduate advisors are therefore encouraged to attend with their students. The seminar will cover types of Ford Foundation fellowships and who is eligible, and how to prepare a competitive fellowship application. We will also have a panel of Ford Fellowship winners, who will discuss their experiences and answer questions. Registration for this free workshop is encouraged by not required. To register, please e-mail opd@tamu.edu with subject line: Ford Fellowship Seminar, and include in the body of the e-mail your name, department and phone number. Questions? Contact Libby Pasciak at libbyp@tamu.edu or 845-1811

Sponsor(s): Office of Graduate Studies, Office of VP and Associate Provost for Diversity, and the Office of Proposal Development

The African Presence in Mexico
October 22, 2008
MSC

A group of distinguished scholars and activists from both Mexico and from various institutions in the United States will meet at Texas A&M University (College Station), October 22 & 23, 2008, for a symposium of unprecedented importance, "The African Presence in Mexico." "The African Presence in Mexico" will begin Wednesday night, October 22, with the keynote address by Fr. Glyn Jemmot, a Roman Catholic priest currently serving the Parish of St. John of the Cross in El Cirelo, Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico.The morning and afternoon schedule for Thursday, October 23, features brief presentations by Herman L. Bennett, Juan Manuel de la Serna, Maria Elisa Velázquez and Arturo Motta on "Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Mexico" and "'Where Did the Blacks Go?' Post-Slavery Mexico." Respondents to these scholarly lectures will include Joan Bristol, Patrick J. Carroll, Nicole von Germeten, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Marisela Ramos.The symposium will close Thursday night, October 23, with "Contemporary Afro-Mexicans," a group conversation, led by Ben Vinson III, in exchange with Naya Jones, Laura Lewis, Jean-Philibert Mobwa Mobwa N'Djoli, Fr. Glyn Jemmot, Bobby Vaughn, Anita Gonzalez and Maria Elisa Velázquez.During these two days of national and international intellectual and political exchange, "Afro-Mexican Faces from the State of Veracruz, Mexico," an exhibition of photographs by Marcus D. Jones, will be mounted in The Flag Room of the MSC at Texas A&M University. The symposium and exhibition are co-sponsored by Texas A&M University's CALLALOO and by the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. CALLALOO, the premier literary and cultural journal of the African Diaspora, is sponsored by Texas A&M University and published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore.

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Sponsor(s): Texas A&M University's CALLALOO, Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Do we finally have a matriarchy
Fadwa El Guindi
October 22, 2008
AT 3:00pm
Rudder 301

Anthropology professor from the University of Qatar, Dr. Fadwa El Guindi will be at Texas A&M University on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. in Rudder 301 for a lecture on women of the Arabian Gulf titled, "Do we finally have a matriarchy?". Following the lecture, El Guindi will have a book signing of her new book, By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam (Berg 2008) and Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, both of which are available for sale at the Texas A&M Bookstore. Her newest book is grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society and captures the rhythm of Islam in Muslims' everyday lives. El Guindi earned her B.A. in political science from the American University in Cairo and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her expertise on the Middle East brought her to the Clinton White House for a meeting with the president. She is a past president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association as well as a former president of the AAA's Society for Visual Anthropology. El Guindi's expertise in Arab and Muslim Americans has led her to speak at the United Nations, meet with the U.S. Senate and lecture frequently at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State.

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R&E Workshop
October 23, 2008
AT 7:30pm
Los Molcajetes

Eliminating Health Disparities: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Solving a Complex Problem
Keema Walden
October 25, 2008
AT 3:00pm
Lake Bryan
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Sponsor(s): Exclusive engagement, Brazos Valley Festival of African Arts

The Citizenship Sacrifice: Mexican Americans, the Saunders-Leonard Report, and the Politics of Immigration, 1951-1952
Carlos K. Blanton
October 29, 2008
AT 4:00pm
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311

The Faculty Colloquium offers faculty an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter's short (10-15) minute exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary

Sacagawea and Her Sisters: Writing Native Women Into American History
Theda Perdue
November 20, 2008
AT 4:00pm
Evans 204E
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Sponsor(s): RESI, Women Studies

R&E Workshop
November 20, 2008
AT 7:30pm
Los Molcajetes

Housing Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Lisa Bates
November 20, 2008
AT 5:45pm
Langford Architecture Center B102 GEREN AUDITORIUM

Dr. Bates' research interests lie in the connection between housing and neighborhoods, with a focus on the opportunities of low-income residents and people of color. Her work in New Orleans examines impediments to recovery after Hurricane Katrina in the Upper and Lower Ninth Wards, with particular attention to the community planning process as well as racial disparities in outcomes.

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Sponsor(s): Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center