Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication

July 15-29, 2009
Reed College, Portland, OR

The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication is designed for professionals in diverse, interculturally related fields ranging for business to study abroad, from healthcare to international student advising. Workshops include "Managing Intercultural Conflict," "Diversity in Action," and "Facilitating Intercultural Discovery," among others. Held in Portland, Oregon.

Contact: Joel Dippold, joeld@intercultural.org, 8835 SW Canyon Lane Suite 238 Portland, OR 97225, 503 297 4622, www.intercultural. org

2009 Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute - Queer Politics in Transnational Context

July 27 - August 7, 2009
Ithaca, NY

The FMS Summer Institute has two components: 1) a two-week Summer Seminar for 12-15 selected graduate students and postdoctoral faculty; and 2) a two-day Colloquium involving a broad range of FMS scholars from across the U.S. and abroad. The Summer Seminar is held during the last week of July and the first week of August, and is taught by two senior professors who have co-taught or collaborated previously. The seminar meets four days during the week, and includes lectures by visiting scholars. Some afternoons and evenings are reserved for seminar participants to present their own work. In addition, there are opportunities for extensive semi-formal contact with the seminar leaders (regular office hours, informal social get-togethers, and film screenings). The Colloquium takes place on the weekend (Friday-Saturday) at the end of the first week of the seminar, and provides the occasion for seminar students to interact with FMS scholars from all over the country. The gathering is organized around one or two keynote talks as well as short focused presentations by participants on key themes related to minority identities, democratic culture, and social justice. Informal social get-togethers and other opportunities for developing mentoring relationships are included in the schedule for the weekend. Semi-formal communication across generations has been a valuable aspect of all FMS events, and it is a major feature of our summer institutes as well. It is geared to junior scholars (that is, graduate students and junior faculty) working in minority studies. Those selected to participate will be provided subsidy for their expenses.

Contact: Alice Cho, n/a, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, n/a, http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu/

"Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies" Conference

November 4-7, 2010
Chicago, IL

Mission - It is our mission to advance Critical Mixed Race Studies [CMRS] as an academic discipline and a professional field committed to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. Goal - It is our goal to develop curriculum at all grade levels; to develop resources with community organizations; to increase and disperse knowledge through conferences, summer institutes, workshops, professional contacts, reports, papers, discussions, and publications; and to support an anti-racist mixed heritage movement. Vision - We envision a world in which students at all grade levels receive accurate and significant information about the history, cultural productions, psychology, health, religious studies, politics, and sociology of people, families and communities of mixed heritage. Rather than being largely ignored in academic circles or discussed as a side bar in existing theoretical frameworks and academic disciplines, we envision a world in which mixed heritage individuals and communities are centered and in which CMRS generates intersections between Ethnic studies, Queer theory, Feminist theory, Critical Race theory and other academic disciplines such as: Literary, Cultural, Sociology, Psychology, History, Anthropology, Health, American, "Area" and other related studies in local, national, international and transnational contexts. Values - We value what can be learned through the critical study of mixed race people, their experiences, their cultural productions, and the social, political, historical, legal, and economic forces that shape the world in which their experiences and identities are constructed. We value the transformation of ideologies around race and identity through this study. We value the difference that teachers can make at all grade levels by incorporating CMRS into their curriculum and that community organizations can provide by serving with an awareness of CMRS. What is Critical Mixed Race Studies? CMRS is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race. CMRS emphasizes the mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. CMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.

Contact: Wei Ming Dariotis, dariotis@sfsu.edu, 925-864-1610