Return-Path: sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Fri, 12 Feb 93 16:29:57 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -fsocgrad-relay socgrad-list From: byndloss@isr.harvard.edu (Devonne Crystal Byndloss) Subject: Harvard U Conference To: SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 19:29:55 EST Hello all, For those SOCGRAD subscribers who are in the Boston metro. area, and/or will be in the area you are cordially invited to attend the following FREE conference. For more info, contact: BYNDLOSS@ISR.HARVARD.EDU --------------------- HARVARD UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS PRESENT: "THE 1993 TALCOTT PARSONS CONFERENCE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY" Saturday, March 13, 1993 at the Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 9:30am-10am: Coffee and Registration 5:30pm: Registration SESSION I: 10am-12pm ****RACE: IDENTITY AND GROUP DYNAMICS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY**** Participants: Luis M. Falcon, Prof., Dept. of Soc. and Anthro., Northeastern U. M. Annette Jaimes, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, U. of Colorado @ Boulder J. Lorand Matory, Depts. of Antro. and African-American Studies, Harvard U. Karen Umemoto, Doctoral Student in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Russell Thornton, Depts. of Soc. and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College SESSION II: 1:15pm-3:15pm ****GENDER AS A CATEGORY OF IDENTITY, ANALYSIS, AND POLITICS...IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES? A DISCUSSION WITH...**** Cynthia Enloe, Prof. and Chair, Gov't and International Relations, Clark University Joan Fujimura, Prof., Dept. of Sociology, Harvard University Shulamit Reinharz, Prof. of Soc. and Dir. of Women's Studies, Brandeis University Christine Ward Gailey, Prof., Dept. of Anthropology, Northeastern University Discussant: Alice Jardine, Prof., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University SESSION III: 1:15-3:15pm ****NEW NATIONALISMS IN EAST/CENTRAL EUROPE: HOW OLD ARE THEY?**** Stephen Borsody, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of History, Chatham College Liah Greenfeld, Prof., Depts. of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University Igor Lukes, Prof., Dept. of International Affairs, Boston University Roman Szporluk, Dept. of History, Harvard University SESSION IV: 3:30pm-5:30pm ****NEGOTIATING AND INTERPRETING IDENTITY IN THE MASS MEDIA/POPULAR CULTURE**** Simon Jones, Prof. Dept. of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Ron Lembo, Prof., Dept. of Sociology, Amherst College Justin Lewis, Prof., Dept. of Communication, U. of MA @ Amherst ---------------------------------------------------------------------------