Conference Schedule

Race, Nation, Identity:

The 1st Annual Conference of the
UC Center for New Racial Studies

UCLA Faculty Center
April 21-22, 2011

Thursday, April 21 (evening)
4:00 — 5:00 p.m.	Registration
5:00 — 6:00 p.m.	Reception
6:30 p.m.	Dinner
7:00 — 9:00 p.m.	Welcome: Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences, UCSB Opening Plenary Speakers: Lawrence Bobo (Harvard University) Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley) Ramón Gutiérrez (University of Chicago)

Friday, April 22 (all day)
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Opening remarks, outline of the day’s activities Welcome: Franklin Gilliam, Dean of the School of Public Affairs, UCLA
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Plenary session — Members of the UCCNRS Steering Committee will provide a brief overview of each of the five research clusters and then open the discussion to participants. Speakers: Lisa Lowe (UC San Diego) and Abel Valenzuela (UCLA) — The Nation and Its Peoples Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside) — Intersectionality Devon Carbado (UCLA) and Eric Porter (UC Santa Cruz) — Race "Neutrality" Geoff Ward (UC Irvine) and Simon Weffer (UC Merced) — The Racial State Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley) and Sunaina Maira (UC Davis) — Global Race/Empire Moderator: Michael Omi, UC Berkeley
11:00 — 11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15 a.m. — 12:45 p.m.	Five concurrent panels on “The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants," featuring research funded by UCCNRS in 2010-11 BORDER ISSUES I Faculty Presenter Shannon Gleeson, UC Santa Cruz, “Assessing Processes of Legal Mobilization Amongst Low-Wage Workers” Graduate Student Presenters Angela Chen, UCLA, “Race Conscious Practices in Supporting Undocumented College Students” Samuel “Greg” Prieto, UC Santa Barbara, “Living ‘Illegality’: Immigration Enforcement, Racialization and Latin@ Migrants, Denizens, and Citizens” Tom Wong, UC Riverside, "States, Irregular Migrants, and A Theory of Selective Immigration Control" Discussant: David M. Hernandez, UCLA, Chicana and Chicano Studies BORDER ISSUES II Faculty Presenter Renee Tajima-Peña, UC Santa Cruz, "’Mas Bebes?’ A Social Documentary Work in Progress" Graduate Student Presenters Kathleen Griesbach, UC San Diego, “Geographies of ‘Other’: Immigrant Policing and Detention in Central North Carolina and Greater San Diego” Juliette Maiorana, UC San Diego, "Mixed Transnational Family Life: Reflections on Mining, Intermarriage, y Mexicanas en the Borderlands since 1920" Sylvia Zamora, “Racial Migrations: How Social Remittances Shape Mexicans' Perceptions of African Americans” Discussant: Lorrie Frasure Yokley, UCLA, Political Science COMPARATIVE STUDIES Faculty Presenter Steve McKay, UC Santa Cruz, “Racializing the High Seas: How Filipinos Dominate Global Shipping” Graduate Student Presenters Bui Long, UC San Diego, “Virtual Vietnam: Locating the ‘Refugee Archive’ in the Digital Age” Neda Maghbouleh, UC Santa Barbara, “Dual/Dueling Subjectivities in Diaspora: Cultural and Political Challenges to Neo-Assimilation by Iranian American Youth” Discussant: Lois Takahashi, UCLA, Urban Planning THE IMMIGRANT METROPOLIS Faculty Presenter Maylei Blackwell, UCLA, “New Transnational Hubs: Rewriting Race, Gender and Indigeneity in Los Angeles” Graduate Student Presenters Edelina Burciaga, UC Irvine, “Undocumented and unafraid: Embracing and asserting a stigmatized identity through political activism” Jean-Paul DeGuzman, UCLA, “Civil Rights in the Suburb: The NAACP and NOW in the Post-World War II San Fernando Valley” Anna Kim, UCLA, “Immigrant Crossings and Interactive Labor Markets: The Story of Work in Koreatown, Los Angeles” Discussant: Kyeyoung Park, UCLA, Anthropology and Asian American Studies IDENTITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES Faculty Presenters Victor Bascara, UCLA, “The Traveling American Canon: Teaching American Literature in the Colonies” Lisa Garcia Bedolla (UC Berkeley) and Claire Jean Kim (UC Irvine), "Beyond Whiteness: Racial Constructions of Latinos and Asian Americans in U.S. Immigration Policy" Graduate Student Presenters Jennifer Jones, UC Berkeley, “Salsa and Soul: Racial Conflict and Closeness in Winston-Salem” Adam Lewis, “Naturalization and the Hawaiian 1848” Discussant: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA, History
12:45 — 1:45 p.m.	Lunch Speakers: Cheryl Harris (UCLA) Mark Sawyer (UCLA)
1:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Plenary session — Race and the University of California: Our Tasks in an Era of Neoliberalism Speakers: Darnell Hunt (UCLA) Zeus Leonardo (UC Berkeley) George Lipsitz (UC Santa Barbara) Moderators: Paola Bacchetta (UC Berkeley) Sunaina Maira (UC Davis)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.	Plenary session focusing on 2011-12 research projects funded by UCCNRS: issues of race/gender/class intersectionality (grants will be announced by March 15, 2011) Moderators: Yolanda Moses (UC Riverside) France Winddance Twine (UC Santa Barbara)
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.	Plenary session — Discussants from the 11:15-12:45 panels: reflections on "The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants."

These speakers have been confirmed, and we anticipate adding information as we receive additional confirmations, but the schedule is subject to change.