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Fall 2009 FDI co-sponsored Graduate Conferences


Visual and Cultural Studies: The Next 20 Years

October 1-2, 2009
location: Rush Rhees Library

The Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester will celebrate its 20th Anniversary in 2009. We will be celebrating the achievements of the past and embracing the future.

for further details of schedule, registration, hotel info., blog and more please visit, http://www.rochester.edu/college/aah/VCS/conference

Warner Graduate School Student Association:
A Time for Healing, Educating, and Rebuilding
October 30-31
location: Radisson Hotel, Rochester, NY

Seminars will take place in the Institute conference room in Morey 302 (unless otherwise noted)
from 12:30pm to 2:00pm.

Refreshments will be served.

FDI Spring 2010

"THEORIZING BLACK STUDIES: GENDER, HISTORY, DIASPORA"

"Thinking Black Intellectuals"

Co-sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and South Atlantic Quarterly and the U of R Humanities Project

"Gender and Race in American History"


The History Department, in conjunction with the Frederick Douglass Institute and the Susan B. Anthony Institute, proposes a two-day conference to parallel the launch of a new book series sponsored by the University of Rochester Press (URP): Gender and Race in American History.

Feature speakers:

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Friday, April 16, 2010
"What Women Want: The Racial Paradoxes of Post-Modernity."

Deborah Gray White
Professor of History at Rutgers University


Michele Mitchell
New York University