Program

Thursday, April 20

9:00-9:15am
Introduction and Welcome:
Provost Johannes Britz
A. Aneesh, Director, International Academic & Outreach Programs

9:15-10:30am
Panel: Class and Identity
Moderator: Jason Puskar

  • Walter Benn Michaels
    “Diversity: the OxyContin of the Professional Managerial Class”
  • Kumkum Sangari
    “Denationalization and the Politics of Heterogeneity”

10:30-10:45am
Break

10:45-12:00am
Panel: Infrastructure and Superstructure
Moderator: Kennan Ferguson

  • Andrew Deener
    “Market Distinction in the Age of Excess: The Transformation of Urban Infrastructure and the Food System”
  • Tasha G. Oren
    “From Home Dish to Worldly Plate: American Cooking, Television, and the Emergence of Contemporary Food Culture”

12:00-1:00pm
Lunch

1:00-2:15pm
Panel: Border Crossings
Moderator: W. Warner Wood

  • Maurice Stierl
    “Migration Resistances in a Bordered World”
  • Chia Youyee Vang
    “Exile, Identity Formation, and Placemaking: the Hmong Refugee Experiment in French Guiana, 1977-2015.”

2:15-2:30pm
Break

2:30-3:45pm
Panel: Uses of Religion and Race
Moderator: Erica Bornstein

  • Anna Mansson McGinty
    “Everyday Embodiment of Citizenship and Religion: Narratives of Belonging Among Muslim American Youth”
  • Caroline Seymour-Jorn
    “The Role of Intersectionality in Theorizing Social Justice Activism in Muslim Milwaukee”

3:45-5:00pm
Panel: Social Reproduction
Moderator: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

  • Natasha Borges Sugiyama
    “Making the Newest Citizens: Achieving Universal Birth Registration in Contemporary Brazil”
  • Jennifer Kibicho
    “Economic Self-Help Support Groups and the Syndemics of Sexual Risky Behaviors, Alcohol Misuse, Violence, and Economic Vulnerability”

Friday, April 21

9:00-10:15am
Panel: Displaying Diversity
Moderator: Lane Hall

  • Peggy Levitt
    “Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display”
  • Sukanya Banerjee
    “Diversity in the Time of the Liberal: A Colonial Tale”

10:15-10:30am
Break

10:30-11:45am
Panel: Xenophobia and its Cure
Moderator: Peter Paik

  • Lok Siu
    “Hemispheric Internment: Japanese Latin Americans in WWII”
  • Blain Neufeld
    “Citizenship Education and Nondomination in Diverse Democratic Societies”

12:00-1:00pm
Lunch

1:00-2:15pm
Panel: Placing Diversity
Moderator: Andrew Kincaid

  • Ryan Holifield
    “Diversity, Disproportionate Impact, and EPA Policy: The Challenge of Addressing Difference in Environmental Justice Communities”
  • Frederick Wherry
    “Diversity Out of Place: From Artisinal Markets to Financially Inclusive Banking”

2:15-2:30pm
Break

2:30-3:45pm
Panel: Educating the Young and the Old
Moderator: Nigel Rothfels

  • Daphne W. Ntiri
    “Transformative Learning and Adult Literacy: An Autoethnographic Study of a Female African Immigrant”
  • Erin Winkler
    “Rethinking Notions of Diversity: Children’s Understandings of Race”

3:45-4:00pm
Break

4:00-5:15pm
Panel: Accounting (for) the body
Moderator: Ivan Ascher

  • Louisa Schein
    “The Devil in the Profile: Revisiting Asian Masculinities”
  • Cary Gabriel Costello
    “Global Diversity in Sex Categories and Gender Identities: Resistance to Binarist Colonialism”

5:15-5:30pm
Closing Remarks: A. Aneesh