CALL FOR PAPERS
Teaching and Learning about “Race” and Ethnicity in Higher Education:Problems and Approaches
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, the Department of English, and the
Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St.FrancisCollege, USA, & the Centre for the Study
of Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Co-Chairs: Athena DevlinEmily Horowitz, St.FrancisCollege, Brooklyn, USA
March 16-17, 2007
St.FrancisCollege
Brooklyn, New York
This two-day conference will feature panels on the problems of and approaches to teaching race and
ethnicity in higher education. Teachers from across the disciplines are encouraged to participate in this important
conference,specifically devoted to how we teach race and how students learn - and ways to do both more
effectively.A concerted effort will be made to include discussion and interaction in the context of all panels and
working groups, withthe hope of facilitating future collaborations among scholars interested in this growing subject
area. We also have several confirmed speakers specializing in the realities of teaching race in the United Kingdom,
creating an exciting opportunity for collaboration with British colleagues.
The Centre for the Study of Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics (one of 24 subject networks which
were part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network, funded by the United Kingdom Funding Councils for
Higher Education) will sponsor an award for the best student poster submission.
The conference will also include facilitated breakout sessions aimed at eliciting response and interaction
among attendees, focusing on the classroom realities and personal experiences of those involved in teaching and
learning race.
Planned topics of exploration include:
Antiracist pedagogy
Specific classroom realities, including the race of the instructor and the race of the students
Teaching differences at non-elite and elite institutions
The intersections of gender, sexuality, and class
Evaluation and assessment
Using literary texts in the social sciences
Using social science texts in the humanities
Defining racial, ethnic, and minority groups
This exciting event will begin on Friday, March 16, 2007 with an afternoon panel and evening keynote speaker and
reception, and continue withpanels and sessions on Saturday, March 17th. All events will take place at St.Francis
College in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Plenary and keynote speakers to be announced. All panels, lectures, and
working groups are free and open to the public (pre-registration is required).
For more information or to register, please contact Dr. Emily Horowitz at or at
718-489-5446.
Humanities paper proposals should be sent to Dr. Athena Devlin by November 15, 2006 at
Social Science (excluding Psychology) paper or poster proposals should be sent to Dr. Emily Horowitz by
December 15, 2006 at .
Psychology paper or poster proposals should be sent to Dr. Uwe Gielen by December 15, 2006 at
.
Undergraduate student papers (to be presented as posters) should be sent to Dr. Emily Horowitz by February 15,
2007 at
Papers and an edited transcription of the working group sessions will be published in the conference proceedings
and a selection will be included in an edited volume on the subject of teaching race in North America to be
published by C-SAP.
For hotel reservations, there is limited availability at the Washington Jefferson Hotel (Washington Jefferson Hotel:
318 West 51st Street, New York, NY10019 Tel: 212-246-7550 Fax: 212-246-7622; Toll Free: 1-888-567-7550 email:
) located in midtown Manhattan (about a 20-minute subway ride from St. Francis). We
suggest attendees stay in midtown Manhattan (near Times Square), because it is close to the college and there are a
number of reasonably priced (less than $200 per night) hotels in that area with availability on the evening of Friday,
March 16. For more hotel options, visit
Confirmed guest speakers (as of 11/15/06) include Max Farrar (School of Social Science,
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), Malcolm Cumberbatch (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), and Alan Astro
(Trinity University, Texas). This list will be continually updated.