The workshop
“Re-imagining Area Studies”, a one-day workshop co-sponsored by
African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Latin American Studies programs,
as well as the Centre for American Studies, is an opportunity for
enlightening conversations about the past and future of “area studies” as
frame of research and pedagogy. Participants are invited to consider,
among other issues, the general state of areas studies in the North
American academy since the 1980s; the relations between region-bounded
area studies and interdisciplinary scholarship in social sciences and
humanities, the institutional challenges to the continued vitality of area
studies; promises and limitations of areas studies to understanding of
translocal and transnational problems and processes pertaining of
inequality, deprivation, social justice etc.
Co-Sponsored by:
Latin American Studies
http://las.utoronto.ca/
African Studies
http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academics/new-college-academicprograms/african-studies/
Caribbean Studies
http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academics/new-college-academicprograms/caribbean-studies/
Centre for Study of the United States
http://www.utoronto.ca/csus/
RE-IMAGINING
AREA STUDIES
17th of January 2014
MUSIC ROOM, HART HOUSE
Program
11:00am-11:15am
Opening Remarks
Valentina Napolitano, Latin American Studies
Dickson Eyoh, African Studies
Melanie Newton, Caribbean Studies
11:15am-12:30pm
Román de la Campa, University of Pennsylvania,
Intervention
Discussant Response
Discussion
12:30pm-1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm-2:30pm
Ruby Tiffany Patterson, Vanderbilt University,
Intervention
Discussant Response
Discussion
2:30pm-2:45pm
Break
2:45pm-4:00pm
Sean Hawkins, University of Toronto, Intervention,
Discussant Response
Discussion
4:00pm
Closing Remarks
Discussants:
Filippo Osella
Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
Bhavani Raman
Department of History, University of Toronto
Alissa Trotz
Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Institute and
Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto
Courtney Jung
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto