[JFKI-News] Symposium Managing Racial Capital, June 30-Juli 1, JFKI

["Bodmeier, Gabriele" <Office@gsnas.fu-berlin.de>]

 

Dear colleagues and friends,


We cordially invite you to attend the symposium titled "Managing Racial Capital" which will take place at the John F. Kennedy Institute on June 30 in room 340.  Our main speakers are:

Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley), “Literary Realism in the Age of Asian Economic Miracles”

Saima Akhtar (Yale), “Fordism and the Art of Managing Race”

Nirmala Erevelles (Alabama), “Empire’s Other Other: Disability as Transnational Racial Capital”

Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier (NYU): “Gentry-fication through Housing: Lawrence Veiller’s 1900 Tenement House Exhibition”

A full program can be found on our website: https://managingracialcapital.wordpress.com.

We hope to see you there!


All best,

Jasper Verlinden
Florian Gabriel

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Jasper Verlinden
Research Fellow, Dept. of Literature
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Lansstr. 7-9
D-14195 Berlin
j.verlinden@fu-berlin.de
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