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Course Description
Lecturer: Sherman Teichman Course: EXP 91F T/Th, 4:00-6:00pm, Tisch 316 2000-2001 (2 semesters)
In an era of mass migrations, ethnic cleansing and discrimination, EPIIC will confront the contentious transnational constructs and realities of race and ethnicity. What are their theories and histories? What are the vexing ethical and biological issues? How do identity formation (race, ethnicity, class, nationalism, gender), citizenship, political participation, power relationships, and nation-state consolidation affect public policy and inter- and intra-group interactions? We will probe meanings and manipulations of the politics of recognition, of culture and identity, and consider the principles and the practice of justice. Against the backdrop of historical and contemporary stratification, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and xenophobia -- in Bosnia, Chiapas, China, Fiji, Germany, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa, the U.S. and beyond -- we will study the political and psychological factors in racial and ethnic conflict. This will include a global comparative look at such issues as affirmative action in such countries as India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States. And, we will investigate peacemaking in multiethnic societies, strategies of inter-racial and inter-ethnic coalition building and means of transforming cultures of intolerance.
THE EPIIC COLLOQUIUM As the preparatory class for EPIIC's annual international symposium, the colloquium offers the unique opportunity of fusing serious academic coursework with the planning and enactment of the symposium, simulations, professional workshops, and special events. EPIIC enables students to produce tangible, intellectual products such as CD-Roms and the opportunity to mentor high school students in Inquiry. EPIIC's approach affords students both a broad, multidisciplinary survey of an expansive topic and opportunities for in-depth, independent research. Throughout the two-semester course, students are exposed to diverse perspectives, regularly discoursing with authors of required readings and other eminent thinkers and practitioners. Students also can utilize EPIIC as a platform to pursue senior honors theses and to conduct original field research. Over the last few years, students have traveled to Australia, Bosnia, Chiapas, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, The Hague, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
Syllabus
9:30am - 4:30pm Miner Hall |
Experimental College Registration |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
First Day of Class |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Race and Ethnos in Classical Antiquity Guest Lecturer Professor Steven Hirsch, Department of Classics, Tufts University |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Olympic Resonance/Dissonance: Aboriginal Imperatives and Race and Ethnicity in Australia Guest Lecturer Ian McIntosh, Executive Director, Cultural Survival; Author, Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming; Lecturer, Experimental College (Making Amends) |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Definitions: Mapping the Terrain Guest Discussant Professor Paula Aymer, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Tufts University |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Race, Biology, and Physical Anthropology Guest Lecturers Professor Francine Chew, Department of Biology, Tufts University Professor Stephen Bailey, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University |
Newry Center, Maine |
Outward Bound with Peter Rosenblum, Assistant Director, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School |
Cabot 702, 10:00-11:00am |
Special Event Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied? Bosnian NGO's Speak About the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Report by two former EPIIC students on their two-year research abroad project - - Kristen Cibelli and Tamy Guberek |
5:15pm Cabot Auditorium |
Special Event How Race Regulates and Organizes Life In Society Speakers: Patricia Williams, a critical legal theorist and Columbia University law professor; Randy Matory, a Harvard social scientist who treats race in an international context; and Ellen Driscoll, an artist and theorist. Organized by the Black Cultural Studies Seminar at Tufts. |
| Interethnic Leadership in China: Toward a Constitutional Future | |
7:30 pm Pearson 106 |
Inter-Ethnic Leadership in China Guests Representatives from the Uighur, Han Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian communities Roundtable Discussion on Ethnicity in China In collaboration with the Foundation for China in the 21st Century and the Asia Institute of the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective |
7:30 pm Tilton Lounge |
The Middle East Crisis and U.S. Politics Speaker Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership Sponsored by Residential Life and Tilton Hall Speakers Series |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Ethnicity in Israel Guest Lecturer Durgham Mara'ee, International Law Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation in Sharm el Sheik and Camp David; SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, Harvard University. Mr. Mara'ee is an Israeli Arab. Guest Discussant
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7:30 pm Coolidge Corner Theater 290 Harvard St., Brookline |
Special Event Premier of the feature film Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary 2000 Discussion following film featuring the filmmakers, Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela -- former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, and Margaret Burnham -- attorney, former Judge of the Motsuenyane Commission |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Race and Identity Guest Lecturer Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of African American Studies, Harvard University |
7:30pm Pearson 106 |
Prejudice in Politics Guest Lecturer Professor Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University, Departments of Sociology and Afro-American Studies and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar; Dr. Bobo is an expert on racial attitudes and relations, social psychology, public opinion, and political behavior. He has published numerous books and articles, and he is currently co-PI of the Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality Project. |
10:30- 11:20am (Joining Professor John Gould's PS class) Pearson 104 |
Making Amends - Special Lecture Guest Lecturer Bryan Rich, documentary Filmmaker of Breaking the Codes: Genocide and Truth in Burundi; former director, Studio Ijambo, Bujumbura, Burundi; former Producer, Search for Common Ground (Russian TV, ethnic relations: Estonia, Nargono-Karabak, Tadjikistan, Ukraine, Crimea, China, Macedonia); Nieman Fellow, Harvard University |
4:00 - 6:00 pm Tisch 316 |
Whiteness Guest Lecturer Professor Noel Ignatiev, History and Sociology, Mass College of Art |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Nigeria Guest Lecturers Darren Kew, Ph.D. Candidate, The Fletcher School (EPIIC'94) Mohammed Bulama, Fulbright Research Fellow, The Fletcher School |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Race and Intelligence Guest Lecturer Professor Sal Soraci, Department of Psychology, Tufts University |
7:00 pm Pearson 106 |
Special Event Race, the Environment, and Development: The Mapuche in Chile |
4:00 - 6:00 pm Tisch 316 |
Race and Class in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Haiti Guest Lecturer Nancy Dorsinville, Bell and Kellogg Fellow, The Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University; United Nations Liaison, International Leadership Academy, Amman, Jordan |
4:00 - 6:00 pm Tisch 316 |
"Looking Forward, Looking Black" Guided Tour of University Art Gallery Exhibit Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor of English, Tufts University |
4:00 - 6:00pm Tisch 316 |
Race and the Census Guest Lecturer Melissa Nobles, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT; Fellow, Institute for Race and Social Discrimination, Boston University |
Texts, in part and in whole, required and recommended, for the fall and spring semesters include:
- The Mismeasure of Man (revised edition), Stephen Jay Gould
- The Skull Measurer's Mistake: and Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism, Sven Lindquist (ed.)
- French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants, Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Minorities At Risk: A Global View of Ethno-Political Conflict, Ted Robert Gurr
- Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, Charles Taylor (ed.)
- Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil, Anthony Marx
- Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race: Nation, and Gender, Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
- The Comparative Imagination: On History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements, George Frederickson
- Power and Prejudice: The Politics of Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination, Paul Gordon Lauren
- Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line, Paul Gilroy
- Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann
- Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, Georgia Persons, The National Political Science Review, Volume 7
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez
- Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, Joseph Montville, Editor
- Riots and Pogroms, Paul Brass, Editor
- Beyond Racism: Embracing an Interdependent Future -- Brazil, South Africa, The United States
- Overview Report
- Three Nations at the Crossroads
- In Their Own Voices
- Color Collage