Dear colleagues,
Please find below an invitation to a relevant conference. For details please contact the organisers.
All the best,
Pat
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> Race in the Americas (RITA) conference
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> Intersectionality: A Space for Theoretical and Practitioner Discussion
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> University of Sussex, Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd November 2014
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> ‘Intersectionality is a way of visualising what the courts could not see . . . the combined discrimination experienced by being both black and a woman.’
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> Kimberlé Crenshaw, 2014.
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> The Race in the Americas (RITA) Group is proud to present this two-day conference with the generous support of the Center for American Studies at the University of Sussex. The event will bring together academics, activists and practitioners who share a concern for and interest in intersectionality. This event seeks to platform the following:
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> • Academic presentations on the theme of intersectionality;
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> • Activist and practitioner presentations on how and why intersectionality features in their work and lives;
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> • Roundtable discussions featuring academics, activists and practitioners fleshing out a comparison between the intersectionality theorised in the academy and the intersectionality which guides activists and practitioners in the everyday
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> Speakers include: Professor Kevin D. Browne (Indiana University); Dr Adrienne D. Dixson (University of Illinois); Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (UCL); Dr Kehinde Andrews (Newman University, Birmingham), Dr Fabienne Viala (University of Warwick)
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> To view the programme and to register (free of charge) go to www.raceintheamericas.comhttp://www.raceintheamericas.com/
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> James Owen Heath
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> University of Warwick
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> www.raceintheamericas.com<http://www.raceintheamericas.com>
> http://sickchickens.blogspot.co.uk/
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