Approaches to Ethnic and Indigenous Studies Series

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights hosts this monthly series of informal conversations with faculty from Harvard and beyond to consider the methodological contributions that ethnic and indigenous studies make across the academic disciplines. These talks are open to the public.

We understand "ethnic and indigenous studies" to refer to scholarship that analyzes the production of differences based on race, ethnicity, and nation in their relationships to sexuality, gender, religion, and more.

2020-2021 Approaches Series Talks

October 20 (online) 2:00 PM EDT
Vijay Iyer

Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts

Department of Music; Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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November 17 (online) 2:00 PM EST
Tiya Miles
Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Last year's Approaches series featured scholars whose work demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinarity to these inquiries.

2019-2020

September 24, 2 Arrow St. room 408, noon
Co-sponsored by Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Robert Reid-Pharr
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

October 2, Riverview Commons (10th floor, Smith Center), noon
Roberto Gonzales
Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

November 13, Collaborative Commons, Isaacson Room (2nd floor, Smith Center), noon
Co-sponsored by History of Science
Eram Alam
Assistant Professor of History of Science
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

February 26, 2 Arrow St. room 408, noon
Co-sponsored by the Mellon Urban Studies Initiative

Bruno Carvalho
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design

TO BE RESCHEDULED March 25, 2 Arrow St. room 408, noon
Co-sponsored by Harvard University Native American Program and Instituto Cervantes

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis
New York University

TO BE RESCHEDULED April 17, 2 Arrow St. room 408, noon
Eveyln Alsultany
Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California in Los Angeles.