Date: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:32 AM
From: A.D. Powell
Subject: Race and Place in Global Perspective Conference
The History Department at the University of Alabama is pleased to present “Race and Place in Global Perspective,” a conference of scholars from across the United States addressing issues of race in the modern world. The conference will be held at the Ferguson Center in Tuscaloosa March 8 and 9, 2002.
Conference panels include:
-Researching Race in a Global Perspective
-Strategies of Community, Strategies of Resistance
-Ideologies of Empowerment
-Colonial Subjects, Imperial Objectives, and National Identity
-Shifting Meanings of Racial Identity
-African-American Neighborhoods in Transition
We welcome anyone who would like to join us for this event. More information about the conference program and participants is available at www.as.ua.edu/history. If you would like to attend or receive a conference program, please contact Lisa Lindquist Dorr (LDORR@bama.ua.edu or (205) 348-1859) or the History Department at (205) 348-7100