Tuesday, February 17
Black Man’s Burden: Representing History in Contemporary African American Art
Kymberly Pinder '87, associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, visiting Twilight Scholar, and an authority in the field of African American art, gives a slide lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past. Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Office for Institutional Planning and Diversity, Wonnacott Commons, the Department of American Studies, the Department of History, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
4:30 P.M., McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 216
Friday, March 6
Afghanistan: Notes from the Remembered War
Sarah Chayes, former NPR Middle East correspondent. After Taliban fall, Chayes launched a Kandahar-based business to deter opium production.
4:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Friday, April 3 & Saturday, April 4 - Spring Symposium
Sexing Money/Racing Capitalism: A Conference on Race, Gender and the Global Economy
Symposium Booklet
Friday, April 3
David Harvey & Jane Collins - Does Capitalism Have a Race and a Gender?
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 4
Panel 1 - The Sex of Money
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Stephanie Seguino, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont, "Towards a Unified Field Theory of Stratification: How Racial and Gender Inequality Stimulate Capitalist Growth"
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Kamala Kempadoo, Professor of Anthropology, York University, "Transactional Sex"
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Lisa Park, University of Minnesota, "Public Charge and the Logic of Late Capitalism: Pregnant Immigrant Women at the Border"
Panel 2 - The Cost of Money
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David Stoll, Middlebury College, "Women in Trouble: Microcredit, Migration and Foreclosure in a Mayan Town in the Western Guatemalan Highlands"
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Laurie Essig, Middlebury College, "American Plastic: A Cultural Economy of Cosmetic Surgery"
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Jose Garcia, Researcher, Demos Institute, "Demystifying the Democratization of Credit: The Role of Gender, Race and Ethnicity"
Panel 3 - The Color of Money
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Bob Prasch, Middlebury College, "Race, Sex, Class and the Presconceptions of Neoclassical Economics"
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Marcellus Andrews, Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, "Capitalism and the Skin Game: An Economist's Meditation on Math, Models and Racism"
Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room, 9:00 - 4:30