[Discussion] After 9/11

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After 9/11: New UO Symposium on Racism and Militarism
on May 15, Saturday

The Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Oregon will hold a
one-day symposium on citizenship, racism and militarism on May 15,
Saturday, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Ben Linder Room in the EMU
building.
The symposium After 9/11: The New Militarism and the Question of
Belonging, features established and new scholars in the fields of ethnic
studies, gender, and postcolonial studies, who will examine the
post-9/11 moment as a period of new racisms against immigrants, gendered
militarism, the apparent threat of American
fascism and critical resistance to surveillance and repression. Keynote
speakers for the symposium are feminist sociologist Kum-Kum Bhavnani
from UC Santa Barbara and postcolonial theorist Moustafa Bayoumi
from Brooklyn College.

Debates across the nation confirm what some Ethnic Studies scholars have
argued - that September 11 has shaken the stability and coherence of
America in ways that surpass the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War
and the social movements of that time. The scholars will present their
studies on the human cost of the War on Terror, the PATRIOT Act, and the
incarceration
and deportation of immigrants. The symposium features a film screening
of Jason DaSilva's new documentary Lest We Forget (2004), on the
incarceration of Arab immigrants and the alarming parallels to the
history of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The symposium is free and open to the public. The symposium is sponsored
by the University of Oregon's Ethnic Studies Program in cooperation with
the Multicultural Center Ed Coleman Series, the Coalition
Against Environmental Racism, the Center for Diversity and Community and
the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

For details, please contact the symposium organizers - Nerissa Balce
(541) 346-0905 and Fiona Ng=F4 at (541) 346-6160.

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Program
After 9/11:
The New Militarism and the Question of Belonging

University of Oregon
May 15 Saturday
9 am - 6 pm Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union

The events of September 11, 2001 have shaken the stability and coherence
of the United States in ways that surpass the tumultuous period of the
Vietnam War
and the social movements of that era. This one-day symposium features
established and new scholars in the fields of ethnic, gender, and
postcolonial studies who will examine the post-9/11 moment as a period
of new racisms, gendered militarism, repressive surveillance, and the
threat of American fascism.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, UC Santa Barbara
Passion for Peace: Third World Women Making Change

Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) A
Bloody Stupid War

PANEL ON HISTORY AND ETHNIC COMMUNITIES
Robyn Rodriguez (UC Berkeley) and Peter Chua (San Jose State University)
Whose Words?: Filipino Immigrant Workers Speak on Citizenship, Labor and
Justice

Nina Ha (Ohio State University)
The Patriot Act in Asian America: Challenges,
Complicities and Resistances

Mariam Beevi L=E2m (UC Riverside)
Historical Memory and Trauma from the
Vietnamese-American Conflict to 9/11 and Beyond

Irum Shiekh (UC Berkeley)
New Racisms, New Imprisonment Camps: The 9th Floor of the Metropolitan
Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York

Moderated by Fiona Ng=F4 (U of Oregon)

FILM SCREENING AND FORUM  - Ben Linder Room Chi -hui Yang, director of
the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival  Screening
of Jason DaSilva's documentary Lest We Forget (2004)

Moderated by Martin Summers (U of Oregon)

Nerissa S. Balce
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Oregon
<nerissab@sbcglobal.net>