Engaging and Articulating ‘Race’: Historical Encounters with Race and Racialization
In September 2009, a group of graduate students from the history department began meeting to discuss questions of ‘race’ and difference in their various areas of historical study. From this reading group, called the Race and Ethnicity Reading Group (RERG), emerged the idea of organizing a graduate student conference focused on historicizing notions of ‘race’ and processes of racialization. A Graduate Student Organizing Committee, with the support of faculty, decided to host a graduate student symposium, entitled Engaging and Articulating ‘Race’: Historical Encounters with Race and Racialization, in June of 2010. Our primary objective for this conference is to promote historically grounded research at the graduate level from both Canadian and international perspectives on the topic of ‘race’ and racialization.
The first Engaging and Articulating ‘Race’ Symposium focused on themes related to historical processes of race, racialization, and ethnicity. The conference provides a forum for graduate students to share and discuss their recent work on this topic.
The 2010 conference has passed, but you can find the call for papers here: Call for Papers 2010. Additional details can be found on the conference website, located here, including the 2010 conference schedule and pictures from this year's event.