New Perspectives in Race Theory

I've organized a small conference of new work in analytic race theory at the University of San Francisco.  The conference will be held on April 25 - 26, 2008.  It is free and open to the public.  More information can be found at:  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/rrsundstrom/NPRT.html

The presenters, and the titles of their presentations, are:

Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal),  "Race, moral ills and emotions: for a finer texturing of emotions underlying racial ills"

Eduard Machery (University of Pittsburgh),  "The Folk Concept of Race"

Ron Mallon (University of Utah),  "Beyond Non-Essentialism and Toward a New Standard Anti-Racialist Argument"

Quayshawn Spencer (Stanford University),  "Is Cladistic Race a Genuine Kind?"

Paul Taylor (Temple University), “The Racial Stance: Pragmatism and Post-Analytic Race Theory”

Mark Risjord (Emory University), "Race and Social Role"

Julie Shulman (Alliant International University) and Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington),  "Is Race-Thinking Biological, Social, or Something Else, and Does It Matter for Racism?  An Exploratory Study”

Michael Root (University of Minnesota),  "The Use of Racial Categories in the Social and Biomedical Sciences"

Yolonda Wilson (Duke University),  "BiDil and the Ethics of Racialized Medicine"

Keynote: Sally Haslanger (MIT), "Race, Gender and Ideology Critique"