Conference on Xenophobia & Racism at the University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco's Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a series of events and a conference featuring the visiting scholar Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center). Information about these events can be found by following this link. USF Philosophy Department Conference on “Xenophobia and Racism” Friday, February 24, and Saturday, February 25, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Lone Mountain 100. The speakers include: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center), “Occupying Whiteness without Xenophobia” Alia Al-Saji (McGill University): “Cultural racism or Xenophobia? The racialization of Muslim veiling" Jorge Aquino (USF): Manufacturing the Other of 21st Century White Supremacism Xenophobia Redux as Conventional Electoral Politics Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston): “Racialist and Culturalist Discourses: On Thomas McCarthy’s Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development” Eduardo Mendieta (SUNY, Stonybrook): The Somatology of Xenophobia: Towards a Biopolitical Analysis of Disgust and Hate Kyoo Lee (CUNY, John Jay College): What is Xenoracism?—To Learn More from Benjamin Franklin, “the First American” Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts, ! Boston): State Xenophobia, National Identity and (Sacred) Secularism Jaideep Singh (CSU, East Bay): A New American Apartheid: Racialized, Religious Minorities in the Post-9/11 Era Ronald R. Sundstrom (USF): Sheltering Xenophobia Cynthia Willett (Emory University): Going to Bed White and Waking up Arab: On Xenophobia, Affect Theories of Laughter, and the Social Contagion of the Comic Stage (coauthors: Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett) This conference is sponsored by generosity of the Mortimer Fleishhacker Fund for Philosophy at USF. The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Prof. Sundstrom: rrsundstrom@usfca.edu