Campus Lockdown: Women of Color Negotiating the Academic Industrial Complex

February 24, 2008

CAMPUS LOCKDOWN: Women of Color Negotiating the Academic Industrial Complex
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Saturday, March 15, 2008

The Campus Lockdown conference will center women of color in the academic industrial complex. We will consider its structural constraints, as well as the implications of our scholarship. Please register by 2.29.2008.

speakers

Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside
Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz (via teleconference)
Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of Southern California
Ruthie Gilmore, University of Southern California
Fred Moten, Duke University
Clarissa Rojas, San Francisco State University
Haunani-Kay Trask, University of Hawai’i

goals

In a post-Proposal 2 environment, Campus Lockdown aims to spark a public, re-evaluative conversation on the politics of women of color scholarship at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.

Participants will discuss:

• The relationship between women of color scholarship, and climate, retention, & resources for students and faculty of color.

• The politics of tenure, disciplinary formations, and multiculturalism.

• The relationship between social justice, ethnic/women’s studies, and the academic industrial complex.

• The role of pedagogy and publicly-engaged scholarship in the academic industrial complex.

Campus Lockdown comprises panels and break-out sessions in which participants will explore multiple dimensions of the politics of women of color scholarship, then plan actions to take following the conference.

For detailed conference information, please visit http://woclockdown.org