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The Universal Races Congress of 1911
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 09:30am - 05:00pm
THE UNIVERSAL RACES CONGRESS OF 1911
Utopian Internationalism at the Dawn of a Bloody Century
As the culmination of a year long collaborative project, The Center for Race and Ethnicity (CRE) and The Rutgers British Studies Center (RBSC) announce a day long symposium onApril 24, 2015, "The Universal Races Congress of 1911: Utopian Internationalism at the Dawn of a Bloody Century." The symposium features keynotes by Arnulf Becker Lorca (Brown University); Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Alice Conklin (Ohio State) along with short workshop papers on "The Geopolitics of Representing Race" and "Southern Questions, Race Crossings."
9:30am Welcome and Light Breakfast
10:00am -11:00am KEYNOTE Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University "Races Coming Closer Through International Law? Schücking at the Universal Races Congress"
11:00am - 12:30pm PANEL I Kyle McCauley, Stéphane Robolin, Tanya Agathocleous and Nancy Neary, Kate Sorrell "The Geopolitics of Representing Race"
12:30pm - 1:30pm LUNCH
1:30pm - 2:30pm KEYNOTE Marina Mogilner, University of Illinois Chicago "Early Languages of Post-Imperial Globalization: The Russian Universal Races Congress Moment"
2:30pm - 3:30pm PANEL II Seth Koven, Rhiannon Noel Welch, Mia Bay, and Grace Howard "Southern Questions, Race Crossings"
3:30pm - 4:30pm KEYNOTE Alice Conklin, Ohio State University "'In the Light of Science and Modern Conscience': Contested Anthropology at the 1911 Universal Races Congress"
4:30pm - 5:00pm Final Thoughts and Future Plans
A Collaborative Project of the Center for Race and Ethnicity and the Rutgers British Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies
