Humanities or Human Resources?

Humanities or Human Resources?
The Future of Ethnic Studies and Labor
in the Corporate University

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2007
9:30AM-5:30PM
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS
41 EAST 11TH STREET 7TH FLOOR
NEW YORK NY 10003

As corporate models of management and decision-making
take hold of more and more colleges and universities, 
a growing number of students, faculty and staff are
facing threats to ethnic studies programs, assaults on the 
integrity of academic decision-making, and the casualization of the
university labor force. Through analyses of funding,
diversity, disciplinarity, labor movements, and struggles
over area studies programs, this conference will recast
and address questions of race, gender, sexuality,
ability, nation and class in relation to what
has been termed the corporate university.

KEYNOTE
Dr. George Sanchez,
Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity,
University of Southern California

SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Joe Berry, Adjunct Labor Education Specialist
and Program Developer, Chicago Labor Education Program
at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ashley Dawson, Associate Professor of English, 
CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island

Cate Fallon , Adjunct instructor in Photography and Imaging,
Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and Recording Secretary 
for ACT-UAW Local 7902

Penny Lewis, Co-chair of the PSC/CUNY's Solidarity Committee 
and Adjunct instructor in Social Science,
Borough of Manhattan Community College

Randy Martin, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program 
in Arts Politics, Department of Art and Public Policy,
Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Ali Zaidi, Assistant Professor of Spanish, CUNY

FILM SCREENING, 5:00pm
"I'm on Strike Because..." (21 min) Directed by Steve Fletcher, 
PhD student in American Studies

SPONSORED BY
The Program in American Studies, GSCO/UAW Local 2110, 
& the Department of Performance Studies at NYU

KINDLY RSVP
Please send an email with your name, affiliation,
and contact information to:
corporate.conference@gmail.com  .

For more information, please visit
http://corporateuniversityconference.blogspot.com  .

The conference is free and open to the public.