Open Conference at Bard College

"Confronting the 'Race Doesn't Matter!' Moment: Rethinking Race after Obama"
Saturday, April 25
12-8pm @ Avery Auditorium (at Bard College)

Sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office, Anti-Racist Dialogue, and the Queer Straight Alliance at Bard. An intertwining focus of the conference will be surrounding questions of sexual identity and race. There will also be performances and entertainment after the conference.
Here is the schedule for the conference. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact Julian Letton at jletton@gmail.com, who is a Bard student involved with the main planning and implementing of this conference.

Saturday, April 25
12-1pm - Reception (with complimentary lunch for conference attendees)

1-2:30pm - Keynote Speech and Q&A with Kendall Thomas, Director of the Columbia University Center for Law and Culture. (Thomas is a queer critical legal theorist with a specialty in race, feminism, and gender law)

2:30-3pm - coffee/cookie break

3-5pm - PANEL: Pop Culture, Politics, and the Personal: Confronting the "Race Doesn't Matter!" Moment. Panel members include: Kalup Linzy, DJ Rapture, Kendall Thomas, Baratunde Thurston, and Binyavanga Wainaina.

5-6pm - Dinner (requires complimentary conference ticket)

6-8pm - PANEL: Race After the "Post-Racial": De Factor vs. De Jure in Public Space (Law, History, Architecture) Panel members include Jesse Shipley, Tabetha Ewing, Ashwini Sukthankar, Michael Tan, and Mitch McEwen.

8pm - ? - After Conference Entertainment (Campus Center MPR)
with Kalup Linzy, DJ Rapture, Sienna Horton, and others