The Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale (IRGG) was established at the beginning of the academic year 2004-2005 with the support of the Office of the Provost. The primary goals of the IRGG are to internationalize the undergraduate and graduate curricula and to open scholarly spaces for intellectual and artistic exchange across national borders. For the past 5 years the IRGG has met these goals by developing important links with departments across the university to further interdisciplinarity; by sponsoring scholarly presentations that engage in transnational and interdisciplinary research; and, by drawing scholarly attention to historical processes through which local territorialities tranformed into global structures.
In 2008, the IRGG’s events continued to engage questions concerning the intersectionality of sexuality, race, and gender; diasporicity and post-coloniality; slavery and its extant legacies; the geo-politics of liberal reason; among other important topics. Presenters included scholars such as Deborah Thomas, John Comaroff, Jennifer Morgan, Mark Smith, Darby English, Nikhil P. Singh, and Denise Ferreira da Silva. In 2008, along with the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Department of African American Studies, we also co-sponsored a colloquium on the issue of "Racial Formations." Speakers included scholars such as Paul Gilroy, Alondra Nelson, Charles Briggs, among others. Our 2009 speaker series promises to be as intellectually stimulating as our previous events. The series includes intellectuals such as Bernadine Evaristo, David Scott, among others.
For further details on upcoming events, click the following link: "Events." Also, make sure to click on the following link to read our newsletter IRGG SPOTLIGHT for a recap of the 2008-2009 academic year and to get a sense of what's coming up this year: "IRGG SPOTLIGHT." Lastly, click on the following link to read our previously published newsletters: "Newsletters." Note, you will need Adobe Acrobat reader to open our newsletters.
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