Academic Workshops
Race Workshops
“Conversations on Mestizaje, Transculturation, and Anti-Black Racism in Latin America”
March 24, 2021
This special workshop brought together scholars to discuss this important topic.
Race and Antisemitism: Contemporary Global Perspectives
September 24, 2020
This special workshop brought together scholars to discuss this important topic.
Watch a recording of the Race and Antisemitism workshop.
The Universal Idea of Race, Semiotic Commerce and Vernacular Occurrences
February 10, 2019
The Ackerman Center hosted a workshop with both UT Dallas professors and visiting scholars.
- Opening remarks: Dr. Nils Roemer, Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor of Holocaust Studies
- Pedro Gonzalez (UT Dallas), Manufacturing Race: Racial Technologies in Mexico, Building Blocks of a Modern Nation-State.”
- Dr. Yael Siman (Iberoamericana University), “Race, Mestizaje, and Antisemitism: Political and Social Experiences of Holocaust Survivors in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s”
- Dr. Whitney Stewart (UT Dallas), “Racializing the American Home: Home-Making on James Madison’s Montpelier Plantation”
Racism and the Disciplinary Differentiation of Science and Philosophy
May 17, 2018
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th Annual Conference on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, which sought to explore the interplay between human, ethical, cultural, and political values, on the one hand, and science, technology, engineering, and medical research and practice, on the other hand. More details on the Racism and the Disciplinary Differentiation of Science and Philosophy conference.
Philosophers and Race Workshop
September 24, 2017, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Jonsson Academic Center, Room 3.516
Please join scholars as they gather for a day of presentations and public discussion of their research on particular philosophers and their thinking about race. The presentations will feature Asian American, Latin American, French and German philosophers.
Visiting scholars: Demetrius L. Eudell (Wesleyan University), Emily S. Lee (CSU Fullerton)
From UT Dallas: Charles Hatfield, Peter Park, Nils Roemer, and Shilyh Warren.
Workshop on Anti-Semitism
October 11, 2017
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy and the former Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Antisemitism, met with graduate students to discuss the current state of research into the subject of anti-Semitism.