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Interdisciplinary RoundtablesCrossing Boundaries/Crossing Cultures: Identity, Ethnicity, and BorderlandsTuesday, January 24th, 2012 4:10 - 5:30 pm Room: 302 Catt Hall Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has expanded in the area of migration, borderlands, and local identity vis-a-vis large-scale state structures or empires. This roundtable highlights the work of ISU faculty who come to this academic arena from a variety of interdisciplinary methodological and geo-political analytical frameworks. Participants will look at literary and cultural derivatives of ethnicity in Central America, ethnic tensions in the southwest of the US, borderland disputes in East Asia and Latin America, and the politics of culture in SE Europe. Participants: Brian Behnken, Assist. Prof., History Xiaoyuan Liu, Professor, History Eliza Rizo, Assist. Prof., World Languages and Cultures Max Viatori, Assist. Prof., Anthropology Zora Zimmerman, Assoc. Dean of LAS, English
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