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2006 FALL SYMPOSIUM

Immigration:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives


Friday, November 17th
McGregor Memorial Conference Center
Free and open to the public!

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Keynote Speakers:

T. Alex Aleinikoff
Professor of Law, Executive Vice President of Law Center Affairs, Dean of the Law Center
Georgetown University

Co-author of Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (West Group, 5th ed., 2003)
Author of Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship (Harvard University Press, 2002)

Ali Behdad
Professor of English and Chair of Comparative Writing
University of California, Los Angeles

Author of A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (Duke University Press, 2005)
Author of “National Identity and Immigration: American Polity, Nativism, and the ‘Alien’” in Beyond Dichotomies (ed. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, SUNY Press, 2000)

Wayne State Speakers include:

John J. Bukowczyk, Professor of History

Alfred L. Cobbs, Associate Professor of German

José Cuello, Associate Professor of History

May Seikaly, Chair of Near Eastern and Asian Studies

Mary Cay Sengstock, Professor of Sociology

Anca Vlasopolos, Professor of English

R. Fred Wacker, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Jonathan Weinberg, Professor of Law

co-sponsor:
Center for the Study of Citizenship