Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time: 4:00pm–5:30pm
Location: E51-145
Speaker: Paul Watanabe, Melissa Nobles, Ken Oye
Description:
Speaker: Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and associate professor of Political Science at U Mass Boston. He was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to the U.S. Census Bureau Advisory Committee on the Asian population. He regularly contributes to national and local television, radio, and newspapers.
Commentator: Melissa Nobles, associate professor of Political Science at MIT. Her Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics examines political origins and effects of racial categorization in US and Brazil censuses. Her book won the 2001 Book Award of National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Moderator: Kenneth Oye, Political Science & Engineering Systems, MIT.
Open to: General public
Sponsored by: Political Science Department, Center for International Studies, New England Japanese American Citizens
For more information:
oye@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology