Four members of the Hamilton College faculty recently returned from the Association of American Colleges and Universities 4th Biennial Diversity and Learning Conference, where they presented. Jinnie Garrett, Chandra Mohanty, Susan Sanchez-Casal, and Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz all participated in the conference, Diversity and Learning: Education for a World Lived in Common, held Oct. 24 - 27, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, professor of women's studies, participated in the plenary session, "Global Citizenship and Transglobal Identities." The scholars, born in four different countries drew on their own scholarship and personal narratives to explore the idea of global citizenship. They asked questions such as: "How has the remapping of the world's boundaries and the massive migrations of people challenged earlier definitions of citizenship and identity?" and "What shifts in intellectual and structural frameworks of knowledge must consequently occur on our campuses?"
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature; Susan Sanchez-Casal, Associate Professor of Spanish; and Jinnie Garrett, Professor of Biology participated in the concurrent session, "Innovative Models of Transformation: From the Grassroots to Multicultural Literacy." They represented the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture in the session which focused on transforming the campus environment to prepare students for an increasingly diverse society.
