August Conference on Best Practices for Improving Ethnic Relations
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At the University of Denver on August 19-21, 2004, a conference will be held called "Building Constructive Frameworks for Improving Ethnic Relations: Best Practices Here and Abroad 50 Years After Brown". This small, intimate conference presents an opportunity to consider what has been achieved and where interventions have fallen short, to learn and dialogue across fields, and to consider charting a new course.
Encouraged to attend are practitioners in race and ethnic relations, administrators of educational, community, and organizational programs addressing race and ethnic relations, as well as social scientists and legal theorists interested in the practice of improving race and ethnic relations. Click below to read the full announcement.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that ?“separate but equal?” educational programs were illegal. As a result, the United States embarked on the largest experiment ever implemented in structured social change.
Fifty years later, race and ethnic relations are still challenging us, both in the U.S. and abroad. How successful have interventions been? What lessons have we learned about the structures and conditions needed for constructive change in intergroup relations? What new evidence and new models may exist for bridging interpersonal and policy changes?
This small and intimate conference presents an opportunity to consider what has been achieved and where interventions have fallen short, to learn and dialogue across fields, and to consider charting a new course. Panels will include a creative mixture of social scientists, legal scholars, and race & ethnic relations practitioners addressing topics of history, critique, context, and new thinking. Application will be made to educational, organizational, community, and international ethnic conflict settings. Poster sessions will allow attending practitioner organizations to display their models and approaches. Thomas F. Pettigrew, UC Santa Cruz, a prominent intergroup relations researcher, will open the conference with a keynote address on ?“Justice Delayed: 50 Years after Brown.?” The evening banquet keynote by john powell, Ohio State University, an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law, will provide wisdom and perspective.
Who Should Attend?
Practitioners in race and ethnic relations, administrators of educational, community, and organizational programs addressing race and ethnic relations, as well as social scientists and legal theorists interested in the practice of improving race and ethnic relations.
Please join us. For more information, visit http://www.du.edu/con-res/conference.html, or contact 303-871-7685 or .
This event is co-sponsored by the University of Denver?’s Conflict Resolution Program, College of Law, Vice Provost for Research, Center for Multicultural Excellence, and the H. R. Luce Foundation.
