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Lecture by Dr. Nolan Cabrera

October 2, 2018 – 1:11 pm

Appropriating the Master’s Tools: Critical Quant Analyses and the Fight For Ethnic Studies

In the summer of 2010, the state of Arizona passed a law banning the teaching of Mexican American Studies in Tucson Unified School District. This presentation will explore the role that critical quantitative analyses played in defending the program all the way through the recently decided Federal case. It will also provide insights into the ethnic studies renaissance currently underway nationally as inspired by the struggle in Tucson. Dr. Cabrera was one of three academic expert witnesses for the plaintiffs in Tucson Unified Mexican American Studies case (Arce v. Douglas).

 

Nolan Cabrera is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

Thursday, October 11th @ 11:30am-12:45pm | UMass Amherst Furcolo 101

*Professional development with Ethnic Studies teachers and students on Thursday, October 11th, 4-5:30pm, at Holyoke High School Library (500 Beech St, Holyoke, MA 01040)

*Book talk and dialogue on Friday, October 12th, 10-11:15am, Furcolo N113

Video of the Cabrera Lecture will be available soon. 

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Lecture by Dr. Ezekiel Dixon-Román

September 4, 2018 – 12:57 pm

Critical Theory and Quantification

If post-truth political discourse might be characterized by a play on affective predispositions and bodily responses of old beliefs that re-appear as new, then we might understand post-truth as a play on the ‘error’ of quantitative instrumental reason. This paper will rethink the instrumentality of quantitative social science reason via a new materialist reconceptualizing of ‘error’, the stochastic term, and the randomness of quantitative modeling. Not only is this necessary for developing a critical theory of quantification but also to move toward a sharper understanding and critique of the affective play of post-truth political discourse.

 

Ezekiel Dixon-Román is Associate Professor and Chair of the Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate Program in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday, September 20, 2018 @ 11:30am-12:45pm | UMass Amherst Furcolo 101

Video of the Dixon-Román Lecture will be available soon. 

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