The future of ethnic studies at Yale will be the focus of a conference taking place on campus on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Titled "ETHNY2K: Ethnic Studies in the 21st Century," the program will be held in Rm. 119 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is sponsored by the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration (ERM) at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the Student Coalition for Diversity.

First introduced in 1997, the ERM program will graduate its first majors this spring. This conference is designed to bring together faculty and students to consider new directions for ethnic studies during the 21st century at Yale and across the country.

The first talk, "The State of Latino Studies," will be presented at 10:30 a.m. by David Montejano of the University of Texas at Austin, author of "Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century." At 1 p.m., there will be a talk on "Race Under-Representation" by Lisa Lowe of the University of California at San Diego, author of "Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics." Yale professors Jace Weaver and Vilashini Cooppan will offer responses to the speakers.

This will be followed at 3 p.m. by a panel of Yale graduate and undergraduate students from the ERM program and the Student Coalition for Diversity. They will address the question: "Is there a future for ethnic studies at Yale?"

The conference is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.

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