The Harvard University Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights hosts a monthly series of informal conversations with faculty from Harvard and beyond to consider the methodological contributions that ethnic and indigenous studies make across the academic disciplines. The series is based in the understanding that "ethnic and indigenous studies" to refer to scholarship that analyzes the production of differences based on race, ethnicity, and nation in their relationships to sexuality, gender, religion, and more. This year's Approaches series features scholars whose work demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinarity to these inquiries.

The 2019-2020 series will begin with on September 24th with a talk by Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and African and African American Studies. A specialist in African American culture and a prominent scholar in the field of race and sexuality studies, Reid-Pharr has published four books: Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999); Black, Gay, Man: Essays (NYU Press, 2001); and Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (NYU Press, 2007).