Transnationalism, gender, popular culture in the Americas and globalization will be among the areas to be explored at a two-day conference Thursday, May 15, and Friday, May 16, at the University of California, Davis. Hosted by the UC Davis Native American studies department, the conference is titled "Coloring the Humanities: (Inter)Disciplinary/Intertribal Discourses." Distinguished and leading scholars in African and African American, American, Asian American, Chicana/o and Native American studies will participate in the conference discussions. The conference will be held in the Rec Pool Lodge. Participants will explore the points of convergence and contention between the diverse perspectives existing in the various fields of study, say conference co-organizers Inés Hernández-Ávila, chair of the Native American studies department, and Stefano Varese, a professor in the same department. Conference sessions include a panel discussion by four UC Davis faculty artists -- George Longfish, Malaquias Montoya, Baochi Zhang and Mike Henderson; literary readings by UC Davis faculty members Clarence Major, Michelle Yeh, Jack Forbes, Inés Hernández-Ávila and Roberto Calderón; and a roundtable discussion of popular culture in the Americas, with UC Davis faculty members Rosa Linda Fregoso, Pat Turner and Darrell Hamamoto, and C.N. Gorman Museum curator Theresa Harlan, as panelists. Other UC Davis faculty members who will particpate in the conference include professors Jacob Olupona, John Stewart, Stefano Varese, Belinda Robnett and Victor Montejo. Additional conference speakers hail from other UC campuses as well as Cornell University and the University of Arizona. The conference will open with a public reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the C.N. Gorman Museum, located in 1316 Hart Hall. Each day of the conference will begin with coffee and registration at 8 a.m., with all conference sessions on Thursday and Friday to be held at the Rec Pool Lodge. Presentations will begin at 9 a.m. with lunch and dinner breaks. The conference is sponsored by the Native American studies department; the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine; the Office of Affirmative Action and Diversity; the Cross-Cultural Center; the dean's office, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; the Chicana/Latina Research Center, the Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship Project; Asian American studies; Chicana/o studies; African and African-American studies; and the Women's Resource and Research Center.