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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Whiteness
and the Horizons of Race 7-9 December 2005<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
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conference hosted by the Australian Studies Centre, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1
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w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
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Keynote Speaker:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Professor David
Roediger.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Professor
Roediger is currently Chair, the Department of History, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Illinois</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>His current research is on immigration and racial
formation in </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. He has written extensively on
whiteness, race and class. Professor Roediger’s forthcoming book is entitled <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Working toward Whiteness: How American
Immigrants became White</I> <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">(May
2005).</I> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">National
Keynote Speakers:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Dr
Suvendrini Perea. </SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Dr
Perera is based in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin
University of Technology. She has published widely on a range of issues
including race, ethnicity and multiculturalism and her current research
interests are in histories of coexistence in multiracial societies. She is
author of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Reaches of
Empire(1991).<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
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<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Marilyn</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceName></SPAN></B></st1:place><B
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<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Marilyn</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceName></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US
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is Professor of History at La Trobe University, where she currently holds a
Professorial Research Fellowship researching the gendered and racial identity of
the colonial white man.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She has
published widely on subjects ranging from republicanism to sexuality and race.
Her most recent book is entitled <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Faith:
Faith Bandler Gentle Activist(2002).<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Race
and Whiteness are inextricably connected to the formation and politics of modern
nation states and the communities which inhabit their territories, shaping
identity, gender, class, representation, subjectivity, nationalism and
institutions such as the law. At this<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">
</B>time in world history and global politics questions about race and whiteness
require critical investigation and engagement. The conference will provide a new
intellectual space to investigate their nature and
morphology.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">For
historical and other reasons whiteness and race have seldom been subject to
critical scrutiny.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The current
political moment presents new opportunities and imperatives to do so in a
constructive and informed spirit. As Ghassan Hage notes ‘we Australians are
witnessing what is perhaps the most successful project of white Restoration ever
witnessed in the West’. An academic conference on the historical, gendered,
social, political, cultural, economic and discursive constructions of race and
whiteness can make an important contribution to broader public debates. It
provides the opportunity to examine popular understandings of race and whiteness
and to evaluate the ways in which current and historical debates have taken and
are taking shape.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0cm"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">This
conference is an interdisciplinary project and we welcome contributions from
sociologists, social anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists,
educationalists, economists, literary scholars, legal scholars, media scholars,
philosophers, historians, feminists, Indigenous, multicultural, Australian,
postcolonial and cultural studies scholars.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><FONT
size=3>Abstracts: 500 word abstracts due 31st July. Please email abstracts to
m.barton@uq.edu.au<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Venue:
Rydge’s Hotel, Southbank, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Brisbane</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Convener:
Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Organising
Committee: Dr David Carter, Dr Fiona Nicoll, Dr Maryrose Casey and Ms Marilyn
Barton<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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