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Whiteness and Race into the 21<SUP>st</SUP>
Century<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><FONT color=#ffffff>Professor David
Roediger<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Professor</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceName><B
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Convener: Dr Fiona
Nicoll<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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10 & 11<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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School of English, Media Studies and Art History in association with the
Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland invites you to
participate in a three day master-class for postgraduate and early career
researchers with keynote speakers from the International Conference: <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Whiteness and the Horizons of Race</I> to
address a variety of questions including but not limited to the
following:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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color=#ffffff><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">*** How can our writing do
better justice to the multiple and persistent legacies of policies and practices
of racialisation in </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Australia</SPAN></B></st1:country-region><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">, Asia-Pacific and the
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">United
States</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">? *** What lessons can
Australian researchers draw about historical and current formations of whiteness
and race from those working and writing in different national contexts? ** How
has writing on whiteness and race over the past decade responded to political
attacks on social justice advocacy manifested in the
</SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> ‘culture wars’ and the
Australian ‘history wars’? *** How are racialised interests being re-articulated
in relation to interests of class, sexuality and gender in cultural forms,
national and international policies and everyday practices of global capitalism
in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century? *** How have non-Indigenous historians and
theorists of whiteness and race responded to challenges posed by Indigenous
sovereignty in settler-colonial nations? *** How have established disciplines
such as history, anthropology and psychology shaped understandings of whiteness
and race? *** To what extent do more recent, cross-disciplinary approaches such
as postcolonial studies, queer theory and cultural studies offer new
methodologies and possibilities for alternative understandings? *** Where does
current work on whiteness and race fit into discussions about globalisation and
cultural convergence? *** How has the research and writing of Indigenous and
other academics racialised as non-white challenged and changed whiteness as an
implicit epistemological norm in academic research and writing across a range of
disciplines?</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
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color=#ffffff>Enquiries: f.nicoll@uq.edu.au or
a.tuohy@uq.edu.au<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>