[ecrea] CFP: Future Stories/Intimate Histories Symposium

>Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association
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>Future Stories/Intimate Histories Symposium
>
>Adelaide, 10 December 2010
>
>Call for Papers and Save the Date
>
>The meanings of race and whiteness are constantly under re/construction in
>the stories we tell about the past and the future, all the more so in times
>of flux where economies, national borders and political leadership are under
>redefinition every day.   As yesterday becomes history and tomorrow ever
>more volatile, story becomes a means of understanding where we are in terms
>of both where we have come from and where we might be going.  Story has also
>long been a means of understanding relations between history and personal
>experience, and hence a site where the inextricability of racialised
>structures and lived experience can be explored, albeit often in the context
>of racialised struggles over knowledge and speaking positions.   In this
>symposium we seek to talk about what such times of change mean for the
>critical race and whiteness studies project of transforming the racialised
>structures within which we live, and what role stories can play in our
>imaginings.  What potentials can we find in our stories of the past and the
>future?  What is old or new about current stories of race?  What stories are
>heard and what should be heard?  What still can't be told?
>
>  With these questions in mind, ACRAWSA, now in its seventh year, is calling
>for abstract submissions for two roundtables to be held as part of its 2010
>Symposium on the theme of Future Stories/Intimate Histories. This one day
>event, to be convened in the beautiful State Library building on North
>Terrace, Adelaide, will include
>
>  *      Keynote speaker:  Associate Professor Jennifer Rutherford author of
>The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan, and the White Australia Fantasy
>*       Key Thinkers panel featuring Professor Margaret Allen, Dylan
>Coleman, and Jared Thomas
>
>The symposium will also include two roundtable discussions, where 4
>presenters in each roundtable will be allocated a maximum of 10 minutes to
>very briefly outline their current research project or interests, and then
>all attendees will join in a discussion of the ideas presented. Abstract
>submissions that relate to the symposium focus outlined above are invited
>for inclusion in one of these two roundtables. Topics might include:
>
>*       Futures of race and whiteness
>*       The future of whiteness studies
>*       Changing definitions of race and racism
>*       Borders and the future
>*       Personal experience and race
>*       Family history and race
>*       Race and relationships
>*       Race, whiteness and life narrative
>*       Relations between 'story' and 'theory'
>*       The positioning of Indigenous and/or white stories &storytellers
>
>We also welcome abstracts on topics from within critical race and whiteness
>studies more broadly, though preference will be given to abstracts that in
>some way relate to the symposium theme. Abstracts (200 words max) should be
>emailed to Damien Riggs along with a 50 word bionote by August 15th 2010 to
>(damien.riggs /at/ flinders.edu.au)
>
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>
>Where: Institute Room, State Library, Corner of Kintore Avenue and North
>Terrace, Adelaide.
>When: Friday December 10, 9.30-5pm
>Cost: Free for ACRAWSA members, $25 for non-members (or sign up on the
>day) and $15 concession.
>Lunch, morning and afternoon tea are provided.
>RSVP: (damien.riggs /at/ flinders.edu.au)  by December 1st for catering purposes
>
>
>Dr Anna Szorenyi
>Lecturer, Gender, Work & Social Inquiry
>School of Social Sciences
>University of Adelaide
>SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5005
>(anna.szorenyi /at/ adelaide.edu.au)
>


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