[ecrea] CFP for 2012 ACRAWSA conference

*2012 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Conference*

*/RACIALISING DESIRE/*

*Call for abstracts*

   This conference aims to focus on the imbrication of desire in the
   project of local, national and global forms of racialised
   domination. By taking desire as its starting place, the conference
   aims to problematise how race shapes desire (and desire shapes race)
   in as diverse forms as gender, sexuality, consumerism, identity,
   embodiment, occupation, territory, knowledge and the possessive
   investments that often underpin claims to belonging and indeed
   being. Importantly, the conference will focus on desire within both
   mainstream and marginal communities, and from across borders and
   communities, and draw upon a broad understanding of what constitutes
   ‘desire’. It will also consider the desire for difference.

   200 words abstracts (to be submitted along with a 50 word author
   note) should be emailed to (conference2012 /at/ acrawsa.org.au)
   <mailto:(conference2012 /at/ acrawsa.org.au)> by July 31st 2012.

   Full call for abstracts available at: www.acrawsa.org.au
   <http://www.acrawsa.org.au/>, as well as scholarship information,
   publication opportunities, and accommodation and venue information.

   *Keynote Speakers** *

   */Professor Jasbir Puar/*

   Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

   Professor Puar is the author of /Terrorist Assemblages:
   Homonationalism in Queer Times/ (Duke University Press, 2007), which
   examines connections between contemporary “gay rights” discourse,
   gays and consumerism, the ascendance of whiteness, and Western
   imperialism and the war on terrorism. She is a regular public
   commentator in the mainstream media.

   */Professor David Eng/*

   Program in Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

   Professor Eng is the author of /T//he Feeling of Kinship /(Duke,
   2010), which investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”, as
   seen in the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United
   States, economically through an increasingly visible and
   mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the
   legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy.

   */Dr Rebecca Stringer/*

   Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago

   Dr Stringer's research focuses on the changing gendered meanings of
   victimhood, victimization and agency in neoliberal times. Her
   writings on the Northern Territory intervention appear in
   /borderlands ejournal/ and /Australian Feminist Studies/. With
   Hilary Radner she edited /Feminism at the Movies: Understanding
   Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema /(Routledge, 2011).

   */Dr Sandy O’Sullivan/*

   Wiradjuri Nation*/, /*ARC Senior Indigenous Research Fellow,
   Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

   Dr O'Sullivan's work focuses on alternative dissemination processes
   for Indigenous Australian research. Her 'Reversing the Gaze: An
   Indigenous Perspective on Museums, Cultural Representation and the
   Equivocal Digital Remnant' project explores the capacity of museums
   to incorporate First Peoples' stories, engagement, and
   representations into their programs.

   *When: *11-13 December 2012* **Where: *Adelaide, South Australia

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Dr. Damien W. Riggs MAPS

Senior Lecturer | Social Work and Social Planning | School of Social and 
Policy Studies | Flinders University | GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001

Visiting Research Fellow | School of Psychology | University of 
Adelaide |South Australia 5005

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