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Call for Papers
"Images of Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues"
1st Global Conference
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Oxford (United Kingdom)
12-14 July 2011
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Since the publication of Richard Dyer’s seminal study White in 1997,
academics have increasingly turned critical attention to the subject
of racial whiteness. Publications include historical accounts
detailing the emergence of whiteness as a racial category, cultural
studies exploring the representation and construction of white
identities in popular culture, film and television scholars examining
narratives about white people, reflecting white themes, white
obsessions, and white anxieties.
Consistent with the shift in critical studies from minority identity
formations to consider ‘central’ identities – masculinity,
heterosexuality – the study of whiteness is increasingly understood
as central to understanding the operation of ‘race’ as a form of
social categorisation. Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to
the study of whiteness including media and film studies, performance
and creative writing, cultural theory, sociology, psychology and
medical approaches including cosmetic surgery, and other cognate
areas.
Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on
issues related to any of the following themes:
* Appropriation of racial ‘otherness’ within white culture
* Images of whiteness in serial television
* Histories of white representation in film and television
* Aesthetics of racial whiteness
* Whiteness and multiculturalism
* Performances of/performing ‘whiteness’
* Writing whiteness in fiction/non-fiction
* Whiteness and digital culture including video games
* Fetishisation of whiteness in non-white cultures
* Racial whiteness, fashion and cosmetics industries
* Whiteness and absence, emptiness and death
* The invisibility of whiteness
* Technologies of white representation
* Whiteness, gender and sexuality
* Images of whiteness in non-white cultures
* Theories of whiteness and the concept of white supremacy
* Feminism, queer theory and discourses of whiteness
* Ethnicity, whiteness and consumer culture
* Music and music videos and whiteness
Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 14th January 2011. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 27th May 2011. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in
this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract,
e) body of abstract E-mails should be entitled: Whiteness Abstract
Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as
bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all
paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a
week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be
lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Ewan Kirkland
University of Brighton
Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Colette Balmain
Independent Scholar
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects,
which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It
aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to
share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and
challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference
will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to
go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication
in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/call-for-papers/
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