Race, Representation & Cultural Identity Conference

Race, Representation & Cultural Identity Research Group: ‘Postcolonial Ethnicity, Visuality and Cultural Politics Conference’ Friday 27th February 2009

Throughout 2009, the Race, Representation & Cultural Identity Research Group in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies is hosting a series of events, under the title of Postcolonial Ethnicity, Visuality & Cultural Politics. These events aim to bring diverse disciplinary approaches to the overlapping and interlocking problematics of postcoloniality, ethnicity, visuality, and related issues of cultural politics, such as those associated with migration, globality, class, gender and sexuality. The first event is a day conference on 27^th February, Bute Building, Cardiff University, CF10 3NB.

 

The event is free. All Welcome. A provisional timetable is below:

 

Friday 27th February.	Speaker	Title
11.00 – 11.30	Paul Bowman (Cardiff University)	Welcome & Intro: Postcolonial Ethnicity, Visuality and Cultural Politics
11.30 – 12.30	Ben Pitcher (Middlesex University)	Race and Racism after Anti-Racism
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 14.30	Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Newcastle University)	Looking Emotionally: Photography, Racism and Intimacy in Research
14.30 – 15.00	Nasheli Jiménez Del Val (Cardiff University)	Pinturas de casta: Mexican caste paintings, a Foucauldian Reading
15.00 – 15.15
15.15 – 16.15	Birgit Breninger & Thomas Kaltenbacher (Salzburg University)	Tracking the Cultural Gaze: Acquired Acts of Looking and Learned Plots of Identities in Austria
16.15 – 16.30
16.30-17.00	Corbett Miteff (Cardiff University)	Looking through Ethnic Eyes And Finding Global Animation
17.00-18.30	Martin McQuillan (Leeds University)	Deconstructing Disney, Part II

 

For further information, contact Paul Bowman: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk