Cardiff: Race, Representation and Cultural Identity

 

 

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 was a day conference on 27^th February 2009. Speakers and papers included:

 

·         Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) “All the girlies say I’m pretty fly for a white guy”: Coercive Mimeticism & Cultural Studies

·         Ben Pitcher (Middlesex University) Race and Racism after Anti-Racism

·         Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Newcastle University) Looking Emotionally: Photography, Racism and Intimacy in Research

·         Nasheli Jiménez Del Val (Cardiff University) Pinturas de casta: Mexican caste paintings, a Foucauldian Reading

·         Birgit Breninger & Thomas Kaltenbacher (Salzburg University) Tracking the Cultural Gaze: Acquired Acts of Looking and Learned Plots of Identities in Austria

·         Corbett Miteff (Cardiff University) Looking through Ethnic Eyes And Finding Global Animation

·         Martin McQuillan (Leeds University) Deconstructing Disney, Part II

 

 

The second event will be a day conference, on Friday 29^th May, 2009, in Bute Building, Cardiff University. Speakers include:

 

• Karima Laachir (SOAS): Postcolonial cinema in the Arab World
• Kay Dickinson (Goldsmiths): Arab Cinema Travels
• Ipshita Ghose (Kent): Re-envisioning Bombay: Cinema and the Politics of Flanerie in the Postcolonial City
• Bernhard Gross (Cardiff): The voice of Asylum Seekers on British television news
• Elisa Wynne-Hughes (Bristol): Life Before Tourism: Producing the Tourist
• Nina Power (Roehampton): Women made Boring: the Problems of Representing Women in the 21^st Century
• Dot Rowe (Bristol): Diasporic Futures: Women, Art and Globalization
• Adrian Rifkin (Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths)

 

 

 

Two further events are currently planned for 2009. The first is likely to focus on literature, and will happen in Autumn (October). The second is likely to focus on ‘Cultural Translation’ and will happen in December.