Images of Whiteness - Exploring Critical Issues
Tuesday 12th – Thursday 14th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers
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: ekirklanduk@yahoo.co.uk
Colette Balmain
Independent Scholar
United Kingdom
E-mail: cb@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: white@inter-disciplinary.net
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/
Enquiries: white@inter-disciplinary.net
Web address:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/call-for-papers/
Sponsored by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net
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