[csaa-forum] ACRAWSA Symposium: Thinking Relationally about Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia

[Alana Lentin]

July 4, 2018, Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus.

A one-day Symposium to be held at Western Sydney University on the occasion of the visit of Northwestern University African-American studies Professor, Alexander Weheliye<https://www.afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/alexander-weheliye.html>, to Sydney. The Symposium centres around the affordances of Weheliye’s core ideas of racializing assemblages for relational understandings of race, blackness and indigeneity in Australia. Professor Irene Watson<https://people.unisa.edu.au/Irene.Watson>, University of South Australia, will join Alexander Weheliye in opening and guiding the conversation.

Draft Programme
Morning coffee
Welcome to/Acknowledgement of Country

Morning plenary session:
Alexander Weheliye and Irene Watson, followed by a discussion by Sujatha Fernandes<http://www.sujathafernandes.com/>.
Lunch

Afternoon sessions:
Relational blackness in colonial Australia.
Kaiya Aboagye<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/kaiya.aboagye.774.php>, Nikki Moodie<https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/individuals/dr-nikki-moodie>, and Alison Whittaker<https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/alison.whittaker>

Centering black feminist and queer critiques in discussions of blackness and blakness.
Carolyn D’Cruz<https://www.latrobe.edu.au/politics-and-philosophy/our-staff/profile?uname=CDCruz>, Todd Fernando<https://unimelb.academia.edu/ToddFernando>, and Sandy O’Sullivan<https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/structure/faculty-of-arts-business-and-law/staff/associate-professor-sandy-osullivan>

Responses to the day from Alexander Wehliye and Irene Watson and concluding discussion led by Yassir Morsi<https://latrobe.academia.edu/YassirMorsi>.

The symposium is supported by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts of Western Sydney University<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/humanities_communication_arts/hca> and the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association<https://acrawsa.org.au/>

Full event description on the ACRAWSA website<https://acrawsa.org.au/event/thinking-relationally-about-race-blackness-and-indigeneity-in-australia/>.
Register to participate here<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/thinking-relationally-about-race-blackness-and-indigeneity-in-australia-tickets-46141819424>

Full programme and abstracts to follow.

There is no registration fee for the symposium but participants are requested to join<https://acrawsa.org.au/product/acrawsa-membership/> the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association if not already members.

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ALANA LENTIN
Associate Professor of Cultural & Social Analysis
President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-19)
Member of the Institute for Culture and Society

a.lentin at westernsydney.edu.au<mailto:a.lentin at uws.edu.au>
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