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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">July 4, 2018, Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">A one-day Symposium to be held at Western Sydney University on the occasion of the visit of Northwestern University African-American studies Professor,
<a href="https://www.afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/alexander-weheliye.html">
Alexander Weheliye</a>, 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
<a href="https://people.unisa.edu.au/Irene.Watson">Irene Watson</a>, University of South Australia, will join Alexander Weheliye in opening and guiding the conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Draft Programme</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Morning coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Welcome to/Acknowledgement of Country<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Morning plenary session:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Alexander Weheliye and Irene Watson, followed by a discussion by
<a href="http://www.sujathafernandes.com/">Sujatha Fernandes</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Afternoon sessions:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Relational blackness in colonial Australia.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/kaiya.aboagye.774.php">Kaiya Aboagye</a>,
<a href="https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/individuals/dr-nikki-moodie">Nikki Moodie</a>, and
<a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/alison.whittaker">Alison Whittaker</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Centering black feminist and queer critiques in discussions of blackness and blakness.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/politics-and-philosophy/our-staff/profile?uname=CDCruz">Carolyn D’Cruz</a>,
<a href="https://unimelb.academia.edu/ToddFernando">Todd Fernando</a>, and <a href="https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/structure/faculty-of-arts-business-and-law/staff/associate-professor-sandy-osullivan">
Sandy O’Sullivan</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Responses to the day from Alexander Wehliye and Irene Watson and concluding discussion led by
<a href="https://latrobe.academia.edu/YassirMorsi">Yassir Morsi</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">The symposium is supported by the
<a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/humanities_communication_arts/hca">School of Humanities and Communication Arts of Western Sydney University</a> and the <a href="https://acrawsa.org.au/">Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Full event description on the <a href="https://acrawsa.org.au/event/thinking-relationally-about-race-blackness-and-indigeneity-in-australia/">
ACRAWSA website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Register to participate
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/thinking-relationally-about-race-blackness-and-indigeneity-in-australia-tickets-46141819424">
here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Full programme and abstracts to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">There is no registration fee for the symposium but participants are requested to
<a href="https://acrawsa.org.au/product/acrawsa-membership/">join</a> the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association if not already members.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">ALANA LENTIN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Associate Professor of Cultural & Social Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">President of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association (2017-19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Member of the Institute for Culture and Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><a href="mailto:a.lentin@uws.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">a.lentin@westernsydney.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Western Sydney University, Bankstown Campus, Room 1.G.67<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">I live and work on land stolen from Aboriginal peoples of the Eora Nation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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