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The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (UQ-St Lucia, Brisbane; 24-26 November 2004)

WEDNESDAY - 24 November - DAY ONE

From 9.00REGISTRATION (Foyer, Forgan-Smith)

10.15-10.30

Conference Opening:

Room E302

  • Dr Martin Crotty (Director, Australian Studies Centre, UQ)
  • Dr Tseen Khoo (Conference convenor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash U)

10.30-12.00

Room E302

PLENARY KEYNOTE: Suvendrini Perera (Curtin U of Technology)

“‘They Give Evidence’: Bodies, Borders and the Disappeared”

CHAIR: Helen Gilbert

12.00-13.30LUNCH

13.30-15.00PARALLEL SESSIONS - A

A1 - Chair: Robert Carr

Room E303

  1. Natascha KLOCKER, U of NSW. “Representations and perceptions of asylum seekers across the government-media-public opinion nexus in contemporary Australia.”
  2. Stephanie LARSON, Dickinson College, PA, USA. “Public Discourse about Asylum-seekers in Australia and the United States: An Analysis of ‘Letters to the Editor’ about the Tampa Affair and Haitian Boat People.”
  3. Peter WESTOBY, U of Queensland. “Towards Personal, Social and Structural Healing: A Framework of Community and Cultural Development Emerging from Southern Sudanese Refugees in Brisbane, Australia.”

A2 - Chair: Bronwen Levy

Room E356

  1. Gay BREYLEY, U of Wollongong, NSW. “Black Transpositions: Memory and Music in Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town.”
  2. Nilanjana DEB, Jadavpur U, Calcutta, India. “The Colour(s) of Resistance: Anthologies as Sites of Indigenous Literary Activism in Canada and Australia.”
  3. Carole FERRIER, U of Queensland. “‘Never Forget That the Kankas Are Men’: Fictional Representations of the Enslaved Black Body.”

15.00-15.30AFTERNOON TEA

15.30-17.00PARALLEL SESSIONS - B

B1- Chair: Carole Ferrier

Room E303

  1. Helen GILBERT, U of Queensland. “Between State and Stage: The Politics of Lip Sewing.”
  2. Karen FARQUHARSON, Swinburne U of Technology, Vic. “Doing Race in Online Parenting Groups.”
  3. Carolyn VAN LANGENBERG, Independent scholar. “Glaskin, the Expatriate Australian Writer Who Wrote about Southeast Asia as if He Loved It.”

B1 - Chair: Sneja Gunew

Room E356

  1. Emma DAWSON, Oz Prospect, Vic. “Finding Common Ground on Shifting Sands: A New Approach to Australian Multiculturalism for the Global Age.”
  2. Emma KEARNEY, Southern Cross U, NSW. “Reimagining Multicultural Australia.”
  3. Toula NICOLACOPOULOS and George VASSILACOPOULOS, La Trobe U, Vic. “Rethinking the Radical Potential of the Concept of Multiculturalism.”

17.30-19.00

UQ Australian Studies Centre 25th Anniversary Celebration and “Body Politic” Conference Welcome Reception

  • Includes book launch of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism by Tracey Bunda (U of Canberra) and Graeme Turner (U of Queensland)]

Venue: Mayne Centre Art Museum, UQ St Lucia

* This event is also supported by Aboriginal Studies Press.

The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (UQ-St Lucia, Brisbane; 24-26 November 2004)

THURSDAY - 25 November - DAY TWO

9.00-10.30

Room E302

PLENARY KEYNOTE: Aileen Moreton-Robinson (U of Queensland)

“Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Race: A possessive Investment in Patriarchal White Sovereignty”
CHAIR: Tracey Bunda

10.30-11.00MORNING TEA

11-12.30PARALLEL SESSIONS - C

C1- Chair: Katherine Russo

Room E303

  1. Lindy DREW and Jeremy LIYANAGE, Local Government Association of Queensland. “Nurturing Multiculturalism through Queensland Local Government: Achievements and Challenges in a Changing Context.”
  2. Kevin DUNN, U of NSW. “Experiences of Racism in Australia: Extent, Spheres, and Cultural Unevenness.”
  3. George VASSILACOPOULOS and Toula NICOLACOPOULOS, La Trobe U, Vic. “On the Limits of Ethnic Community Radicalism.”

C2- Chair: Andrew Gunstone

Room E356

  1. Barbara BAIRD, U of Tasmania. “Renegotiating Whiteness in Intimate Domains: Sexuality, Gender and Race Politics since 1996.”
  2. Robyn MORRIS, U of Wollongong, NSW. “The Ghost of Suzie Wong: Rewriting (Oriental) Sex and Race in Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Women’s Writing.”
  3. Sian SUPSKI, Curtin U of Technology, WA. “‘It Was another Skin’: The Kitchen as Home for Australian Post-war Migrant Women.”

12.30-14.00LUNCH

14.00-15.30PARALLEL SESSIONS - D

D1 - Chair: Dean Chan

Room E302

  1. Robert CARR, U of Wollongong, NSW. “Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism Self-Determination and the Struggle for Hegemony in Australian Community Broadcasting.”
  2. Maryam JAMARANI, U of Queensland. “How Correct a Picture Do Media Give Us about Other Cultures?”
  3. Chris LAWE DAVIES, U of Queensland. “Ethnic Community Media Policy in Australia.”

D2 - Chair: Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Room E303

  1. Anne BREWSTER, U of New South Wales. “Whiteness: A Fictocritical Investigation.”
  2. Goldie OSURI, Macquarie U, NSW. “Unsettling Whiteness: A Diasporic Remapping of the Nation-State.”
  3. Damien RIGGS, U of Adelaide, SA. “Cultures of Denial: Managing the Past, Justifying the Present.”

15.30-16.00AFTERNOON TEA

16.00-17.30

The Body Politic Conference and the School of English, Media Studies and Art History invite you to a
PUBLIC LECTURE by Sneja Gunew (U of British Columbia) – “Comparing: Unquestioning Universalism, Complacent Particularism”
VENUE: Eleanor Room, UQ Staff Club

CHAIR: Joanne Tompkins

17.30-19.00Post-Public Lecture reception

Includes book launch for Sneja Gunew’s Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms by Gillian Whitlock (UQ)

Venue: Eleanor Room, UQ Staff Club

* This event is also supported by the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash U, Vic.

The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (UQ-St Lucia, Brisbane; 24-26 November 2004)

FRIDAY - 26 November - DAY THREE

9.00-10.30

Room E302

KEYNOTE SESSION: Asian Australian Cultures

  • Dean Chan - “The Institutionalisation of Hybridity.” (Edith Cowan U, WA)
  • Francis Maravillas – “The Asia-Pacific Triennials and the Cartographies of Exhibition.” (U of Technology - Sydney, NSW)

CHAIR: Peta Stephenson

10.30-11.00MORNING TEA

11-12.30PARALLEL SESSIONS - E

E1 - Chair: Emma Dawson

Room E303

  1. Sonja KURTZER, U of Adelaide, SA. “Issues of Belonging in Fabienne Bayet-Charlton’s Finding Ullagundahi Island and Kim Mahood’s Craft for a Dry Lake.”
  2. Antonio TRAVERSO, Curtin U of Technology, WA. “Wandering Cinemas: Transcultural Vision in the Films of Clara Law.”
  3. Henk HUIJSER, Queensland U of Technology. “Negotiating Multicultural Difference in a Bicultural Nation: A Focused Case Study.”

E2 - Chair: Barbara Baird

Room E356

  1. Anne BEGG, Otago U, NZ. “Racialised Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand.”
  2. Andrew GUNSTONE, Monash U, Vic. “The Formal Reconciliation Process in Australia 1991-2000.”
  3. Lawrence McNAMARA, Macquarie U, NSW. “History, Truth and Hatred: The History Wars as Defamation.”

12.30-14.00LUNCH

14.00-15.30PARALLEL SESSIONS - F

F1 - Chair: Suvendrini Perera

Room E303

  1. Jen Tsen KWOK, U of Queensland. “The Strategic Utility of ‘Chineseness’ in the Political Cultures of Diasporic Chinese Communities.”
  2. Stephen SMITH, U of NSW. “Chasing the ‘race’ and ‘ethnic’ votes: Profiles of minor parties and their positions within the Australian political landscapes of ‘racism’, 1999 and 2003 New South Wales State Elections.”
  3. Peta STEPHENSON, U of Melbourne, Vic. “Indigenous and Muslim-Australians: Hybrid Identities and Political Partnerships.”

F2 - Chair: Damien Riggs

Room E356

  1. Bronwen LEVY, U of Queensland. “Critical Mass: Reading Sisters, Mothers, Others.”
  2. Katherine RUSSO, U of NSW. “Moving across Borders: Indigenous Australian Poetry as a Deictic Solution to the Non-Indigenous Politics of Location.”
  3. Alison RAVENSCROFT, La Trobe U, Vic. “Meeting Grounds: Reading, Writing, Whiteness.”

15.30-16.00AFTERNOON TEA

16.00-17.30PARALLEL SESSIONS - G

G1 - Chair: Francis Maravillas

Room E302

  1. S. CHANDRASEKARAN, Curtin U of Technology, WA. “Many Arms: Revisiting Indian Diaspora through an Artistic Process.”
  2. Steve CRONK, Australian Catholic U, QLD. “Acceptance of Multiculturalism through Humour.”
  3. Les MORGAN, U of Melbourne, Vic. “Please Explain!: Representations of Racism in Figurative Painting.”

G2 - Chair: Goldie Osuri

Room E303

  1. Greg NOBLE, U of Western Sydney, NSW. “‘The Frustrations You Have To Live with’: Everyday Racism for Arabic-speaking and Muslim Australians since September 11.”
  2. Diana SWEENEY, Southern Cross U, NSW. “Whiteness sells.”
  3. Shelley KULPERGER and Sinta WIDARSITO, U of Queensland. “On the Street: Urban Multiculturalism in Australia and Canada.”

17.30Conference Close: Room E302