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Postcolonial Ethnicity, Visuality and Cultural Politics Conference

Monday, January 19, 2009

Glamorgan Building

The first event is a day conference on 27th February, room 1.63 in Glamorgan Building.

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 is a day conference on 27th February, room 1.63 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, CF10 3WT. Directions.

The event is free and all are welcome. But: Space is Limited. Please Pre-Register.

The latest timetable pdf is below. For further information, contact Paul Bowman: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk

Speakers will include:

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'.

* Please note that from August 2010 the 'Race, Representation and Cultural Identity' group became the 'Race, Representation and Cultural Politics' group

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