Interdisciplinary Symposium

 

August 4-6, 2000

GLOBAL AND MULTICULTURAL CRITIQUES OF WHITENESS

To be held in Rockefeller 2.

An interdisciplinary and international conference of scholars studying racializations of white identity, in Australia, The United Kingdom, and the United States.

Papers will be presented by scholars in the humanities, in cultural studies, and in the social sciences from Australia, The United Kingdom and the United States. The international arena of scholarship will emphasize not only the diverse racializations of whiteness that are now under study but the different aims of such study in different locations and cultures.


Please note: some titles of papers are forthcoming.

Sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Dickey Center, and the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College.
For further information contact Dean Sandra Gregg, 603-646-3756, sandra.gregg@dartmouth.edu

FRIDAY AUG 4

OPENING SESSION, 5:30--7:00 :Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Whiteness

Discussion Leader:
Patricia McKee, English, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Alastair Bonnett, Geography, University of Newcastle
A White World? The Racialisation of the Modern

Sylvia Wynter, Caribbean Studies, Stanford University

DINNER FOR PARTICIPANTS, 8:00

SATURDAY AUG 5
SESSION 1 9:30--11:30: Whiteness, Borders, Immigrations

Discussion Leader:
Angela Rosenthal, Art History, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Donald Pease, English, Dartmouth College
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958): Bordering on Whiteness

Susan White, Film, University of Arizona
Bodies in Peril: Agricultural Empire and National Identity in BORDER INCIDENT (1949)

Ghassan Hage, Anthropology, University of Sydney
The Aesthetics of Colonial Whiteness

Coffee

SESSION 2 11:45--1:30: Visual Cultures of Whiteness

Discussion Leader:
Brenda Silver, English and Women's Studies, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Art History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Jewishness: Inside and Outside Whiteness

Angela Rosenthal, Art History, Dartmouth College
Imagining Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture

Lunch break

SESSION 3 2:45--4:15: Meanings of Whiteness

Discussion Leader: Patricia McKee, English, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Neferti Tadiar, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
Whiteness as Value in Philippine Urban Life

Christina Gomez, Sociology, Dartmouth College
The Racialization of Latinos: The Meaning of Whiteness

Coffee

SESSION 4 4:30--6:00: Elusiveness of White Power

Discussion Leader: Jonathan Crewe, English and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Wendy Shaw, Geography, University of Melbourne
Ways of "Whiteness": Negotiating Settlement Agendas in (post)Colonial Sydney, Australia

Patricia McKee, English, Dartmouth College
Spaces of Whiteness: Stoker's DRACULA (1897)

Dinner for Participants 8:30

SUNDAY AUG 6
CLOSING SESSION 9:30--11:30: Globalized Whiteness

Discussion Leader:
Donald Pease, English, Dartmouth College

Speakers:
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham

John Gabriel, Sociology, London Guildhall University
Globalizations of White Privilege: A Dialogue

George Lipsitz, Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego
Whiteness and the World: The White 2K Problem