Call for Abstracts: Racialising Desire Conference, Australia

via Feminist Memory

This conference aims to focus on the imbrication of desire in the project of local, national and global forms of racialised domination. By taking desire as its starting place, the conference aims to problematise how race shapes desire (and desire shapes race) in as diverse forms as gender, sexuality, consumerism, identity, embodiment, occupation, territory, knowledge and the possessive investments that often underpin claims to belonging and indeed being. Importantly, the conference will focus on desire within both mainstream and marginal communities, and from across borders and communities, and draw upon a broad understanding of what constitutes ‘desire’. It will also consider the desire for difference. 

200 words abstracts (to be submitted along with a 50 word author note) should be emailed to conference2012@acrawsa.org.au by July 31st 2012. 

Full call for abstracts available at: www.acrawsa.org.au, as well as scholarship information, publication opportunities, and accommodation and venue information.