Conference announcement: Doing Race (January 10th, 2008)

Doing Race:
an event exploring contemporary thinking around race and racisms

January 10th 2008
Department of Geography, Durham University
(Sponsored by the Social/Spatial Theory Research Cluster)

This one-day event aims to explore and develop innovative thinking on race and racisms. The
primary goal of the event is to produce a forum for conversation and engagement, and the day will
be organised around a series of conceptual, methodological and empirical interventions designed
to provoke and inform discussion. Themes to be addressed include:
- contemporary modalities of racism
- phenomenologies of race
- racisms of phenotype
- materiality and materialisations of race
- race and ethnography
- race and affect
- ethical engagements with/in/through difference

Confirmed speakers include:
- Claire Alexander
- Ash Amin
- Les Back
- Jason Lim
- Dan Swanton

Invitation to participate:

Places are limited so if you are interested in attending then please contact me for a registration
form or more details as soon as possible, and no later than Friday 7th December 2007. There is a
registration fee of £10 that includes lunch/tea/coffee.

Contact:

Dr Dan Swanton
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geography
Durham University
Science Site
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE

d.j.swanton@durham.ac.uk
www.dur.ac.uk/geography