provisional programme:
Wednesday, August 18th
13.00-15.30: Registration/check-in
16.00-18.00: Dr Cath Ellis
School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield
‘Teaching and Unlearning: Critical 'Race' Pedagogy and Online Learning Environments’
18.00-19.00: Drinks and Snacks Reception
19.00-21.00: Dinner (details TBA)
Thursday, August 19th
8.00-8.45: Breakfast, Leeds Union Refectory
9.00-11.00 Panel 1: Making Whiteness, Making English, and the State
Rob Waters, University of Edinburgh
City After Dark: ‘Spades’, Ponces and Prostitutes in the Making of ‘Respectable’ Englishness, 1950-1968
Maddy Abbas, University of Leeds
White Terror in the War on Terror
Caroline Lucas, University of Leeds
The Imagined Folk of England
Charlie Leddy-Owen
The Importance of National Identity in the Stabilisation and Destablisation of Whiteness
11.00-11.20: Coffee Break
11.20-12.50 Panel 2: Legacies of Innocence
Kate Law, University of Sheffield
Mapping Time, Space and Life’: Women, Gender and Whiteness in the Zimbabwean Memoir
Noémi Michel, University of Geneva
Struggle Over the French Colonial Past, Struggle Over Whiteness?
Daniella Gronold, University of Klagenfurt; Linda Lund Pedersen, London School of Economics
Translation and Recognition of Colonial History in Denmark and Austria
12.50-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Panel 3: Whiteness in Anti-Racist (In)Action
Ruth Martin, University of Cambridge
Civil Liberties and Racial Justice: The National Lawyers Guild’s Move to the South, 1960-1968
Say Burgin, University of Leeds
Critical Whiteness Studies as an Activist Legacy
Dieuwerje Dyi Huijg, University of Manchester
Female Whiteness: A Theoretical Exploration of Inaction As Agency
15.15-15.35 Coffee Break
15.35-17.35 Panel 4: Qualitative Research into Whiteness
Manuela Honegger, University of Lausanne
Analysing Whiteness Through Interview Data: A Methodological Challenge
Karin Kolber, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen
White Mothers of Black Children in Germany: Standing on the Color Line?
Jane Reas, University of Leeds
‘YOU ARE the Expert Here’: Negotiating My Own White Privilege as a Researcher Exploring the Privilege of Whiteness
Jennifer Dulek, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Making the Grade: Examining the Racial Awareness of Preservice Teachers at Illinois
Friday, August 20th
8.00-9.00 Breakfast, Leeds Union Refectory
9.00-10.30 Panel 5: Complicated Capital
Helen Moore, University of Surrey
Shades of Whiteness? The Intersection of ‘Race’ and Class in the English Countryside
Barbara Samaluk, Queen Mary University of London
Whiteness as Symbolic Capital
Leon Moosavi
White Privilege and Muslim Converts: Confirming or Contradicting White Privilege?
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-16.00 White Spaces Postgraduate Network: Resources, Connections and Directions (Lunch from 12.45-13.30)