{"id":2838,"date":"2022-02-14T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whiteroseproject.seh.ox.ac.uk\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:18:58","slug":"rethinking-resistance-interdisciplinary-graduate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiteroseproject.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/rethinking-resistance-interdisciplinary-graduate-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rethinking Resistance&#8217; \u001f\u2013 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"we-are-delighted-to-announce-this-call-for-papers-for-a-conference-being-organised-by-this-year-s-white-rose-project-graduate-committee\"><strong>We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers for a conference being organised by this year&#8217;s White Rose Project Graduate Committee! <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"rethinking-resistance-an-interdisciplinary-graduate-conference\"><strong>Rethinking Resistance<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 <strong>An&nbsp;Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>23-24 June 2022 | In-person and Online at the University of Oxford<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Call for Papers<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the support of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and The Queen\u2019s College, Oxford, and in partnership with the White Rose Project, a cross-faculty committee of graduate students at the University of Oxford is organising an interdisciplinary conference&nbsp;on the theme \u2018Rethinking Resistance\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is resistance? Who are its agents, what are their missions, and what are their tools? How do they portray themselves, and what place do they occupy in present-day \u2018communities of memory\u2019 (Assmann;&nbsp;Erll)?&nbsp;As disputed prophecies heralding a utopian \u2018end of history\u2019 (Fukuyama) have contended with twenty-first-century realities \u2013 characterised by violent returns to authoritarian rule, and by new means of propagandistic indoctrination and technological surveillance \u2013 finding answers to these questions is an increasingly urgent task.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resistance,&nbsp;when&nbsp;defined&nbsp;as working against political and cultural practices&nbsp;that&nbsp;are perceived as hegemonic&nbsp;(Gramsci), is an inherently interdisciplinary&nbsp;phenomenon.&nbsp;Situated in the interstices of power, it cuts across established institutions and&nbsp;prevailing&nbsp;intellectual categories.&nbsp;Methods&nbsp;of enquiry&nbsp;which are themselves interdisciplinary,&nbsp;therefore,&nbsp;promise to yield a more comprehensive understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;resistance practices.&nbsp;This conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars and practitioners to explore fundamental aspects of resistance.&nbsp;Areas of enquiry may include, but are not limited to:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Literary and artistic representations of resistance&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Media of resistance, publication histories, censorship&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Ethics and politics of resistance as a phenomenon which works&nbsp;<em>against&nbsp;<\/em>pre-existing systems,&nbsp;which&nbsp;is based in an act of negation,&nbsp;or&nbsp;rooted in non-participation\/refusal&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Platforms and spaces of resistance, organisation, channels of communication&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Economies and ecologies of resistance,&nbsp;resistance&nbsp;and climate justice&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Resistance and violence\/non-violence&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Resistance and\/or complicity, institutionalisation, power&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Narratives of resistance and the formation of \u2018imagined communities&#8217; (Anderson), resistance movements as (national) founding myths, resistance against dominant memories&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>We invite proposals&nbsp;from postgraduate students for&nbsp;20-minute papers to be delivered in English.&nbsp;Please send an&nbsp;<strong>abstract<\/strong>&nbsp;(max. 300 words) and a short&nbsp;<strong>biography<\/strong>&nbsp;(max. 100 words) to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:rethinkingresistance2022@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">rethinkingresistance2022@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>18&nbsp;March 2022<\/strong>. Speakers will be notified by&nbsp;31&nbsp;March 2022.&nbsp;Based on current government guidelines, we are planning to hold the conference as a hybrid event, online and at the University of Oxford (UK).&nbsp;Please indicate whether you would&nbsp;prefer to attend online or in person.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce this Call for Papers for a conference being organised by this year&#8217;s White Rose Project Graduate Committee! 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