RESISTANCE: LIVES OF DISSENT AND REVOLT
18th Annual Building Bridges Graduate Conference
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois
November 6-7, 2015
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University
Dr. Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University
The theme for this year’s graduate conference will address the powers and limits of resistance. What constitutes resistance and how is resistance embodied? How do we think through our experiences of dissent and revolt? As recent decades have been shaped by struggles of resistance, this conference considers the various possibilities that resistance opens for our futures of revolt.
We welcome and strongly encourage submissions from all disciplines as well as individuals working beyond academia. Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
LGBTQ political activism
prison abolition movements
feminist epistemic resistance
resisting state violence
revolt through protest and rioting
coalition building and solidarity
theorizing power and resistance
strategies of speech and silence
Black Lives Matter movements
aesthetic and artistic revolt
historical revolutions and uprisings
violence and civil disobedience
revolt in literature and poetry
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2015
Guidelines for Submission
• Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be prepared for anonymous review.
• On a separate document, please include the following information: title of paper, author’s name, institutional or organizational affiliation, and email address. Please also indicate in your email if you are interested in chairing a panel during the conference.
• Submissions should be sent as Word (.doc or .docx) or Adobe (.pdf) attachments to Amy Stewart at amy.ray.stewart@siu.edu