Call for papers. |
Resistance & resilience : envisioning the future
This interdisciplinary graduate conference seeks to investigate how literary, cinematic, and other mediums interrogate, shape, and embody strategies of resistance and resilience and imagine alternative futures in contemporary and historical contexts across the globe. In the midst of a deadly pandemic, among other social, political, economic, and environmental crises on local and global scales, envisioning the future can become an act of resilience and resistance. As Donna Haraway argues, this work of envisioning the future requires “staying with the trouble”—reconfiguring and reimagining our relations to the world around us. Envisaging the future thus requires not only resilience—“bouncing back” or recovering from present or historical difficulties—but also resistance, refusing to accept the status quo, taking action to change one’s situation or the world more broadly. Emerging from positions of precarity, such as the isolation of quarantine or personal or collective trauma, stories of adaptation, translation, dissent, compromise, and solidarity can envision varied potential futures for the individual and for society at large. From travel narratives and utopias to autofiction and speculative fiction, resistance and resilience take many forms.
Possible topics and approaches may include, but are in no way limited to:
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Deadline:
January 15, 2021 |
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Free.
The SLLC is pleased to offer free registration for this conference. |
Interested? Follow this quick guide.
Click on the "Submit here" button just below or send us an email at [email protected].
- Tell us your name, the name of your co-presenters (optional) and your affiliation.
- Write your email address.
- Indicate the type of your submission (paper presentation, creative submission, digital poster, multimedia project, other...).
- Give us the themes of your submission, a title for it, and write a short summary (about 50 words, to be included in the program).
- Attach your abstract (250-300 words) in a pdf file.
- Optional - Attach a 1-2 minute video excerpt to accompany the creative/multimedia submissions
Click on the "Submit here" button just below or send us an email at [email protected].