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A reminder that the deadline of the CFP for this amazing conference is the 1st of Feb. And here the last update about the keynotes: We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers for our annual conference, this year on the topic of Resistance <http://www.criticalstudies.org.uk/conference.html>, will be Fred Moten <http://english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/fred-moten/> (UC Riverside) and Becky Taylor <https://www.uea.ac.uk/history/people/profile/b-taylor> (UEA). Fred Moten is a critical theorist and poet, and the author of *In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition*; *Hughson’s Tavern*; *B. Jenkins*; *The Feel Trio*; and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of *The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. *Prof Moten has published widely around the topic black sociality and critical theory, contributing to debates on what Jared Sexton has described as "afro-pessimism and black optimism <http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/pdfs/jaredsextonarticle.pdf>". Becky Taylor is a social historian and the author of *A Minority and the State: Travellers in Britain in the Twentieth Century* and *Another Darkness, Another Dawn: A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers*. Her work focuses on the histories of Roma, Gypsies and Tavellers, particularly in relation to the state, empire, policing, xenophobia and migration. *--* > > *Resistance* > > * 5th International Critical Studies Research Group Conference* > > * 13th-14th June 2016* > * Grand Parade, University of Brighton* > > Proposal deadline: *1st February 2016* > > If resistance has a tradition, it is one which is not unilinear or > uncontested. Dominant understandings of resistance are themselves resisted, > typically when certain peoples are left outside of the history or the > conceptualisation of resistance. This conference explores how the notion of > resistance has been challenged, both by practices of resistance and > theorisations of resistance (a distinction which can only be maintained so > far). > > How has the advent of new technologies shifted understandings of > resistance? Is resistance distinct from politics, and if so how do both > operate when neoliberal rationality becomes hegemonic? Does violence > interrupt resistance, or is it generative of resistance? What conceptions > of the human are presumed in discourses of resistance? Can resistance be > enacted, or contested, through memory? > > The Critical Studies Research Group welcomes proposals for both research > papers as well as non-conventional forms of presentation, for example > performances, workshops, screenings and papers that resist traditional > hierarchies of academic presentation. Videos and performances should be > accompanied by a short presentation detailing the work’s critical > engagement with the conference theme. Submissions might be from a range of > disciplines, and transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions are > also encouraged. > > Topics might concern, but are not limited to, the following: > > - Fugitivity; the undercommons; ensemble > - Memory and/as resistance > - Resistance to (neo)liberalism > - Neocolonial/decolonial resistance > - Détournement today > - Conformity and social media networks > - Populism(s) and/as resistance > - Medicine and misconduct > - Violence and nonviolence > - Counter-histories of resistance > - Democracy and/as resistance > - Queering resistance > - Horrorism; necropolitics; precarity > - Resistance in/to asymmetric warfare > - Discriminations: ableism, sexism, ageism, racism > - Police and protest > - Intersectionality and/as resistance > - Youth and resistance > - Virality, online political movements and digital resistance > > Proposals should be sent as an attachment and contain a title, an abstract > (of no more than 300 words) and a brief biography. If relevant, proposals > can include links to give an indication of your artistic practice. The > deadline for proposals is the* 1st February 2016*. > > Please send proposals to: [log in to unmask] > <https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=VI_qYKTy2E-IBxn_eG1yDIC_y-CO9dIIzpItlycLlcw0iP-ErJMoORBD5VZQ3vRMHn1purSIBkI.&URL=mailto%3aCriticalStudiesResearch%40brighton.ac.uk> > . > > For more information please contact Megan Archer: [log in to unmask] > <https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=VI_qYKTy2E-IBxn_eG1yDIC_y-CO9dIIzpItlycLlcw0iP-ErJMoORBD5VZQ3vRMHn1purSIBkI.&URL=mailto%3aM.Archer%40brighton.ac.uk> > . > > *About the Critical Studies Research Group* > > The Critical Studies Research Group (CSRG) was founded in 2011 by > postgraduate students at the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, > with the aim of providing a forum for the discussion and exploration of > critical ideas and practices in light of contemporary socio-political > challenges. The CSRG maintains a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity, > and any challenges that interdisciplinarity might pose are counteracted by > our shared interest in the role and scope of critical thought and practice > within contemporary capitalism. Fore more information, please see > criticalstudies.org.uk. > ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? 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