Terms defining relationships of power—imperialism, colonialism,
slavery, postcolonialism, globalization—have become central to
humanistic inquiry across disciplines. However, scholarly
conversations about this critical vocabulary and the developments they
seek to name have been limited by the need to ground scholarship in the
specifics of historical period, geography and region, and academic
discipline. This conference aims to promote dialogue across fields
through a focus on resistance, a concept present in all relations of
power. The literary and visual arts, religious movements, and political
struggles offer unique insights into forms of resistance.
This conference seeks papers that will address the construction of and
resistance to power relations, dominance, and hegemony by engaging with
literary, historical, religious, and theoretical texts and analyses of
resistance. Proposed papers might engage with the points of interaction
between terms such as globalization, postcolonialism, modernism,
postmodernism, and imperialism or address context-specific instances of
resistance.
Suggested topics include:
- Rhetoric of resistance
- Resistance in literature
- Religious interventions in politics
- Visual representations of resistance
- Comparative resistance movements
- Counter-Globalization in the media
- The World Social Forums
- Historical movements for liberation
- Indigenous struggles
- Global Culture
- Literary Modes of Resistance
- Art as Resistance
- Insurgency movements Gender and Resistance
Papers should be fifteen minutes in length and panels will be organized
to reflect the intersections mentioned above. Panel proposals should
include abstracts for each paper. Send 300-word abstracts to
resistance2007@emory.edu by November 15, 2006.
Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He
is author of
Gilles Deleuze and co-author of
Labor of
Dionysus,
Empire, and
Multitude.
Amy Kaplan teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is
the author of
The Anarchy of Empire and
The Social
Construction of American Realism. She also co-edited with Donald
Pease,
Cultures of U. S. Imperialism.
