[Commlist] CfP: Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production Conference

*Call for Papers*

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_Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural 
Production_

*25^th -26^th  March 2024
University College Dublin*


To engage in political activism is to engage with the world in which one 
lives, to identify issues and injustices and to present a vision of a 
better future. Cultural production, including literature, film, visual 
media, and performance, represents an important medium through which 
activists can communicate political ideas both within their communities 
and networks and to wider audiences beyond their movements.


Over the past decades, an increasingly globalised world has offered 
activists new opportunities for communication and network-building, 
exemplified in prominent examples of transnational student, feminist, 
and anti-racist activism. Yet, emphasising the transnational contexts of 
political movements risks obscuring localised concerns, homogenising 
struggles, and overlooking marginalised voices.


This conference will explore how the potentials and limitations of 
transnationalism are addressed in activist cultural production. We take 
as a point of department the concept of boundaries, understood in its 
broadest sense to include, among other examples, national borders, the 
boundaries between politics and art, junctures between political 
movements, generational divides, and cultural production across media, 
to ask:

  * How does activist cultural production participate in and shape
    political discourses?
  * What kinds of boundaries are imagined, dismantled, reinforced, or
    reimagined in political cultural production?
  * To what extent do activist writers, performers, and artists embrace
    or resist the development of transnational political networks?
  * What strategies do political artworks employ to transform their
    audience into political actors?

Our approach is interdisciplinary and we welcome research papers based 
on methodological approaches and/or case studies from across artistic 
media and political movements, including but not limited to:

  * Social justice movements
  * Identity politics and citizenship
  * Nationalisms and inter-/transnationalisms
  * Feminisms
  * Environmental activisms
  * Political and community festivals and commemorations
  * Activist artistic practices (including literature, poetry, visual
    arts, theatre, and film)
  * Political media (including print and social media)

  To propose a research paper, please submit:

  * an abstract/summary of the paper (c. 250 words)
  * a short speaker biography (max. 150 words) including your
    affiliation and research interests
  * contact details

Research papers should not exceed 20 minutes.


Please submit your abstract here: 
https://www.ucd.ie/slcl/newsandevents/slclconferencesandevents/transnationalactivisms2024/transnationalactivismabstracts/ 
<https://www.ucd.ie/slcl/newsandevents/slclconferencesandevents/transnationalactivisms2024/transnationalactivismabstracts/> 



The deadline for abstracts is *5pm, Friday 10th November 2023. *


This conference is generously funded by the UCD Humanities Institute and 
UCD College of Arts and Humanities.


Please see our conference website for further information: Transnational 
Activisms 2024 - UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics 
<https://www.ucd.ie/slcl/newsandevents/slclconferencesandevents/transnationalactivisms2024/> or 
contact us on (transnationalactivisms /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(transnationalactivisms /at/ gmail.com)> if you have any questions.



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