[ecrea] CFP CMCI PhD Conference "Cultural Resilience / Resilient Cultures"

We warmly invite you to submit your abstracts to the 2017 CMCI PhD 
Conference "Cultural Resilience / Resilient Cultures: the art of 
resistance in changing worlds” to be held on 13th and 14th of June at 
King's College London (Waterloo Campus), London.
"Cultural Resilience / Resilient Cultures" is the fourth annual CMCI PhD 
conference, following last year’s successful event "(In)Visible 
Cultures". We welcome researchers to engage with questions of resilience 
and resistance in our society, culture, media and the creative 
industries, and to share their ideas with the colleagues from around the 
world in a friendly and stimulating environment. Submissions from 
post-graduate researchers and early-career researchers as well as 
established scholars are welcomed. Keynote speakers TBC.
In recent times the world has experienced fundamental and ongoing 
changes of society on a global scale, such as political isolationism, 
regional conflicts, and the displacement of refugees and/or immigrants. 
In this atmosphere of uncertainty, culture has a role to play in 
reflection, diversification, debate, and even reconciliation in 
transformation processes and the public sphere of communities. Culture 
and cultural industries can, and should, act as a platform for 
discussion, analysis and critique of societal shifts. Through this 
interdisciplinary conference we seek to address questions of resistance 
and resilience through the lens of culture, media and creative 
industries. What does the current economic, social and political climate 
mean for creative industries? How does cultural policy negotiate changes 
and unpredictability? What is the role of culture in societal shifts? We 
invite speakers to consider examples of cultural resilience, the 
instrumentality of culture for resistance or mediation, and the 
diversity of perspectives that can be used to frame debate.
Papers are welcomed in line with the following topics, but are not 
limited to these:
•	Cultural and creative resilience – past, present and future •	Media 
intertextuality – globalized resistance •	Mediatisation of protest •	The 
art of protesting: cultural and creative modes of activism:
•	Cultural perspectives on power •	Cultural diplomacy and international 
cultural relations in periods of change
•	Cultural politics in identities: gender, ethnicity, diaspora, 
migration and transnationalism
•	Creative industries in periods of change
•	Instrumental uses of culture •	Inequality and marginalised communities
•	Remembering and forgetting: resistance through memory and commemoration
Please send a 300-word abstract, along with your name, e-mail address, 
academic affiliation (and department) and short bio to:

(cmci-conference /at/ kcl.ac.uk)

The deadline for submissions is Friday 24th March 2017.

Please note that while letters of acceptance are available for accepted 
speakers, we are unable to provide any additional support for visa 
applications.


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