Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production Conference, Dublin

Dear all,

We warmly invite papers for the conference ‘Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production’, taking place at University College Dublin, March 25th-26th, 2024. Please see the call for papers below. Contributions from Germanists would be most welcome.

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Call for Papers

Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production

March 25th-26th, 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.

• 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/ 

The deadline for abstracts is 5pm UK/Irish time on Friday, November 10th, 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 or contact us on transnationalactivisms@gmail.com if you have any questions.

With best wishes,

Katherine Calvert and Erika Teichert

Contact Information

Dr Katherine Calvert (she/her)

IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow

German Studies, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

University College Dublin | An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath

Contact Email

katherine.calvert@ucd.ie