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Call for Papers: ‘The Arm of the State, The Hand of Power: Resistance and Resilience in the Midst of Fear’ (Dec. 6, 2024)

Call for Papers

Deadline: December 6, 2024

NOTE: This is not an HSA event. We are sharing the word as a service. 

View Call for Papers PDF (English, Spanish, Krèyol, French)

While formal colonial rule may have ended in much of the world, the ‘arm of the state’ and ‘hand of power’ persist, continuing to exert influence in political, economic, and cultural fields. Maintained by state actors and global institutions, dominance over marginalized formerly/currently colonized peoples and nations manifests through terror, oppression, violence, brutality, and censorship. In response, resistance movements have taken various forms, emerging to defy imperial and (neo)colonial power via the arts, performances, cinema, demonstrations, civil disobedience, literary productions, and more.

The Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami aims to bring together voices from across disciplinary fields and cultural practices to explore the multifaceted nature of resistance and resilience in the face of neocolonial and imperial power. We invite academics, students, artists, and activists to engage in dialogue about the ways communities have historically and recently navigated and challenged oppressive structures. Papers may be offered in English, Spanish, Creole, French or Portuguese.

Abstracts of 500 words or less are welcome in English, Spanish, Creole, French, and Portuguese. Please provide a short (~250-word) author biography with the abstract. The Conference and all panel presentations will occur in person on February 20th and 21st, 2025, at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Submit proposals before December 6th, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET, directly to umgradstudentmllconference2025@gmail.com. Please put “Graduate Student Conference 2025” in the email subject. You will be notified by December 20, 2024, if your abstract is selected to be presented.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Humanities & Sociopolitical, Cultural, and Literary Studies

  • Resistance and Representation in Art
    • Artivism / resistance through art
    • Music and political movements
    • Literary studies and analysis
    • Film and drama studies
    • Artistic and narrative interventions
    • Media representation and repression
    • Orality / oral traditions
    • Myths, folklores, and adaptations
    • Resistance movements
    • Cultural transmission under censorship
  • Sociopolitical and Cultural Studies
    • (Im)migration and diasporic studies
    • Political science / theory
    • Resistance epistemologies and practices
    • Counter histories and narratives
    • Biopolitics
    • Philosophy and ethics
    • Human rights and jurisprudence
    • History of oppression
    • Communication studies
    • Prison studies
    • (Neo)imperialism
    • (Neo)colonialism and coloniality
    • War/military interventions
    • Dictatorships and authoritarian rule
    • Contemporary and historical powers
    • Criminal justice
    • Surveillance and censorship
    • Fear and warmongering
    • Democracy and freedom narratives
    • Independence narratives
    • Grassroots movements
    • Alternative forms of resilience
    • Resistance movements
  • Social and Identity Constructs
    • Gender, sexuality, and queerness
    • Race, racialized identities, and racialization
    • Postcolonial, decolonial, neocolonial, and anticolonial thought
    • Feminism; intersectionality
    • Public space and citizenship
    • Cultural policies and cultural citizenship
  • Environmental Humanities
    • Ecocriticism
    • Black and Indigenous ecologies
    • Other-than-human / nonhuman / animal rights and activism
  • Regional and Religious Studies
    • Indigenous Studies
    • Native American Studies
    • Caribbean Studies
    • Latin American Studies
    • Central American Studies
    • Afro-Diasporic Studies
    • African Studies
    • Arabic Studies
    • Mediterranean Studies
    • Christian, Judaic, and Islamic Studies
    • Non-Abrahamic Religious Studies

Sociolinguistics

  • Bilingualism
  • Translanguaging
  • Codeswitching
  • Language ideologies and language policy
  • Resistance through language
  • Minority and endangered languages
  • Language endangerment and conservation
  • Cultural transmission and language transmission under censorship

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