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We are no longer accepting any submissions. Participants have been notified of the results of the peer review process and a conference program will be posted within the next few weeks. We look forward to many excellent presentations in various formats!

Call for Proposals
York University’s Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies
Invites submissions for

Dynamic Resistances
Complicating, Screwing & Perpetuating Structures in our World

A Graduate Conference taking place at York University
September 14th – 15th, 2012

Proposal Deadline: June 15th, 2012

Resistance is a term and concept widely employed and deployed in feminist thinking and activism. It is used to make sense of struggles, failures, victories as well as nonnormative practices, embodiments, identities, and modes of being. This conference entices us to rethink and revisit resistance – in all its dynamic and cacophonous forms; to consider collectively what resistance has meant, where it has been, and the divergent directions it might take. 

Possible questions for exploration include: What modes and meanings of resistance are available to feminists? Why is resistance integral to feminist thought and practice? Which histories and stories of resistance do you find most meaningful, inspiring, or transformative? What shapes has resistance taken in your life? How is resistance difficult, demanding, dangerous, and perhaps even impossible? How are resistances experienced unevenly and unequally – as a daily occurrence for some and an occasional action for others? How are resistances dynamic? How do resistances change, complicate, conflict and compete? What are the complexities and tensions characteristic of strategic or spontaneous resistances? How are processes of resistance energizing, agitating, misaligned, or forceful? In what ways do acts of resistance reify while rebuking, rehearse while reshaping, solidify while sublimating?

We invite submissions from students, activists, artists, independent scholars, and individuals or groups with stories and ideas to share. Presenters may submit proposals for papers, panels, workshops, pecha kucha / lightning talks, visual art or performance pieces, interactive presentations, or tales and stories of resistance, as well as other formats. Proposals should be 150-250 words in length, and artistic submissions should include a pdf or jpeg sample of the work that will be shared at the conference.

To ensure anonymous peer-review, proposals should be anonymous and accompanied by a separate document that includes the proposal title, name of presenter, affiliation of presenter (if applicable), and contact email. Presentations will be restricted to 15 minutes in length. Please state in the proposal any space or equipment considerations that will be required. Submit proposals to dynamicresistancesconference@yahoo.ca

Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made by July 13th, 2012.

Please inform organizers of any accommodation required by August 1st, 2012. All efforts will be made to meet the needs of participants and attendees.

See the attached poster and visit our conference website at: http://dynamicresistances.blogspot.ca/