Marxism & Psychology Research Group (MPRG)

Call for Papers:

Conference - Culture, Media: Protest
September 3-5, 2009

Organisation: Research Project "Protest as Medium - Media of Protest"
Location: University of Lucerne (CH) - Department of Sociology - Pfistergasse 20

Deadline for abstracts: 30. June 2009
Contact: contact@protestmedia.net

The conference seeks to bring together social movement analysts with different disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, cultural studies, political science and political theory. It aims at opening up a space of debate on protest cultures and alternative media within the framework of social and political struggles. We invite researchers to submit abstracts for presentations on the following topics:

- The cultural construction of protest: Protest cultures as subcultures and counter cultures
- The cultural construction of media: Protest media cultures and the everyday
- The militant construction of new subjectivities: Protest identities and subjectivities
- The dispersed body of protest: Performative protest cultures

Keynote speakers:
Ernesto Laclau, University of Essex (UK); Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster, London (UK); John Downing, Southern Illinois University (USA); Kevin McDonald, Goldsmith College (UK); Jenny Pickerill, University of Leicester (UK); Klaus Schönberger, Zurich University of the Arts (CH); Oliver Marchart, University of Lucerne (CH).

We invite abstracts (max. 500 words) to be submitted by 30. June 2009. Conference fees: 25 Swiss Francs for one day; 50 Swiss Francs for the complete conference.
If you would like to attend the conference, please send an e-mail to contact@protestmedia.net before 30. July 2009.

For detailed information, please visit it online:
http://www.protestmedia.net/cms/front_content.php?idart=327

Contact:
Oliver Marchart, Marion Hamm, Stephan Adolphs