CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

November 6-8, 2014

6 November 2014 [13.30 - 19.00h]

13.30-14.00h Introductory Remarks: Martin Butler/Paul Mecheril (Oldenburg)
Lecture Hall 1

14.00-15.00h Opening Plenary Lecture:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (New York): "What is it to Resist?" (Chair: Martin Butler)
Lecture Hall 1

15.00-15.30h Coffee break

15.30-19.00h FORUM I: Subjects of Resistance

Section I.a) Doing Gender and Resistance (Chair: Kathrin Peters, Berlin)

Lecture Hall 2

1. Ann Phoenix (London): "Hegemonic and Other Forms of Masculinity in Movements of Resistance"

2. Olga Sasunkevich (Greifswald): "Informal Economy as a Form of Daily Life Resistance: Experience of Female Cross-Border Traders in Belarus

3. Cornelia Möser (Berlin): "The Feminist 'Sex Wars': Resisting the Resistance"

16.45-17.15h Coffee break

4. Ulrike Lingen-Ali (Oldenburg): "Resistant Identities - Contradictions, Continuities and Capabilities: Dimensions of Self-Perceptions of Migrant Lone/Single Mothers in Germany"

Section I.b) Resistance as a Form of Subjectivation (Chair: Lydia Potts, Oldenburg)

Club Room 1

1. Maria do Mar Castro Varela (Berlin): "The Subject of Resistance: A Postcolonial Critique"

2. Sumitra Thoidingjam (New Dehli): "The Body as Battleground: Resistance in Myanmar and Manipur"

3. Clemens Pfeffer (Vienna): "Resistance in the Metropolis: The Formation of a Transnational Anticolonial Subjectivity"

16.45-17.15h Coffee break

4. Lisa Vollmer (Berlin): "Awareness of Difference and a Sense of Collectivity: The Making of Political Subjects in Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York"

Section I.c) 'The Multitude' and the Collective Will for Opposition (Chair: Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt)

Club Room 2

1. Alex Demirovic (Berlin): "Why the 'Multitude' is Not Enough"

2. Jérôme Beauchez (Saint-Etienne): "Everyday Resistance: A Cultural Sociology"

4. Safiye Yıldız (Tübingen): "Structured Silence and Articulated Resistance: Politicisation of Education and Educational Resistance"

16.45-17.15h Coffee break

Section I.d) Organic Intellectuals? (Chair: Martin Butler, Oldenburg)

Seminar Room 2

1. Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt a.M.): "The Death of Leviathan: Radical Politics and State-Phobia"

2. Monica van der Haagen-Wulff (Cologne): "Infiltrating the Domestic Fortress: The Resistance of Mas Marco Kartodikromo"

3. Magdalena Knappik (Vienna): "Resistance as 'Enabling Authorship': Writing at School as Subjectivation"

Coffee break (16.45-17.15)

4. Katrin Gengenbach (Berlin): "The Spectre of Social Noise as Signifier for Protest and Resistance in Japan"

21:00h Evening Programme: Film Screening: Cultures of Resistance at Casablanca Art House Cinema

7 November 2014 [8.45-18.15h]

08.30-9.30h Plenary Lecture:
Peter McLaren (Los Angeles): "Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy Against Austerity Capitalism. The Challenge Ahead" (Chair: Paul Mecheril)
Lecture Hall 1

9.30-13.15h FORUM II: Representations of Resistance

Section II.a) Aesthetics of Resistance (Chair: Gun-Britt Kohler, Oldenburg)

Lecture Hall 2

1. Jens Martin Gurr (Duisburg-Essen)"'All those who knew the term 'gentrification' are part of the problem': Self-reflexivity in Urban Activism and Cultural Production"

2. Frauke Surmann (Berlin): "Staging Complicity: The Mask as Participatory Medium in Contemporary Protest Movements"

3. Andrew Seeger (Montgomery, AL): "'Resistance is Futile' ... or is Futility the New Resistance? Mixed Messages in the Media"

11.15-11.30h Coffee break

4. Naglaa Hassan (Fayoum): Power and Resistance in Selected Novels by Julia Alvarez

5. Thomas Ernst (Duisburg-Essen): "Literature as Subversion: Potentials and Aporias of Contemporary Political Writing"

6. Alexander Greiffenstern (Duisburg-Essen): "'Storm the Reality Show. And retake the universe': Forms of Resistance in William S. Burroughs' Nova Express"

Section II.b) Resisting Media, Resisting Genres (Chair: Rahel Puffert, Oldenburg)

Club Room 2

1. Kathrin Peters (Berlin): "Oppositional Images, Images of Opposition: Forms of Visual Resistance"

2. Jajati Keshari Pradhan (Kharagpur): "Testimonial Life Writing and/as Resistance: Genre, Subaltern Violence and Ethics of Living"

3. Sören Koopmann (Oldenburg): "Resistance, Conspiracy Theory, and Science"

Coffee break (11.15-11.30h)

4. Daniel Sip (Oldenburg): "Depicting 'Resisting Sources' under Torture in US-American TV-Series after 9/11"

5. Gönül Demez (Antalya): "The New Street of Resistance: Residents of Social Media"

Section II.c) Remembering Resistance: Icons, Myths, and the Politics of Cultural Memory (Chair: Ulrike Lingen-Ali, Oldenburg)

Club Room 1

1. Stephanie Wodianka (Rostock): "Origin and Innocence: Esthetics of Resistance in European Memory Cultures after 1945"

2. Elisabeth Hoffmann (Luxembourg/Strasbourg): "Remembering Second World War 'Resistance' in Luxembourg: A Kaleidoscope of Myths and Silences"

3. Miriam Schumacher (Oldenburg): "The Narrated Nation: Literary Representations of Resistance against National Socialism in (Western) Germany after 1945"

11.15-11.30h Coffee break

4. Anna Langenbruch (Oldenburg): "'Who writes the story?' Staging Resistance in 1970's Rock Opera"

5. Mahmoud Al-Zayed (New Delhi): "From 'History to Myth' and 'Myth to History': Re/presenting 'Resistance' in Cross-Cultural Modes"

Section II.d) (Popular) Culture and/as Resistance: Positions and Positionings (Chair: Thomas Geier, Karlsruhe)

Seminar Room 5

1. Kaspar Maase (Tübingen): "Appropriations of Resistance in the Study of Popular Culture"

2. Anton Kirchhofer (Oldenburg): "Resisting Resistance as 'Preferring Not To': Concepts and Tensions of Resistance and Participation in Literary and Cultural Studies"

3. Malte Ebner von Eschenbach (Potsdam): "Decomposing Categorical Assumptions by 'Epistemic Resistance'": Approximations to a Relational

13.15-15.00 Lunch break

4. Cihan Ertan (Antalya): "Embodied Resistance: Tattoo as a Popular Culture Text"

15.00-18.30h FORUM III: Contexts of Resistance (incl. 15 min. break, flexible use)

Section III.a) School (Chair: Christine Riegel, Freiburg)

Club Room 2

1. Anke Wischmann & Valerie Tacke (Lüneburg): "Resisting Homogenisation in Subject Lessons in Primary Education: A Critical Ethnographic Perspective"

2. Cristina Alarcón (Berlin): "The Avant-garde of Resistance? Discourses, Principles and Practices of High-School Student Protest in Chile (2006-2013)"

3. Rachel Ramsay & Natalie Roxburgh (Oldenburg), Natalie Roxburgh (Oldenburg): "Critical Resistance in the Academic English Classroom"

16.45-17.00h Coffee break

4. Inci Dirim & Natascha Khakpour (Vienna): "Including Multilingualism: A Strategy Against the Normative Violence of the German Language?"

Section III.b) Streets and Squares (Chair: Jens Gurr, Duisburg-Essen)

Seminar Room 5

1. Kemal Inal (Ankara): "Reclaiming the City: Reasons, Agents and Forms of Resistance in Urban Contexts"

2. Ulaş Başar Gezgin, Welat Ay & Kemal İnal (Istanbul)"Gezi Resistance as a Transformational Educational Milestone: Urban Movements and Revolutionary Critical Education"

3. Ulrike Hamann (Düsseldorf): "On Social Rights for Marginalised Groups in Urban Protest Movements"

16.45-17.00h Coffee break

4. Terence Renaud (Berkeley): "Going Underground: The Resistance of Neu Beginnen as the Deconstruction of Public Space, 1929-35"

5. Philip Wallmeier (Frankfurt/Main): "Ecovillages as Places of Resistance: Constructing Subjectivities in Intentional Communities"

Section III.c) Borderlands (Chair: Monica van der Haagen-Wulff, Cologne)

Club Room 1

1. Sabine Hess (Göttingen): "On Borderland Resistance and Regimes of Migration"

2. Konrad Linke (Jena): "Resistance at the Borderlands and the (Im)Possibilities of Resistance in a Liberal Democratic State"

3. Lisa Doppler (Berlin): "Knowledge and Resistance: Marcuse in Dialogue with the Refugee Strike"

16.45-17.00h Coffee break

4. Stephan Schlickau, Karsten Senkbeil & Vasco da Silva (Hildesheim): "'Talking Resistance' in German/Southern African Intercultural Communication"

Section III.d) Movements, Campaigns, Unions (Chair: Annette Sprung, Graz)

Lecture Hall 2

1.  Rainer Winter (Klagenfurt): "Resistance, Digital Activism and the Emergence of the Political"

2. Oleksandr Svyetlov (Kyiv/Riga): "Anti-Regime Protest in post-Soviet Ukraine"

3. Raluca Bejan (Toronto): "United We Save: The Story of Global Mobilising in Solidarity with the Rosia Montana Campaign"

16.45-17.00h Coffee break

4. Philipp Altmann (Berlin): "The Self-Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador as Actors of Decolonial Resistance"

5. Olaf Tietje (Kassel): "Trade Unions and Resistance: Processes of Exploitation between Greenhouses and Packing Plants within the Agricultural Borderland of the EU"

6. Bogdan Vasii (Roskilde): "Terrains of Unionism in Egypt: Navigating Scalar Processes in Workshops on Trade Union Work"

20:00h Evening Programme: Tania Bruguera (New York) "Artivism" (tbc) Lecture Hall 1

8 November 2014 [9-17h]

10.00-11.00h Roundtable Discussion: On Cultures of Resistance (and beyond) Peter McLaren, Rainer Winter, Tania Bruguera, (Chair: Martin Butler) Lecture Hall 1

11.00-11.30h Coffee break

11.30-12.30h Plenary Lecture: Micha Brumlik (Berlin) "Remembering Resistance " Lecture Hall 1

12.30-13.15h Observations and Remarks: Diana Mulinari (Lund) and Anders Neergaard (Linköping)

13.15-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-17.30 PhD workshops

Workshop 1: Researching Resistance: Methodological Questions (Paul Mecheril, Oldenburg) Club Room 1

Projects:
Mahmoud Al-Zayed

Sumitra Thoidingjam

Philip Wallmeier

Elisabeth Hoffmann

Workshop 2: Researching Resistance: Theoretical References (Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt) Club Room 2

Projects:
Natascha Khakpour

Constantijn Smith

Bogdan Vasii

Workshop 3: Researching Resistance: Who benefits? And how? (Jens-Martin Gurr, Duisburg-Essen) Seminar Room 5

Projects:
Buket Dabancali

Aylin Zafer

Felix Anderl

Workshop 4: Research and Resistance - Entangled Collaboration? (Martin Butler, Oldenburg) Seminar Room 6

Projects:
Lisa Doppler

Malte Kleinschmidt

17.30h End of Conference