[Discussion] Techniques of Domination, Strategies of Resistance: Power, Agency, and Identity in the Historical Frame

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*Techniques of Domination, Strategies of Resistance: Power, Agency, and 
Identity in the Historical Frame*


Eighth Annual Graduate Student History and Theory Conference
January 15-16, 2005
Keynote: Professor James Scott, Yale University
Roundtable: TBA

The steering committee for the Eighth Annual Student History and Theory 
Conference at the University of California, Irvine, invites proposals 
for its 2005 conference. This conference will explore the structuring, 
performance, representation, and/or interplay of domination and 
resistance. Interdisciplinary graduate student papers and panels are 
welcomed, as are presentations using multimedia or performance. Panel 
and paper topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

   * Disciplinary power/biopower
   * Discourse
   * Subaltern studies
   * Nationalism/nationality/nation-building
   * Colonialism/imperialism/postcolonialism
   * Social engineering
   * Localism/globalism
   * Race/ethnicity
   * Gender/sexuality
   * Subjectivity
   * Slavery/bondage
   * Memory/counter-memory
   * Feudalisms/peasantries
   * Insurgency/repression
   * Rupture/trauma/dislocation
   * Diaspora/refugee
   * Capitalism/labor/class

Submission Information: Proposals for individual presentations and 
panels should reach us by *August 2, 2004*.

Individual submissions must include:

  1. Cover page with name, address, phone number and e-mail address
  2. Abstract of no more than 250 words
  3. A short (two-page maximum) CV

Panel submissions must include:

  1. Cover page for each participant with name, address, phone number,
     and e-mail address(please specify panel organizer)
  2. Panel abstract of no more than 250 words
  3. 250 word description of each paper
  4. A short (two-page maximum) CV for each participant

Panels will consist of three partipants. Chairpersons and discussants 
for all panels will be provided.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out the second week of 
Septmember. Submissions of a 6-8 page, double-spaced draft of the 
presentation is due by December 3, 2004 and must be mailed in hard copy 
form.

Please send proposals either electronically or by mail to:

    University of California, Irvine
Department of History
Attn: Ryan Kray and Matt Mooney
200 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275

Email: historyandtheory@hotmail.com <mailto:historyandtheory@hotmail.com>