Description
What does resistance mean? How can individuals and communities resist hegemonic social orders? Can resistance occur without new forms of subjugation, transgression without the (re)institution of new norms (Michel Foucault, 1977; Ephraim Das Janssen, 2017)? Does resistance ever have an end goal? These questions are repeated in the fields of philosophy, political theory, history and beyond.This two-day conference aims to centre resistance as it is already lived and embodied, including in practices that do not appear immediately “political”, and through materials and forms of making historically subjugated (Kirsty Robertson, 2011; Roszika Parker, 1984).
Co-organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and the Design Activism research strand of the Centre for Design History (with additional funding from the Brighton Doctoral College), this interdisciplinary encounter aims to join theoretical research and historical inquiry. Together, we will explore practical and material ways by which people resist hegemonic orders, remake social structures, and challenge other oppressive systems.
The conference will feature talks by 44 speakers, from institutions around the globe, and will include 12 panels, 3 displays of practice-based work, and a keynote by Professor Anna Feigenbaum.
Panels:
1. Spatiality & Public Spheres
2. Housing & Community Spaces
3. Medical Violence & Pathologisation
4. Queering & Institutional Cisnormativity
5. Temporality & Histories
6. Objects of Resistance
7. Material Practice & Communal Creation
8. Refusing, Embracing & Rebuilding the Everyday
9. Growing & Food Cultures
10. Creators & Creative Mediums
11. Reflections on Resistance & the Everyday (1)
12. Reflections on Resistance & the Everyday (2)
Location: Edward Street, University of Brighton
Lunch & refreshments included
Conference dinner (November 6th)
| Period | 6 Nov 2025 → 7 Nov 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Brighton, United KingdomShow on map |