These are some of the general topics that we believe may arise from the above:

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• empowering the imagination: the late 1960s and beyond

• the art of protest: words and images in action

• literature – and the world out there: conflict and violence in public vs literary discourses

• narratives of dissension: fiction, youth and conflict

• staging protest: drama and the political imagination since the 1960s

• screening protest: film, television and the political imagination

• poetry, protest and identity/ies since the 1960s

• action, reaction: stereotype and iconoclasm (verbal, visual)

• disruptive, constructive?: tropes of conflict and the making of contemporary societies

• take my song for it: vocal music and fraught selves since the 1960s

• translating dissent: protest represented across languages

• urban sights and sounds: street art and writing since the 1960s

• subaltern identities and gaining/giving voice: hybrid constructions

• protest through affirmation: picturing alternate communities

• remediating protest since the 1960s: from audiovisual to digital media

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The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to these or other

topics prompted by the conference's rationale.