Deadline: December 13th
Contact: Caro Register, UNC
Email: caroreg@unc.edu

Resistance, as performed by both human and nonhuman entities, is a fundamental tool of self-assertion, advocacy, rebellion, and transformation that has an extensive history across many spaces, traditions, and eras within the Romance world. Scholarly discussions have led to the elaboration of various forms of resistance that transcend the dichotomy of violent and non-violent. Social, political, physical, economic, material, intellectual, and poetic/literary resistance are topics broached by many scholars and are widely acknowledged as manners by which both human and nonhuman entities can resist. As scholars within the humanities continue to create a more cohesive and profound vision of resistance, more questions continue to arise. What does it mean to resist and who/what are we resisting? Who is/who can participate in acts of resistance and how have humans and nonhumans alike participated in it or performed it? What is the interplay between resistance and existence, and does resistance always have to be conscious? How has the notion of resistance been reimagined with the dawn of climate change in the era of the anthropocene? How does resistance operate on a bodily level, particularly within the context of disability studies? Perhaps the most pervasive and polemic question has pertained to methodology: should resistance efforts operate within our systems to affect change over time, or is a complete sociocultural, political, and/or economic revolution necessary in order to completely dismantle these systems?

The 29th annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies invites undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, scholars, artists, and authors from any discipline to submit scholarly essays as well as other contributions such as works of visual, aesthetic and performance art, short films, creative writing, roundtable discussions, and/or workshops that address or investigate the theme of resistance as it pertains to the far-reaching Romance world. Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words using the submission form via the CCRS website (ccrs.unc.edu) by December 13th, 2024. We welcome papers submitted in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish; however, in certain cases, submissions in English will be preferred in order to facilitate the creation of panels based on common subject areas rather than language concentration. Panel proposals and roundtables that are language- and/or topic-specific are also welcomed, and each participant should individually complete a submission form. Please direct any questions to ccrs@unc.edu.

Posted on November 6, 2024