Illusions of Identity:
resisting (beyond) identity politics
An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
University of Western Ontario, Canada
October 14-15, 2006
In our contemporary political climate, this conference answers the urgent need to contribute to the ongoing efforts to rethink identity politics. We imagine this conference as an opportunity to work through and disseminate new frameworks for thinking social movement and resistance. We intend to bring together students and activists whose works traverse disciplinary boundaries in an attempt to articulate some of the possibilities and pitfalls of identity categories (gender, race, nationality, class, sexuality, ability, etc.). As such, we hope to put into action the false distinction between theory and practice.
| Keynote: | J. Bobby Noble, Assistant Professor Sexuality Studies Program, School of Women's Studies, York University |
| Book Launch: | Trans/Forming Feminisms |
This conference is free thanks to our sponsors:
The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
First Nations Studies
Rogers Chair of Studies in Journalism and New Information Technology
Social Justice and Peace Studies
Department of English
Women's Studies and Feminist Research
and especially,
The Society of Graduate Students, Faculty of Graduate Studies, and Research Western through a grant from the Joint Fund for Graduate Research and Scholarship.