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Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism University of Western Ontario, Canada October 12-13, 2007 |
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Organizers for Tactics of Resistance Ayse Batur is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, the University of Western Ontario. Her areas of interest include theories of subjectivity, sexuality, the image and the visual, the visual image, and photography theory. LindaBeth Flack (web design) is a Masters student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, the University of Western Ontario. Her research interest include sexual subjectivity, constructing gender and sexuality through visual culture, resistant activism, identity politics, and art as political action. Mark F. Jull is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario. His research interests include political theory, psychoanalysis, urban politics, and the concept of 'necessity'. Gerald McKinley is a Master's student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. His research investigates the literature by and about First Nations Peoples. His research interests include First Nation Studies and the role of difference in cross cultural discourse. Alexander Pershai is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario. His research investigates the discourse on dictionaries, exploring technologies of archiving, organizing and accessing knowledge. His research interests also concern nationalism, transgender, language, gender and power. Aarnoud Rommens is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Theory at the University of Western Ontario. His research traces the intersections between South American and European avant-garde practices of visual profanation. His research interests also include transgression, (counter-)censorship, visual arts and the relation between word and text, and scatology. Chris Shaw is a Master’s student at the University of Western Ontario’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. Chris is exploring the role of the clinamen, as seen through a lens of information theory, in social utopianism, morphogenesis, and Oulipian literature. |