Conference: Protest Art in the New Autocracy (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)

Conference dates: June 20 & 21, 2019

This conference aims to showcase the diverse forms of contemporary protest art that have emerged around the world over the last few years in a single interdisciplinary forum. The conference presents a rare opportunity for established and emerging scholars, artists, and museum directors and curators to forge a multidisciplinary dialogue on these challenges and questions. It will highlight protest as a central concern in various academic and professional spheres through a rich set of papers addressing a variety of media (digital art, comics and graphic novels, installation, performance, cinema, social media, sculpture, textile art, and painting), issues (such as gender, ecology, activism, strategy, climate change, political structures), creative spaces (gallery, street, digital, and print), and national contexts (including the US and UK, Russia, Eastern Europe, and China).

Convened by Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge).

Fees are £40 (full fee) or £20 (student / unwaged) and are inclusive of lunches and refreshments. One-day registration is also available.

Please see the programme and more information here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27904

Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), the University of Cambridge's Department of History of Art, and the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC).

Administrative assistance: conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk