DUO IV

Final Program for DUO IV (June 1-3, 2010)

Scholars and professionals from various disciplines are invited to submit proposals that address the creation, maintenance, resistance, and resolution or occupation; the agreement to participate indicates willingness not only to present, but also to engage in debate and discussion actively. Work relating to hegemony, power, agency, identity, among others, will be particularly relevant. Conference themes include the following strands:

Enactment: The domains wherein the politics and policies of occupation are enacted, realized through institutions attributed with and exercising power over other institutions and the public (e.g., governments, religious organizations, education departments and agencies).

Transaction: The domains wherein information about policies is transacted—disseminated, endorsed, challenged—in an effort to inform (or misinform) the occupied and the occupiers (e.g., media sources, schools, churches).

Reaction: The domains wherein daily life under occupation occurs (e.g., the community, the workplace), loci where positioning of the “self” vs. the “other”—ingroup, outgroup, and/or intergroup status—transpires, and where historical narratives of occupation are revisited.

Resolution: The locus of peacemakers and peacekeepers, those who would peaceably resist occupation and find ways to resolve conflict, as well as those who advocate resignation, acceptance, and coexistence.