Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy
May 10, 2019 – Leicester, UK. 

Keynote address from Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway.

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: February 1st, 2019. 
Please send all submissions to interventions2019@gmail.com.

Interventions 2019 aims to critically explore pertinent socio-political issues and their cultural representations. Papers of twenty minutes might include, but are not limited to:

•    Post-truth politics
•    Neoliberalism and freedom
•    Democratic participation
•    Class and austerity politics
•    Globalisation, migration, and citizenship
•    Censorship, offense, and free speech
•    Autonomy and marginalised identities
•    Resistance and activism in the arts and humanities
•    Theoretical interventions with regard to freedom and democracy
•    Cultural responses to political events
•    Social media and social movements
•    Politics and the academe
•    Corporations, governments, and accountability
•    Politics and mental health
•    Technologies and democracy
•    Anti-semitism and Islamophobia