Thursday, May 12, 2022

8:45-9:15 Registration

9:15-9:30 Welcome remarks

9:30-10:15 Keynote

• Ralph Young (Temple University)

10:15 -11:30 Panel I | Dissent in International Narratives

• Ayman Al Sharafat (Eötvös Loránd University) - Dissent Choices in Arab Countries
• Firoozeh Nafisi (Phillips University of Marburg)- The Role of Counter Narratives in Learning American English as a Foreign Language
• Smita Jha (Indian Institute Of Technology Roorkee)- Perspectives on Transnational Feminism
• Chair: Jan Hornát (Charles University)

11:30 - 12:15 Lunch break

12:15 - 13:30 Panel II | Dissent in Sexuality & Gender

• Clara Juncker (University of Southern Denmark)-Gendered Dissent: #MeToo Travels to Scandinavia
• Elzbieta Dudek (University of Warsaw)- How Many Likes Can My Dissent Gain?: Examining Practices of Body Positive Influencers On Instagram
• Aleksandra Malinowska (University of Warsaw)- Asexuality and Capitalism: Do Ace-friendly Sex Toys Reformulate the Hegemony?
• Chair: Lucie Kýrová (Charles University)

 

13:30 - 14:45 Panel III | Historical Figures of Dissent

• Daphne Orlandi (Sapienza University of Rome)- R.W. Emerson: A Political and Cultural dissenter
• David McCartney (The University of Iowa)-Burning Dissent: Stephen Smith, Draft Card Burning, and the Students for a Democratic Society in Middle America
• Marcin Gajek (University of Warsaw)-Traditionalists as Dissenters. Southern Agrarians and Their “Leftist” Critique of Modern America
• Chair: Jiří Pondělíček (Charles University)

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 15:45 Keynote Speech 

• Erica Violet Lee (Cree writer, scholar, and Indigenous activist)

15:45 - 17:00 Presentation Panel IV | Dissent in Cold War Europe

• Francis Raska (Charles University)- The West European Left and Czechoslovak Dissent
• Norma Hervey (Charles University) - Dissenters Vindicated
• Patrick Vaughan (Jagiellonian University)- Dissent in Poland: 1975-1980
• Chair: Gyorgy Toth (University of Stirling)

Friday, May 13, 2022

8:45 - 9:15 Registration

9:15 - 10:00 Keynote

• Paul von Blum (University of California, Los Angeles)

10:00 - 11:15 Panel V | Civil Rights Era Dissent

• Jan Géryk (Charles University)- American Left-Wing Reception of the Czechoslovak 1960s Reform Movement
• Derek Charles Catsam (University of Texas)-Permian Basin-Dissent on the Streets: Global Bus Boycotts and Transatlantic Implications, 1940-1960
• Brittany Bounds (Texas A&M University Qatar)- The Balance of Dissent: Lessons Learned from the 1960s U.S. Protests
• Chair: Francis Raška (Charles University)

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:45 Panel VI | Indigenous Dissent in Canada and the USA, Past & Present

• Gyorgy Toth (University of Stirling)-“It’s Just Like a Vietnam Battlefield Out There”: Native American Dissent, Activism, and the Vietnam War
• Lucie Kýrová (Charles University)- "A movement throughout the whole world of ideas and of peoples": Building a Global Movement of Indigenous Dissent
• Chair: Magdalena Fiřtová (Charles University)

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 - 15:00 Panel VII Dissent in North America, Then & Now

• Jodie Childers (University of Massachusetts)-Performances of Dissent: Artists Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
• Kateřina Březinová (Metropolitan University Prague)-Categorically Unequal? Belonging, Legal Status and Dissent in the 21st Century USA
• Tomasz Soroka (Jagiellonian University)- Western Alienation: The Dissent in Canadian Prairies on the Rise
• Chair: Jana Sehnálková (Charles University)

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 - 17:15 Public screening of The Art of Dissent, followed by a discussion with the film’s producers

17:15 - 17:30 Closing Remarks