An interdisciplinary and comparative conference

The aim of this 4-day, on-line conference is to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and societies to explore the fundamental question: how has 'foreign occupation' (broadly defined) influenced cultural expression and cultural production across the world? With speakers from four continents and a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this conference will address this question from the perspective of visual cultures, literature, music, art and space. Adopting a broadly comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the papers that will be presented cover various historical and on-going cases of foreign occupation in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and other regions.

Conference themes include:

• The development of visual, musical, auditory, literary, performative and architectural cultures under foreign occupation

• Censorship and control of cultural expression under foreign occupation, and responses to such control   

• Gender and race in cultural expression and cultural production under occupation

• The control and re-ordering  of space under occupation

Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Ahmad H. Sa'di (Ben-Gurion University) and Professor Christine de Matos (University of Notre Dame, Sydney)