Against Instrumentality

Session aims to historicize, theorize, and critique the imperative to extract historical lessons and models of resistance from cultural artifacts. What goes unseen, unheard: what enclosures, what intractable violence, what refusals, what silences, what grief?

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Irvin Hunt, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (ijh@illinois.edu ) Caroline Wigginton, U of Mississippi, Oxford (cwiggint@olemiss.edu )