"Creativity, Resistance and Social Change" International Conference

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Deadline: March 31, 2026 | Date: June 12, 2026-June 14, 2026

Venue/Country: Accra, Ghana / Online, Ghana

Updated: 2026-02-07 06:24:45 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

International Conference

12-14 June 2026 - Accra, Ghana / Online

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Across history and cultures, creativity has played a central role in resisting injustice, challenging dominant narratives and imagining alternative social futures. From storytelling, music and visual art to literature, performance, digital media and everyday creative practices, acts of creation often emerge in response to exclusion, oppression or crisis. Creativity can unite communities, give voice to marginalised experiences and sustain collective struggles for dignity, justice and transformation.

This conference invites interdisciplinary reflections on how creative practices function as forms of resistance and catalysts for social change. We welcome contributions that explore creativity both as an expressive response to power and as an active force shaping social, political and cultural transformations.

Possible themes Include (but are not limited to):

Creativity as resistance and dissent

Storytelling, memory and counter-narratives

Oral traditions, folklore and cultural transmission

Literature, poetry and narrative activism

Music, performance and protest cultures

Visual arts, street art and public space

Digital creativity, social media and online resistance

Youth cultures, creativity and social movements

Gender, sexuality and creative resistance

Indigenous, postcolonial and decolonial creative practices

Creativity, migration, displacement and belonging

Art, trauma, healing and social repair

Creative economies, labour and social justice

Education, pedagogy and creativity for social change