On Transgressive Contention

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What does it mean to engage in transgressive contention? It describes how actors previously considered apolitical, or even complicit, can expose the mechanisms through which totalitarian apparatuses operate and disclose the gaps that make collective action possible. Through three case studies—surveillance in New York City, student activism in the United States, and the Egyptian football Ultras as a revolutionary force—this panel examines questions of state and institutional repression and the forms of resistance that arise in response.

Elizabeth Koumans, Liberal Arts ’27

How do pervasive architectures of surveillance function as mechanisms of control by structuring visibility unevenly?

Livv Halstead, BAFA Liberal Arts (The Human Condition in the 21st Century) / Integrated Design; Printmaking Minor '29

How do state and university responses to student activism reveal the conditional nature of democracy, free speech, and education in the United States?

Jana Mohamed, Global Studies; Migration Studies and Printmaking Minors '26

How do outwardly apolitical subcultures, such as football Ultras, mutate into crucial catalysts of revolutionary mobilization?

Faculty: Heather Davis, Culture and Media

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