“Creativity, Resistance and Social Change”International Conference13-14 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

We welcome submissions from across the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to literature, anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies, media and communication, psychology, education, political science and the arts.

Proposals may take the form of:

• Individual papers
• Panel or roundtable proposals
• Practice-based or creative presentations
• Community-engaged or participatory research