The University of Kent’s School of Psychology is co-sponsoring a conference on social movements, titled: "Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest: an Interdisciplinary Conference". The conference will be held on the Canterbury campus on 13th-14th October 2012 with Keynote Addresses by Professor Christopher Rootes of the University of Kent and by Professor Dominic Abrams of the University of Kent. 

Recently, social movements such as the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring and the Spanish Indignados have made headlines and grabbed the attention of power-holders and citizens. Historically, social movements have contributed to social, political and economic change. This conference seeks to explore these elements with an interdisciplinary approach. 

The aim is to explore the study of social movements with a variety of academic lenses and attempt to develop collaboration between disciplines on the study. We seek contributions for a broad range of disciplines and a mixture of disciplines including sociology, law, psychology, politics, economics, cultural studies, history, geography, philosophy, literature, and film studies. We hope to use this conference as a forum to bridge some of the gaps between the different disciplines and their work in the field of social movements. 

Further information is available here: http://taispconference.wordpress.com/

Abstracts are due by June 15th 2012