About the conference.
The conference venue will be outlined in good time. The site offers excellent Car parking and transport access. The conference will begin at 10 am. Please make your way to the signed front entrance where you will be greeted and assigned your identification badge. Catering will be supplied for the day, including the hog roast company, a vegetarian menu is also available from other vendors. Tea, coffee, and other soft drinks are on site. Gendered Toilets are provided. Photographs and video's will be facilitated throughout the day, for social media marketing and as a supply for practitioners. If you would not like to be a part of the photography and video recordings, please let us know.
Topics and themes of discussion
The theme for the day is protestation. To offer a wide subject target, Dr conference has brought together three broad areas of protestation: The history of protestation, a personal view of protestation, and a contemporary protestation. Speakers may posses a thesis that focusses on either one of these broad structures, within a particular detail of protestation, or is a combination of all three structures.
An Historical Protestation
Dr Conference contends that protestation has a broad historical paradigm from which to locate theoretical contexts. The history of protestation broadly covers a long and varied record of individuals and groups challenging authority or established norms, from medieval revolts like the Peasants' Revolt (1381) and the early 16th-century Protestant Reformation to modern movements advocating for rights and social change. Protests have manifested in numerous forms, from public assemblies and riots to strikes and even subtle acts of resistance like chosen clothing, all seeking to express dissent and effect change in various domains, including political, economic, and social spheres.
A personal protestation
Another way your research may align with the protestation theme is through an auto ethnographic lens, or through the parameters of personal injury or abuse; or life experience, growing up within a politically disconnected place. There may be a psychological connection, your research may be a discussion of the mechanism dissent for example. Your research may be a direct protest of the technological age, and Ai, for example, or it may align through a media specific mode of enquiry, such as political cartooning, illustration, fine art or digital memes. Your research may be applicable to certain socioeconomic groups, or it may have strong political connections.
A contemporary protestation
Your research may encompass the way in which individuals and groups protest, the causation, or the novelty. For example: In the Canadian winter of 1903, members of a Christian sect called the Doukhobors became the first modern naked protestors. Similar to the Anabaptist/Mennonite sects of Western Europe, the Russian Doukhobors rejected ecclesiastical hierarchy, traditional orthodox liturgy and modern forms of social organisation in favour of individual spirituality, radically simplified worship and anti-modern communitarianism. Your focus may be within the construct of protest itself, why do people protest?, what is its function? A contemporary view of political dysfunction may be your focus, or within a particular area of socioeconomic group. Protest has become an often potent tool of public influence over government policy making and implementation. Protest has become an often potent tool of public influence over government policy making and implementation.protest activity is apparently increasing in advanced industrial democracies, spreading on a global scale, recent studies describe protest as a becoming an ubiquitous part of contemporary politics.
Submit a proposal
We welcome submissions from a broad spectrum of critical and creative practice for individual 15-20 minute papers. Applicants are kindly asked to submit: A brief abstract (no more than 250 words and a short biographical note (100 words ) The deadline to apply is
Wednesday 14th January 2026, 17:00 Please email your proposals to:
businessDrconference@outlook.com. Lastly, all Speakers will each receive an honorarium of £100.