is not this fairly short notice for call for papers or because it is Gayathru Spivak as the keynote or thrissur as the venue - the call can happen offhand?????
2009/3/7 Luisa Steur <luisast...@yahoo.co.uk> > Fyi: A call for papers for a conference, 27 and 28 June 2009 in Thrissur: > > > Call for Papers > International Conference on Humanities in the 21st Century > Rethinking Humanities in the Age of the Visual > June 27 & 28, 2009 > C PRACSIS, Thrissur, Kerala, India 680001 > Keynote: Gayathri Chakrvorthy Spivak > The conference, Rethinking Humanities attempts to interrogate how the > future of humanities can be traced and interpreted from various academic and > philosophical quarters, and the ways in which interdisciplinary endeavours > in all realms of knowledge respond to this effort. It is widely accepted > that Humanities in the academia has encountered unusually critical > challenges in the last few decades. The question of how these challenges are > transmitted through the corpus and the methodological and canonical > framework of traditional Humanities will be pivotal in the making of the > conference. The conference attempts in a broad manner to address the > following issues: > Contemporary interpretations of the crisis in humanities > The genealogies of interdisciplinarity in humanities > The historical contexts of evolution of humanities > Humanities and Social Sciences > Posthumanities and production of knowledge > Humanities and artificial intelligence > Theories of technoculture and Cyber space and humanities > Humanities and globalization > Humanities and visual culture > Philosophy in 21 Cen. academia > The theory and practice of the arts in the 21st century > Art and aesthetics as disciplines > Theatre studies and interdisciplinary approaches > Performance and philosophy > Technology and Humanities > Art and Social Sciences > Visual Arts and the Virtual Reality > 20th century approaches to humanities > The future of humanities in Asia > The fact that one of the major paradigms which re-organized many > disciplines, including social sciences in the last century was the paradigm > of visual culture and this issue has been crucial in designing the theme of > this conference. The age of the visual, with its alteration of the > priorities of modernity and the privileging of the spectacle incites serious > reconsideration of Humanities within the contexts of the cultural practices > of 21st century. C PRACSIS invites papers for presentation in the proposed > conference on 27 and 28 June 2009 at Thrissur, Kerala, India; on topics of > similar wavelength. Kindly send the abstracts of the papers to < > direc...@cpracsis.org> or to <csbiju...@gmail.com> on or before April 20, > 2009. Information regarding the acceptance of the paper will be send within > five days of the receipt of the abstract. Updates will be available soon in > the > C PRACSIS website <cpracsis.org <http://cpracsis.org/> >. > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic > communications disclaimer: > http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm > > > > > -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
