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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
