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Call for Papers "New Directions in the Humanities" 6th International Conference Common Ground Fatih University Istanbul (Turkey) 15-18 July 2008 __________________________________________________ The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Main speakers will include some of the worlds leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. Participants are also welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session or a virtual session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. The deadline for the current round in the Call for Papers is 26 June 2008. Presenters may choose to submit written papers to the The International Journal of the Humanities, a fully refereed academic Journal. Virtual participants also have the option to submit papers for consideration by the Journal. All registered Conference participants receive a complimentary online subscription to the Journal when registration is finalised. This subscription is valid until one year after the Conference end date. If you would like to know more about this Conference, bookmark the Humanities Conference site and return for further information - the site is regularly updated. You may also wish to subscribe to the Conference and Journal Newsletter. Themes Theme 1: Meaning and Communication: - Language and human meaning - Cultural dialogue as a local and global imperative - Linguistic diversity: its nature and meanings - Communications outside of the humanities: making the connections - Humanities and technologies: bridging the gap - Education for a new humanity - Values, attitudes, sensibilities: what role the humanities? - Freedom and tolerance: within what latitudes? - The dynamics of culture and identity - Language and linguistics in the humanities - Languages: global English, multilingualism, language death, language revival - Communicating: media, film, theatre - The nature of the literary - The social mind: linguistics in theory and application - Old forms and new insights: the novel, poetry and other literatures - New media, new messages, new meanings - The art of engagement: music, visual arts, theatre Theme 2: Frames of Reference for the Humanities: - The stuff of knowledge in a 'knowledge society' or 'knowledge economy' - Modern, postmodern and other ways of knowing - Subjectivity and objectivity, truth and relativity - Consciousness revisited - Ethics and knowledge - Semiotics: the modalities of meaning - Philosophy in the humanities - Making knowledge: research in the humanities - Intellectual property: private property or creative commons? - Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinary Theme 3: Agendas for the Humanities - Globalism and localism; cosmopolitanism and backlash - History and its futures - Immigration, minorities, refugees, diaspora - Citizenship: national and global - Cities and regions: the dynamics of proximity and distance - Violence and peace - A third way? And the first or second futures of our recent past - Colonialism and neo-colonialism - Terror and anti-terror - Differences: gender, sexuality, families, race, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability - Family and community - Aesthetics and design - Place making in the humanities: geography and its sites - Land and place: framing indigenous identities - Nationalism and racism - Religious meanings and their human significance Theme 4: The Humanities in Practice - Teaching and learning in the humanities - Humanities in cyberspace - Meaning in the 'information society' - Politics in the humanities - Science and humanity - Biotechnology, bioethics and aspects of body and environment - Sustaining the human, ecologically and culturally - Archaeologies of the material and the ephemeral - Museums and cultural heritage - Technology, between humans and nature - The 'ism's of the humanities: feminism, multiculturalism... - The 'new economy' and the 'knowledge economy' - where do the humanities fit? Contact: Common Ground Publishing University of Illinois Research Park 2004 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61802-1000 USA Phone: +1 217 328 0405 Fax: +1 217 328 0435 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.humanitiesconference.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
