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Call for Papers Theme: Changing Humanities in a Changing World Type: International Conference Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University Location: Chiang Mai (Thailand) Date: 27.–29.11.2014 Deadline: 18.8.2014 __________________________________________________ In Collaboration with the 8th Humanities Research Forum in Thailand The Imperial Mae Ping Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand Our world is rapidly changing, and these changes – in communication, technology, politics, the economy and the environment – deeply and widely affect people across the globe. The problems these changes cause, whether at the personal or societal level, have become increasingly and overwhelmingly complex. Today’s digital world, for instance, has caused instability in the existing contrasts between globalization, nationalism and localism. It has also resulted in a reshaping of human thought and emotion. New ethics and values, new worldviews, new questions of the self, spirituality, and identity, have emerged even as some of the old standards persist. This requires a new understanding of the world and our societies beyond the existing frameworks. Scholarship in the humanities must adapt, both in its epistemological and methodological assumptions, to facilitate critical thinking and better responses to these challenges and complexities. The humanities, not in its confined, narrow role and specialization in language and communications, but in its broad approach to surrounding socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions, need to be rethought. Submissions We would like to welcome papers (a full paper around 20-25 A4 pages, 12,000 – 15,000 words, along with an abstract, 500 – 600 words, in English or Thai) BEFORE August 18th, 2014 in the following areas: - Research Methodologies in the Humanities - Creativity, Critique, and Spirituality - The Polemics of the Self and the Ethical Life - Globalization and Localism from a Humanistic Perspective - Cultural Studies in the Humanities - Digital Humanities - Communication and Identity - Poetics of Politics / Politics of Poetics Email: [email protected] Confirmed keynote speakers - Prof. Craig Reynolds, Australian National University - Assoc. Prof. Søren Ivarsson, University of Copenhagen - Prof. Maurizio Peleggi, National University of Singapore - Dr. Aung Myint Oo, University of Yangoon - Dr. M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization/ Regional Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts - Assoc. Prof. Verai Somboon, Chulalongkorn University Important dates Call for presentation abstracts and papers: April 2014 Deadline for abstract and paper submission: 18 August 2014 Notification of accepted papers: Early September 2014 Conference: 27-29 November 2014 Contact: Conference “Changing Humanities in a Changing World” Faculty of Humanities Chiang Mai University 239 Huay Kaew Rd. Tumbon Su-Thep Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand Phone: +66 (0)53-942345, (0)53-943215 Fax: +66 (0)53-943220 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.changinghumanities.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
