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Call for Papers Theme: Transnational Humanities Subtitle: Concept and Praxis Type: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference Institution: UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin Location: Dublin (Ireland) / Online Date: 19.2.2021 Deadline: 30.11.2020 __________________________________________________ In an ever-changing and increasingly transnationalized world, the multidirectional movement of people, ideas, and commodities, enhanced by advances in transportation, information, and communication technologies, have now become an integral aspect of our everyday lived-experience and identity formation. Born out of the awareness of the current condition, the analysis of the transnational network resonated with conversations in the humanities highlighting the interconnectivity of social, political, and cultural activities that cut across state boundaries. Transnationalism as a concept and praxis challenges the unexamined structural concepts that frame the world, people, knowledge, and objects into binary oppositions, i.e. their division into global/local, central/peripheral, western/non-western, or universal/particular camps and positions that reproduce a divisive and hierarchical form of society. In the context of this complex and potentially conflictual condition of multidimensional interconnectedness, the 2021 PhD Conference of the UCD Humanities Institute is seeking proposals from emerging scholars and artists (doctoral candidates or researchers who received their PhD within the last five years) who are engaging with the concept, practice, or actors of transnationalism. We invite proposals for individual papers of no more than 2,500 words (suitable for a 20-minute presentation), or 3-paper panel sessions addressing topics that include but not limited to the transnational aspects of: - flow experience, subjectivity, and identity - cultural diversity, social integration, and solidarity - community formation and emotional and affective relations - value crisis in intercultural encounters - socio-political agency and resistance - migration, diaspora, and international labour - human mobility and geography - space and place in a global context - borders and boundaries - creation and appreciation of music and fine arts - film and media studies - the inter-cultural movement and development of ideas and philosophy - the geo- and bio-politics of knowledge - literature and translatability - multilingual encounters and the process of hybridization, enrichment, and symbiosis Papers reflecting on the broad aspects of transnationalism are also welcome: - transnational philosophy, framework, and methodology - transnationalism’s relation to globalization and advancements in technology - transnationality and transculturality - transnationalized knowledges and experience Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio-note of around 200 words, on or before 30 November 2020 (Monday), 5:00 PM (Irish Standard Time), to: [email protected] All proposals should include your name, email address and academic affiliation (if applicable). Please also include a main subject field plus secondary subject field in the application. The conference will be held in English. The conference is convened by Resident Scholars of the UCD Humanities Institute. Keynote Speaker: Dr Ailbhe Kenny Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick We currently hope that this conference can take place in person, but in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and also with anthropogenic climate change in mind, we will accommodate requests for remote participation in the conference. It is also the intention to publish online selected papers from the conference. For further information contact HI Resident Scholars Zhengfeng Wang, Bianca Rita Cataldi, Mike Norris, or Kelly Louise Rexzy Agra, at the conference email address: [email protected] Call for Papers: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/t4media/CFP%202021%20HI%20PhD%20Conference.pdf __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
