The World
Humanities Conference, which we introduced you to in this blog, has now
issued a call for proposals of symposia and papers (deadlines 31 January 2017
and 30 March 2017 respectively).
The conference
entitled “Challenges and Responsibilities for a Planet in Transition” will be
held in Liège from 6-12 August 2017. Please read all relevant information below
or follow the link.
World
Humanities Conference
Challenges
and Responsibilities for a Planet in Transition
Liège, 6th-12th
August 2017
CALL
FOR PROPOSALS OF SYMPOSIA AND PAPERS
Purpose
and scope
Humanities have
been a main structuring dimension of knowledge and understanding of societies
throughout time, allowing to approach complexity, rendering time and causal
dimensions to features or making sense of processes. Actually, the divide
between the Humanities and other knowledge clusters (e.g. natural sciences or
technologies) is a recent feature. One of the first initiatives undertaken in
the framework of UNESCO, soon after World War II, was the establishment of the
International Council for the Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, in January
1949. Yet, Humanities lost ground in the most recent decades, while global
acceleration led societies to focus on short term issues rather than on
foresight and mid to long term concerns.
Four several
dimensions are to be considered when attempting to resume a central role for
the Humanities in contemporary society, namely their epistemological framework,
their institutional networking, the scope of Humanities concerns in daily life
of societies and their relations to the arts and education. It is within these
concerns that the World Humanities’ Conference will be organised, by CIPSH,
UNESCO and Liège Together partners, in August 2017.
This is the time
for Humanities scholars, but also related collaborators, artists, scientists or
policy makers, to stand forward. The global context is difficult, and the
preparation of a World Conference is difficult. This is precisely why it is so
needed, and we address to you.
Humanities themes
offer a unique sight into global concerns, offering them specific time length
and causal sequencing understandings. While six main topics have been proposed,
as key interfaces between Humanities research and societal concerns, the World
Humanities’ Conference invites submissions from all Humanities disciplines and
encourages them to address those themes and related issues on the basis of
Humanistic methodologies and epistemologies. Papers, sessions and symposia
which address these broad issues from the perspective of History, Creative
Literature, Visual Arts, Performative Media, Anthropology, Comparative cultural
studies, Archaeology, Philosophy or any other Humanities fields, are welcome.
The World Humanities’
Conference is being largely prepared with a bottom-up methodology, and has a
major and ambitious challenge: to change the tide and resume centrality for the
Humanities. This will mainly depend on the engagement of scholars across the
world. There are countless relevant research and applied projects and networks
in the domains of the Humanities, but there is little coordination and
awareness about them.
There is a growing feeling of
the need to change methods, approaches and concerns, but this is the moment to
focus and integrate them within a diversity framework. Please do bring your
research, concerns, doubts and proposals for this major forum that will start
reversing the course of Humanities periphery current status.
Structure
and deadlines
The world Conference will accept proposals
of sessions, symposia and of papers for sessions.
The sessions
are organized under the sub-topics of six sections, as in the attached list; it
is possible to propose sessions within the sections, until November 1st,
2016.
The symposia
are organized by a professional association or a specific
group, and should address a specific theme not covered by the sessions.
Symposia proposals must include a minimum of six papers by different
participants, and may be proposed until January 31st, 2017.
The papers
are submitted for any of the sessions listed in the attachment and the
conference website, and may be submitted until March 30th, 2017.
Please complete one or more of the proposals forms,
attached.
Proposal
of Session (complete the table below)
Name of
organiser
|
Institutional
affiliation
|
Name(s) of the
co-organiser(s)
|
Institutional
affiliation(s)
|
Email contacts
|
Section under
which the session is proposed: 1 ¨ 2 ¨ 3 ¨ 4 ¨ 5 ¨ 6 ¨
|
Title of
proposed session
|
Summary (150
words)
|
5 Keywords
|
Proposal
of Symposium (complete the table below)
Name of
organiser
|
Institutional
affiliation
|
Name(s) of the
co-organiser(s)
|
Institutional affiliation(s)
|
Email contacts
|
Section under
which the symposium is proposed: 1 ¨ 2 ¨ 3 ¨ 4 ¨ 5 ¨ 6 ¨
|
Title of
proposed symposium
|
Summary (150
words)
|
5 Keywords
|
Paper 1
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
|
Proposal
of Symposium (page 2)
Paper 2
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
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Paper 3
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
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Paper 4
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
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Paper 5
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
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Paper 6
Author(s)
name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Email(s):
Title:
Abstract (100
words):
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Proposal
of Paper (complete the table below)
Author(s)
name(s)
|
Institutional
affiliation(s)
|
Email contacts
|
Session under
which the paper is proposed: 1 ¨ 2 ¨ 3 ¨ 4 ¨ 5 ¨ 6 ¨
|
Title of
proposed paper
|
Abstract (150
words)
|
5 Keywords
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LIST OF SESSIONS
SECTION I. HUMANITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Session 1. Environmental Anthropology, Interpretation
and Creativity
Session 2. History of the Natural Environment and
Climate
Session
3. Humans and the Environment: Adaptations and Modifications
Session
4. Humans and the Environment in the Industrial Era
Session
5. The Humanities in Environmental Management
Session
6. Environment, Societies and Values
SECTION II. CULTURAL IDENTITIES, CULTURAL DIVERSITIES
AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS: A GLOBAL MULTICULTURAL HUMANITY
Session 1. Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural
Identity and its Components
Session 2. Cultural Identity and Diversity in Dynamic
Perspective
Session 3. Internal Analysis of Interculturalism
Session 4. Dynamic Analysis of Interculturalism
Session 5. Roads of Dialogue, Paths of Knowledge and
Cultural Routes
SECTION III. BORDERS AND MIGRATIONS
Session 1. Conceptual Analysis
Session 2. Borderscape: Borders as Organization of
Space: Tracing and Marking
Session 3. Migration in its Dynamics
Session 4. Migration, Culture and Values
SECTION IV. HERITAGE
Session 1. Regarding the Notion of Heritage
Session 2. Threats to Tangible Heritage
Session 3. Threats to Intangible Heritage
Session 4. New Patrimonialisations
Session 5. Heritage Reclaimed
SECTION V. HISTORY, MEMORY AND POLITICS
Session
1. Epistemological Perspectives
Session
2. The Work of the Historian in its Political Context
Session
3. Commemorations, Celebrations and Remembrance
Session
4. From Eurocentric History to Multipolar History
Session
5. Collective Memory and the Consequences of War
SECTION VI. THE HUMANITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD. WHAT
CHANGES THE WORLD AND IN THE WORLD? WHAT CHANGES THE HUMANITIES AND IN THE
HUMANITIES?
Session 1. Surveys on the Evolution of the Humanities
Session 2. Digital Worlds
Session 3. The New Research Landscape
Session 4. Old Texts, New Approaches
Session 5. Publication and Assessment
Session 6. The Humanities, Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Social Sciences
Session 7. Humanities, Education and Culture
Session 8. Gender studies
Concluding Session: Rebuilding the Humanities,
Rebuilding Humanism
