About this Event
Abstract Deadline: Monday, 8th April 2024
Date: Friday, 7th June 2024
Location: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Conference Email:
Call for Papers:
The arts and humanities are on the frontlines of attacks on higher education (see the Department of Education decision to cut 50% of funding to higher education arts subjects in England). Waves of course closures and staff redundancies at a series of institutions have specifically targeted the arts and humanities departments, as well as social sciences. Our subjects are frequently dismissed as an ‘excess’, a ‘luxury’ good, and not cost-effective.
Sometimes referred to as the ‘canary in the coal mine’ of higher education, the humanities are on the frontline of the culture wars and bear the brunt of governmental and societal attitudes regarding education. Universities are not the only institutions central to the reproduction of knowledge and power relations. Museums and media have also long been central to projects of colonisation and imperialism.
Arts and humanities are crucial to fostering our critical understanding of the past and providing a lens with which to examine structures and modes of power. Arts and humanities can provide solutions for the challenges facing a rapidly changing world.
This day-long event is multidisciplinary and brings together graduate researchers across disciplines in the arts and humanities. The aim is to give a voice to graduate students and researchers in the arts and humanities. We hope to provide a space where graduate students and researchers can showcase their research and discipline-specific skills and methodologies at a time when these skills are being undervalued by universities and under attack in the wider political climate.
Conference Themes:
- Humanities on the frontlines of ways of thinking/understanding, in particular about the role of data, representation, and information quality, as well as the skills cultivated in the humanities.
- Ways of representing/ frameworks, models and the role of wider institutional policy: social, gender, and racial injustices in various sectors of society
- The role of models and idealization in representing knowledge (How can one idealize without falsifying?)
- Qualitative and quantitative methodologies
- Humanities on the frontlines of technological innovation/technology and the human: inform scientists and the public of the ethical implications of AI, including from a gender perspective
- Media, cultural, societal, and political representation
- Linguistic, critical discourse, framing, and/or narrative analysis
- Intercultural communication
- Media literacy, misinformation, and conspiracy theories
- Gender and gender-related interdisciplinary issues, such as gender in shaping public opinions and its role in political issues, as well as in the fields of human rights, health, the workplace, language, philosophy, economics, international development, etc.
- Museums, cultural centres and art galleries as guardians and disseminators of cultural narratives,
- Digital research and communities
How to submit a proposal:
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a 50-word biography to by 8th April 2024. The committee welcomes contributions that are still a work in progress that fit the theme(s) of the event. Please also include any accessibility requirements you might have.
Presenters will be informed about their participation by 22nd April 2024.
We aim to prioritise in-person attendance, but there is scope for online attendance also. Please include in your abstract whether you wish to present online, and this will be taken into consideration.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided during the event.
With thanks from the organising committee:
Carolina Gallarini, Yixuan Duan, Mohamed Yillah, Andrea James, and Hao Mo.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of East Anglia, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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