Call for papers is now open. Full program as well as registration for presenters and attendees without paper presentations will be available later on.
Call for papers
While traditional humanities disciplines and topics have become deeper and broader over the years, they have also been enriched by interdisciplinary, integrative or new humanities that cut across disciplines and problem-based themes such as the LiU Department of Thematic Studies. But despite the nowadays diverse, adaptive, and rich humanities, there seems to be a recurring debate on the value of the humanities not the least in relation to the distribution of funding for research and education. There is, hence, an imperative need for a comprehensive discussion of the role, nature and place of the humanities in academia and in society at large.
This conference aims at showing the power of various humanities by displaying research initiatives that provide the crucial social, cultural, existential, ethical, philosophical, and political dimensions of how human life is entangled with history, language, interaction, science, nature and technologies.
Scholars within all fields that identify with, or wish to pursue collaboration with, qualitative, interpretative and critical research are invited to present ongoing or planned initiatives.
Possible topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to:
- Ways of knowing in the many humanities
- Impact storytelling and other ways of connecting to society
- Inter-faculty collaboration scenarios
- Collaborations with public institutions and the arts
- Interdisciplinary collaborations within social sciences and the humanities
All submissions should include names and affiliations of presenters as well as a title and a 250-word abstract of your paper. The symposium language is English. Paper proposals should be sent to conferenceliuhumanities@liu.se no later than 21 March, 2025 after which they will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Participants will be notified via email by 29 April.
The conference is free of charge but there will be a fee for the conference dinner.