4/1/2017 “Activism and the Humanities” Graduate Conference

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Just a note to remind you all that proposals for the English Department’s Grad Conference will be accepted until Feb. 15, 2017. This year the topic is on Activism and the Humanities, from Orlando, to President Trump, to classroom pedagogies. This conference will be held in conjunction with submissions to our Humanities Review on a similar topic. We are hoping to present some of the shorter, to-be-published pieces from the HR at the conference.

Call for Papers

Activism and the Humanities:
A Graduate Student Conference sponsored by the
English Department at St. John’s University
in conjunction with a special issue of the
SJU Humanities Review, Spring 2017

When: April 1, 2017,
Where: D’Angelo Center, St. John’s University, Queens NY.

Abstracts and vitae for the conference due Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual papers and 750 words for full panels consisting of 3 to 4 papers.

Conference Submission and Questions:
Professor Granville Ganter, ganterg@stjohns.edu
Raquel Corona, raquel.corona15@stjohns.edu

Conference Organizers seek papers on a wide array of approaches to Activism and the Humanities. Possible topics:

Black Lives Matter
Responses to Orlando
President Trump
Literature as Social Intervention
Activist Pedagogies
Political Literature
Digital Citizenship & Social Media
Eco-criticism and Environmental Activism
LGBTQ Literature
Feminist Pedagogies
World Rhetorics
Service-Learning
Social Justice Activism

Here is the call for papers for the Humanities Review:

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2016/10/12/%E2%80%9Cthe-humanities-as-activism%E2%80%9D-the-st-john%E2%80%99s-university-humanities-review

Here is the call for papers for the conference:

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2016/11/24/activism-and-the-humanities-a-graduate-student-conference-sponsored-by-the-english

Proposals for entire panels, or individual papers can be submitted to Dr. Ganter and Raquel Corona at

ganterg@stjohns.edu and raquel.corona15@stjohns.edu