Towards the Authentic Self: Authenticity and Performance
A Humanities Conference.
“No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gannon University English Department, invites students and faculty members to participate in our second annual cross-disciplinary Humanities Conference tentatively scheduled for February 13, 2016. Students and faculty from the following universities are also encouraged to submit proposals: Penn State Behrend, Mercyhurst University, Edinboro University, Thiel College, University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, Allegheny College, Grove City College, Slippery Rock University, and Westminster College.
Issues of authenticity and performance stand as both celebrations and condemnations of the human experience, with theorists from all areas of the humanities struggling to define and tackle these complex ideas.
We invite proposals for presentations that may be grouped into panels by the conference committee. Please submit a proposal or abstract of approximately 350 words. The deadline to submit a proposal for consideration is January 16, 2016. Please submit all proposals to lovell001@knights.gannon.edu.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, discussions of the following:
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Authenticity and/in translation
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Cultural authenticity (cultural (mis)appropriation)
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Gender roles
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Historical authenticity (Reading history as it was)
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Role of the self in literature
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Digital performance
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Social identity
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The nature of the self
Broad interpretations of the conference theme are welcome!