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Freedom

A Humanities Conference

 

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

                                                                   -Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

 

The Gannon University English Department proudly invites students and faculty members to participate in our fifth annual cross-disciplinary humanities conference scheduled for February 16, 2019. This year, the conference will be held in the newly renovated Nash Library. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty are encouraged to submit proposals.  Please feel free to widely share this CFP with colleagues and peers.

 

We invite proposals for panels and for presentations that may be grouped into panels by the conference committee. Those who may already have a panel of three-four presenters created for their work may submit it together as one proposal. Please submit a proposal or abstract of approximately 350 words (up to 750 words for groups of three-four submitting as a panel). The deadline to submit a proposal for consideration has been extended! The new deadline is January 7, 2019. Please submit all proposals to our website: https://gannonchess.wixsite.com/conference. Click on the Submit a Proposal Tab, and follow the instructions.

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Topics may include, but are not limited to, discussions of the following:

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  • Creative pieces (memoir, poetry, art, performance, etc) that contribute to the theme are strongly encouraged

  • Real World Experience

  • Social Justice, Change, and Concerns; Social Transformation and Identity

  • Gender Roles

  • Character transformation

  • Freedom to pursue interests – (STEM fields welcome and encouraged)

  • Issues of freedom in your discipline

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Since Freedom is such a broad theme, all interpretations on this theme are welcome. Considering this is our fifth conference, we have pulled some previous topics from past conferences to celebrate our ever-growing conference. We are also welcoming topics related to our previous conference themes, which can be found below. Some of the previous theme’s topics can be found on our website.

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(Mis)representations: Defining Identity through Power and Privilege (2015)

Towards the Authentic Self: Authenticity and Performance (2016)

Cha[lle]nges: Understanding and Pursuing Transformation and Renewal Across the Disciplines (2017)

Coming Together to Survive & Thrive (2018)

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Possible Previous Theme Topics

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  • Spiritual Survival, Thriving in Spiritual Crises (Surviving and Thriving)

  • Spiritual transformation and growth (Challenges: Understanding and Pursuing)

  • Changing standards and shifts in education (Challenges: Understanding and Pursuing)

  • Political Changes on a local or national level (Challenges: Understanding and Pursuing)

  • Cultural authenticity (and cultural misappropriation) (Towards the Authentic Self)

  • Race, ethnicity, minority issues (Misrepresentations)

  • Power distribution in gender and/or sexualities (Misrepresentations)

  • Social power – social media, group think, etc. (Misrepresentations)

  • Power of the mind – brainwashing, norming, defense mechanisms (Misrepresentations)

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