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VISIONS
31st May - 1st June 2007
The University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, Scotland
This multidisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to explore the cultural, historical and literary perceptions and misconceptions within human societies.
Discussion will involve questioning our perceptions of change, assumptions, and conceptions of belief within a variety of time periods and geographic locations. The envisaged outcome of this discussion will be an understanding of the complexity of human visions of past, present and future.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions relating to the theme of 'visions' from all disciplines. This free-ranging theme allows speakers to explore imaginatively questions of how we perceive and interpret the world around us.
Possible topics/ areas of interest might incorporate but are not limited to:
Understanding cultural heritage
Perceptions of individual or national identity
Notions of beauty and aesthetics
How past and present historical thought influences our understanding of who we are
The role of perceptual illusion, distortion, and imagination in one’s experience of the world
The implications and complexities of imaginative capabilities
The presence of the immaterial within our lives in national, social, and individual histories
Representation within the visual arts and images
The world as viewed through imaginative literature
Visions of the future
The significance of myth and belief
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by email by 16th February 2007 to [log in to unmask]
All papers will be twenty minutes. For more information please visit our website at www.cc.gla.ac.uk.
Ashley Parke
Research Student
University of Glasgow Crichton Campus
Room 345 Rutherford/McCowan Building
Bankend Road
Dumfries
DG1 4ZL
01387 702057
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