Rethinking Humanities
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International Conference on Humanities in the 21st Century
“Rethinking Humanities”
June 27 & 28, 2009
C PRACSIS, Thrissur, Kerala, India 680001
Keynote: Gayathri Chakrvorthy Spivak
The conference, “Rethinking Humanities” attempts to interrogate how
the future of humanities can be traced and interpreted from various
academic and philosophical quarters, and the ways in which
interdisciplinary endeavours in all realms of knowledge respond to
this effort. It is widely accepted that Humanities in the academia has
encountered unusually critical challenges in the last few decades. The
question of how these challenges are transmitted through the corpus
and the methodological and canonical framework of traditional
Humanities will be pivotal in the making of the conference. The
conference attempts in a broad manner to address the following issues:
Contemporary interpretations of the crisis in humanities
The genealogies of interdisciplinarity in humanities
The historical contexts of evolution of humanities
Humanities and Social Sciences
Posthumanities and production of knowledge
Humanities and artificial intelligence
Theories of technoculture and Cyber space and humanities
Humanities and globalization
Humanities and visual culture
Philosophy in 21 Cen. academia
The theory and practice of the arts in the 21st century
Art and aesthetics as disciplines
Theatre studies and interdisciplinary approaches
Performance and philosophy
Technology and Humanities
Art and Social Sciences
Visual Arts and the Virtual Reality
20th century approaches to humanities
The future of humanities in Asia
The fact that one of the major paradigms which re-organized many
disciplines, including social sciences in the last century was the
paradigm of visual culture and this issue has been crucial in
designing the theme of this conference. The age of the ‘visual’, with
its alteration of the priorities of modernity and the privileging of
the spectacle incites serious reconsideration of Humanities within the
contexts of the cultural practices of 21st century. C PRACSIS invites
papers for presentation in the proposed conference on 27 and 28 June
2009 at Thrissur, Kerala, India; on topics of similar wavelength.
C PRACSIS is a non profit organisation dedicated to research and
innovations in visual media and culture and performance, located in
Thrissur, Kerala, India with the support of an international
community.
Kindly send the abstracts of the papers to or to on or before April
20, 2009. Information regarding the acceptance of the paper will be
send within five days of the receipt of the abstract. Updates will be
available soon in the
C PRACSIS website .
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Yemisi Ogunleye
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Media & Communications Dept.,
Birmingham City University,
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Birmingham
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