Call for papers: InterTexts ? a one-day conference on interdisciplinarity
Durham University, Durham, UK Friday, 23rd September 2011
Abstract submission deadline: 10th June 2011
The tradition of working across disciplinary boundaries has a long
history: literature and visual arts, literature and philosophy,
literature and psychology, all feature prominently in the field of
literary studies. At present, when humanities face escalating funding
challenges and a constant requirement to justify and validate the
research carried out, literary scholars increasingly look at other
disciplines, expanding their field of inquiry and contributing to a
proliferation of research in areas such as literature and law,
literature and science, literature and medicine, literature and ecology.
This conference aims to give postgraduate and early career researchers
working on interdisciplinary projects an opportunity to present their
work and contribute to the discussion on the developments of
interdisciplinary research within literary studies. Alongside
traditional panels, we will be offering workshops that deal with
practical issues, resources and challenges of conducting
interdisciplinary research within one of the five interdisciplinary
fields at the core of the conference (Literature and Law, Literature
and Science, Medical Humanities, Literature and Visual Arts and
Literature and Music).
We invite papers focusing on any issue within one of the following
interdisciplinary fields:
Literature and Law
Literature and Science
Medical Humanities
Literature and Visual Arts
Literature and Music.
We also welcome proposals discussing challenges and demands of
conducting interdisciplinary research. These could include, but are
not limited to: proliferation of interdisciplinary research, the value
of interdisciplinarity, the future of interdisciplinarity, traditional
humanities vs. interdisciplinary research, implications of
interdisciplinarity for literary scholarship, traditional
methodologies and interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity and
canonisation or how, if at all, do we define canons within
interdisciplinary fields.
Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper for consideration by the editorial board of
Durham?s Postgraduate English journal. The papers will be considered
for publication in the special issue of the journal focusing on
interdisciplinarity, celebrating ten years of the journal, and
coinciding with the launch of its new website.
Please send 250-300 word abstracts proposing 20 minute papers to Kaja
Marczewska ([log in to unmask]) by 10th June 2011.
Notifications of acceptance, together with more information about
Postgraduate English publication opportunities will be sent by 17th
June 2011.
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Website: intertexts.wordpress.com
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