Conferences & Funding

Attachment and Affect March 22-23, 2019 The University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference Keynote by Lisa Ruddick (UChicago) Master class with Rita Felski (UVA/SDU) Why does the study of literature matter? What is the relationship between reader and text? How can affective responses to texts inform criticism? This conference seeks to take seriously our aesthetic and affective attachments, the attachments at work within and among literary texts, and the ways attachments form and function. The University of Virginia Department of English invites graduate student proposals for conference presentations that explore issues of attunement, mood, feeling, pleasure, taste, identification, inwardness, the self, intersubjectivity, judgment, politics, aesthetics, consumer culture, objects, the everyday and ordinary, and the state of academic criticism. We welcome papers that explore these topics as well as their interdisciplinary intersections in fields such as philosophy, relig...

   Humanities Education and Research Association  11th Annual Conference, The Wyndham Hotel, Philadelphia Historic District 6-9 March 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Theme: Highbrow, Lowbrow, No-brow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities The HERA conference peer review program committee invites proposals for presentations at the 2019 conference. The program committee’s theme is designed to incorporate any and all possible connotations. Our understanding of the tensions and implications of the “highbrow-lowbrow” continuum have existed for as long as the humanities. Although the terms are first associated with the 19th century, connotations of the humanities as possessing elevated, elite, upper class, or even sanctified religious ritual, intellectual, or cultural endeavor may be traced back to ancient times. Similarly, aspects of the humanities variously characterized as being lowly, crude or ordinary, lower class, or even pagan, anti-intellectual, o...