Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference 2010
February 19-20, Davidson Hall
Call for abstracts and/or papers
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We welcome electronic proposals, either 250-word abstracts or finished papers addressing any topic of interest to English, Spanish, Latin-American Art, History, and Communications scholars. The conference may include sessions on a range of subjects within the following fields:
- Literature: Children’s, American, British, Spanish, Latin-American
- Composition & Rhetoric
- Philosophy & Theory
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- Mass Communications
- Cultural Studies: American, British, Spanish,
Latin-American Art, History
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PROPOSAL GUIDELINES [ more + ]
- Only currently-enrolled undergraduate students may present
- All abstracts and papers must include one faculty letter of recommendation (faculty members will not be required to attend the conference, but are encouraged to do so)
- Only one submission per student will be considered
- Final Deadline for proposals: 4 PM EDT, January 15, 2010, rolling acceptance will begin on November 2, 2009
- Only email/electronic proposals will be accepted with attachments in .rtf format. Send to jwilliams@coker.edu An email notification of receipt will be returned within 96 hours.
- Papers/abstracts should be double spaced in 12 pt. font. Length should not exceed 10 pages. For Communications papers MLA or APA citations are acceptable; all others should use MLA style guidelines. All references must include proper documentation of sources.
- Proposal information must include a title page with your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, institutional affiliation, recommending professor, class year (e.g., junior), program (e.g., Spanish), class for which the submission was composed, presentation title, and 250-word abstract.
- Papers written in Spanish will be considered
CONFERENCE FEES & ACCOMODATIONS [ more + ]
- A $25 conference fee will cover the Friday reception, refreshments & coffee on Saturday, and a boxed lunch. Attendees who are not presenting, but wish to have lunch should pay the conference fee. Attendees who wish solely to attend the keynote address and/or hear the presentations do not need to pay the fee.
- A block of rooms will be set aside at a discount rate at the Fairfield Inn (843-332-9898), which is walking distance from Coker College.
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| KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
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This year we are pleased to announce a keynote address "How America Invented the Humanities" on Friday night (Feb. 19) by Dr. Geoffrey Harpham, director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, North Carolina.
Dr. Harpham’s lecture on Friday evening and the student presentations on Saturday will be free and open to the public.
On Saturday we will hold a roundtable lunch session for attending faculty in which we will discuss the successes, strategies, and pitfalls of fostering undergraduate research in the Humanities. |
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