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The Coker College
Humanities UnderGraduate Conference (CHUG)
February 24 & 25, 2012
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Call for abstracts and/or papers
demonstrating original undergraduate research.
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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, Theater, Art History, Philosophy, History, and Communication scholars. This year’s keynote speaker is J. Andrew Brown, author of Cyborgs in Latin America (2010); therefore, we will give special consideration to papers focusing on science fiction literature, including but not limited to cyberpunk, steampunk, first-contact, utopic/dystopic and apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic genres.
The conference may include sessions on a range of subjects within the following fields:
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Literature: Children’s, American, British, Spanish, Latin-American
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Composition & Rhetoric
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Philosophy & Theory
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Media Studies/Mass Communications
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Cultural Studies: American, European, Spanish, Latin-American
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History: United States, European, Latin-American
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Art History
Please fill out this PDF form and return.
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PROPOSAL GUIDELINES [ more + ]
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Only currently-enrolled undergraduate students may present
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Either abstracts or complete papers may be submitted. Each 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.
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Only one submission per student will be considered
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Final Deadline for proposals: 4 PM EST, January 20, 2012; rolling acceptance will begin on November 4, 2011.
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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.
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Papers/abstracts should be double spaced in 12 pt. font. Length should not exceed 10 pages. For communication papers, MLA or APA citations are acceptable; all others should use MLA style guidelines. All submissions must include proper documentation of sources.
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Proposal information must include a 250-word abstract with a title page that includes the writer's name, address, email, telephone number, institutional affiliation, recommending professor, class year (e.g., junior), and class for which the submission was composed.
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Papers written in Spanish will be considered.
CONFERENCE FEES & ACCOMMODATIONS [ more + ]
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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.
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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 |
This year we are pleased to announce a keynote address "Fantasizing Borges" on Friday night (Feb. 24) by Dr. Andrew Brown, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Brown’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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