Humanities Undergraduate Research Conference
February 19-20, 2010

Call for abstracts and/or papers demonstrating original
undergraduate research.

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

• Mass Communications

• Cultural Studies: American, British, Spanish, Latin-American, Art History

Proposal Guidelines:

• 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 submissions 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.

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