Call for papers

We invite proposals for papers and panels that will respond in diverse and interdisciplinary ways to the idea of crisis: social, environmental, institutional, and otherwise, including addressing the interconnected themes listed below. We also invite contributions that seek to explore the idea of the “public humanities”—what is it, and how can the humanities contribute to making the world a place we want to live in, particularly in a time of crisis?

• Cultural: What do we talk about when we talk about crisis? What role do the media and creative arts have in generating, representing, and perpetuating crisis?
• Theoretical:  How are we to understand or frame intellectual, moral, and epistemological crises? How can interventions in the arts and humanities contribute at times of crisis and trauma?
• Institutional: How do institutions of public trust (governments, universities, media, churches, museums, etc.) experience, perpetuate, represent, or moderate crisis?
• Environmental: How does the humanities intersect with the climate and the environment? How have writers, artists, and the culture industry intervened in environmental crises of the past or the present?
• Political: How have activists used protest or other forms of dissent to create or respond to crisis, to challenge or reproduce inequality and intolerance? 
• Historical: What, if anything, differentiates current experiences from prior experiences of crisis? How have past crises been documented, analysed, collected, or commemorated?
• Disciplinary: What does it mean to say the humanities are in a state of crisis?

Registration fees

• General registration: $100.00
• Concessional registration: $60.00

Registrations are now closed.

Speakers

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Contact

Humanities Research Centre

E: hrc@anu.edu.au

P: +61 2 6125 4357