[Commlist] CFP UEA PGR Conference 2024: Humanities on the Frontlines of Institutions

*UEA PGR Conference 2024:**Humanities on the Frontlines of Institutions*

Friday 7th June, University of East Anglia Norwich, UK

Abstract deadline: 8th April

*Call for papers: *

The arts and humanities are on the frontlines of attacks on higher 
education (see Department of Education decision to cut 50% of funding to 
higher education arts subjects in England). Waves of course closures and 
staff redundancies at a series of institutions have specifically 
targeted the arts and hum departments, as well as social sciences. Our 
subjects are frequently dismissed as an ‘excess’, a ‘luxury’ good, and 
not cost effective. Sometimes referred to as the ‘canary in the coal 
mine’ of higher education, the humanities are on the frontline of the 
culture wars and bear the brunt of governmental and societal attitudes 
regarding education. Universities are not the only institutions that are 
central to the reproduction of knowledge and power relations. Museums 
and media have also long been central to projects of colonisation and 
imperialism.

And yet, arts and humanities are crucial to fostering our critical 
understanding of the past and providing a lens with which to examine 
structures and modes of power and can provide solutions for the 
challenges facing a rapidly changing world.

This day-long event is multidisciplinary and brings together graduate 
researchers across disciplines in the arts and humanities. The aim is to 
give a voice to graduate students and researchers in the arts and 
humanities. We hope to provide a space where graduate students and 
researchers can showcase their research and discipline-specific skills 
and methodologies at a time where these skills are being undervalued by 
universities and under attack in the wider political climate.

*Conference Themes:*

·Humanities on the frontlines of ways of thinking/understanding, in 
particular about the role of data, representation, information quality, 
as well as the skills are cultivated in the humanities.

·Ways of representing/ frameworks, models and the role of wider 
institutional policy: social, gender, and racial injustices in various 
sectors of society

·The role of models and idealization in representing knowledge (How can 
one idealize without falsifying?)

·Qualitative and quantitative methodologies

·Humanities on the frontlines of technological innovation/technology and 
the human: inform scientists and the public of the ethical implications 
of AI, including from a gender perspective

·Media, cultural, societal, and political representation

·Linguistic, critical discourse, framing, and/or narrative analysis

·Intercultural communication

·Media literacy, misinformation, and conspiracy theories

·Gender and gender-related interdisciplinary issues, such as gender in 
shaping public opinions and its role in political issues, as well as in 
the fields of human rights, health, the workplace, language, philosophy, 
economics, and international development, etc.

·Museums, cultural centres and art galleries as guardians and 
disseminators of cultural narratives,

·Digital research and communities

*How to submit a proposal:*

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, as well as a 50-word 
biography to *(ueapgr2024 /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(ueapgr2024 /at/ gmail.com)>**by 
*8th April 2024*. The committee welcomes contributions that are still a 
work in progress that fit the theme of the event. Please also include 
any accessibility requirements you might have.

Presenters will be informed about their participation by *22nd April 2024*.

We aim to prioritise in-person attendance but there is scope for online 
attendance also. Please include in your abstract whether you wish to 
present online and this will be taken into consideration.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided during the event.

*Organising committee:*

/Carolina Gallarini, Yixuan Duan, Mohamed Yillah, Andrea James, and Hao Mo./

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