[Commlist] Call for Papers – UEA Post Graduate Research Conference Reimagined Futures: Humanities in Flux

*Call for Papers – UEA Post Graduate Research Conference /Reimagined 
Futures: Humanities in Flux/ *

We are pleased to announce the University of East Anglia’s School of 
Politics, Philosophy, and Area Studies and School of Media, Languages 
and Communication PGR Conference. Taking place in person on the *6th of 
June 2025*, our theme this year is /‘Reimagined Futures: Humanities in 
Flux’/.

*Abstract Deadline*: Monday 31st March 2025

*Date*: Friday 6th June 2025

*Location*: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

*Conference Email*: (ueapgr2025 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ueapgr2025 /at/ gmail.com)>

*Call for Papers:*

The theme for this year’s PGR Conference, /Reimagined 
Futures: Humanities in Flux/, invites participants to critically engage 
with the role of the humanities in a world characterised by constant 
change, and how transdisciplinary approaches to humanities research can 
fortify this discussion. As we navigate a period shaped by democratic 
challenges, international conflict, and the far-reaching implications of 
technological, social, and political transformations, this conference 
will provide a space to interrogate the relevance and adaptability of 
the humanities in times of challenges. These pressing realities are 
critical and of vital concern as our disciplines interchangeably adapt 
in continuous flux. In this state of perpetual change, we must engage 
critically and meaningfully with these dilemmas in the public sphere. By 
fostering robust discourse, the humanities and their intersection with 
other disciplines can help us better negotiate and understand the 
reimagined futures of our time's evolving cultural, social, and 
political landscape.

With transdisciplinarity as a focus, we welcome contributions across the 
humanities, social sciences, and the cross-disciplinary intersections 
between these fields and those beyond (e.g. medicine, natural sciences, 
law). We particularly encourage critical reflection on the following:

  * *Emerging Technologies and Digital Culture:* How innovations such as
    Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media are reshaping the human
    experience.
  * *Environmental Change:* The role of the humanities in communicating
    and addressing climate change, sustainability, and ecological
    uncertainty.
  * *Political and Economic Realities:* The impact of global financial
    shifts, governmental policies, and political discourse on public
    life, and how these in turn shape cultural narratives.
  * *Health and Wellbeing:* The challenges of communicating health
    crises and the evolving interchange between medical science, public
    discourse, and cultural representation.
  * *Educational Transformation:* Reimagining the role of education in
    fostering critical thinking and academic freedom amid new digital
    and ethical challenges.

We welcome abstracts applying quantitative or qualitative methodologies 
such as experimental, diverse discourse/rhetorical analysis methods, 
content analysis, case studies, and research based on ethnographic 
techniques. We are also happy to receive contributions that are still a 
work in progress.

*How to submit a proposal:*

Interested researchers are invited to submit max. 300-400 word paper 
proposals for a 15-minute presentation that approaches these themes from 
theoretical, practical, and/or empirical perspectives by the *31st of 
March 2025* to *(ueapgr2025 /at/ gmail.com)*. Participants will be informed 
about our decision by the *25th of April 2025*.

We aim to provide a safe and friendly environment for developing and 
refining our ideas regarding these and other relevant topics. Each panel 
will benefit from an academic respondent, who you can send draft papers 
or presentations to in advance. The UEA campus has extensive 
accessibility provisions; however, please let us know via the email 
address above if you have any accessibility requirements so we can do 
our best to accommodate them. Lunch and refreshments will be provided 
during the event.

*Organising Committee*

/Anna Titov, Jack Barton, Jamie Underwood, Simon Skitch, Roseanne Hurst/

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