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Call for Workshops Proposals
November 22nd, 2011
A call for workshops is now open for The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence’s third annual conference, “Teaching the Humanities: Reel Life, Education Unscripted”.
This one-day symposium, scheduled to occur on Thursday, May 3, 2011, will raise important questions about the pedagogical realities of this expansive academic terrain by mapping the changes and challenges of Humanities education in the face of innovations and interruptions. Hosted by The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence at Huntington University, Teaching the Humanities: Reel Life, Education Unscripted will bring interesting perspectives into dialogue and will feature thoughts from students to scholars and from supporters to sceptics.
By hosting a serious of workshops, the conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various academic units that make up the Humanities today. A call for workshop proposals is being issued for this one-day conference. You are invited to submit the title and a 300-word abstract of your proposed workshop along with your choice of hosting a 45-minute or a 90-minute workshop. Abstracts should be sent to teachingconference2012@huntingtonu.ca on or before January 30, 2012.
Consider the list below as possible presentation topics to inspire your own thinking:
• 2012 and Beyond: Teaching in the Humanities in Post-Modern Times
• And, Action!: Applying the Study of Humanities through Internships and Placements
• Dividing Disciplines: Humanities versus Science
• Going Digital: Technology and the Humanities
• Interrogating Reality: Conversations on the Interdisciplinarity of the Humanities
• Methods, Means and Madness: Reflections on Research Methods in the Humanities
• Passion, Performance and Play: Engaging Student Learning across the Humanities
• Textualizing the Humanities: Definitions, Divisions and Divergence
• What Now?: Student and Teacher Vocation in the Humanities
For more information, please contact:
Lorraine Mercer
Director, The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence
Huntington University
705-673-4126 ext. 209
teachingconference2012@huntingtonu.ca
