International Conference
“Changing Humanities in a Changing World”
In Collaboration with the 8th Humanities Research Forum in Thailand
November 27 – 29, 2014
The Imperial Mae Ping Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University
Our world is rapidly changing, and these changes – in communication, technology, politics, the economy and the environment – deeply and widely affect people across the globe. The problems these changes cause, whether at the personal or societal level, have become increasingly and overwhelmingly complex. Today’s digital world, for instance, has caused instability in the existing contrasts between globalization, nationalism and localism. It has also resulted in a reshaping of human thought and emotion. New ethics and values, new worldviews, new questions of the self, spirituality, and identity, have emerged even as some of the old standards persist. This requires a new understanding of the world and our societies beyond the existing frameworks. Scholarship in the humanities must adapt, both in its epistemological and methodological assumptions, to facilitate critical thinking and better responses to these challenges and complexities. The humanities, not in its confined, narrow role and specialization in language and communications, but in its broad approach to surrounding socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions, need to be rethought.
The conference welcomes papers in English or Thai. The papers should be 7,000 – 10,000 words (not including footnotes and bibliography), along with an abstract of 250 words In English, please use Times New Roman font, size 12, single spaced. In Thai, please use Angsana New font, size 14, single spaced. The deadline is August 18th, 2014
Areas:
Research Methodologies in the Humanities
Creativity, Critique, and Spirituality
The Polemics of the Self and the Ethical Life
Globalization and Localism from a Humanistic Perspective
Cultural Studies in the Humanities
Digital Humanities
Communication and Identity
Poetics of Politics / Politics of Poetics
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. Craig Reynolds, Australian National University
Assoc. Prof. Søren Ivarsson, University of Copenhagen
Prof. Maurizio Peleggi, National University of Singapore
Dr. Aung Myint Oo, University of Yangoon
Dr. M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization/Regional Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts
Associate Professor Vira Somboon, Chulalongkorn University
E-mail papers@changinghumanities.org for further information.