Humanities Conference 2012

Background

Welcome to the website of the Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, to be held at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal, Canada from 14 to 16 June 2012.

The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. Our 2012 conference will address the Special Theme – Looking Forward: Humanities for the Future.

Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal for a paper presentation, workshop/interactive session, roundtable discussion, or jointly presented colloquium. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers to The International Journal of the Humanities, a fully refereed academic journal. Virtual participation also have the option to submit papers for consideration by the journal. All registered conference participants receive a complimentary online subscription to the journal when registration is finalized. This subscription is valid until one year after the conference end date.

If you would like to know more about this conference, bookmark the Humanities Conference site and return for further information – the site is regularly updated. You may also wish to subscribe to the conference and journal Newsletter.

For all inquiries, please contact the Conference Secretariat.

Background

International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

The Humanities Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. Over the past nine years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference was held at the Universidad de Granada, Campus La Cartuja, Granada, Spain in 2011, at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 2010, at Beijing, China in 2009, at the Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008, at the American University of Paris in 2007, at the University of Carthage in Tunis in 2006, at Cambridge University in the UK in 2005, at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy in 2004, and the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece in 2003.

Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology or Religion-these are just some of the many disciplines represented at the Humanities Conference. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical to the expansive and theoretical.

The International Journal of the Humanities

Conference participants can submit papers to The International Journal of the Humanities, before the conference and up until one month after the conference. Papers submitted for publication will be fully refereed. The publication decision is based on the referees’ reports.

For those unable to attend the conference in person, a virtual registration will provide participants access to the electronic version of the journal, as well as the option to submit papers to The International Journal of the Humanities.

For more information about the journal please visit the Publish Your Paper page.