Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Eleventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities.
Countries represented.
The Eleventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Szeged, Hungary
"Ethical Grounding of Neuroscientific Claims"
Associate Professor, Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
"Exemplary Lives and the Omnipresence of Autobiography"
Author
"Research-Informed Fiction: New Innovations"
Associate Professor, Head Department of Gender Studies; CEU Coordinator, Erasmus Mundus MA Program, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies GEMMA
"Transnational Turn in Literary Studies"
Assitant Professor, Art Theory and Media Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
"Embodied Reading: The Graphic Novel, Perception, and Memory"
Professor, Sociology, Social Sciences Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
"Inclusion Against Exclusion in Intercultural Relations: Testing the Liberal Multicultural Hypothesis"
Professo, Digital Humanities, Head of the Department of Information Studies, University College, London; Co-Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
"Conversation, Augmentation, Conversation: New Directions in Digital Humanities"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2013 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Kingston University, UK
Università di Bari, Italy
University of Wollongong, Australia
Curtin University, Australia
Central European University, Hungary
University of Manchester, UK
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Morgan State University, US
University of Louisville, US
University of Illinois, US