Michel-Rolph Trouillot closed his 1995 Silencing the Past by reminding us that “History doesn’t belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it in their own hands.” This is nowhere more true than in two historical periods seldom in conversation - the medieval phenomenon called the “Crusades,” and the 19th-century American Civil War. Scholars here seek to clarify these periods among themselves, while popular audiences voraciously consume these and other retellings of the past, and others on the political left and right “take it in their own hands” by toppling monuments or explicitly evoking these periods as direct predecessors of their own.

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Experience & Expression in the Renaissance: Exploring Early Modern Media

5th Annual Conference by the Association of Renaissance Students

15 March 2019

Victoria College

University of Toronto

The world has started to change drastically and everything seems to be a ganie of chance, as higher powers and accountability are amok. The more changes occur, the more everything seems to be going in a circle. The games, sins and powers, like the Mafia, have and continue to shape societies. This is a time when we are faced with looking to the past for potential answers and at unlikely sources for guidance. The goal for this conference is to examine these three tenets and create a conversation about Latin American and Iberian literature from all centuries and genres where either one or all have shaped people, places and beliefs. Ultimately, what was the result and what answers and guidance can be found?

We welcome contributions that examine the turn to ontology in the humanities and the social sciences. What does the shift to ontology signify? What is it purporting to correct or overcome? What is its relation to prior turns (such as the linguistic turn and the cultural turn)? Is the turn to ontology an attempt to liberate continental philosophy from its infatuation with language and power, from its obsession with mediation, relationality, and subjectivity? What are the politics of this turn to ontology? Is it more receptive to non-European thought and to the nonhuman? What kind of philosophy or literary theory emerges when ontology is taken as the starting point?  

Topics of interest could include:

Object-Oriented Ontology

Dear colleagues,
Let me bring to your attention a call for paper in Humanities.
Submission Deadline: April 20, 2019
Vol. 2, No. 1 - May, 2019

ISSN 2517-4266

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UGC Sponsored

CLAI BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

March 11-14, 2019

Organised by

Comparative Literature Association of India

in collaboration with

Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Hyderabad)

And sponsored by

Nation Council of Promotion of Urdu Literature (NCPUL)

Winged Sphinxes: Margaret Fuller’s Poetry and Poetics