University of Arkansas Graduate Students in English Conference 2023

LABOR AND WORK AS THEY WERE, AS THEY ARE, AND AS THEY MIGHT BE

The University of Arkansas Graduate Students in English are excited to announce their annual conference. This year’s theme is LABOR AND WORK: AS THEY WERE, AS THEY ARE, AND AS THEY MIGHT BE. This theme spotlights the productivity of typically marginalized aspects of the human community in ways which build understanding of intrinsic value. This is an interdisciplinary conference open to scholars in all fields. This year we will offer creative writing sessions! In addition to presentations from the humanities, we particularly welcome scholars who find their home in the sciences.

Our conference will be on 4 March 2023 at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville IN PERSON. Please send abstracts consisting of name, preferred email, affiliation, and a 300-word description to uarkgse2023@gmail.com .

This conference is FREE to currently enrolled graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Faculty interested in presenting should inquire.

The priority Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2023.

Possible topics could include but are not limited to the following: Labor of writing, Labor of reading, Labor of research, Labor (regarding childbirth), Labor movements, Labor Rights, Labor History, Medieval labor, Early Modern labor, Nineteenth-century labor, Labor in the present, Creation, The act of doing, The working and laboring class, Outside effects on the laborer, Work (Physics), Labor Economics, Unions, Labor supply, Construction, Chemical structure, Farming, Agriculture, Slavery, Child labor, Factory work, Labor and technology, Work and wealth, Employees, Work and academics, Unemployment, Labor shortage, Concepts of labor, Labor and gender, Restoration, Early education and labor, Adult education and labor, Working poverty, Working age, Labor protests, Location and work, Craftsmanship.