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        Date: 2019-03-25 06:28:10+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: Call for Abstracts: The Making of the Humanities VIII, 21-23 November, Cape Town

Call for Papers and Panels

The Making of the Humanities VIII:
Decentralizing the History of the Humanities
       
University of Cape Town, South Africa
November 21–23, 2019



Dear Colleagues,

The Making of the Humanities conference series is going to South
Africa!The University of Cape Town will host the 8th conference in the
series, from 21 till 23 November 2019, at the facilities of the
Faculties of Economics and Law (Middle Campus).

Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences

The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the
Humanities (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/1kofmu) and bring
together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide
variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history,
historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies,
musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest
developments to the modern day.

We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially
interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities
disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and
civilisations.

This year there is a special conference theme. We encourage submissions
that explore this theme, but remain fully open to submissions addressing
other subjects too. 

This Year’s Conference Theme: Decentralizing the History of the
Humanities

A growing body of scholarship is emerging that suggests that
historiography of the humanities unnecessarily limits itself if it takes
one knowledge center as its main focus. This year we especially value
contributions that help to recognize a poly-centric perspective on the
history of the humanities, for example through investigations that
highlight the circulation of knowledge between multiple centers, or
through the study of centers of humanistic scholarship in different
parts of the world.

Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not
concerned with the history of art, the history of music, or the history
of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history,
the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.

Paper Submissions

Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should
contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email
address), the title, and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words.
For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page
(https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/hdpfmu).

Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2019
Notification of acceptance: End of August 2019

Panel Submissions

Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3–4 papers and possibly a
commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals
should contain, respectively, the name of the chair, the names of the
speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email
addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of
the panel’s content, and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250
words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission
page (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/x5pfmu).

Deadline for panel proposals: 1 July 2019
Notification of acceptance: End of August 2019

Conference Fee

The exact conference fee will be determined later this spring and will
be ca. $120 for regular participants and ca. $80 for PhD students. The
fee includes access to all sessions, access to the welcoming reception,
simple lunches, and tea and/or coffee during the breaks.

MoH International Committee

Rens Bod (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/dyqfmu) (U. of
Amsterdam), 
Shamil Jeppie (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/tqrfmu) 
(U. of Cape Town),
Christopher Drew Armstrong (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/9isfmu) (U. of Pittsburgh),
Julia Kursell (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/pbtfmu) (U. of Amsterdam), 
Fenrong Liu (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/53tfmu)
(Tsinghua U.), 
Jaap Maat (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/lwufmu)
(U. of Amsterdam), 
Helen Small
(https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/1ovfmu) (U. of Oxford), 
Thijs Weststeijn (https://t.e2ma.net/click/5rs2tc/hdpbnz/hhwfmu) (Utrecht U.)


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