{"id":209,"date":"2014-06-23T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vahumanitiesconference.org\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:32:29","slug":"2015-conference-theme-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vahumanitiesconference.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"2015 Conference: “The Humanities in\/and the Public Sphere”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are very pleased to announce that the 2015 Virginia Humanities Conference, which will be hosted at Marymount University just outside of Washington, DC, will be organized around the timely theme of “The Humanities and\/in the Public Sphere.” The conference will take place April 10-11, and you can submit your proposals here<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

The Virginia Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers, panel sessions, performances, and other presentation modes that explore the role of the humanities in the public sphere. Informed by current and ongoing discussions about the \u201ccrisis\u201d in the humanities, this theme seeks to generate discussion around the public significance–ethical, moral, political, cultural, even economic–of humanistic study and creativity. Dr. Steven Lubar<\/span>, Professor of American Studies and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, will give a keynote lecture on museum history and American culture, and the conference will be framed by group excursions to related events in the Washington, DC, area. <\/span><\/p>\n

Possible topics for presentations include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n