Re:Humanities
Call For Papers/Proposals
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges
April 4-5, 2013
rehumanities@gmail.com
www.haverford.edu/rehumanities
#rehum13
Keynote Speakers:
Tara McPherson, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, University of Southern California) and David Angel Nieves, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Hamilton College) Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seekĀ undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital
scholarship, and student collaborations. Topics might include, but are not limited to, interdisciplinary approaches to the following:
* Gaming and Narrative
* Transmedia Storytelling
* Infographics and Informatics
* Cultural criticism through the lens of new media platforms
* Digital forms of argumentation
* Visual models of record & witness
* Oral and auditory experimentations
We encourage submissions on these or related topics and invite you to contact
us with any questions.
We invite submission of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with
the understanding that the work will have reached a level of completion to
present at the conference, April 4-5, 2013. Presenters must be undergraduates at
the time the project was initiated.
Support: students selected to present will receive a small award to defray travel
costs. Lodging and meals will be arranged at no cost to participants.
Submission Deadline: November 20, 2012 (Midnight GMT)
Decisions announced: End of November 2012
Format for Submission: all submissions must include your name, institution, and a
titled description of your project (from 300-500 words). Send a .doc/.docx, .pdf
or .jpg file to rehumanities@gmail.com. (We are happy to accommodate you if
your submission requires a different format. In this case, please contact us before
the submission via email.)
We look forward to your participation!