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Call for Papers
The School of Humanities Conference on Passion — Saturday, April 6, 2013 — Lincoln University, PA, USA
“Follow Your Passion: Representations of Passion in the Humanities”
The School of Humanities at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania is requesting proposals/abstracts for its annual conference, to be held on April 6, 2013. The main conference theme is “Follow Your Passion: Representations of Passion in the Humanities.” Approaches across a broad range of disciplines are welcomed. The conference organizers are particularly interested in papers that provide specific readings of passion as depicted in world literature, religion, philosophy, music, and visual arts.
To explore the complexity of passion as a human, aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, political, and cultural phenomenon, the conference will feature papers, panel discussions, and posters and exhibits sessions.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Passion, transgression, and excess
- Passion, love, and sexuality
- Passion and madness
- Passion across time, space, and cultures
- Passion, spirituality, and religion
- Passion as positive transformational force or root of all evil
- Marriage vs. romantic adventure
- Passion: human power or dependence on higher powers (God, Fate, etc.)
- Passion, desire, and social taboos
Proposals/abstracts should be no more than 200 words. They should be submitted on or before November 15, 2012 to Abbes Maazaoui, at maazaoui@lincoln.edu.
Important Dates
Abstract Deadline: November 15, 2012
Acceptance Notification: December 15, 2012
Conference Date: April 6, 2013
A selection of papers (subject to the normal reviewing process and standards) may be published in Lincoln Humanities Journal.
Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, founded in 1854 as the nation’s first historically Black degree-granting institution, combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly-technological and global society. Today, the University enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women. Internationally recognized for preparing and producing world class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Lillian Fishburne, the first African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Langston Hughes, the noted poet, Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria.