Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities From to a Humanities of the Digital

17-19 JUNE 2015 | UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | VANCOUVER, CANADA | THEHUMANITIES.COM Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities “From the Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital”

University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 17-19 June 2015

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Dear Delegate,

Welcome to the Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. The Humanities Conference explores the future of the humanities in an intellectual and social milieu that all-too-often is dominated by the logics of economy and techno-science. The conference represents a marvelous collage of specific instances of study in the humanities and presentations that think in more general terms about the character of the humanities.

Over the past thirteen years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference was held at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece in 2003; Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy in 2004; Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK in 2005; University of Carthage in Tunis, Tunisia in 2006; The American University of Paris, Paris, France in 2007; Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008; the Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China in 2009; the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 2010; the Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain in 2011; the Centre Mont Royal in Montreal, Canada in 2012; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2013; CEU San Pablo University, Madrid in 2014; and next year we are pleased to hold the conference at the University of Illinois-Chicago in Chicago, USA.

In addition to organizing the Humanities Conference, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at www.Humanities- Journal.com, and we encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at http://thehumanities.com in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme.

Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including diversity, museums, technology, learning, and the arts, to name several (http://commongroundpublishing.com). Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are committed to creating a more accessible, open, and reliable peer review process. Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for academics from developing countries, for emerging scholars, and for researchers from institutions that are historically teaching-focused.

Thank you to everyone who has prepared for this conference. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Rachael Arcario, Karim Gherab Martin, Ashley McBride, Ana Quintana, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish.

We wish you the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe. We hope you will join us at next year’s Humanities Conference, 17-19 June 2016 in Chicago, USA.

Yours sincerely, Kimberly D. Kendall, PhD

Host, Humanities Conference Common Ground Publishing, USA | About Common Ground

Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.

Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.

Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book series offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works.

6 | About Common Ground

Common Ground España Since its inception, Common Ground Publishing has been committed to building bridges between different languages and cultures, crossing the geographical and linguistic boundaries that slow down the free flow of ideas between the countless communities that populate the planet. We are truly committed to diversity, and that is why we are striving to create synergies between the English, Spanish, and Portuguese-speaking knowledge communities that meet every year at the conference, and that interact through the scholarly journals, the book series, and the social networks.

To fulfil this ideal, Common Ground Publishing has launched Common Ground Publishing España in order to create and develop Latin American knowledge communities based on the Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, crossing geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Each of these knowledge communities holds an annual academic conference (which takes place in parallel to Common Ground’s conferences in English) and manages a peer reviewed scholarly journal, a book series, and a number of social networks that allow scholars and practitioners to interact with other peers coming from different geographical, institutional, and cultural origins, as well as to strengthen interdisciplinary discussions.

For the time being, Common Ground Publishing España, whose headquarters are located at the Research Park of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, has developed ten Latin American knowledge communities; Learning; E-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies; Science in Society; Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; On the Organization; New Directions in the Humanities; The Image; Book and Libraries; Health, Wellness, and Society; and Technology, Knowledge, and Society.

7 New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community

Exploring settled traditions in the humanities while at the same time setting a renewed agenda for their future… New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community

The New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community is brought together by a shared commitment to the humanities and a concern for their future. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a collection of peer reviewed journals, and book series–exploring the affordances of new digital media.

Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.

Publishing The New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Humanities Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book series, The Humanities, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.

Community The New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Members may also join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter or explore our new social media platform, Scholar.

11 New Directions in the Humanities Themes

Exploring ways to Theme 1: Critical Cultural Studies broaden the scope of the • Examining critical perspectives on academic disciplines; how traditional disciplines remain humanities and creating a wider critical canvas constant or must respond to changes in humans’ relationships to each other, to society, technology, through cultural studies. and the environment • Considering ways of knowing, shifts in conceptual frameworks and research methodologies • Proposing new directions for humanities studies • Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary humanities • The relationship of humanities to other knowledge domains (technology, science, economics) • Making knowledge: research in the humanities • Subjectivity and objectivity, truth and relativity • Philosophy, consciousness and the meanings of meaning • Geographical and archeological perspectives on human place and movement • The study of humans and humanity, past and present • The future of humanities

Examining the forms Theme 2: Communications and Linguistics Studies and effects of human • Human representations and expression through art, media, technology, design representation and • Communications in human interactions communication. • Linguistic and cultural diversity: its nature and meanings • Language dynamics: global English, multilingualism, language death, language revival • , new messages, new meanings in the “information society”

Analyses of literatures Theme 3: Literary Humanities and literary practices, to • Examining changes over time in conceptual frameworks, ways of knowing, and ways of seeing stabilize bodies of work • Critique in literary analysis; the role of the critic; perspectives on criticism in traditions and genres, • Conceptual frameworks (modern, postmodern, neo-liberal, colonialism, post-colonialism, etc) or to unsettle received expressive forms and • Literatures: national, global and diasporic cultural contents. • Literary forms (fiction, the novel, poetry, theater, non-fiction) and genres • Literary forms of media: photography, film, video, internet • Identity and difference in literature

12 New Directions in the Humanities Themes

Social studies in the Theme 4: Civic, Political, and Community Studies humanities, where the • Affinities and affiliations and their impacts on relationships within and across cultures humanities meet the ‘social sciences’. • Issues of policy, governance, and controls over populations within and across nations • The human condition in an era of globalization • Human formations: families, institutions, organizations, states and societies • Human expressions: values, attitudes, dispositions, sensibilities • Human differences: gender, sexuality, families, race, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability • Affinities: citizenship and other forms of belonging • Globalization and its discontents • Diversity: dialogue as a local and global imperative • The dynamics of identity in culture • Immigration, refugees, minorities and diaspora • Internationalism, globalism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism • Human rights • Human violence and peace • Governance and politics in society

On theories and practices Theme 5: Humanities Education of teaching and learning • General and subject-specific pedagogy in the disciplines of • Language acquisition and language instruction the humanities and humanistic social • Learning new languages (including second language instruction, multilingual) sciences. • Professional development and teacher education • Influence of learner characteristics on the educational process • Education for a new humanity

13 New Directions in the Humanities 2015 Special Focus

From Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital “From Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital” is the special focus topic of the Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Vancouver, Canada. The conference will analyze this special focus through an interdisciplinary lens, addressing the theme through keynote speakers, garden sessions, workshops, and parallel sessions:

• The ‘digital’ as a social imaginary: exploring historical continuities and ruptures in social and cultural practices in the era of digital cultures.

• The digital within the humanities: new methods and tools for documentation, research, and representation.

• The political economy of digital humanities: e-learning, e-publishing, and the reframing of disciplines and institutions.

• Big data and little data; negotiating the public and the private.

• Open access and open cultures: developing sustainable knowledge ecologies.

• Adapting methodologies and focus in the digital age: has the dust settled on the ‘digital humanities’?

• From the digital humanities to a humanities of the digital; rebuilding the humanities in the shadow of the digital, and developing a humanities of the digital.

14 New Directions in the Humanities Scopes and Concerns

Humanities-Science-Technology The western roots of techno-science are the Greek concept of ‘techne’, and its Latin equivalent ‘ars’. These roots tell of a narrowing of definition in modern times, and of a particular kind. It is a narrowing which dehumanizes techno-science, reducing it to programs of merely instrumental rationality. More broadly, by contrast, ‘techne’ and ‘ars’ meant art, craft and science, a kind of practical wisdom involving both doing (application of technique, using tools) and reasoning (understanding the principles underlying the material and natural world). These ‘arts’ are the stuff of human artifice, and the result is always an aesthetic (those other ‘arts’) and human value-drenched, as well as instrumental. Such is an artfulness that can only be human, in the fullness of our species being. Now is the time to broaden the agenda of techno-science once again. How better than to redefine science and technology as ‘arts’?

Indeed, our times may well demand such a redefinition. The new technologies and sciences of informatics, for instance, are infused to a remarkable degree with the human of the humanities: the human-centered designs which aim at ‘usability’; the visual aesthetics of screen designs; the language games of search and tag; the naming protocols and ontologies of the ; the information architectures of new media representations; the accessibility and manipulability of information mashups that make our human intelligence irreducibly collective; and the literariness of the code that drives all these things. So too, new biomedical technologies and sciences uniquely inveigle the human—when considering, for instance, the ethics of bioscience and biotechnology, or the sustainability of the human presence in natural environments.

Humanities-Economy-Commerce Returning to roots again, the Greek ‘oikonomi’ or the Latin ‘oeconomia’ integrate the human in ways now all-too-easily lost to the more narrowly understood contemporary understandings of econo-production. In the modern world, ‘economy’ and ‘production’ have come to refer to action and reflection pertaining to the domains of paid work, the production of goods and services, and their distribution and market exchange. At their etymological source, however, we find a broader realm of action—the realm of material sustenance, of domesticity (the Greek ‘oikos’/household and ‘nemein’/manage), of work as the collaborative project of meeting human needs, and of thrift (economizing), not just as a way of watching bottom lines, but of conserving human effort and natural resources.

Today more than ever, questions of the human arise in the domain of the econo-production, and these profoundly imbricate human interests, needs and purposes. Drawing on the insights of the humanities and a renewed sense of the human, we might for instance be able to address today’s burning questions of economic globalization and the possible meanings and consequences of the ‘knowledge economy.’

15 New Directions in the Humanities Scopes and Concerns

The Humanities Themselves And what of the humanities in themselves and for themselves? To the world outside of education and academe, the humanities are considered by their critics to be at best esoteric, at worst ephemeral. They seem to have less practical ‘value’ than the domains of techno-science and econo-production.

But what could be more practical, more directly relevant to our very existence than disciplines which interrogate culture, place, time, subjectivity, consciousness, meaning, representation and change? These disciplines name themselves anthropology, archaeology, art, communication, arts, cultural studies, geography, government, history, languages, linguistics, literature, media studies, philosophy, politics, religion and sociology. This is an ambitious program even before mention of the social sciences and the professions of community service which can with equal justification be regarded as closely related to the humanities, or even subjects of the humanities, more broadly understood.

Within this highly generalized scope, the Humanities Conference, Journal Collection, Book Imprint and News Weblog have two particular interests:

Interdisciplinarity: The humanities is a domain of learning, reflection and action which require dialogue between and across discipline-defining epistemologies, perspectives and content areas.

Globalism and Diversity: The humanities are to be considered a space where recognizes the dynamics of differences in human history, thought and experience, and negotiates the contemporary paradoxes of globalization. This serves as a corrective to earlier modes of humanities thinking, where one-sided attempts were made to refine a singular essence for an agenda of humanism.

The humanities come into their own in unsettling spaces like these. These kinds of places require difficult dialogues, and here the humanities shine. It is in discussions like these that we might be able to unburden ourselves of restrictively narrow knowledge systems of techno-science and econo-production.

The conversations at the conference and the publications in the journals, book series and online community range from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical. Whatever their scope or perspective, the over-riding concern is to redefine the human and mount a case for the humanities. At a time when the dominant rationalisms are running a course that seems at times draw humanity towards ends that are less than satisfactory, the disciplines of the humanities reopen fundamental questions of the human—for pragmatic as well as redemptory reasons.

16 New Directions in the Humanities Community Membership

About The New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.

Membership Benefits As a New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work: • Digital subscription to The Humanities Collection for one year. • Digital subscription to the book series for one year. • One article publication per year (pending peer review) • Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as an Associate Editor after reviewing three or more articles. • Subscription to the community e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the knowledge community. • Option to add a video presentation to the community YouTube channel. • Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including: ◊ Personal profile and publication portfolio page; ◊ Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media; ◊ Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter; ◊ Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes—for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work.

17 New Directions in the Humanities Engage in the Community

Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and www.facebook.com/ TheHumanities.CG collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with community colleagues that will continue well into the future. @humanitiescomm

#CGHumanities Publish Journal Articles or Books We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the journal. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of journal and to the book series. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book series.

Engage through Social Media There are several ways to connect and network with community colleagues:

Email Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected].

Scholar: Common Ground’s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for community members at: http://www.facebook.com/TheHumanities.CG.

Twitter: Follow the community @humanitiescomm and talk about the conference with #CGHumanities.

YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at http://thehumanities. com/the-conference/types-of-conference-sessions/online-presentations.

18 New Directions in the Humanities Advisory Board

The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of the New Directions in the Humanities Knowledge Community and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the community. Board members are invited to attend the annual conference with a complimentary registration and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to The Humanities Collection as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to The Humanities book series.

We are grateful for the continued service and support of the following world-class scholars and practitioners.

• Patrick Baert, Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK • David Christian, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA • Joan Copjec, Brown University, Providence, USA • Mick Dodson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia • Oliver Feltham, American University of Paris, Paris, France • Hafedh Halila, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia • Souad Halila, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia • Ted Honderich, University College, London, UK • Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España • Eleni Karantzola, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece • Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA • Marion Ledwig, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA • Harry R. Lewis, Harvard University, Boston, USA • Juliet Mitchell, Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK • Tom Nairn, Durham University, Durham, UK • Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia • Scott Schaffer, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada • Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford University, Stanford, USA • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, New York City, USA • Cheryl A. Wells, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA • Zhang Zhiqiang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

19 A Social Knowledge Platform Create Your Academic Profile and Connect to Peers

Developed by our brilliant Common Ground software team, Scholar connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works.

Utilize Your Free Scholar Membership Today through • Building your academic profile and list of published works. • Joining a community with a thematic or disciplinary focus. • Establishing a new knowledge community relevant to your field. • Creating new academic work in our innovative publishing space. • Building a peer review network around your work or courses.

Scholar Quick Start Guide 1. Navigate to http://cgscholar.com. Select [Sign Up] below ‘Create an Account’. 2. Enter a “blip” (a very brief one-sentence description of yourself). 3. Click on the “Find and join communities” link located under the YOUR COMMUNITIES heading (On the left hand navigation bar). 4. Search for a community to join or create your own.

Scholar Next Steps – Build Your Academic Profile • About: Include information about yourself, including a linked CV in the top, dark blue bar. • Interests: Create searchable information so others with similar interests can locate you. • Peers: Invite others to connect as a peer and keep up with their work. • Shares: Make your page a comprehensive portfolio of your work by adding publications in the Shares area - be these full text copies of works in cases where you have permission, or a link to a bookstore, library or publisher listing. If you choose Common Ground’s hybrid open access option, you may post the final version of your work here, available to anyone on the web if you select the ‘make my site public’ option. • Image: Add a photograph of yourself to this page; hover over the avatar and click the pencil/edit icon to select. • Publisher: All Common Ground community members have free access to our peer review space for their courses. Here they can arrange for students to write multimodal essays or reports in the Creator space (including image, video, audio, dataset or any other file), manage student peer review, co-ordinate assessments, and share students’ works by publishing them to the Community space.

20 A Digital Learning Platform Use Scholar to Support Your Teaching

Scholar is a social knowledge platform that transforms the patterns of interaction in learning by putting students first, positioning them as knowledge producers instead of passive knowledge consumers. Scholar provides scaffolding to encourage making and sharing knowledge drawing from multiple sources rather than memorizing knowledge that has been presented to them.

Scholar also answers one of the most fundamental questions students and instructors have of their performance, “How am I doing?” Typical modes of assessment often answer this question either too late to matter or in a way that is not clear or comprehensive enough to meaningfully contribute to better performance.

A collaborative research and development project between Common Ground and the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Scholar contains a knowledge community space, a multimedia web writing space, a formative assessment environment that facilitates peer review, and a dashboard with aggregated machine and human formative and summative writing assessment data.

The following Scholar features are only available to Common Ground Knowledge Community members as part of their membership. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like the complimentary educator account that comes with participation in a Common Ground conference.

• Create projects for groups of students, involving draft, peer review, revision and publication. • Publish student works to each student’s personal portfolio space, accessible through the web for class discussion. • Create and distribute surveys. • Evaluate student work using a variety of measures in the assessment dashboard.

Scholar is a generation beyond learning management systems. It is what we term a Digital Learning Platform— it transforms learning by engaging students in powerfully horizontal “social knowledge” relationships. For more information, visit: http://knowledge.cgscholar.com.

21 The Humanities Collection

Committed to creating an intellectual frame of reference and support for an interdisciplinary conversation that builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future… New Directions in the Humanities Collection of Journals

About Discussions in The Humanities Collection range from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical. Their over-riding concern, however, is to redefine our understandings of the human and mount a case for the disciplinary practices of the humanities. At a time when the dominant Indexing Communication Source rationalisms are running a course that often seem to draw humanity towards less than satisfactory Humanities International ends, these journals reopen the question of the human—for highly pragmatic as well as redemptory Complete reasons. Humanities International Index Humanities Source The Humanities Collection is relevant for academics across the whole range of humanities disciplines, Political Science Complete Scopus research students, educators—school, university, and further education—anyone with an interest in, The Australian Research and concern for the humanities. Council (ERA) Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory All the journals in The Humanities Collection are peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of Founded: criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of 2003 the greatest substance and highest significance is published. Publication Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December) Collection Editor thehumanities.com Asun Lopez-Varela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ijh.cgpublisher.com

Associate Editors Articles published in The Humanities Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of the New Direction in the Humanities Knowledge Community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to the New Direction in the Humanities Collection’s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection.

25 New Directions in the Humanities Collection Titles

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review ISSN: 1447-9508 (print) | 1447-9559 (online) Indexing: Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Humanities Source International, Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review provides a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge that builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future.

The International Journal of Humanities Education ISSN: 2327-0063 (print) | 2327-2457 (online) Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Humanities Education explores teaching and learning in and through the humanities encompassing a broad domain of educational practice, including literature, language, social studies and the arts.

The International Journal of Literary Humanities ISSN: 2327-7912 (print) | 2327-8676 (online) Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Literary Humanities analyzes and interprets literatures and literacy practices, seeking to unsettle received expressive forms and conventional interpretations.

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies ISSN: 2327-0055 (print) | 2327-2376 (online) Indexing: Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies critically examines the social, political and ideological conditions of cultural production and offers a wide canvas for the examination of media, identities, politics, and cultural expression.

26 New Directions in the Humanities Collection Titles

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies ISSN: 2327-7882 (print) | 2327-8617 (online) Indexing: Communication Source, Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies critically examines the exchange of human meaning, from the processes of representation or symbolic sense-making grounded in human cognition, outward manifestations of communication, and the dynamics of interpretation.

The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies ISSN: 2327-0047 (print) | 2327-2155 (online) Indexing: Political Science Complete, Scopus, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies invites theoretical work and case studies documenting socially-engaged civic, political, and community practices.

27 New Directions in the Humanities Submission Process

Journal Collection Submission Process and Timeline Below please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process:

1. Submit a conference presentation proposal.

2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the “Add a Paper” button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines. (See dates below)

3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www. CGPublisher.com.

4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees’ identities have been removed, you will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports.

5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees.

6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees. After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval before publication.

7. Individual articles may be published “Web First” with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).

Submission Timeline You may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines are as follows: • Submission Round 1 – 15 January • Submission Round 2 – 15 April • Submission Round 3 – 15 July • Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October

Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year’s volume. The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish “Web First,” early submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published.

28 New Directions in the Humanities Common Ground Open

Hybrid Open Access All Common Ground Journals are Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers.

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29 New Directions in the Humanities Journal Awards

International Award for Excellence The Humanities Collection presents an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking in the area of humanities. All articles submitted for publication in The Humanities Collection are entered into consideration for this award. The review committee for the award is selected from the International Advisory Board for the collection and the Annual Humanities Conference. The committee selects the winning article from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the reviewer guidelines. The remaining nine top papers will be featured on our website.

Award Winner, Volume 11 Qingben Li, Beijing Language and Culture University, China

For the Article “Cross-Cultural Studies and Aesthetics Discursive Transformations in China”

Abstract This paper discusses the theoretical system of Chinese aesthetics. Within ‘cultural conservatism’ in academic circles, some scholars believe that the contemporary radical and unconventional attitudes of Chinese culture are so radical to their tradition that there is cultural fracture within Chinese culture. They claim that cultural models were introduced by foreign cultures, and inevitably influenced events and cultural catastrophes such as the Cultural Revolution, linked to the radical cultural tendency which evolved from May Fourth Movement. These tenets fuel the argumentation of other scholars who maintain that Chinese aesthetics should be based on its own cultural tradition without copying the western discursive system. This paper argues for a comparative research method as intercultural tool. This argument is built on explanations of the differences between core layers and superficial layers of culture, and on the importance of value judgments within the poetic aesthetic systems of both east and west. Such argument enables and supports cross-cultural dialogical perspectives between east and west.

30 New Directions in the Humanities Subscriptions and Access

Community Membership and Personal Subscriptions As part of each conference registration, all conference participants (both virtual and in-person) have a one-year digital subscription to the entire Humanities Collection. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to both the current volume of the collection as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal subscription.

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31 The Humanities Books

Aiming to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication… New Directions in the Humanities Books

The Break-up of Britain

Tom Nairn

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Tom Nairn’s The Break-up of Britain reviews the arguments of his classic study and expands his thesis into the new millennium. He confirms his contention that civic nationalism—but not ethno-nationalism—would play an increasing role in the breakdown of the United Kingdom. This, he says, has now assumed an even more rapid pace than when the book was first published. The cumulative strains of Thatcherism and Blairism have had their effect. Reprinted now, after the almost-successful referendum to make Scotland a country of its own, this edition has additional resonances.

‘The Break-up of Britain’, Nairn writes in his Introduction to this edition ‘began its life in a still imposing, if narrowing river; by the time the 1981 paperback edition had appeared, the river had begun to feel the approaching rapids—which have accelerated for over twenty years, and attained a crazy pace ISBN—978-1-61229-724-8 even in the few weeks between beginning and finishing this new edition. The thunder of a waterfall 354 Pages no one conceived of in 1977 is in everyone’s ears, as Tony Blair sends off his ships and troops to assist America’s assault on the Middle East… In the altered world lying beyond these falls, it is surely unlikely Community Website: thehumanities.com the United Kingdom will survive in anything like its historical form’.

Bookstore: When this anniversary edition was published, Tom Nairn was living in Australia and teaching at RMIT thehumanities. cgpublisher.com University, Melbourne in the Globalism Research Institute. He now lives in Scotland.

“Densely and brilliantly argued…original and perceptive.” —The Economist

“A burning-glass of a mind…disconcerting in its withering contempt not only for the British state but for everything associated with it.” —The Guardian

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Culture and Visual Forms of Power: Experiencing Contemporary Spaces of Resistance

Lidia K.C. Manzo (ed.)

This book is a collection of essays that brings together researchers working on power relations with visual methods. The text is epistemologically radical in attracting authors who look at culture as a field of struggle, constructed by different points of view. Today, culture can be seen as a specific field in which “power” is exercised. In particular, questions about the nature of power are addressed. The editors suggest two points in the discussion: how is reality constructed, and how is it connected with power? What is the real space for subject freedom? Foucault’s idea of “power” is that it is not a thing, but a relation. Power is not merely repressive (like the use of violent control mechanisms in the pre-modern era), but it is productive as well as an everyday disciplinary practice. Starting from this perspective, we ask whether visual methodology can be used to describe and analyze different forms of power. ISBN—978-1-61229-640-1 131 Pages These diverse contributions demonstrate how in a time of extensive social change, culture is always Community Website: a space for resistance. By examining cases in which visual sociology is used as action research, thehumanities.com the authors show the affect of visual emergence in grass-roots social activism in the southeast Australian mainland. For instance photography is used to analyze the perceptions natives from a Bookstore: rural community have of their own territory, as in the case of the Huarpe in Argentina. Incorporating thehumanities. cgpublisher.com comparative analysis from different parts of the Global South, such as the performance of two groups of photographers in Brazil and Bangladesh, they discover images are in tension between “the dominant and the residual” in the critique of design in Latin America. Subjectivities and video-based methodology are also used to explore the intercourse between Roma and Italian culture and expressions of resistance in the form of dance.

With the contribution of Emiliana Armano, Tamara Bellone, Enzo Colombo, Carlos Cowan Ros, Karen Crinall, Verónica Devalle, Fabiene Gama, Beatriz Nussbaumer, and Timothy Shortell

Editor Bio: Lidia K.C. Manzo has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Trento and holds a MA in political and social communication from the University of Milan where she performed urban research and a documentary on Milan’s Chinatown. Her ethnographic and visual work examines how the everyday co-productions of space and identity support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice. Currently, Manzo is Italian partner member in the international research project HOUWEL and contract professor at the School of Architecture and Society of the Politecnico di Milano University.

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The Origins of Architecture: An English Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Perspective

Tessa Morrison

The origin of architecture was a heavily debated subject in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Spanish Jesuit priest and architect Juan Bautista Villalpando kindled this debate with the publication of In Ezechielem Explanationes et Apparatus Urbis Templi Hierosolymitani in 1604. He claimed that the origin of architecture was to be found in the divine plan of Solomon’s Temple. Villalpando reconstructed the Temple of Solomon as a building that encapsulated the entire formal grammar of classical architecture. He believed that his reconstruction of the Temple represented the most perfect building ever built and that it could never be surpassed, since its plan was God-given. Within a couple years of its publication, commentaries began to appear that agreed or contested his theories. Villalpando’s influence spread throughout Europe.

ISBN—978-1-61229-320-3 The aim of this book is to examine this important and influential debate and put into context the debate 158 Pages on the origin of architecture found in the English Age of Reason. Unlike their continental counterparts, Community Website: Isaac Newton, Indio Jones, William Stukeley and John Wood of Bath connected the Temple of thehumanities.com Jerusalem and the origin of architecture to an example of English architecture, Stonehenge. These debates and controversies became embroiled not only in questions about the history of architecture, Bookstore: but also in the architecture of the Enlightenment and questions about English literature and identity. thehumanities. cgpublisher.com Author Bio: Dr. Tessa Morrison is a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research is multi-disciplinary and incorporates philosophy, mathematics, and the history of architecture. Over the last few years she has specialised in seventeenth and eighteenth century studies in architectural history and the history of ideas, including a translation and commentary of Isaac Newton’s reconstruction manuscript on Solomon’s Temple published in Isaac Newton’s Temple of Solomon and his Reconstruction of Sacred Architecture. Her current research is on utopian cities from sixteenth to the nineteenth century that have never been built but have had significant influence through the centuries.

37 The Humanities Conference

Discussing and examining key issues in the humanities, and building face-to-face relationships with leading and emerging scholars from the field that represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives… New Directions in the Humanities About the Conference

Conference History First held at the University of the Aegean on the island of Rhodes in Greece in 2003, the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities has moved its location each year to different countries and continents, each offering its own perspectives on the human condition and the current state of studies of the human. This knowledge community is brought together by a shared commitment to the humanities and a concern for their future.

The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.

Past Conferences • 2003 - University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece • 2004 - Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy • 2005 - Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK • 2006 - University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia • 2007 - American University of Paris, France • 2008 - Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey • 2009 - Beijing, China • 2010 - University of California, Los Angeles, USA • 2011 - Universidad de Granada, Spain, • 2012 - The Centre Mont-Royal, Montréal, Canada • 2013 - Faculty of the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary • 2014 - Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain • 2015 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

41 New Directions in the Humanities About the Conference

Plenary Speaker Highlights: The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including:

• Tariq Ali, Novelist, Historian and Political Campaigner, London, UK (2003, 2006) • Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK (2011) • Patrick Baert, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK (2005) • Gustavo Sánchez Canales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2014) • David Christian, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA • Joan Copjec, The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA (2006) • Jack Goody, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2004, 2005) • Souad Halila, University of Tunis and Sousse, Tunisia (2007) • Ted Honderich, University College London, London, UK (2005, 2007) • Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2010) • Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA (2004, 2007) • Juliet Mitchell, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2003, 2005) • Tom Nairn, RMIT University, Melbourne, Austrailia (2003) • Kate Soper, London Metropolitan University, London, UK (2006) • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, New York City, USA (2003, 2007) • Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University, New York City, USA (2005)

Past Partners: Over the years, the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities has had the pleasure of working with the following organizations:

American University of Paris Center for Comparative CEU San Pablo University Globalism Institute Paris, France (2007) Literature and Society Madrid, Spain (2014) RMIT University Columbia University Melbourne, Australia New York City, USA (2007) (2003–2011)

Institute for Citizenship Monash University Institute for The University of 7th of University of the Aegean and Globalisation the Study of Global Movements November at Carthage Greece (2003) Deakin University Melbourne, Australia (2004) Tunis, Tunisia (2006) Geelong, Australia (2006)

42 New Directions in the Humanities About the Conference

Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:

International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Humanities Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 35 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.

Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.

Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.

Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities.

43 New Directions in the Humanities Ways of Speaking

Plenary Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Sessions.

Garden Conversation Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.

Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.

Themed Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty- minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.

Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session.

44 New Directions in the Humanities Ways of Speaking

Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.

Workshop/ Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.

Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session.

45 New Directions in the Humanities Daily Schedule

Wednesday, 17, June

8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open Conference Opening—Kimberly Kendall, Common Ground Publishing, USA & Karim Gherab-Martín, 9:00–9:30 Common Ground Publishing España, Spain Plenary Session—Katherine Hayles, Duke University, USA 9:30–10:05 “Humanities and the Digital: Nonconscious Cognition in Biological and Technical Media” 10:05–10:35 Garden Conversation and Coffee Break 10:35–11:20 Talking Circles 11:20–12:50 Lunch 12:50–14:30 Parallel Sessions 14:30–14:45 Coffee Break 14:45–16:25 Parallel Sessions 16:25–16:30 Transitional Break 16:30–17:15 Parallel Sessions 17:15–18:15 Conference Welcome Reception

Thursday, 18, June

8:45–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open Plenary Session (in Spanish)—Jose Morillo-Velarde Serrano, Archives and Biblioltecas, CEU and 9:00–9:35 CEUNET, Spain “Publicaciones científicas de Humanidades en español: problemas de valoración” Publishing Your Book or Journal Article with Common Ground Publishing—Ashley McBride, Common 9:00–9:35 Ground Publishing, USA 9:35–10:05 Garden Conversation and Coffee Break 10:05–11:45 Parallel Sessions

11:45–13:15 Lunch 13:15–14:55 Parallel Sessions 14:55–15:10 Coffee Break 15:10–16:50 Parallel Sessions 17:00 Conference Tours Leave from Walter Gage Residence

46 New Directions in the Humanities Daily Schedule

Friday, 19, June 8:15–8:30 Conference Registration Desk Open Publishing Your Book or Journal Article with Common Ground Publishing—Ashley McBride, Common 8:30–9:00 Ground Publishing, USA Plenary Session—Constance Crompton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada 9:00–9:35 “Augmented: Revising, Rereading, and Returning Culture in the Digital Humanities” 9:35–10:05 Garden Conversation and Coffee Break 10:05–11:45 Parallel Sessions 11:45–13:15 Lunch 13:15–14:55 Parallel Sessions 14:55–15:10 Coffee Break 15:10–16:50 Parallel Sessions Closing Session—Kimberly Kendall, Common Ground Publishing, USA & Karim Gherab-Martín, 16:50–17:20 Common Ground Publishing España, Spain

Featured Sessions Publishing Your Article or Book with Common Ground Thursday, 18 June—9:00-9:35 Friday, 19 June—8:30-9:00 Ashley McBride, Commissioning Editor, Common Ground Publishing Description: In this session the Commissioning Editor for The Humanities Collection and books series will present an overview of Common Ground’s publishing philosophy and practices. She will offer tips for turning conference papers into journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures, introduce The Humanities Collection, and provide information on Common Ground’s journal article submission process. Please feel free to bring questions – the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A.

47 New Directions in the Humanities Special Events

Opening Reception & Conference Welcome Common Ground Publishing and the Humanities Conference will host an Opening Reception & Conference Welcome on Wednesday, 17 June following the last session of the day. We invite all delegates to attend and enjoy complimentary drinks and light refreshments. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with and get to know your fellow international delegates.

Date: Wednesday, 17 June Time: Following last session of the day Location: Forest Sciences Centre Foyer

Conference Tour: Capilano Suspension Bridge & Nature Park Tour Take a walk on the wild side and join your fellow delegates on an adventure-filled evening of history and exploration. Cross over the world famous Capliano Suspension Bridge and take in the breath taking views of Vancouver’s north shore at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. View North America’s largest private collection of First Nations totem poles, exhibits highlighting the park’s history, and embark on a unique tree top nature tour of the surrounding temperate rain forest. For more information or to book your spot on this limited tour, please see the conference registration desk.

Date: Thursday, 18 June Time: 5:00-9:00 PM Location: Picks up at Walter Gage Residences

Conference Tour: Granville Island & Vancouver Panoramic Tour Whimsy has found a home in Vancouver and it’s called Granville Island. Granville island is a delightful place filled with artistry and charm and is a must see stop for any visitor to Vancouver. The island is located in the middle of downtown Vancouver and is home to an array of artists’ studios and workshops, art galleries, performing arts, eclectic dining, and a fabulous public market that offers the widest array of fresh food in the Lower Mainland as well as a favorite place for people to meet, eat, and spend some time in an enjoyable and relaxing environment. Join your fellow delegates and preview some of Vancouver’s many treasures. For more information or to book your spot on this limited tour, please see the conference registration desk.

Date: Thursday, 18 June Time: 5:00-9:00 PM Location: Picks up at Walter Gage Residences

48 New Directions in the Humanities Plenary Speakers

Constance Crompton “Augmented: Revising, Rereading, and Returning Culture in the Digital Humanities” Constance Crompton received her PhD in Communication and Culture from York University, and she is currently an assistant professor of Digital Humanities and English in the Department of Critical Studies in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. In addition to Digital Humanities, her research interests include queer history, Victorian visual and popular culture, the literatures of transition (1880-1920), nineteenth-century science, and scholarly editing. She is co-director, with Michelle Schwartz, archivist at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, an infrastructure pilot project of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory at the University of Alberta. In 2012, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria, where she worked with Dr. Raymond Siemens on a social edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add MS 17492). She is also a research collaborator with The Yellow Nineties Online housed at Ryerson University’s Centre for Digital Humanities. Her work has appeared in the Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, The Yellow Nineties Online, and the UBC Law Review.

Katherine Hayles “Humanities and the Digital: Nonconscious Cognition in Biological and Technical Media” Katherine Hayles is a professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the program in Literature at Duke University. Her research interests concern topics related to literature and science in the 20th and 21st century; 20th and 21st century American fiction; electronic textuality, hypertext fiction and theory; science fiction; literary theory; and media theory. With degrees in both chemistry and English literature, Hayles is one of the foremost scholars of the relationship between literature and science in the late twentieth century. She is the author six books, including How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999), which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999; and Writing Machines (2001), which won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her most recent book is : New Horizons for the Literary (2007). The winner of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, and a fellowship at the National Humanities Center.

Jose Morillo-Velarde Serrano (Spanish Language Plenary Talk) “Publicaciones científicas de Humanidades en español: problemas de valoración” Jose Morillo-Velarde Serrano holds a degree in Hispanic studies from the University of Córdoba. He is currently the Director of Archives and Biblioltecas CEU and CEUNET. He launched the CEU library network, a network that emphasizes heterogeneity by grouping schools, scientific, specialized libraries, and documentation centers. He was previously the general director of the department of the San Pablo CEU University Foundation. In this role he oversees the coordination of three universities: Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, and the Universitat Abat Oliva CEU. In addition, he oversees ten colleges, a tertiary professional training center, and two affiliated public universities in Vigo and Sevilla respectively. He has held positions as a professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences at the Universidad San Pable CEU, and a Biblioltecario at the Universidad de Cordoba. He is the author of a dozen articles and has spoken at numerous national and international conferences. He is also the vice president of the Automation and Digiltal Libraries Users Group, a corresponding academic in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Córdoba, a member of the Universia and Net- Biblo editorial committees, a member of the Advisory Council of Net -Library and Academic Search, and editor of the International Journal of the Book and Libraries.

49 New Directions in the Humanities Graduate Scholar Awards

The following are the 2015 Graduate Scholar Awardees.

Kurosh Amoui-Kalareh Kurosh Amoui-Kalareh is currently working on his PhD in Social & Political Thought at York University, examining the intersections of counter-culture literature(s) and counter-public religion(s). Having received his BA in Sociology at the University of Tehran, Kurosh completed his first MA in English at UBC-Okanagan, and his second in Religious Studies at Queen’s University.

Fariha Asif Fariha Asif is a Lecturer in English at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. She is highly organized, innovative, competent, and efficient and carries ten years excellent foreign language teaching experience. She has worked as an Assistant Coordinator for a Teacher’s Mentoring Program in the Professional Development Unit. She is a dynamic ESL/EFL professional with solid competencies in teaching, curriculum development, instructional leadership, and strategic planning. She has attended several workshops and presented at conferences to gain knowledge and maximize her delivery of language learning skills. Most recently she has presented her research paper at Harvard University (21st Century Academic Forum) and Nevada University (IJAS Conference).

Farshid Ebrahimi Farshid Ebrahimi is a PhD student at the University of Technology Mara in Malaysia with a focus on Visual Communication and New Media. Before he started his PhD, he earned his Master’s degree at the University of Technology Mara and MBA at Multimedia University. He received his BA in Graphic Design from Tehran University in Iran and his professional experience includes working as a Graphic Designer and cultural relations consultant for almost 18 years. During his studies, he focused on globalization of culture, and currently, he travels between Iran & Malaysia, conducting his dissertation research on the production of an animated story eBook from Molana Jalal-eddin, Rumi’s poems, a renowned Persian poet. His prototype is already published in form of eBook for English language children. He is very interested, not only in classical literature, but also in using new media technology.

Akkadia Ford Akkadia Ford is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies, School of Arts & Social Sciences, at Southern Cross University, Australia and is a trained filmmaker, establishing and working as Festival Director of Queer Fruits Film Festival (2009-2012). Current areas of interest are focused upon transgender representation in films, , queer film, film classification (ratings systems) in Australia and USA, gender disruption, film festivals, audiences, and issues of spectatorship. Recent publications have focussed upon transliteracy as a theoretical approach to reading gender–diverse cinema of the Trans New Wave.

Natalia Grincheva Natalia Grincheva is an enthusiastic and energetic international project coordinator from Russia, who participated in various diplomatic initiatives across borders. For example, in summer 2011, Natalia served on the UNESCO Secretariat Committee in Paris to help manage grant applications to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD). Holder of several prestigious academic awards, including Fulbright (2007-2009), Erasmus Mundus (2010-2011), Quebec Fund (2011–2013) or Australian Endeavour (2012–2013) fellowships, Natalia has

50 New Directions in the Humanities Graduate Scholar Awards travelled around the world to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation on digital . Focusing on new museology and social media technologies, she has successfully implemented a number of research projects on the “diplomatic” usages of new media by the largest internationally recognized museums in North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia. An author of numerous articles published in prominent academic journals, Natalia is also a frequent speaker, panel participant or a session chair in various international conferences, for example ICOM Conference “Museums and Politics” (2014), World Social Science Forum “Social Transformations and the Digital Age”(2013), UNESCO Symposium “The Memory of the World in the Digital Age” (2012), and many others.

Catherine Kyle Catherine (Katey) Kyle is a PhD Candidate in the Community, Culture, and Global Studies Unit at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. Katey’s PhD research focuses on heritage landscape reconstruction of the Chinese and Japanese market gardeners the operated in the North and Central Okanagan Valley from the late 19th century through the mid twentieth century. Her work combines traditional historiography with historical geographic information systems and employs a landscape perspective in order to understand the daily lived experience of the market gardeners. Katey is a third generation Vancouverite who now resides in the interior community of Kelowna, BC.

Bofang Li Bofang Li is a PhD candidate in English at Yale University. Her dissertation concerns the long history of ‘media newness’, with a special interest in feminine and feminist engagements with populist media forms, especially within the digital space. Bofang gained her BA in English at Oxford University before reading for an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her masters research concerned the practices of fan cultures in the production and consumption of online ‘fan fiction’, engaging in the vexed issue of ‘democracy’ within digital cultures—a topic that remains a research interest today.

Nike Nivar Nike Nivar Ortiz is a PhD student at the University of Southern California starting his third year in the fall. He is part of the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Program, in the Comparative Media and Culture Track. He is also enrolled in the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program at USC. His research considers the intersection of collective trauma, online social movements, and digital archives. Other research interests include: 21st and 20th Century Dominican Republic, Dominican and Haitian Diaspora, visual culture, and graphic novels.

51 New Directions in the Humanities Graduate Scholar Awards

Adetoro Olaniyi Banwo Adetoro Olaniyi Banwo grew up in Lagos, the economic hub of Nigeria in the late 70’s, and graduated from Ogun State University with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Political Science. After his graduation, he worked in various organizations in the private sector of Nigeria and his quest for knowledge spurred him to pursue and acquire a Masters of Art Degree from the prestigious University of Liverpool, UK. His desire for language and art inspired him towards learning the Chinese language and culture. He has attended several language trainings organised by the HANBAN [Office of Chinese Language Council International, P.R. China]. His quest and passion for Chinese Language and culture encourage him to pursue another Master program in Chinese Philosophy from the renowned Xiamen University. He is currently engaged as a Research and Doctoral Candidate in Chinese History from the same university. In addition, he is a Chinese Language Instructor with the Confucius Institute at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria, a professional member of the Nigerian Institute of Management and a Certified Database Administrator.

Mina Rajabi Paak Mina Rajabi Paak is a PhD student at the department of Humanities at York University. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from The University of British Columbia where she wrote her thesis on intersections of visual culture and the discourse of philanthropy within the context of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Selected as a Trillium Scholar in 2014, Mina is currently continuing her research on the concept and culture of philanthropy and its influence on the praxis of socio-political activism.

Annisa Ridzkynoor Beta Annisa is a Research Scholar and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies in Asia PhD Programme, National University of Singapore. Her PhD project revolves around hijabers community in Indonesia. Her research interests include Islamic feminism, popular culture, and issues on memory and reconciliation. She has published her research with International Communication Gazzette and KLIUC Malaysia.

Jessica Ring Jessi Ring is currently a PhD student in Legal Studies at Carleton University. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as a Bachelor of Arts Honour Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her primary research interest focuses on understanding feminist engagement in technology and digital spaces. Currently, she is interested in understanding how feminist activism intersects with hacktivism. Her secondary research interest focuses on the experiences of criminalized women from a feminist legal perspective. Between her degrees, Jessi worked as a Residential Support worker in a women’s transitional home for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa.

Tiffani Smith Tiffani J. Smith is a PhD student in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University with a concentration in Educational Policy Studies and History of Higher Education. Tiffani holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies with an emphasis in organizational communication and persuasion. Tiffani holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication and Political Science with honours. She serves as a communication instructor and consultant. Her research interests include black feminist studies, art criticism, cultural studies, and policy analysis. Her current research project involves conducting in-depth interviews with minority females at for-profit universities in California.

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WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 8:00-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN ONFERENCE PENING IMBERLY ENDALL OMMON ROUND UBLISHING ARIM ARTIN OMMON ROUND UBLISHING 9:00-9:30 C O – K K , C G P , USA; K M , C G P , SPAIN LENARY ESSION ATHERINE AYLES UKE NIVERSITY URHAM UMANITIES AND THE IGITAL ONCONSCIOUS 9:30-10:05 P S – K H , D U , D , USA – "H D : N COGNITION IN BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNICAL MEDIA" 10:05-10:35 GARDEN CONVERSATION 10:35-11:20 TALKING CIRCLES Room 1 - Critical Cultural Studies Room 2 - Communications and Linguistics Studies Room 3 - Literary Humanities Room 4 - Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 5 - Humanities Education Room 6 - 2015 Special Focus "From 'Digital Humanities' to a Humanities of the Digital" 11:20-12:50 LUNCH 12:50-14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Digital Humanities Methods and Knowledge Creation Digital Tools for Research in the Mobile Age Chunlei Liu, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA Li-Mei Chen, Department of English, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA Overview: Research in the mobile age involves different data, mobile devices, and platforms. This paper compares digital research tools and recommends an essential list of tools for completing various research tasks. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Computer Skills in Humanistic Disciplines: Some Observations Deborah J. Schuster, Science, Boonville High School, Boonville, USA Dr. Gerardo M. Acay, Political Science and Public Administration, Division of Social Sciences, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, USA Overview: This paper addresses the use of the computer in Humanistic disciplines and its attendant role in the development of creative thought and logical thinking. Theme: Humanities Education Poetry Computational Graphs: Applying Graph Theory in Computationally Analyzing Contemporary North American Poetry Prof. Chris Tanasescu, Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Prof. Diana Inkpen, Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Overview: Applying Graph Theory for the first time in the field of poetry computational analysis, the authors esentpr results and perspectives that shed a new light on contemporary North American poetry. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Creating Digital Hispanic Literature: Inti Case Study Dr. Donald Russell Bailey, Phillips Memorial Library, Providence College, Providence, USA Overview: Higher-ed libraries and faculty collaborate to create digital research knowledge collections. This case study for creating digital Hispanic literature provides a scalable model for library and humanities faculty collaboration. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Room 2 Politics of Representation A Bitter-sweet Deal: International and Israeli Media Coverage of the Israel-Hamas Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange Deal Dr. Yuval Karniel, School of Communications, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel Amit Lavie-Dinur, School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzeliya, Israel Overview: This research explores whether professional ethical considerations or other ideological and national political agendas determined the content of domestic and foreign television news media coverage. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Public Discussion and the Digital News Media: A Myth or an Enhancement of Democracy Prof. Allan Edward Warnke, Department of Political Studies, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada Sven Schirmer, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada Overview: This paper analyzes contemporary forms of social media and the digital mosaic as to the extent it has really promoted a substantive political dialogue in a democracy. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies The Lady in Red: Image Deconstruction and the Gezi Park Uprising Asst. Prof. Maria McLeod, Department of Journalism, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA Overview: This paper presents a postmodern, social-semiotic deconstruction of the “Lady In Red,” an iconic news photo from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising depicting a Turkish activist being pepper-sprayed by police. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies The Burmese Digital Hip Hop Movement Tiffani J. Smith, Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA Overview: This paper provides an analysis of political Hip Hop group, Generation Wave, and its use of the Internet, social media, and Hip Hop to maintain the pro-democracy movement in Burma. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies

53 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 12:50-14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 3 The Future of the Humanities There's a Studies for That: Criticism and Metabasis Dr. James Dougal Fleming, English Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Overview: Contemporary literary departments are in a state of disciplinary incoherence (metabasis). This results from a failure to think through the logic of textuality. I offer a critique and an alternative. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Concentric Circles: A Methodology for Interdisciplinary Work Dr. Michelle Beauchamp, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Overview: This paper proposes a flexible, interdisciplinary research methodology that allows the interweaving of disparate methodologies to investigate multiple facets of complex subjects in ways that are essential to the humanities. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Room 4 Narrative Convention and Literary Techniques Sand, Sun, Sea, and Sky: Camus's Alliterative Images of Existential Choice in "L'Etranger" Robert C. Hauhart, Department of Society and Social Justice, Saint Martin's University, Lacey, USA Overview: This paper analyzes the alliterative images Camus employs in "L'Etranger" to symbolically depict Meursault's dilemma of existential choice. Theme: Literary Humanities Promoting the Poetic Cause: Hidden Depths in Ben Okri's Stokus in "Tales of Freedom" (2009) Dr. Rosemary Alice Gray, Department of English, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper analyzes a number of Ben Okri's rhapodies in prose, showing how each stokus illustrates a poetically rendered moment of insight, vision, or paradox. Theme: Literary Humanities "Digital" Slam Poetry as Counterpublic Dr. Daphne Desser, Department of English, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Overview: This paper analyzes winning slam poetry entries as well as their subsequent reception on-line (via e.g. Youtube, Vimeo) to argue that on-line slam represents an emerging digital counterpublic. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 5 Linguistic and Language Studies Variation in the Tone Classes of Ikwere Nouns Prof. Shirley Yul-Ifode, Emevor Study Center, National Open University of Nigeria, Emevor, Nigeria Dr. Roseline Alerechi, Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria Overview: This paper introduces a description of the function of tones in the noun system and tonal processes in the Ikwere language of Nigeria. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies "Isu pay," "Sayang," "Kailala": A Semantic-cultural Analysis of the Frugality of the Ilocanos Dr. Elizabeth Alviar Calinawagan, Department of Language, Literature and the Arts, College of Arts and Communication, University of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines Overview: A semantic and cultural description of Ilocano words and expressions like "isu pay," "sayang," and "kailala," reflecting the frugality of the people. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Language Choices in Higher Education: The Case of Black and Arikaans-speaking White Students at the University of South Africa Vuyolwethu Seti, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Prof. Elirea Bornman, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Pedro Alvarez-Mosquera, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Overview: This paper seeks to understand the language choices of university students in post-apartheid South Africa, their identification with their ethnic groups, and how their languages are represented in higher education. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 6 Educational Approaches, Strategies, Methodologies, and Tactics Reading with One’s Ears: The Use of Audio Narration in Literature Classes to Enhance Digital Natives’ Reading Skills Dr. Claudio R. V. Braga, Department of Literary Theory and Literatures, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil Dr. Glaucia R. Goncalves, College of Letters, Literatures in English, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Overview: This paper examines the results of research on the use of audio technology in literature classes. Impacts on reading fluency, reader’s self- concentration, and analytical interpretation will be explored. Theme: Humanities Education Experimenting with Collaborative Testing in the Humanities Classroom Dr. Stefania Burk, Faculty of Arts, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Overview: While widespread in science education, collaborative testing remains uncommon in the literature classroom. This paper introduces initial findings on the use of this method in an undergraduate literature course. Theme: Humanities Education Teaching Aristotle to Twenty-first Century Students Dr. Scott Rubarth, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Program in Classical Studies, Rollins College, Winter Park, USA Overview: Should we teach Aristotle to twenty-first century students? Why? Can students today eadr Aristotle first hand? What pedagogical tools/ techniques might make Aristotle more accessible and valuable to our students? Theme: Humanities Education

14:30-14:45 COFFEE BREAK

54 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 14:45-16:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Humanities Education: Intercultural Learning Approaches School Geography as a Conduit for Developing Transcultural Understandings Dr. Niranjan Robert Casinader, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper analyzes how school Geography can be employed as a means of teaching transcultural understandings to students, using the context of the new national curriculum in Australia. Theme: Humanities Education Fostering Cultural Diversity in the Global World through Contemporary Cinema Dr. Elda Buonanno Foley, Department of Foreign Language, Iona College, New York, USA Prof. Patrizia Comello Perry, Department of Foreign Language, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, USA Overview: This paper shows how, by using scenes from contemporary films, instructors can provide insightful readings and theoretical frameworks about different local communities on which global culture is based. Theme: Humanities Education The Study of First Nations in the Humanities: A Study of New Texts and Classes Elizabeth C. Martinez, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Latin American Studies, Center for Latino Research, DePaul University, Chicago, USA Overview: This paper assesses recent changes/additions of Indigenous/Amerindian university studies, as well as new scholarship and books published (including digital vs. books) on these long invisible histories. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Developing (Inter)cultural Competence: Forging a "Third Place" Dr. Abdel Latif Sellami, Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar Overview: Drawing on discourse analysis and post-structural theories, this study explores students’ written narratives, viewed here as an expression and a reflection of one’s belonging, i.e. cultural identity. Theme: Humanities Education Room 2 Media Studies An Epidemic of Spectacles: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Visual Culture, and the Philanthropic Documentary Archive of the Global South Mina Rajabi Paak, Humanities Department, York University, Toronto, Canada Overview: This paper examines the HIV/AIDS visual culture through a genealogical documentation and analysis of the AIDS documentary archive and problematizes the trend of “philanthropic documentaries” within this archive. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Exploring Social Styles and Social Meanings in Two Afrikaans Tabloids Dr. Elvis Saal, Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper explores how the vernacular of "Coloured" and "White" Afrikaans speakers in South Africa have been stylised in two Afrikaans tabloids. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 3 Literary Humanities: Identity and Difference Edwidge Danitcat 's "New York Day Women" and Social Distancing Prof. Julia Kadlec-Wagner, Academic and Creative Writing, Department of English, School of the Humanities, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, USA Overview: This paper examines the tenets of Homi Bhabha’s post-colonial theory of hybridity as it comes in and out of focus in Edwidge Danticat's short work "New York Day Women." Theme: Literary Humanities Beyond the Young Adult Paradigm: The Coming-of-age, or Literary Bildungsroman, in Contemporary Australian Fiction with Teenage Protagonists Amy Terese Lovat, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia Overview: This paper explores coming-of-age in literature with a young narrator, the changing nature of the Young Adult fiction audience, and what this means for the future of young readers. Theme: Literary Humanities Blog or Anti-blog: Message in the Bottle of "A Tale of Time Being" Dr. Yuemin He, Division of Languages and Literature, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, USA Overview: This paper studies the impact of electronic communication, especially the Internet and messaging, on Ruth Ozeki’s novel "A Tale of Time Being" regarding author-reader connection, parent-child relationship, and identity construction. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital The Privatization of Literature: Women's Writing in 1990's China Dr. Hong Jiang, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA Overview: The term privatization/personalization has become extremely popular in Chinese literary circle. This paper studies the contribution of women's writing to this transformation: female self-defined private space and public urban sphere. Theme: Literary Humanities

55 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 14:45-16:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Technology and the Human Experience Self(ie)-surveillance: Religion, Recording Instruments, and the Body Kurosh Amoui Kalareh, Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada Overview: Within the context of a growing obsession with sharing one’s body through social media, this paper explores the concept of selfie-surveillance through a critical engagement with works of William Burroughs. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies The Authenticity of the Disembodied Online Self: A Rousseauian Analysis Dr. Wing Kwan Anselm Lam, Department of General Education, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: The disembodied online self in the online social network is a new mode of the self in reality. Is the way of the manifestation of the self authentic? Theme: Critical Cultural Studies The Human Side of Digital Representation Dr. Ana Maria Klein, Curriculum and Instruction, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, USA Overview: This paper shares the human side of digital production, focusing on e-voice, e-audience, e-logic, and the human side informed by digital representation. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Mobile Technology and Its Impacts on Humanity Dr. Tom Chan, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, USA Overview: Mobile technology has greatly impacted humanity. While empowering communication, it cheapens human interactions and devalues relationships. It also engenders irresponsible social behavior and could even widen the digital divide. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 5 Perspectives on Social Change and Discrimination "This Is Not a Closed Room": Cold War Redundancies, the Long Civil Rights Movement, and “High Tech Lynching” Beatrice Choi, Department of Rhetoric and Public Culture, School of Communication, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA David Molina, Department of Rhetoric and Public Culture, School of Communication, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Overview: This project investigates Judge Clarence Thomas' U.S. Supreme Court Hearings to examine the role that the term "high tech" relays within Civil Rights racialized discourse and Cold War technological redundancies. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Reproduction and Transformation of Dalit Discrimination in Contemporary India: On the Process of Negotiating Relationships Yui Masuki, Division of Global Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Overview: This study clarifies how elationshipsr are negotiated between the perpetuators and victims of discrimination in contemporary India, focusing on daily life at both the structural and practice levels. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies An Exploration of Gender and Education in the Nigerian Context Ayinde Mojeed Agbomeji, Education Department, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Overview: This paper examine the role of education in the process of transforming gender norms in marginalized, multicultural, and multi-religious societies in secondary schools in rural areas of Nigeria. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 6 Learning Languages Saudi Students Writing L1 L2 Transfer: Working with Saudi Students in a University Setting Brandy Hudson, Tennessee Intensive English Program, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, USA Overview: This paper focuses on the L1 to L2 transfer and what may hinder the learning process of Saudi students writing for academic purposes in the United States. Theme: Humanities Education A Brand Development of an Integrative Short Message Service and Email ELT Program Based on the Theories of Humanism Mostafa Nazari Montazer, Department of English Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Dr. Vahid Ghahraman, Department of English Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: This paper investigates the theories of humanism, relates them to the field of mobile learning, and finally comes up with a curriculum and English language program for ESP. Theme: Humanities Education Using Wikispaces in the Training of Paraprofessional Community Languages Teachers in a University Education Faculty Dr. Maria Gindidis, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Jane Elizabeth Southcott, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: A phenomenological study of 100 community languages teachers engaging with teacher education in a tertiary setting. The research explores the use of technology to engage and teach para-professionals. Theme: Humanities Education

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56 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 16:30-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Poster Session Content and Technology: Training Librarians as Collaborators in Humanities Scholarship Helene Williams, Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Overview: Disciplinary and technological training for librarians in humanities resources and processes has changed nearly as much as humanities research methods. Both provide avenues of productive collaboration and engagement. Theme: Humanities Education Interactions of Cultures and Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study in Hawai’i John Bartley, Associate in Arts Program, University of Delaware, Newark, USA Overview: This program creates opportunities for cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary experiential learning by removing students from the classroom and immersing them in the environments and cultures of Hawai'i. Theme: Humanities Education The Role of Error Feedback Combined with Metacognitive Reflection on Academic ritingW Li-Mei Chen, Department of English, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA Chunlei Liu, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA Overview: After successfully using the metacognitive reflection integrated error feedback, we would like to share the associated activities and teaching strategies to help other colleagues better assist their students’ academic writing. Theme: Humanities Education An Examination of Digital Humanities Scholar Research Practices Mingming Zhou, Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau, Macao Special Administrative Region of China Overview: In this study, online search log data were collected from humanities scholars in Macau (e.g., search queries, highlights, annotations) and analyzed to detect their actual search behavior pattern. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital e-Learning as a Proposal for Additional Training in the Degree of Education Dr. Laura Monsalve Lorente, Department of Comparative Education and History of Education, Faculty of Philosophy and Science Education, University of Valencia, Rafelbunyol, Spain Sara Cebrián Cifuentes, University of Valencia, Quart de Poblet, Spain Rose marie Lavarias Ortega, Overview: This study analyzes the degree of student satisfaction in the process of teaching and learning in the Degree of Education at the University of Valencia, Spain, focusing on e-learning. Theme: Humanities Education Reflecting the Multicultural Experiences of Service Learning in Taiwan Ruo-Lan Liu, Department of Civic Education and Leadership, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Overview: This study explores the multicultural experiences of postgraduate students while participating in service-learning curriculum. The participants were from a public university in Taiwan and data were analyzed by qualitative method. Theme: Humanities Education Public Relations Practitioners and New Media: A Comparative Study of Two University Departments Dr. Ali D. Alanazi, Mass Communication Department, College of Arts, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Overview: This study addresses public relations practitioners and the use of social media with reference to the departments of public relations at King Saud University and San Diego State University. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 2 Focused Discussions Room 3 Workshop Digital Diplomacy: Dialogue or Propaganda? Natalia Grincheva, Program, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Montreal, Canada Overview: Does digital media facilitate a more productive cross-cultural contact or does it put contemporary diplomacy in danger? This workshop illuminates various communication strategies and techniques employed in online diplomacy. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 4 Workshop Riding the Digital Wave to Create a Future Curriculum Dr. Maria Cimitile, Provost's Office, Philosophy Department, Grand alleyV State University, Allendale, USA Dr. Christopher Toth, Writing, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA Overview: This participatory workshop explores the creation of digital studies curricula in the context of changing faculty demographics, students who need a critical understanding of the digital age, and limited resources. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Room 5 Workshop Shakespeare in the Flesh: Teaching Elizabethan Text through Movement Dr. Christopher Clark, Department of Theatrical Arts for Stage and Screen, Utah Valley University, Orem, USA Overview: This workshop focuses on helping students understand Elizabethan text through simple movement exercises by making the language accessible, physical, and fun. Theme: Humanities Education

57 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 16:30-17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 6 Workshop Workshop: Mapping a of Big Science Prof. Elyse Graham, Department of English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA Overview: This workshop joins researchers across disciplines to tackle hands-on design problems in a novel experiment in mapping the history of science. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital

17:15-18:15 CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION

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THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 8:45-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN LENARY ESSION IN PANISH OSÉ ORILLO ELARDE ERRANO NIVERSIDAD AN ABLO SPAÑA UBLICACIONES 9:00-9:35 P S ( S ) – J M -V S , U CEU S P , E - "P CIENTÍFICAS DE HUMANIDADES EN ESPAÑOL: PROBLEMAS DE VALORACIÓN" 9:35-10:05 GARDEN CONVERSATION 10:05-11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Critical Cultural Studies The Evolution of American Cities and Orchestral Music Due to Technology Todd D. Rossi, Beeghly College of Education, Youngstown State Univiersity, Youngstown, USA Overview: This paper analyzes how several technological advancements have led to parallel evolutions in the role and significance of the American city, as well as the live orchestral concert. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Artiste Internationale: Louis Douglas and Weimar Culture Paul Edwards, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, Boston, USA Overview: Racialized bodies can denote cultural practice across national borders. This paper documents transnational semiotic exchanges of the Black American image through a Jungian methodology. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies The Making of a Chinese God: The Wood Carved Guangze Zunwang Dr. Min-Chia Young, Graduate School of Applied Design, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Overview: This paper is an analysis of the making of a wood carved figure named the God of Guangze. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Girls Need to Learn Music But Don't Make It a Career: Three Chinese-Australian Musicians’ Learning Experiences with Tiger-mums Annabella Fung, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and report on semi-structured interviews undertaken, I examine three female Chinese- Australian musicians’ learning experiences who were nurtured by authoritarian parenting style influenced by Confucianism. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Room 2 Digital Humanities Studies The Listening Experience Database Project: Collating the Responses of the "Ordinary Listener" to Prompt New Insights into Musical Experience Simon Brown, Research, Royal College of Music, London, UK Dr. Helen Barlow, Faculty of Arts, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Dr. Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Dr. Mathieu d’Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Overview: The Listening Experience Database is a sematic web-based database bringing together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of any genre, period, or culture. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital (Re)(en)acting the Civil War: Digitally Capturing the Subculture of Reenactors Holly Halmo, American Studies Department, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, USA Overview: Situating American Civil War reenacting within the larger discourse of post-Vietnam American masculine identity, this digital humanities project seeks to answer the question, "What are these (wo)men fighting for?" Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Digital Humanities in the City: Engaging Students with Subject-specific Digital Humanities in Local Contexts Prof. Murray Pratt, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Overview: This paper considers the advantages of developing undergraduate digital humanities projects that co-design subject-specific learning with community interfaces (libraries, broadcasting, museums, spaces) in the city. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Room 3 Technology and Humanities Education Sprezzatura! Preparing for Ease in a Digital Age Dr. Ruth Morrow, Department of Music, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, USA Overview: Preparing for ease means working hard with less effort. This paper uncovers, examines, and finds alternatives to the tensions that creep into practice. Theme: Humanities Education Expanding Linguistic, Cultural, and Literacies Toolkits: Engaging Diversity in Traditional and Virtual Learning Spaces Dr. Leanne Margaret Boschman, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Meilan P. Ehlert, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Overview: The authors examine the ways in which learners’ cultural, linguistic, and literacies resources could be accessed through a traditional classroom tool such as the learning journal to foster classroom inclusivity. Theme: Humanities Education Adoption of Virtual Worlds in Education and Libraries Dr. Valerie Hill, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA Dr. Hyuk-Jin Lee, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA Overview: This study analyzes factors contributing to the adoption of virtual worlds by librarians and educators examined through a mixed methods research study using Diffusion Theory. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies

59 THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 10:05-11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Film Studies Transliteracy and the Trans New Wave: Developing a New Canon of Cinematic Representations of Gender Diversity and Sexuality Akkadia Ford, Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Byron Bay, Australia Overview: Trans New Wave films equirr e the ability to read and think across a range of cultural and theoretical perspectives. The use of transliteracy is introduced as an innovative theoretical approach. Theme: Literary Humanities Astral and Terrestrial Visions in Manoel de Oliveira's "The Strange Case of Angelica" Dr. Heidi Faletti, English Department, SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA Overview: This paper focuses on the cinematic fate of a young photographer who quests oneiric union with Angelica, an ethereal deceased bride, after she comes to life in his rangefinder. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 5 Political Studies Was Mao Really a Monster? Eyewitness Accounts by His Personal Staff Dr. Yong-Kang Wei, Department of English, University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, USA Overview: The paper is based on interviews with many surviving members of Mao’s personal staff, who are probably in the best position to answer this question: Was Mao really a monster? Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Implementation of Candidates’ Electoral Campaigns in the First Municipal Elections in Saudi Arabia Dr. Saeed Alghamdy, Mass Communication Department , College of Arts, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Overview: This study investigates the first public election in the history of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2008, analyzing the candidates' electoral campaigns. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Re-examining the Theoretical Perspectives of Gorbechev and other World Leaders through a Humanities Lens Dr. Joan Wines, English Department, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA Overview: This paper examines, through a Humanities lens, some of the diverse theoretical perspectives of Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, the two widows of Yitzahk Rabin and Anwar Sadat, and Jimmy Carter. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Against All Odds: Oppostional Voices from within the Ranks of the American Military Prof. Roger Marheine, English Division, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, USA Overview: Despite mainstream political lethargy and much civilian indifference, American military veterans and active duty personnel have quietly opposed the military mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies

11:45-13:15 LUNCH 13:15-14:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Literary Humanities: Intertextuality and Experimentation Intertextuality in Pauline Hopkins's "Winona": A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Dr. JoAnn Pavletich, Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, USA Overview: This paper focuses on "Winona" (1903) by African American writer, Pauline Hopkins. It explore Hopkins’s voracious “borrowing” from Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and pro-slavery advocate, William Stringfellow among others. Theme: Literary Humanities The Potentiality of the Beginning: The Incipit in Calvino’s "If on a winter’s night" and Federman's "Smiles on Washington Square" Dr. Victoria de Zwaan, Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Overview: This paper compares very different experimental metafictions by Calvino and Federman that share the premise that the incipit of a text expresses all its probable generic and plot manifestations. Theme: Literary Humanities Ernestina de Champourcin and Gloria Fuertes: Religious Poetry as Palimpsest Dr. Douglas Benson, Department of Modern Languages, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA Overview: From very different social backgrounds, and with very different poetic trajectories, for some ten years Champourcin and Fuertes shared quite similar strategic approaches to their religious poetry. Theme: Literary Humanities Being Human: Androids, Humans, and Identity in "Red Dwarf" Dr. David Layton, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DeVry University, Winnetka, USA Overview: The paper discusses how the episode "D.N.A." in the television series "Red Dwarf" addresses ontological and epistemological problems of mechanical transhumanism. Theme: Literary Humanities

60 THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 13:15-14:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Approaches to the Digital Humanities The State of the Digital Humanities in India Dr. Ashok Thorat, Department of English, Institute of Advanced Studies on English, University of Pune, Pune, India Overview: Despite huge contributions to Big Data, Digital Humanities as a discipline is largely unknown in India. This paper analyzes the initial efforts and hurdles in developing DH scholarship in India. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Shaping the Undergraduate Scholar-citizen through Critical Digital Humanities Pedagogy Emily Christina Murphy, Department of English, Bader International Study Center, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Dr. Shannon Smith, Bader International Study Center, Field School in the Digital Humanities, English Literature, Queen’s University, Herstmonceux, UK Overview: The Digital Humanities Field School (BISC, Queen’s) is an experiment in undergraduate DH pedagogy, incorporating theories of learning and participation, revolutionary pedagogy (Freire), and critiques of participatory art (Bishop). Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital The Infinite I Am: The Lost Notes and Scraps, the Thoughts Not Recorded, and What We Can Do Jacob Oliver, Department of English Literature and Language, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Overview: This paper discusses the implications of low-cost online distribution for art, science, philosophy, literature, and every other discipline, with particular attention to podcasts. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Room 3 Theoretical Frameworks: Philosophy and Theology Divine Fiat and Blind Obedience Dr. William Ferraiolo, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, USA Overview: This paper defends the Divine Command Theory by a moral and religious skeptic. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies "Sets" and the Question of "Infinity" Maryam Jabbehdari, State University of Isfahan, Shiraz, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: In his definition of “Sets” Georg Cantor, relying on real objects and the relations of union and intersection between them, divided the world of numbers into some parts. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Four Dimensions of Spirituality: A Model from Jewish Mysticism Dr. Andrew Vogel Ettin, Department of English, Wake Forest University, Pfafftown, USA Overview: While spirituality is often an amorphous, implicitly antinomian and unpragmatic concept, some Jewish mystics describe four dimensions to existence and experience, offering a more complex, experientially comprehensive understanding of spirituality. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Giving Voice to Being: Our Language of the World Dr. Jeffrey K. Soleau, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Sage Colleges, Albany, USA Overview: Human beings are a paradox. We are animals within nature and we are linguistic animals set apart from nature. Language, understood as embodied consciousness, clarifies this essential contradiction. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Room 4 Community Studies An Archaeology of San Diego Art, Identity, and Community: Confluent Uses of Historic Preservation in Research, Teaching, and Local Engagement Dr. Seth Mallios, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA Overview: The preservation of historic campus murals fuels research, teaching, and community engagement. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Reviewing Aboriginal Early Years Policy and Research to Analyze the Importance of Cultural Appropriateness and Inclusion Anusha Mahendran, School of Marketing, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Overview: This research affirms that more work is required to provide curriculums in Aboriginal early years programs which support more favorable cultural and equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal children. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Iranian Social Sciences and the Understanding of the “Other” Dr. Vahid Shalchi, Sociology Department, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Abbas Jong, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: This paper focuses on the social sciences’ role in understanding the “other” in two realms; first among the paradigms and disciplines, second among various traditions and communities inside society. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Portrayals of Women in Persian Poetry: Rumi's Views on Woman in "Masnavi" Dr. Ahmad Reza Yalameha, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan brach, Isfahan, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: This paper uses Rumi's work as a prime example of the portrayal of women in Persian literature. Theme: Literary Humanities

61 THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 13:15-14:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Identity Politics Europeanization and Nation-building Process: The Case of Scottish Cultural Heritage Policies Caroline Cantin, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Overview: This paper discuss the degree of Europeanization of Scottish cultural heritage policies since devolution in 1999. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies New Approaches to Cultural Measurement: On Cultural Value, Cultural Participation, and Cultural Diversity Assoc. Prof. Audrey Yue, Cultural Studies Program Research Unit in Public Cultures School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper problematizes the instrumentalism of cultural measurement with a new approach to examine the value of migrants’ cultural engagement. It reveals domains of participation unrepresented in cultural policies. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 6 Learning in Virtual Worlds Experiencing the Harlem Renaissance: The Liberation of Virtual Harlem Dr. Bryan Carter, Africana Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Brian Shuster, Virtual World Web Inc, Vancouver, Canada John Lester, Reaction Grid, Toronto, Canada Overview: The Virtual Harlem Project is a collaborative learning network whose purpose is to study the Harlem Renaissance through the construction of a virtual reality scenario. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds Brian Shuster, Virtual World Web, Vancouver, Canada Overview: This paper provides an insight into the impact of virtual learning and the benefits the Virtual World Web offers to educational environments, specifically, engagement between students and professors. Theme: Humanities Education The Digital Phronimos: Refiguring Rhetorical Education amid Contradictory Conditions of the Early wenty-firstT Century Dr. P. Darin Payne, English Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Overview: This paper examines current tensions in higher education between teaching innovative, media-rich, multimodal literacies and the steady rise in assessment technologies and adjunct labor--which encourage simplistic essayistic literacies. Theme: Humanities Education

14:55-15:10 COFFEE BREAK 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Digital Humanities Education Pedagogical Framework for Broadening Interdisciplinary Studies with Concentrations Dr. Jacque Caesar, College of Letters and Science, National University, La Jolla, USA Dr. Thomas MacCalla, National University, La Jolla, USA Overview: This paper introduces a framework for program concentrations in Computational Social Sciences and Human Ecology that adds a new dimension to Interdisciplinary Studies and addresses the educational challenges. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Practical, Lucrative, Digital…English?: Adapting the English Major to the Digital Age Sarah Young, Humanities and Communication, Trine University, Angola, USA Dr. Alison Witte, Humanities and Communication, Trine University, Angola, USA Overview: This paper approaches English studies combining composition and literature with foci on hybrid course delivery and digital genres and practices to make a traditional major viable at a professionally-focused university. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Fluid States: Mutable Constellations of Space between Science and Design Jay Irizawa, Ryerson University School of Interior Design Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University School of Interior Design, Toronto, Canada Overview: This interdisciplinary analysis, intersecting science and design from the twentieth century, investigates spatial concepts, shaping a new discourse in the interchangeable environments of virtual, physical, digital, and psychological space. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Information Fluency in Historical Studies: Who Will Make the Call? Dr. John F. McClymer, Department of History, Assumption College, Worcester, USA Overview: Textbook sales continue to sag. Publishers are marketing online "history labs." To date this is a case of new technology serving old pedagogy. Can instructors influence these products? Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital

62 THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Literary Themes on Trauma, Violence, and Suicide Prelude to a Recent Unhappy Suicide: The Last Day in the Life of Frances Theodora Apthorp Dr. Bruce Stevenson, English Department, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, USA Overview: My paper probes the Frances Apthorp/Perez Morton connection to the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy," by reconstructing the events of the last day of Frances’s life. Theme: Literary Humanities The Problem of Suicide and Double Suicide in Contemporary Japanese Literature: Shame, Conscience, Guilt, and Retribution Dr. Liala Khronopulo, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Department of Japanese Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Overview: This paper analyzes how novels and novelettes that address the problem of suicide and double suicide reflect various problems of modern Japanese society. Theme: Literary Humanities Generational Violence in African American Literature: Alice Walker and Toni Morrison Novels Dr. Evelyn Cartright, English and Foreign Languages, Africana Studies, Barry University, Miami Shores, USA Overview: Depiction of violence has been a recurring theme in African American literature and in some African American communities. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 3 Cultural and Public Spaces The Cultural Public Sphere: What Is Now the Public Interest? Prof. Nigel Paul Wood, School of Arts, Centre for Studies in the Public Sphere, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK Overview: Habermas, whilst re-discovering a necessity for a public sphere, left a description of a cultural public interest rather abstractly defined. Does his hope for such an interest survive? Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Exhibition Sovereignty: Representing Native Histories in Public Spaces John Bodinger de Uriarte, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, USA Overview: Since 1988, gaming revenues have created new possibilities for Native peoples to take control of their own public histories, in museums and casinos, as expressions of cultural and political sovereignty. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Intersection between Arts and Digital Humanities: Participatory Action Research Approach as a Method of Media Arts Research Annie Wan, Academy of Film, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This research is a collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged undertaking to interpret the relation of the public with the city through a re-invention of the understanding of Hong Kong cinema. Theme: Literary Humanities Old Arabic Inscriptions from the Al-Ula Site (about 750 AD): Saudi Arabia Prof. Suliman Altheab, Archaeology Department, College of Archaeology and Tourism, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Prof. Ahmad Alabodi, College of Archaeology and Tourism, Archaeology Department, King Saud Univerisity, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Overview: This research deals with the study of a group of ancient Arabic inscriptions, written using the Nabatieh Thamudic early and Arabic languages. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Room 4 Social Policy, Human Rights, and Political Challenges "Silenced Memory" and "The Eye That Cries": The On-going Narrative of Dos Demonios in Guatemala and Peru Dr. Faith N. Mishina, Department of Languages, Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA Overview: Economic, social, and cultural rights are not recognized as Human Rights in Guatemala and Peru although this expansion of Human Rights has become constitutional language in other Latin American nations. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Unmasking Dissent: The Criminalization of Masks at Protests Michael-Anthony Lutfy, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Overview: Exploration into the Canadian government's recent criminalization of masks and the use of the "Guy Fawkes Mask" as a central node mediating the borders between art, the internet, and dissent. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies “A Ride to a Better Life”: Trafficking of Children for the Purpose of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Somotillo, Nicaragua Dr. Mirna E. Carranza, School of Social Work, McMaster Univerisity, Hamilton, Canada Overview: This paper outlines findings of a qualitative study in Nicaragua. The purpose of the esearr ch was to explore the trafficking of children for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies The Resilience of West Sumatran Women: Historical, Cultural, and Social Impacts Yenny Narny, History Department, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia Dr. Ismet Fanany, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia Dr. Rebecca Fanany, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia Overview: This paper discusses resilience among women affected by anti-Communist violence in Indonesia from 1965-66. Based on ethnographic research, the impact of historical events on the formation of resilience is examined. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies

63 THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 New Media, New Messages, New Meanings Machine Learning Methodologies: Assemblage Analytics, 5D Assemblages, and the History of Assemblages Methodology Luke Barnesmoore, Geography, University of British Columbia, San Francisco, USA Dr. Laurent El Ghaoui, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA Overview: This paper outlines the major trends in assemblage thought as expressed by Deleuze, Ong, Collier, DeLanda, and Sassen. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Big Data Tools on Open Data Sets: Apophenic Marketing Cheese to Vegans Dr. Lyria Bennett Moses, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Dr. Alana Maurushat, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Mr Kevin HW Kim, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper analyses hacktivism by using big data tools to mine data found in the world’s largest open data repository, the GDELT Project. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Visualized Form of Resistance and the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong Wai Kwok Benson Wong, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper examines how visual forms of resistance have shaped the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, focusing on the discourse analysis of data drawn from YouTube and Facebook. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Digital Faith: Implications of the YouVersion Bible Application for Christian Virtual Community and Engagement with Scripture Divine Agodzo, Department of Communication, Spring Arbor University, Vancouver, Canada Overview: This paper share findings from the author's autoethnographic study of the YouVersion Bible application, in the context of relevant scholarship on the impact of digital religion on Christianity. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 6 Workshop Open the Door: A Collision Course in Science, Art, and Life Prof. Amy Haines, Music, Carthage College, Kenosha, USA Jean Preston, English, Carthage College, Kenosha, USA Overview: This workshop explores the design of a high-impact, interactive, interdisciplinary college course, which maximizes cohesion, rigor, and fun, yet allows flexible staffing and subject areas. Theme: Humanities Education Writing Metaphorically: Unveiling the Hidden Power of Metaphors in Academic English Oksana Shkurska, College of Continuing Education, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Overview: This workshop focuses on the linguistic functions of metaphors and decoding their meanings in academic texts. It will provide instructors with activities for teaching metaphors to ELL students. Theme: Humanities Education

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FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 8:15-8:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN UBLISHING OUR OOK OR OURNAL RTICLE WITH OMMON ROUND UBLISHING SHLEY C RIDE OMMON ROUND 8:30-9:00 P Y B J A C G P – A M B , C G PUBLISHING, USA LENARY ESSION ONSTANCE ROMPTON NIVERSITY OF RITISH OLUMBIA KANAGAN ANADA UGMENTED EVISING 9:00-9:35 P S – C C , U B C , O , C – "A : R , REREADING, AND RETURNING CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES" 9:35-10:05 GARDEN CONVERSATION 10:05-11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Studies in Writing Tracking Lone Wolves: Re-examining the Art of Writing Supreme Court Biographies Dr. Bruce Allen Murphy, Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, Easton, USA Overview: Some new lessons will be drawn about the art of writing Supreme Court biographies by exploring the debate between the “originalists” and the “living, evolving Constitutionalists” on the Roberts Court. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies One Necessary Voice: Writing and Teaching the Personal Essay and the Narrative "I" Dr. Jane Creighton, Department of English, University of Houston--Downtown, Houston, USA Overview: This paper concerns issues arising from the writing of and teaching of creative nonfiction in a new Creative Writing Minor in a public university that serves culturally diverse students. Theme: Humanities Education Authenticity and the Creative Writing Landscape Sean Hooks, English/Composition, University of California, Irvine, Los Angeles, USA Overview: An examination of the integrity, relevance, and sustainability of Creative Writing as a field within contemporary academics, most notably via investigating the proliferation of MFA programs at American universities. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 2 Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Active and Effective Listening in Second Language Acquisition Dr. Tanya de Hoyos, European and Latin American School (UEL) Spanish Department A, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, USA Overview: This study examines active and effective listening skills that second language learners use when listening. The data collection will elucidate the students’ skills needed to improve their language acquisition. Theme: Humanities Education Arab Communication in a Digital World: Inventing Language between English and Arabic Dr. Katherine L. Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Julie Marie Ross, Prepatory Program, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Overview: This paper focuses on how the Arabic chat alphabet, which is used by Arabic speakers for online communication, impacts learners’ performance in English academic writing required for university studies. Theme: Humanities Education Improving Second Language Writing Fluency with Free Writing Dara Richard, Center for English Language Communication, National University Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Overview: This paper discusses how practicing free writing weekly has improved IEP students' written fluency without significantly burdening teachers. The impacts include doubling word count, improving paragraph structure, and increased confidence. Theme: Humanities Education Anxiety Factors in Saudi Learners of English as a Foreign Language Fariha Asif, Applied Linguistics Department, Lahore Leads University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Overview: This study explores the factors that cause language anxiety for the Saudi English Foreign Language learners in learning speaking skills. Theme: Humanities Education Room 3 Perspectives on Structuralism and Post-structuralism Anticipating Nietzsche: Culture and Chaos in “The House of Usher” and "Wuthering Heights" Dr. Fred Mensch, JR Shaw School of Business, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Canada Overview: This paper explores “The House of Usher” and "Wuthering Heights" through Nietzsche’s diagnosis of a cultural binary from "The Birth of Tragedy" and “The Use and Abuse of History.” Theme: Literary Humanities Mr. Bates Goes to Baghdad: Don DeLillo, Schizophrenia, and the Media Dr. John Stone-Mediatore, Departments of Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, USA Overview: This paper uses Don DeLillo's most recent novel, "Point Omega," to illuminate connections linking the "War on Terror," reception of the electronic media, and schizophrenia. Theme: Literary Humanities Speaking through Scripts: Undermining the Binary between the Actual and the Fictional in Stoppard's "The Real Thing" and Holcroft's "Edgar and Annabel" Dr Johanna Alida Krüger, Department of English Studies, College of Human Sciences, The University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper investigates the relationship between the actual and the fictional in two plays that foreground epistemological questions through the trope of a romantic relationship. Theme: Literary Humanities

65 FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 10:05-11:45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Perspectives on Digital Archives Towards a Digital Archive of the Parsley Massacre Nike Nivar, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Overview: I consider the digital archive as a space wherein different media interact to open historically foreclosed issues, using the 1937 Massacre in the Dominican Republic as a case study. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Bringing It All Together and Finding It in the First Place: Digital Online Archives and Historical Geographic Information System Use in the Reconstruction of Heritage Landscapes Catherine Kyle, Community, Culture, and Global Studies, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada Overview: This paper addresses digital online archives and historical GIS for locating and organizing disparate data for ethnic minority populations not adequately represented in traditional archival sources. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies The Digital Colonial Archive: Empirical Prerequisites of a (Post)colonial Linguistics Dr. Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Creative Unit Language in Colonial Contexts, Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Dr. Ingo H. Warnke, Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Overview: With a focus on language use in (post)colonial contexts, this paper introduces a theoretical outline of a Digitial Colonial Archive for communication research on the colonial dispositif. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Room 5 Workshops Reciprocal Learning in Digital Humanities: Ideas and Opportunities Prof. Lloyd Pettiford, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Overview: In "digital humanities" and "humanities of the digital," traditional lines of teacher and student blur even more than usual offering possibilities for new and exciting approaches to curricula. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Blending the Sheltered Instruction Observation Model with the World-class Instructional Design and Assessment Proficiency Levels to Improve Career and Technical Education Competency Task List Completion and National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Exam Results Dr. Anchalee Sybrandy, Abraham Lincoln High School, School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Dr. Donald Anticoli, Abraham Lincoln High School, School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Overview: Authors stress how SIOP serves as a framework for lesson preparation and delivery to ELLs/Special Learners, so students complete CTE competency task list and increase proficiency levels on NOCTI exams. Theme: Humanities Education Room 6 Social Media: Pitfalls and Potential Social Media, Privacy, and Risk: Towards More Ethical Research Methodologies Dr. Leanne Townsend, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Prof Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Overview: This paper discusses work which explores ethical issues of privacy and risk in conducting research with personal social media data. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital The Social Media and Public Shaming Dr. Dennis Arjo, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, USA Overview: This paper examines recent and apparently increasingly prevalent uses of social media to shame individuals perceived to have violated significant social or political norms. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Actual to Virtual Rituals: The Use of Mobile and Internet Communications in the Practice of a Religious Tradition in Kalayaan, Laguna, Philippines Dr. Rosario M. Baria, Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Los Banos, Philippines Overview: This research closely examines the practice of a traditional religious ritual called "AKO" in Kalayaan, Laguna, Philippines, from actual to virtual, through the use of mobile and internet technologies. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies

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66 FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 13:15-14:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Education for a New Humanity Autodidacticism as Jailhouse Literacy Strategy Sara Farris, English, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, USA Overview: How might autodidacticism work as a pedagogy in jailhouse literacy efforts? Prison literacy narratives, uncritically privileged self-education manuals, and academic investigations inform efforts to foster autodidactism among incarcerated young men. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Interfacing with the University: Older Doctoral Students’ Journeys Dr. Jane Elizabeth Southcott, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Jill Brown, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper focuses on the negotiations undertaken as older doctoral candidates navigate the learning environment of a twenty-first-century university. Theme: Humanities Education Auto/ethnography: A Pathway to Share the Story Dr. Helen Christine Dominica McCarthy, School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Overview: This paper discusses a research methodology that provided a pathway to venerate my professional and personal experiences as a white teacher living and learning in black communities. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Room 2 Literary Criticism The Mahdi and the Autodidact: Ibn Tufayl's" Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" as Challenge to Almohad Doctrine Dr. Ben Hardman, Philosophy and Religion, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA Overview: Ibn Tufayl’s "Hayy ibn Yaqzan," represents a watershed moment in Islamic thought challenging the notion of the charismatic leadership of one man in favor of experiential faith harmonized with reason. Theme: Literary Humanities The Politics of Intimacy and Urban Space in Contemporary Thai Fiction Dr. Suradech Chotiudompant, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: This paper discusses how contemporary Thai fiction explores the relationship between intimacies and urban space in light of such theoretical issues as global economy and geopolitics. Theme: Literary Humanities From Egypt to the Arizona Desert to Places Still to Come: The Ongoing Meta-literary Journey of Eliza's Escape to Freedom in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Kenneth DiMaggio, Humanities, Capital Community College, Hartford, USA Overview: Eliza's flight to freedom in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has historic and contemporary parallels from the Bible to undocumented immigrants making dangerous desert crossings into the United States. Theme: Literary Humanities Virginia Woolf and Literary Darwinism: The Fiction of Human Nature in "Jacob's Room" Dr. Linda Nicole Blair, The School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, The University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, USA Overview: Why do humans tell stories? Literary Darwinism, which proposes some answers, situates storytelling in a biological, evolutionary framework. I will apply this framework to "Jacob’s Room" by Virginia Woolf. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 3 Women Online Hijabers and Jilboobs: Visuality and Visibility of Urban Muslim Women in Indonesia Annisa Ridzkynoor Beta, Cultural Studies in Asia, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Overview: This paper focuses on the increasing presence of Muslim women in cyberspace and deals with their vulnerability caused by the mass of image. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Hacking Away at Hacktivism: Understanding the "Hacker Ethic" and Feminism's Place in Hacktivism Jessi Ring, Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Overview: I will review literature that proposes and interrogates the "Hacker Ethic," a set of ideals, practices, and community markers, and its connection to hacktivism. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies Mean Girls or Tales of the Electronic Sisterhood: The Practice of Community and Exclusion in Women’s Digital Spaces Bofang Li, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, USA Overview: This paper considers the networked communities and identities of digital space by examining its processes of collaborative formation in order to re-understand online women’s media in relation to dominant cultures. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital

67 FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 13:15-14:55 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 4 Human Differences Service Mission Trips: Perceptions of (Dis)ability and Life Roles Dr. Yvonne Randall, School of Occupational Therapy, College of Health and Human Services, Touro University Nevada, Henderson, USA Overview: Social meaning and social interactions among peoples from different cultures and languages and the influence of (dis)ability are complex concepts which will be discussed in this paper. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Redefining Machismo within Canadian Colonality Giovanni Carranza-Hernandez, Ongoing Services, Anti-Oppressive Practice Committee, Hamilton Catholic Children's Aid Society, Hamilton, Canada Overview: A qualitative study carried out in Hamilton, Ontario set out to explore Canada’s matrix of coloniality and its influence on second-generation Latin American men’s creation and negotiation of masculinity. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies "It's Not as Diverse as It Could Be": How Participants in Hamilton's Neighborhood Action Are Addressing Issues of Inclusion Melanie Pothier, Neighbourhood Action Evaluation, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Hamilton, Canada Overview: This paper explores barriers and enablers to diverse and meaningful resident participation in Neighborhood Action (Hamilton, Ontario), a collaborative neighborhood strategy in eleven identified low-income communities. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 5 From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital The Humanities and the Digital: The Digital Impact on Core Concerns within the Humanities Maria Skou Nicolaisen, Royal School of Library and Information Science Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Overview: This paper discusses and assesses to what extend digitization challenges, transforms, or reinvents some of the underlying assumptions of, by, and within the humanities. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Reading as a Strange Loop: Recursiveness, Interpretation, and the Place of Literary Studies in the Academy Dr. Scott Derrick, Humanities Division, Department of English, Rice University, Houston, USA Overview: Douglass Hofstadter’s metaphor of the “strange loop” is a useful one for suggesting why some forms of discourse never achieve closure—and why forms of narrative making can never end. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital With Fingertips Floating on a Digital Sea: Surface, Tension, Touch, and Screen Karl Petschke, Ryerson-York Joint Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Nick White, Ryerson-York Joint Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Overview: Building on the metaphor of surface tension, this paper will draw parallels between the characteristic dynamics of bodies of water on the one hand and touchscreen interfaces on the other. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Room 6 Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies The Most Important Crisis Facing the Twenty-first Century Prof. Arnold Anthony McMahon, Department of Humanities, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, USA Overview: Intellectually and emotionally, the heights of our culture views humanity from a materialistic perspective. I argue that this is both wrong and dangerous. Humanity is much, much more. Theme: Critical Cultural Studies

14:55-15:10 COFFEE BREAK 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 1 Teaching and Learning Paths to Equity and Justice: Teaching Activism in American Literature Dr. Jennifer Wheat, English Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, USA Overview: Texts which model activism help students develop voice and purpose in their own writing. The American literature class I will discuss focused on race, gender, the environment, and working conditions. Theme: Humanities Education Academia's Dialectical Dharma Dr. Lars Larson, English, University of Portland, Portland, USA Overview: This paper uses the non-Western context of India, showing why teaching the skill of dialectical thinking may be the most important contribution to a more humane twenty-firstst century public discourse. Theme: Humanities Education How Rumi's Wisdom Enlarged Learners' Life Views Dr. Fariba Enteshari, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, USA Overview: Rumi's inclusive quest of knowledge in the thirteenth century enhances the transformative journey today. Benefits of studying his poetry show how individuals achieve deeper meaning and understanding of humanity. Theme: Humanities Education

68 FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 2 Literary Revisions and Rewritings Secrecy and Identity in "Prince of the Himalayas" Patrick Cook, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Overview: This paper is an analysis of psychological complexity in the first Hamlet adaptation in Chinese cinema. Theme: Literary Humanities A Revision of History: The Mexican-American War and the Cortina Wars in "Tejas" by Carmen Boullosa Dr. Iliana Underwood-Holbrook, The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA Overview: In "Tejas" Carmen Boullosa not only contributes to Mexican Historiography, but also to a revision of Global History by inserting a Mexican perspective concerning the loss of Texas. Theme: Literary Humanities Re(writing) the “Trujillato”: Collective Trauma, Alternative History, and the Nature of Dictatorship Sonia Farid, Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Overview: This paper examines four texts that tackle the era of Dominican dictator Trujillo. It focuses on how these texts highlight the process of turning collective trauma into an alternative history. Theme: Literary Humanities The New Feminine Ideal in Kate Atkinson's "Emotionally Weird" Asst. Prof. Hatice Yurttas, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Murat Hudavendigar University, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This paper discusses the rewritings in Kate Atkinson's "Emotionally Weird" and argues that this rewriting entails the creation of new feminine ideals, which is the woman writer. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 3 Governance and Politics in Society The Legality of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Intervention in Libya Jeffrey Morton, Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, Lake Worth, USA Paola Hernandez Ramos, Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, Delray Beach, USA Overview: This paper analyzes the 2011 intervention in Libya by NATO powers. It examines the Security Council resolution that provided the legal basis for the intervention. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Disaster Preparedness in a Developing Economy: Ghana, a Case Study Dr. Miriam Porter, Urban and Regional Studies Institute, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato, USA Overview: Ghana, located in western Africa, was a case study for understanding occurring disasters, institutional response to disasters, the impact on people experiencing these disasters, and best practices for mitigating disaster. Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Inherent Nature and Dynamics of Political Stability in China Banwo Adetoro, Chinese History, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China Overview: This paper explores how the Chinese government has maintained political stability over such a vast entity? Theme: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Room 4 Performance and Communication Studies Re-reading Performative Materiality Historiographically: Formless, Unidentified, Faceless Information Comes Out Berrin Chatzi Chousein, Editorial Director, World Architecture Community, Ankara, Turkey Overview: This paper reevaluates performative materiality mainly focusing on the fluxes of materials which explain the plural impacts of inputs and outputs of materialism within a historical content. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Empathy: An Opera in Three Acts David F. Dahlgren, Moosomin, Canada Overview: What non-verbal cues in speech enhance empathy, our intellectual or emotional identification with another? This paper explores our sensitivity to non-verbal clues in English through a study of language rhythm. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Performative Speech Acts and Hantu (Ghosts) in Malaysia Cheryl L. Nicholas, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University-Berks, Reading, USA Overview: This paper uses ethnographic methods to explore how “meneguh hantu,” which is to acknowledge or “hail” ghosts in everyday talk, works for Malay(sians) as performative utterances (Austin, 1962). Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies Bipedal Bodily Beats: Soundwalking, Aurality, and Movement Jorma Kujala, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Overview: The critical role of bipedal movement in sonic environments, and in particular soundwalks, is explored, by incorporating research into phenomenology, embodied cognition, sound, soundwalking, and aurality. Theme: Communications and Linguistic Studies

69 FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 15:10-16:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room 5 Literary Humanities: Cultural Impacts A Study about the Adventures of Captain Vulcan Dr. Tolga Erkan, Department of Visual Communicaiton Design, Ipek University, Ankara, Turkey Overview: "Captain Vulcan" is a series of graphic novels created by the famous Turkish artist Ali Recan, which make aviation popular in Turkey. Theme: Literary Humanities Inwardness, Modernity, and Cultural Reconstruction: The Cultural Vision of Zong Baihua (1897-1986) and Feng Zhi (1905-1993) Prof. Ricardo K. S. Mak, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: This paper examines how the two Chinese thinkers Zong Baihua (1897-1986) and Feng Zhi (1905-1993) responded to the perils of modernity utilizing the German idea of inwardness and Confucian values. Theme: Literary Humanities Politicized Pixels and "Porgy and Bess": Digital Imagery, Racial Representation, and Early American Cultural Identity Dr. Maurice B. Wheeler, College of Information, Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, USA Overview: This paper focuses on how the photographic representation of African Americans in "Porgy and Bess" illuminates the political and social attitudes that led to commonly held beliefs and practices. Theme: Literary Humanities Room 6 New Directions in Humanities Education Principled Uncertainties: Romantic Aesthetic and Online Education Dr. Steve Jones, School of Liberal Arts, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, USA Overview: Romantic theories of the interactions among the arts, exemplified by John Keats in "Ode on a Grecian Urn," can help provide a model for online learning in interdisciplinary humanities. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital Using Open Educational Resources to Teach Music Appreciation: Helping Students while Coming to Terms with Corporate Advertising in the Classroom Dr. David Such, Liberal Arts, Spokane Community College, Spokane, USA Overview: The digital revolution spawns online, open educational resources for teaching the humanities. This saves money for students and presents the humanities from diverse viewpoints, despite corporate advertising in the classroom. Theme: Humanities Education A Course in Interpreting and Elaborating Scientific extsT in the Digital Era: Academic English Dr. Rigoberto Castillo, Doctoral Program in Education, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá D.C, Colombia Overview: This paper shares the rationale, the principles, and the classroom dynamics of a course for developing academic language proficiency in a foreign language mediated by Information and Communication Technologies. Theme: Special Theme: From the "Digital Humanities" to a Humanities of the Digital So There’s No Chatroom? Experiences Navigating Pedagogical and Administrative Transitions to Online Asynchronous Course Delivery in a Humanities Program Dr. Ronald J. Tulley, College of Liberal Arts, English Department, The University of Findlay, Findlay, USA Overview: In this paper, the author will bring his experiences with transitioning existing online courses from a synchronous to an asynchronous course delivery format. Theme: Humanities Education

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70 New Directions in the Humanities List of Participants

Gerardo M. Acay Missouri Valley College USA Banwo Adetoro Xiamen University Nigeria Ayinde Mojeed Agbomeji University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Divine Agodzo Spring Arbor University USA Maha al-Senan Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Saudi Arabia Ali D. Alanazi King Saud University Saudi Arabia Saeed Alghamdy King Saud University Saudi Arabia Luloa Almeshali Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Saudi Arabia Aziza Alnuaim King Saud University Saudi Arabia Suliman Altheab King Saud University Saudi Arabia Kurosh Amoui Kalareh York University Canada Donald Anticoli School District of Philadelphia USA Dennis Arjo Johnson County Community College USA Fariha Asif Lahore Leads University Saudi Arabia Donald Russell Bailey Providence College USA Rosario M. Baria University of the Philippines Los Banos Philippines Luke Barnesmoore University of British Columbia USA Guillermo Barron Red Deer College Canada John Bartley University of Delaware USA Michelle Beauchamp University of Victoria Canada Douglas Benson Kansas State University USA Annisa Ridzkynoor Beta National University of Singapore Singapore Linda Nicole Blair The University of Washington, Tacoma USA John Bodinger de Uriarte Susquehanna University USA Leanne Margaret Boschman Simon Fraser University Canada Claudio R. V. Braga Universidade de Brasilia Brazil Jill Brown Monash University Australia Simon Brown Royal College of Music UK Elda Buonanno Foley IONA College USA Stefania Burk University of British Columbia Canada Jacque Caesar National University USA Elizabeth Alviar Calinawagan University of the Philippines Baguio Philippines Caroline Cantin University of Ottawa Canada Mirna E. Carranza McMaster Univerisity Canada Giovanni Carranza-Hernandez Hamilton Catholic Children’s Aid Society Canada Bryan Carter University of Arizona USA Evelyn Cartright Barry University USA Niranjan Robert Casinader Monash University Australia Rigoberto Castillo Universidad Distrital Francisco JosÈ de Caldas Colombia Tom Chan Southern New Hampshire University USA Berrin Chatzi Chousein World Architecture Community Turkey Li-Mei Chen Valdosta State University USA Suradech Chotiudompant Chulalongkorn University Thailand

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Maria Cimitile Grand Valley State University USA Christopher Clark Utah Valley University USA Nancy Collins University of Waterloo Canada Patrizia Comello Perry Borough Of Manhattan Community College USA Patrick Cook George Washington University USA Jane Creighton University of Houston, Downtown USA Constance Crompton University of British Columbia, Okanagan Canada David F. Dahlgren Canada Tanya de Hoyos Defense Language Institute USA Victoria de Zwaan Trent University Canada Scott Derrick Rice University USA Daphne Desser University of Hawaii USA Sonja E. Devargas New Mexico State University Alamogordo USA Kenneth DiMaggio Capital Community College USA Paul Edwards Boston University USA Meilan P. Ehlert Simon Fraser University Canada Fariba Enteshari Rumi Educational Center USA Tolga Erkan Ipek University Turkey Sherry Esser-Acay Dillards Department Stores USA Andrew Vogel Ettin Wake Forest University USA Heidi Faletti SUNY College at Buffalo USA Sonia Farid Cairo University Egypt Sara Farris University of Houston Downtown USA William Ferraiolo San Joaquin Delta College USA James Dougal Fleming Simon Fraser University Canada Akkadia Ford Southern Cross University Australia Annabella Fung Monash University Australia Randall Gess Carleton University Canada Maria Gindidis Monash University Australia Elyse Graham SUNY Stony Brook USA Rosemary Alice Gray University of Pretoria South Africa Natalia Grincheva Concordia University Canada Amy Haines Carthage College USA Katherine L. Hall Khalifa University United Arab Emirates Holly Halmo Rutgers University - Newark USA Ben Hardman University of Southern Mississippi USA Robert C. Hauhart Saint Martin’s University USA Katherine Hayles Duke University USA Yuemin He Northern Virginia Community College USA Valerie Hill Texas Woman’s University USA Molly Hiro University of Portland USA Sean Hooks University of California, Riverside USA Brandy Hudson University of Tennessee at Martin USA

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Jay Irizawa Ryerson University Canada Maryam Jabbehdari State University of Isfahan Iran (Islamic Republic of) Zoe Jameson Morristown-Beard School USA Hong Jiang The Colorado College USA Cleveland Johnson Spelman College USA Steve Jones Bethune-Cookman University USA Julia Kadlec-Wagner Fairleigh Dickinson University USA Yuval Karniel Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Israel Liala Khronopulo Saint Petersburg State University Russian Federation Kevin HW Kim University of New South Wales Australia Ana Maria Klein SUNY Fredonia USA Johanna Alida Kr¸ger The University of South Africa South Africa Jorma Kujala Simon Fraser University Canada Catherine Kyle University of British Columbia, Okanagan Canada Wing Kwan Anselm Lam Hang Seng Management College Hong Kong Lars Larson University of Portland USA Amit Lavie-Dinur Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Israel David Layton DeVry University USA Bofang Li Yale University USA Chunlei Liu Valdosta State University USA Ruo-Lan Liu National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Amy Terese Lovat University of Newcastle Australia Michael-Anthony Lutfy Carleton University Canada Thomas MacCalla National University USA Anusha Mahendran Curtin University Australia Ricardo K. S. Mak Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Seth Mallios San Diego State University USA Roger Marheine Veterans for Peace USA Elizabeth C. Martinez DePaul University USA Yui Masuki Kyoto University Japan Alana Maurushat The University of New South Wales Australia Helen Christine Dominica McCarthy Curtin University Australia John F. McClymer Assumption College USA Maria McLeod Western Washington University USA Arnold Anthony McMahon Saddleback College USA Fred Mensch Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Canada Nancy Merrill University of British Columbia Okanagan Canada Brian Merry Morristown-Beard School USA Helena Michie Rice University USA Faith N. Mishina University of Hawaii USA David Molina Northwestern University USA Laura Monsalve Lorente International University of La Rioja Spain Ruth Morrow Midwestern State University USA

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Jeffrey Morton Florida Atlantic University USA Bruce Allen Murphy Lafayette College USA Emily Christina Murphy Bader International Study Centre Canada Yenny Narny Universitas Andalas Indonesia Mostafa Nazari Montazer Shahid Beheshti University Iran (Islamic Republic of) Cheryl L. Nicholas Penn State University, Berks USA Nike Nivar University of Southern California USA Jacob Oliver University of Washington USA JoAnn Pavletich University of Houston-Downtown USA P. Darin Payne University of Hawaii USA Karl Petschke Ryerson University Canada Lloyd Pettiford Nottingham Trent University UK Miriam Porter Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN USA Allison Postma Morristown-Beard School USA Melanie Pothier York University Canada Murray Pratt Nottingham Trent University UK Mina Rajabi Paak York University Canada Freeda Rajakumari Sathyabama University India Yvonne Randall Touro University Nevada USA Dara Richard National University Singapore Singapore Jessi Ring Carleton University Canada Julie Marie Ross Khalifa University United Arab Emirates Todd D. Rossi Youngstown State Univiersity USA Scott Rubarth Rollins College USA Elvis Saal University of South Africa, Unisa South Africa Sven Schirmer Vancouver Island University Canada Daniel Schmidt-Br¸cken University of Bremen Germany Deborah J. Schuster Boonville R-1 School District USA Abdel Latif Sellami Qatar University Qatar Vuyolwethu Seti University of South Africa South Africa Vahid Shalchi Allameh Tabataba’i University Iran (Islamic Republic of) Oksana Shkurska Dalhousie University Canada Brian Shuster Virtual World Web Inc Canada Maria Skou Nicolaisen University of Copenhagen Denmark Tiffani J. Smith Claremont Graduate University USA Jeffrey K. Soleau The Sage Colleges USA Louisa Soleau Transformations USA Peter Elias Sotiriou Los Angeles City College USA Jane Elizabeth Southcott Monash University Australia Bruce Stevenson California Lutheran University USA John Stone-Mediatore Ohio Wesleyan University USA David Such Spokane Community College USA Anchalee Sybrandy School District of Philadelphia USA

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Chris Tanasescu University of Ottawa Canada Ashok Thorat Institute of Advanced Studies in English India Christopher Toth Grand Valley State University USA Leanne Townsend University of Aberdeen UK Ronald J. Tulley The University of Findlay USA Iliana Underwood-Holbrook California State University, East Bay USA Annie Wan Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Youru Wang Rowan University USA Jenna Warner Morristown-Beard School USA Yong-Kang Wei University of Texas at Brownsville USA Jennifer Wheat University of Hawaii at Hilo USA Maurice B. Wheeler University of North Texas USA Nick White Ryerson University Canada Helene Williams University of Washington USA Joan Wines California Lutheran University USA Alison Witte Trine University USA Wai Kwok Benson Wong Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Nigel Paul Wood Loughborough University UK Ahmad Reza Yalameha Islamic Azad University Iran (Islamic Republic of) Min-Chia Young Shu-Te University Taiwan Audrey Yue The University of Melbourne Australia Shirley Yul-Ifode University of Port Harcourt Nigeria Hatice Yurttas Murat H¸davendigar University Turkey Mingming Zhou University of Macau Macao

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Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of Split | Split, Croatia | 11-14 June 2015 www.thesocialsciences.com/the-conference

Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus | Vancouver, Canada | 17-19 June 2015 www.thehumanities.com/the-conference

Twenty-second International Conference on Learning Universidad San Pablo CEU | Madrid, Spain | 9-11 July 2015 www.thelearner.com/the-conference

Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 15-17 July 2015 www.ondiversity.com/the-conference

Eighth Global Studies Conference Imperial College London | London, UK | 20-21 July 2015 www.onglobalization.com/the-conference

Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society Imperial College London | London, UK | 22-24 July 2015 www.artsinsociety.com/the-conference

Sixth International Conference on Sport and Society University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 30-31 July 2015 www.sportandsociety.com/the-conference

Eighth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum National Science Museum, Delhi | New Delhi, India | 7-9 August 2015 www.onmuseums.com/the-conference

Fifth International Conference on Health, Wellness, and Society Universidad de Alcalá | Madrid, Spain | 3-4 September 2015 www.healthandsociety.com/the-conference

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Fifth International Conference on Food Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, USA | 18-19 September 2015 www.food-studies.com/the-conference

Seventh International Conference on Science in Society University Center | Chicago, USA | 1-2 October 2015 www.science-society.com/the-conference

Spaces and Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies University Center Chicago | Chicago, USA | 15-16 October 2015 www.spacesandflows.com/the-conference

Thirteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing, and Libraries University of British Columbia at Robson Square | Vancouver, Canada | 19-20 October 2015 www.booksandpublishing.com/the-conference

Sixth International Conference on the Image University of California at Berkeley | Berkeley, USA | 29-30 October 2015 www.ontheimage.com/the-conference

The Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, USA | 2-3 November 2015 www.ubi-learn.com/the-conference

Aging and Society: Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference The Catholic University of America | Washington D.C. USA | 5-6 November 2015 www.agingandsociety.com/the-conference

Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability Portland State University | Portland, USA | 21-23 January 2016 www.onsustainability.com/the-conference

Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society Universidad de Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18-19 February 2016 www.techandsoc.com/the-conference

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