CFP: For Every Time, a Season
Submission deadline: December 18, 2021
Conference date(s):
March 4, 2022 - March 5, 2022
Conference Venue:
University of Dallas
Irving,
United States
Details
Eighth Annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts
For Every Time, a Season
Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
University of Dallas, Irving, TX
March 4-5, 2022
Plenary Speaker: Jonathan J. Sanford, University of Dallas
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Willard Jones, Franciscan University of Steubenville
The Braniff Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce the 8th annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts, focusing on the relationship between seasons and the human person. As the world rediscovers and refreshes its sense of rhythm and routine, this timely theme facilitates inquiry into the myriad of ways the human experience is marked by the passage of seasons. In searching for a narrative order to the human story, countless thinkers have charted the progress of consecutive epochs. From the frame of the Triduum in Dante’s Inferno to the gentle variations in Monet’s “Haystacks”, seasonal changes have inspired artistic visionaries in every age. In the world of practical applications, seasons demand preparation and foresight but also foster conviviality and innovation, from the management of a harvest to the oversight of public festivities. And interpersonal relationships go through “seasons” of closeness and distance, all of which are marked by a kind of finitude and hope for regeneration.
We invite papers from all disciplines which deepen our collective appreciation of and understanding for the seasonality of the human experience. Preference will be given to those working in the liberal arts disciplines including—but not limited to—philosophy, literature, politics, theology, history, psychology, and the fine arts, and drawing from the classical, medieval, modern, or contemporary periods. The conference committee will invite select presenters to submit their essays to Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of the Liberal Arts.
The conference will take place at the University of Dallas in Irving, TX, in full cooperation with the University’s COVID safety policies.
Please submit abstracts to [email protected]. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review. Please include a separate cover letter with your name, paper title, email address, institutional affiliation, and, if you are a current student, your degree program.
Abstracts are due no later than Friday, December 18th. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by January 14th and will be asked to submit their full papers, suitable for a 15-minute presentation (no more than 2,500 words), by February 18th.