Jeff Braden brought this to my attention; he learned of this from Tom Ewing of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. You may have already seen this in other media, such as via email, but because there's a research component to this announcement, I thought our researchers would be particularly interested in this. Please share with your students and colleagues. Note that lodging will be provided for presenters.
Call for Proposals from Undergraduate and Graduate Student Researchers
Human Rights: Witnessing and Responsibility
Dean’s Research Forum, January 27, 2012, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia
The 21st
century demands an interdisciplinary recognition of and a critical
wrestling with ideas of human rights in our world, our communities, and
our scholarship. As scholars, through our observations, investigations,
and research, we are witnesses to a wide range of phenomena that
validate and that also deny the human rights of people. Through our
findings, interpretations, and conclusions, we, as scholars have a
responsibility to the communities that our research serves. All
scholarship produces knowledge that is both affected by people and that
also deeply affects these communities. Research is both a witnessing and
a responsibility. People and communities at home and abroad are
inventing their futures in dignity and self-determination. We can learn
from them and they can learn from our research. Bringing the best
undergraduate and graduate research and creative work in the region
together for a one-day conference, Human Rights: Witnessing and Responsibility, will serve as a space where we can investigate these connections across multiple disciplines.
Possible
topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:
Narrative and human rights; The social psychology of dignity; Disaster
and displacement; Community empowerment; Civic engagement and energy
policies; Date rape and silence regimes; New media and political
mobilization; Ethics and cognition; Diversity in higher education;
Globalization and human rights; Incarceration and family rights; and
Neoliberal discourses of rights.
The
Research Forum will take place on the campus of Virginia Tech, located
in Blacksburg Virginia. The keynote speaker for the Research Forum will
be Dr. Alexandra Schultheis Moore, associate professor in the Department
of English at University of North Carolina Greensboro. All the papers
and creative works will be presented on Friday, January 27, 2012.
Lodging may be provided for presenters travelling from other
universities. Additional information is available from the website: http://tinyurl.com/
Tom Ewing
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Professor, Department of History
Wallace 260 (0426)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA 24061
www.clahs.vt.edu
