(This conference in August of next year (and organised by Australians) has plenty of room to discuss New Media in the Humanities).

Humanities Conference 2005
Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Location Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Event Starts On August 2, 2005
Event Ends On August 5, 2005
Language English
Organizer Common Ground
Important Dates
Last Date of Submission of Manuscripts March 31, 2005
Call for Paper Details
Scope
‘The Humanities in a Knowledge Society’

The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities. This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, the humanities. All are encouraged to register and attend this significant and timely conference.

Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology or Religion-these are just some of the many disciplines represented at the Humanities Conference. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical to the expansive and theoretical.

To the world outside of education and academe, the humanities seems at best ephemeral, and at worst esoteric. They appear to be of less significance and practical ‘value’ than the domains of economics, technology and science. This conference examines, and exemplifies, the inherent worth of the humanities.
Topics
Papers are invited on…

The Meaning of ‘Knowledge’
The stuff of knowledge in a ‘knowledge society’ or ‘knowledge economy’
Modern, postmodern and other ways of knowing
Subjectivity and objectivity, truth and relativity
Consciousness revisited
Ethics and knowledge
Semiotics: the modalities of meaning
The social mind: linguistics in theory and application
Old forms and new insights: the novel, poetry and other literatures
New media, new messages, new meanings
The art of engagement: music, visual arts, theatre
Philosophy in the humanities
Making knowledge: research in the humanities
Intellectual property: private property or creative commons?
Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity
The Nature of the Social
The dynamics of culture and identity
Differences: gender, sexuality, families, race, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability
Family and community
Communicating: media, film, theatre
The literary and the less-than-literary: true stories and actual fantasies
Aesthetics and design
Place making in the humanities: geography and its sites
Land and place: framing indigenous identities
Language and linguistics in the humanities
Languages: global English, multilingualism, language death, language revival
Nationalism and racism
Religious meanings and their social human significance
Trajectories of Change
Globalism and localism; cosmopolitanism and backlash
History and its futures
Immigration, minorities, refugees, diaspora
Citizenship: national and global
Cities and regions: the dynamics of proximity and distance
Violence and peace
A third way? And the first or second futures of our recent past
Colonialism and neocolonialism
Terror and anti-terror
Roles for the Humanities
Teaching and learning in the humanities
Humanities in cyberspace
Meaning in the ‘information society’
Politics in the humanities
Science and humanity
The body examined: biotechnology, bioethics and other intrusions
Sustaining the human, ecologically and culturally
Archaeologies of the material and the ephemeral
Museums and cultural heritage
Technology, between humans and nature
The ‘ism’s of the humanities: feminism, multiculturalism
The conservative agenda for a new world order
The ‘new economy’ and the ‘knowledge economy’ - where do the humanities fit?

Specifications
Paper (30 minute):
A conference session involving a 15 min speaker presentation, followed by questions and answers. Presenters are requested to select a chair from amongst other conference participants. The role of the chair is to introduce the presenter, keep the presentation within the 15 minute time limit and manage the question and answer session. Presenters may also chair their own sessions, but are requested to keep to this format. Multiply authored presentations are welcome.

Papers should be approximately 2,000-5,000 words in length. They should be written as continuous expository narrative in a chapter or article style - not as lists of points or a PowerPoint presentation. The organizers require presenters to use Common Ground?s Microsoft Word authoring template (available at official website). Completed papers should be emailed as an attachment.
Submission/Contact Address
Email: papers@commongroundpublishing.com
Details of Workshop Proposals/Tutorials/Lectures and other supplementary events
Workshop (60 minute):
A conference session involving substantial interaction with the audience. This must not simply be a long paper - papers are for 30 minute sessions only.
Additional Information about the event
Submission Timetable:

24 July 2004: First date full papers can be submitted for 2005 edition of the Journal. Individual papers will be published one by one, as the refereeing and publication process is completed

1 October 2004: Deadline for the fist round call-for-papers

31 March 2005: Final date for submission of papers for double blind refereeing (for an explanation, see The Peer Referee Process)

5 September 2005: Final date for submission of papers for one way blind refereeing (for an explanation, see The Peer Referee Process)

November 2005: Individual papers published to web upon completion of full referee and production process

Approx February 2006: Full text of the 2005 edition of Journal compiled and published to CD

Colloquium (90 minute):
A session involving at least five registered participants (for instance, a chair plus four or more presenters who speak for no more than 15 minutes each). At least 15 minutes must be left for audience interaction. [The conference committee does not organise 90 minute Colloquium. Interested delegates will need to formulate such a session with other colleagues.]

Virtual Presentation:
A paper submitted without the presenter attending the conference in person, but included in the booklet and refereed and published as part of the conference proceedings (the Journal) in print and electronic formats.

Publication Details
Name International Journal of the Humanities
Language of Publication English
Medium of Publication Full Text, Electronic
Additional Information about Publication
The proceedings of the Humanities Conference are published in the International Journal of the Humanities. All papers are fully refereed. To submit, at least one author of each paper must be registered to attend the Humanities Conference (to a maximum of one paper per registered author - which means, for instance, that two registered authors may submit two jointly authored papers).
Additional Address For information about registration, program and general enquiries please contact:
PO Box K481
Haymarket
NSW 2000 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 9519 0303
Fax: +61 (0)2 9519 2203
Email: info@commongroundconferences.com
Additional Address For information about publication, journal and referee enquiries please contact:
PO Box 463
Altona
Victoria 3018 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)3 9398 8000
Fax: +61 (0)3 9398 8088

Website http://h05.cgpublisher.com/