CFP: "Celebrating Indigenous Resilience" (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 5, 2025)
Lubbock, TX
Organization: Humanities Center at Texas Tech
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2025:
“Celebrating Indigenous Resilience”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 5, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
David Treuer,
National Book Award Finalist,
Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:
Native America from 1890 to the Present
Professor of English, University of Southern California
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) announces its call for papers for our Annual Conference in the Humanities, to be held in Lubbock on April 5, 2025. The conference topic each year aligns with the Center's annual theme, which for 2024-2025 is “Celebrating Indigenous Resilience.” We are interested in papers that engage scholarly conversations about Indigenous resilience across any of the following disciplines: art, literature, rhetoric, communication, history, film and media, music, philosophy, law, digital humanities, museum and/or archival studies, ethnic studies, women’s and gender studies, design, and education. This list, in keeping with the Humanities Center’s expansive mission, is open-ended.
The Center's vision of the humanities is a broad one and we encourage presentations and panels that rethink disciplinary boundaries and traditional academic research. That said, we also welcome work that reflects a comprehensive historical scope. This conference aims to bring together an international group of scholars to commemorate Indigenous history and culture, celebrate a Native present, and foster a sustainable and ethical future. We will host conversations that engage these concerns through time and across modes of inquiry in the humanities.
The TTU Humanities Center welcomes abstracts for individual papers as well as proposals for fully formed panels that address these or other related issues. Potential speakers should send an abstract of 300 words and a brief CV (no more than 2 pages) highlighting work relevant to the topic at hand. Scholars proposing a panel should provide an abstract of no more than 500 words and include a list of contributors (with the titles of their papers) as well as brief CVs (no more than 2 pages) for each.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted to humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by February 14, 2025 with all documents contained in a single PDF. In the subject line of your submission, please use the format "TTUHumanitiesConference/YOUR NAME/YOUR PROPOSAL or ABSTRACT TITLE" (e.g., TTUHumanitiesConference/Smith/IndigenousHistory) as the subject line in your email. We will make decisions by the end of February to ensure sufficient time for participants to make travel arrangements.
http://humanitiescenter.ttu.edu
Michael Borshuk