Founding Conference and Call for Papers
Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
February 23-25, 2011
Registration Deadline: February 1, 2011
Call for Papers Deadline: January 10, 2011
The purpose of the conference is to be a forum to raise important issues in the field of arts and humanities, and in particular to decide to set up a consortium of European humanities institutes and centres. The purpose of ECHIC will be threefold:
- To speak up on behalf of members in dialogues with ESF, EU and others on matters concerning humanities research
- To organise regular humanities conferences at one member institution which would involve all partners and interested stakeholders
- To establish a network for mutual benefit and possible identification of partners for European research collaboration
The conference will have three components:
1. Academic papers on topics of general concern to European humanities
2. A poster session with information on humanities centres and institutes
3. A business session to decide on the establishment of ECHIC
It is intended to publish a selection of papers in a peer/reviewed journal dedicated to arts and humanities.
The conference organizers are seeking papers to be delivered at the program. Papers should address one or more of the following topics:
- Converging humanities (interdisciplinary research collaboration across faculty divides
- Humanities serving European society
- New interfaces between the Humanities, the sciences and technology
- Humanities in European universities: institutional practices and models
- The permanence of the classics (bringing the classics into contemporary society)
- Training the next generation
The conference registration deadline is February 1, 2011. The call for papers deadline is January 10, 2011. For complete information on the conference, including a provisional schedule, registration information, and further information on the call for papers, visit www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/events/forthcoming/echic.php.
