Fifth Annual
RIT Undergraduate Global Humanities Virtual Conference
March 10-14, 2025
Theme: Conflict, Resilience, and Resolution: Transformative Humanity
Call for Papers
Deadline to submit: January 13, 2025
The history of the human community could be described as a history of conflict. Coming in different fashions, conflict has become rather the catch-word for any form of encounter as it produces affirmative, dialectical mediation and transformative results. When we read the stories of remarkable people in history, we bask in the stories of conflict they overcame and the progress they made; we also see the recesses of their resilient dispositions. Among them is the transcendence of the community, rejection of chaos, anarchy, suffering, and organized interpretations of how to experience conflict. We must pause the temptation to abandon what confronts us as conflict, analyze it, and make it intelligible. Yet, it is reasonable to distinguish useful from un-useful conflicts, conflicts that are undermining existence and capitulating misery, cruelty, and imbricate with violence. It is also reasonable to recognize the need for resilience and resolution as counterpoints to conflict, and as blueprint for transformative humanity. Likewise, we should raise questions about what it means to be heard or not heard as a person, a group, a people, a nation, and about who has the responsibility to speak for the other. The theme of the conference, “Conflict, Resilience, and Resolution: Transformative Humanity,” allows students to examine, as a human community, how we understand and respond to conflict, how conflicts manifest in our lives, and how we engage and transcend it. In the tradition of RIT Undergraduate Global Humanities Conference, the conference brings students from RIT Global Campuses-China, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo, Rochester-- and beyond to engage the theme through, but not limited to, the following topics:
· Conflict and the Elderly Lives
· Conflict and Financial Insecurity
· Conflict and Emotional Resilience
· Gender and Conflict
· Ethnic Conflict
· The Self versus the Culture
· Personal Identity within the Family
· The Self within the Community
· Conflict in Identities
· Family Conflict
· Generational Conflict
· Conflict in the Work-place
· Trauma and Resilience
· War
· War and Food Insecurity
· Politics and Conflict
· Religion
· Borders, Migration, and the Refugees
· Conflict in the Classroom
· Cultural Conflict
· Techniques of Conflict Resolution
Guidelines
1. Your proposal should be no more than 250 words, and should contain your name, email address, school/affiliation, and the topic/title of your presentation.
2. Your proposal should show how your topic fits the conference theme and what your audience will gain from your work relative to the conference theme. We encourage students to work with their faculty mentors prior to submitting their proposals.
Proposal Due Date
Monday, January 13, 2025
Letter of Acceptance
If your paper is accepted for presentation, a notification email will be sent to your registered email address by Monday, February 10, 2025.
Submission
Submit your proposal through this link.
Contacts
All inquiries about the conference should be addressed to:
Jude Chudi Okpala - jcocada@rit.edu
Julie Cecchini - jtccada@rit.edu