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LEGACYTHE AUS HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES C O N F E R E N C EJAN 17TH 2015
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conference theme
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call for submissions
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presentations
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conference overview
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contact information and credits
“How will YOU shape the arts legacy?”
CONFERENCE THEME For our second annual AUS Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, we have adopted the theme of Legacy. As this information package will elaborate, this theme reflects many of our main purposes in holding this conference.
Legacy is a term from which multiple meanings can be drawn. Legacy can refer not only to the past, but also to the future. There are family legacies, community legacies, national legacies and personal legacies. Legacies can be positive traditions that inspire and teach, or negative trends whose painful implications are felt through generations. There are legacies that we inherit from the outstanding contributions of our predecessors, and there are footprints that we leave behind in the wake of our own work. Legacies are the result of ideas that transcend time. Legacies are the result of acts that remain relevant long after those who carried them out have passed on.
In 2015 both the University of British Columbia and the Arts Undergraduate Society will celebrate their centennials and the legacies that they have created, and are continuing to create after 100 years of existence. Now, we want you, our fellow students, to think about your legacies. A school or faculty would be nothing without its students, and you play a vital role in the shaping of the legacies of these institutions. We want to encourage you to continue to add to not only your school’s legacy, but to your personal legacy amongst your community and your peers. By presenting at and participating in this conference, you will be leaving a legacy of which not only you, but future generations of students, can be proud.
Do you have an insight about a particular legacy that you wish to discuss? Have you studied an idea that you believe might have a lasting legacy? Would you like to contribute to the legacy of academic research within the Arts? If so, we await your submission!
“There are legacies that we inherit from the outstanding contributions of our predecessors, and there are footprints that we leave behind in the wake of our own work. Legacies are the result of ideas that transcend time.”
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Student presentations will be up to fifteen minutes in length and will be followed by a period of audience questions and discussion moderated by a conference official. Presentations will encompass a wide range of student work, from upper level research projects to lower level class papers.
We encourage you to consider various options for presenting your work, and to choose the one that you believe will be the most effective in conveying your scholarly narrative. Traditional presentation formats include lectures, PowerPoint presentations, panel discussions and poster presentations. We are also interested in accepting proposals for presentations formatted in less traditional styles; these might include a roundtable discussion, an interactive presentation, or other alternative formats that you may be interested in proposing.
Presenting in an alternative format may be of particular interest to lower level students who have not
written papers long enough to fill a 15 minute presentation. For example, if you are a first year student who would like to present a class paper, you might consider putting together a roundtable, panel, or other similar discussion of several shorter papers of a connected theme that together will total 15 minutes.
Alternatively, we are accepting poster presentations, which together will be featured as part of an informal walk-through session.
The conference will be held at The University of British Columbia, in the Buchanan B Building, 1866 Main Mall.All student presentations will take place on Saturday, January 17, 2014, a day to experience and to celebrate undergraduate student work.
The conference will conclude with a panel discussion featuring three UBC professors from different disciplines, who will give their thoughts on questions pertaining to the legacies entrusted to the arts student, classroom, and community, and the legacy that will be left for the Arts in the future.
The AUS Humanities and Social Sciences Conference will be held on January 17, 2014. We are now welcoming presentation proposals of work done within the humanities or the social sciences. The conference is open to students from all universities and colleges at every level of undergraduate study. Presentations may be work done for a variety of purposes, including term papers, independent research projects, or honours theses; well-developed works in progress are also eligible. Presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes, in English, and represent work done during one’s undergraduate academic career.
To be considered for the conference, you must submit a proposal outlining your topic of presentation, what sources from which you have drawn, and which format your presentation will take. In your proposal, please let us know what the visual components, if any, of your presentation will be (e.g. PowerPoint, poster). If your proposal involves a less conventional presentation
method, please include a description of why you believe this format will be an effective one. Presentation proposals should be sent by email to [email protected], as either a Word or a PDF attachment, by November 14th, 2014.
More specific guidelines on what to include in proposals for various types of presentations can be found at aus.arts.ubc.ca/ conference/resources, courtesy of UBC’s Arts Studies in Research and Writing (ASRW). ASRW will be offering three workshops on delivering presentations on January 12th and 13th. Throughout the coming months, ASRW will also offer several workshops on writing proposals. The dates and locations of all workshops will be posted at aus.arts.ubc.ca/conference/resources as they are determined, and all students who submit proposals or register to attend or volunteer at the conference will receive notification of these.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
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Simon RayekVice President [email protected]
Jamie Donnici & Kaavya LakshmananConference [email protected]
Proposal [email protected]
Arts Undergraduate Society, UBCVancouver Campus
Buchanan D1401866 Main MallVancouver, BC
604 822 4403
Graphics: Melody Cheung
Photos (c) Melody Cheung
Julia Gardiner
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