UHS 02

Organized by the students of Koç University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Undergraduate Humanities Symposium is an open platform for discussion, designed for undergraduate students who wish to pursue academic interests. UHS aims to promote undergraduate participation to the ongoing academic discourse within the humanities through its annual conferences and series of neighboring events that focus on multidisciplinary concepts that are issues of contemporary discussion within the humanities. Through this, UHS also aims to bring new insights on Contemporary issues that are of importance for the future of human Experience.

UNREST

Ours is the age of inherent politicization of everyday life and its crushing down at the hands of contemporary nonchalance. Meaning and all its counterparts are driven out of the frame. We infused the ground floor of contemporary society with feelings of paranoia, trauma and fear of change. Structured identities of the past are no more. A restless society. Unregulated circulation. Erratic networks. Xenophobia. These are among the many diagnostics of the era of transition.

DETAILS

This year’s Undergraduate Humanities Symposium invites all to question/discuss/dismantle the anxiety spurred from ever changing paradigms of the 21st century. Extending its scope, UHS will accept papers from different fields with a focus on the humanities as well as other related disciplines.


To apply, please submit a proposal of 300-500 words. The deadline for proposal submissions is November 23th, 2018. Participants will be notified of acceptance by November 26th, 2017. On the symposium date, a presentation of a paper no more than 15 minutes is expected. Accepted participants should submit the presentation of their papers no later than December 7th, 2018. The symposium committee may accept actual paper submissions, as well as other types of creative participation. For detailed information, please contact uhs@ku.edu.tr.