Department of Classics and Religion Student Conference, February 21-22, 2025

Call for Abstracts. On the Periphery: Quotidian Life Across Borders and Boundaries

The University of Calgary's Classics and Religion Departmental Graduate Association is holding its student conference on February 21st - 22nd, 2025.

Presentations will be held at the Nickle Gallery on Saturday, February22nd. We welcome submissions from Undergraduate and Graduate students in disciplines across the sphere of the ‘humanities,’ including approaches that are based on history, literature, and theory (although not exclusive to these fields and approaches). 

Please submit your abstracts, no greater than 300 words in length, to classicsandreligiongrads@gmail.com as a PDF document by December 20th, 2024.

Accepted submissions can expect to be notified by January 10th, 2025. Paper presentations at the time of the conference should not exceed 20 minutes.

The theme of our conference examines the everyday social, political, economic, and geographic conditions of people living in and between borders and boundaries, both literal and metaphorical. In the humanities, including history, literature, philosophy, religion and related fields, reflecting on and understanding these conditions in the past allow us to accept and embrace the complexities and importance of those periphery in the present. Our goal is thus to explore people's existence in and around the edges of society, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens, across time and cultural differences.  

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

• Lifeways and agency of individuals livingon historical and modern borders;
• Boundaries between the public/private sphere;
• Literary, historical, and social intersections of gender and sexuality;
• Social and historical effects of living in borderlands;
• Mental and physical health as it pertains to the periphery, both social and geographic;
• And much more!

Any questions should be directed to the conference organisers at classicsandreligiongrads@gmail.com.