Call for Abstracts for Seminar on Democracy, Justice and the Arts - Sept 1 Deadline

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship listserv]


Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

Please see forwarded announcement below.  Thanks,

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

We invite abstracts related to "Democracy, Justice and the Arts," a
seminar to be proposed for the 2012 meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association (http://bit.ly/n2z3N6). Without recognition of the poesis that underlies all forms of constructive human activity, not least art and interpretation, it is difficult to imagine and then to realize social, political or economic development. This seminar will address the practical contributions of creativity and aesthetic
interpretation and the ways in which, today, humanists are recovering
paths from artistic freedom to the public good.

We welcome brief (100-200 words) abstracts from any field of the
humanities, to be sent by e-mail to Esther_Whitfield@Brown.edu and
dsommer@fas.harvard.edu before September 1, 2011. Seminars include up
to twelve presenters and we will finalize the roster for our proposal
by September 10. If the seminar is approved, all presenters must
register for the conference and be current members of the ACLA.

Thank you,

Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University
Esther Whitfield, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown
University.

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