Dear all – here comes a wonderful CALL FOR PAPERS from our brill colleagues at LiU Humanities !

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been extended to 10th April!

Please share widely and hope to see you there!

This is LiU Humanities’ Call for Papers for its upcoming conference: “The Power of the Humanities in Academia and Society”, taking place on 16-17 October 2025 at Arbetets Museum, Norrköping.

Conference Keynotes:

Nina Wormbs, Professor in History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and part of KTH Future Humanities Initiative.

Sara Guyer Dean of Arts & Humanities, University of California, Berkeley and director of the World Humanities Report.

Panel on “Academic Freedom and the allocation of resources for research” with:

Andrea Peto, Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University;

Peter Aronsson, Professor in History and Vice Chancellor Linneus University;

Kim Silow Kallenberg, Associate Professor in Ethnology, Södertörn University and Humtank;

Lars Berglund, Professor in Musicology, Uppsala University and member of VR:s Scientific Council for Humanities and Social Sciences.

LiU Humanities welcomes scholars and students of all disciplines to this conference on the contribution of qualitative, interpretative, collaborative and critical research to the ways in which we know of and with culture, society, technology, medicine and nature in different strands of research.

The conference aims at showing the power of various humanities by displaying research initiatives that provide the crucial social, cultural, existential, ethical, philosophical, and political dimensions of how human life is entangled with history, language, interaction, science, nature and technologies. Scholars within all fields that identify with, or wish to pursue collaboration with, qualitative, interpretative and critical research are invited to present ongoing or planned initiatives.

Possible topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to:

– Ways of knowing in the many humanities

– Impact storytelling and other ways of connecting to society

– Inter-faculty collaboration scenarios

– Collaborations with public institutions and the arts

– Interdisciplinary collaborations within social sciences and the humanities

All submissions should include names and affiliations of presenters as well as a title and a 250-word abstract of your paper.

The symposium language is English.

Paper proposals should be sent to conferenceliuhumanities@liu.se no later than 10 April, 2025 after which they will be reviewed by the organising committee. The conference is free of charge but there will be a fee for the conference dinner.

More details can be found on this link: The Power of the Humanities in Academia and Society – Linköping University

Organisers: Bodil Axelsson, Madina Tlostanova, Anna Friberg and Mansi Kashatria