4th Annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts: What is the Imagination?, Irving, Vereinigte Staaten

Abbrevation

What is the Imagination?

Link

https://philevents.org/event/show/36506

City

Irving

Country

United States

Deadline Paper

2017-11-03

Start Date

2018-01-26

End Date

2018-01-27

Abstract

The Braniff Graduate Student Association of the University of Dallas is pleased to announce the fourth annual Braniff Graduate Conference in the Liberal Arts. This conference aims to explore the nature of the imagination as it has been discussed in the Western tradition. We welcome papers in liberal arts disciplines including—but not limited to—philosophy, literature, politics, theology, history, and psychology, and drawing from the classical, medieval, modern, or contemporary period. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: – What is the imagination? – Imagination as it functions in art: artist, artifact, and audience. – Imagination and self–fashioning; imagination and identity. – Literary depictions and explorations of the imagination – The imagination as a political battleground: propaganda, advertisement, rhetoric, etc. – Philosophic inquiry and the imagination – Imagination and child development; imagination and education. – The image and the word: imagination in the context of language and language arts. – Imagination and psychology. – Ethics and imagination. – Imagination and dystopian literature/post–apocalyptic film. – Imagination and the real.