11th Annual Symposium
The Symposium Committee is pleased to announce our 11th Annual Symposium:
Re-presenting Spaces: Literature, Ecology, the World We Share
This year’s symposium focuses on the topics of making space and appreciating the more-than-human environment. With this theme, we ask you to think critically and creatively about the concept of space and to examine the question of why literature matters in producing meanings to spaces, in curating the ecological world, and in reintroducing the agency of nature. We invite you to consider the historical, current, or future methods of “shaping”, “forming”, or “weaving” that humans have used and continue to use in order to curate, represent, and imagine different spaces—whether fictional or material, illustrated or experienced, textual, or digital. We encourage undergraduate scholars to look into the “experienced,” “constructed,” or “situated” to reimagine our epistemological understandings of nature and space as “objects” to be known, to redefine the meanings of “shaping” in literary representations of different environments and entities in interactions, and/or to reconsider the various possibilities of engagement and interpretation. We welcome undergraduates from all disciplines and backgrounds to submit their work and we value greatly all the works sent to us.
The symposium committee is committed to preserving the undergraduate humanities in the midst of humanities departments becoming obsolete. We believe the humanities are essential to forging critical understandings of the world and are necessary to make meaning in the midst of immense turmoil. We hope to bring literary scholarship to new heights and urge you to join us.
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Research Symposium 