COKER HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
Coker Humanities Undergraduate Conference
February 15, 2020
Call for Abstracts and/or Papers Demonstrating Original Undergraduate Research
We welcome electronic proposals, either 250-word abstracts or finished papers, addressing any topic of interest to Humanities scholars.
The conference may include sessions on a range of subjects within the following fields:
- Literature: Children’s, American, British, Spanish, Latin-American, French
- Composition & Rhetoric
- Media Studies / Mass Communication
- Philosophy & Theory
- Cultural Studies: American, British, Spanish, Latin-American, French & Francophone
- Art History
Proposal Guidelines:
- Only currently-enrolled undergraduate students may present.
- All abstracts and papers must include one faculty letter of recommendation. (Faculty members will not be required to attend the conference, but are encouraged to do so.)
- Only one submission per student will be considered.
- Final Deadline for proposals: 5 PM EST, January 27, 2020; rolling acceptance will begin as proposals arrive.
- Only email/electronic proposals with attachments in .rtf, .docx, or .pdf format will be accepted. Send to rknight@extreme-sys.com. An email notification of receipt will be returned within 96 hours.
- Papers/abstracts should be double spaced in 12 pt. font. Length should not exceed 10 pages. For communication papers, MLA or APA citations are acceptable; all others should use MLA style guidelines. All submissions must include proper documentation of sources.
- Papers or proposals must contain a title page that includes the writer’s name, address, email, telephone number, institutional affiliation, recommending professor, class year (e.g., junior), and class for which the submission was composed.
- Papers written in Spanish will be considered.
- The conference fee is waived this year. There will be no charge to participate. Lunch and a continental breakfast will be provided.