The 10th AHLiST International and Interdisciplinary Conference
The 10th AHLiST International and Interdisciplinary Conference
HYBRID (virtual and face-to-face) CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
CO-HOSTED BY BUSAN UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES, SOUTH KOREA.
1. FACE-TO-FACE Conference Location: Centro Cultural La Corrala, Museo de Artes y
Tradiciones Populares (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Calle de Carlos Arniches, 3 and 5,
28005 Madrid, Spain)
2. VIRTUAL Session and Workshop Links: To be announced in this year’s conference program
and is supported by Institute for Mediterranean Studies of Busan University of Foreign Studies.
Conference Duration: November 18 to 23, 2021
Paper Presentation Dates: November 18 to 20, 2021
Birds of a Feather (Workshops and Focus Group Meetings): November 22 to 23, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Serge Gruzinski
Director of Studies at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France)
General Conference Topic: Identity and Wellbeing
Through the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of (bio)technology has become
essential to sustain society, community and livelihood of human beings. On the individual level,
while trying to survive the coronavirus and maintain the status quo, s/he has to juggle multiple
types of realities: pandemic reality, social(-distance) reality, virtual reality, collaborative virtual
reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, hyperreality, personal reality, alternative realities, and
so forth. The array, complexity, and variances among these several realities are remarkable. In the
face of these various realities, we struggle to preserve (and/or often interpolate) our identities and
wellbeing from one reality to another. Fields such as literature, history and cultural studies,
inspired by Michel Foucault among others, have examined and deliberated about the dimensional
and diachronic aspects of identities, as well as the construction of cultural and social identities
and wellbeing. Meanwhile, in the fields related to technology and science, researchers have
explored and analyzed synchronic and compartmentalized characteristics of identities in virtual,
augmented, and mixed realities.
The 2021 AHLiST Conference invites researchers and educators to debate distinct notions of
identity and wellbeing (and one may regard the following topics as suggestions or as starting
points for reflection):
*how to reformulate existing meanings of identity and/or self-identity and wellbeing within
history, literature, science, technology or any other academic discipline of study
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*how to expand the current concepts of identity and wellbeing from a parochial (only within our
own academic discipline) to interdisciplinary definition
*how to theorize new sets of identity and wellbeing appropriate to the world we live in (hyper-
technological, post-human, post-global, post-truth, post-pandemic, etc.)
*how to comprehend the making of individual and collective identities and wellbeing at regional,
national and international levels coping with past and present challenges
*how to interpret, navigate, and theorize the possibilities of virtual/digital and non-virtual
identities.
Please keep in mind that it is the general theme of the conference, and each discipline of the
AHLiST, such as history, literature, science and technology, will entertain additional topics that
demonstrate innovative research and development relevant to each appropriate field of studies.
DEADLINE for Submission: July 31, 2021
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Conference Panel or Individual Proposal Guidelines
All presenters must be members of the Association by the indicated deadline.
1. All proposal submissions should indicate a specific track: history, literature, science or
technology.
2. Submissions can be in ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL or PORTUGUÊS. All submission should
represent original work done by the authors. There will be two options to propose/submit: a)
panel proposal; b) individual paper.
3. Panel Proposal (Session Proposal with three of more papers): If you plan to propose a
panel/session, please include: i) the title of the panel and the names of presenters; ii) a panel
abstract of 150-250 words; iii) a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact
information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles
of their presentations; iv) a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen
minutes long. Presenters for a panel will be asked to submit their abstract and information
separately.
4. Individual Proposal: Each author can submit an abstract of 250 words with a title (double-
spaced and 12 fonts)
For further inquiries, please visit: www.ahlist.org