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Highbrow, Lowbrow, No-brow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities

HLNRAVIH20  
 Conference CFP

When:

  06 Mar 2019 through 09 Mar 2019

CFP Deadline:

  25 Jan 2019

Where:

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Website URL:

  http://h-e-r-a.org/Conferences/2019%20Philadelphia/hera_philadelphia_2019_conference.htm

Sponsoring organization:

  HERA Humanities Education and Research Association

Categories:

  Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature

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Event description:

The HERA conference peer review program committee invites proposals for presentations at the 2019 conference. The program committee’s theme is designed to incorporate any and all possible connotations. Our understanding of the tensions and implications of the “highbrow-lowbrow” continuum have existed for as long as the humanities. Although the terms are first associated with the 19th century, connotations of the humanities as possessing elevated, elite, upper class, or even sanctified religious ritual, intellectual, or cultural endeavor may be traced back to ancient times. Similarly, aspects of the humanities variously characterized as being lowly, crude or ordinary, lower class, or even pagan, anti-intellectual, or low class may also be traced back through the ages. Used widely in a vast variety of humanistic disciplines, the understanding and attribution of aesthetic values finds expression in terms that evoke the opposition between elevated treatment of the humanities and lowly... Read more

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