Life: see ya in Hawai’i

From the e-mail bin:

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Proposals
Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 12 – 15, 2007 Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio, and the Pacific Beach Hotel, Hawaii, USA.

Since many people have individually asked for an extension of the submission deadline, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Wednesday, September 13th, 2006.

Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports, research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions, research tables, or reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums, panel discussions, and tutorials. For more information on the format of
submissions see http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

All areas of arts & humanities are invited. For a complete list of suggested areas of arts & humanities see http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm. Submissions may be made electronically via e-mail to humanities@hichumanities.org.

Last year I submitted (an abstract of) my still unfinished MA dissertation for Bristol and was accepted. While there I learned that they (must have) accepted pretty much everything. They had 1450 ‘participants’ – and the preliminary program I received included 2500 presentations with many people presenting twice (I assume also that many of those in the preliminary program simply could not make it to the conference).

This year I think I’ll submit my work on “Sartre and Subjectivity” from last Spring along with “Who or What is a Dalai Lama” from my MA work in Bristol. Both deal roughly with the work I’ll do my thesis on here: personal identity/subjectivity. Also it will give me two more opportunities to hone my conference/presentation skills. For the (aspiring) academic, such skills are quite necessary and like Aristotle’s virtues they can only be developed by habituation.