Silence and Sound
Nanyang Technological University English Graduate Research Symposium
4-5th October 2024
Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK) Building
48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639818
Potential topics of interest (including but not limited to):
· Sound and Voice in Literature
· Disability Justice
· Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism
· Medical Humanities
· Digital Humanities and New Media
· Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
· Narrative Studies
· Postcolonial Studies
· World Literature and Translation Studies
· Trauma Studies
· Interdisciplinary Studies
· Creative writing (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction etc.) and other multidisciplinary forms of art and performance
We welcome papers that engage in any manner with the aforementioned topics of interest, including creative works or works-in-progress across various artistic mediums including, but not limited to, film, theatre, and writing. Creative practitioners are invited to submit excerpts of their work related to the symposium theme for a roundtable reading and discussion. All paper and creative presentations are to be kept between 15-20 minutes in duration.
Please send us your submission by 15th August 2024.
You may direct all submissions and enquiries to ntuengsymposium@outlook.com
For academic submissions:
· Full name of participant and academic and/or creative affiliation
· Title of presentation
· Abstract (maximum 300 words)
· Short bio (maximum 80 words)
For creative submissions:
· Full name of participant and affiliation
· Title of creative work
· Creative exegesis (maximum 300 words)
· Sample of creative work (250-300 words or ~5 minutes of audio/video content)
· Short bio (maximum 80 words)