Event Details

End: April 30, 2016
Contact: daniel.hambly@humber.ca
More Info: https://www.humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals

OCTOBER 28-29, 2016, Toronto, Canada.

Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Toronto, Canada in association with the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) will be presenting its third annual interdisciplinary conference “Truth, Lies, and Manufacturing Memory.”  The International Festival of Authors (IFOA), one of the most celebrated literary festivals in the world, is located at the Harbourfront Centre, one of downtown Toronto’s major cultural and artistic venues.

The conference aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion among scholars and researchers who study topics on the themes of truth and lies.  Some emergent themes to be explored include, but are not limited to:

• contested meaning
• repressed truth
• testimony studies
• trauma
• victimhood
• distortion
• “lies that tell the truth”
• revisionism
• repressed truth
• selective memory
• gaslighting

We welcome proposals from researchers within all relevant academic disciplines.

If accepted, the presenter(s) should prepare a 20 minute presentation each, the oral equivalent of approximately 8 to 10 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 12pt font.

Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2016