Heroes and monsters: extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities,
The Lowry, Manchester, 2-4 June 2014
About the conference
Monsters dwell in the hinterlands of the known world, symbolic expressions of cultural unease. Inhabitants of an imagined realm adjunct to the everyday, monsters offer powerful tropes and tools for learning and teaching in the arts and humanities.
Our third annual arts and humanities conference invites you to explore the everyday business of learning and teaching through metaphor and narrative, and so transfigure the ‘taken-for-grantedness’ of academic practice into fantastic tales of the unexpected.
This conference asks how monsters can unnerve and innervate those working in arts and humanities higher education today. We consider how monstrous pedagogies can disrupt the realities and habits of higher education in the arts and humanities, and articulate different ways of being for learners and teachers in the disciplines.
Call for papers
We are calling for contributions which engage with the conference theme. Options for contributions include:
• pre-conference workshop
• paper
• debate
• workshop
• PechaKucha
• poster
Who should attend
All who are engaged in supporting learning and teaching the Arts and Humanities in higher education. This includes but is not limited to higher education teaching staff, Programme Leaders and Faculty Deans, archivists, librarians, technicians. learning technologists, academic developers and educational researchers using Arts and Humanities methodologies and theories.
Arts and Humanities disciplines include:
Archaeology, Classics, Area Studies, Art and Design, Cinematics and Photography, Dance, Drama and Music, Digital Humanities, English, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Media and Communications, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
We particularly welcome early career lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants.
More details can be found via the conference website at , or please email at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> if you have any questions.