The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is organising its third biannual international graduate conference set to take place at Leiden University on January 29-30, 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands. The conference, entitled ‘Breaking the Rules: Cultural Reflections on Political, Religious and Aesthetic Transgressions’, will focus on the wide range of cultural responses to the violation of laws, traditions and conventions in the political, religious and aesthetic domain.
The graduate conference aims to bring together graduate students from all over the world to present their research. The LUCAS conference welcomes papers from all disciplines within the humanities. The topic of your proposal may address the concept of rule breaking/transgression from a cultural, historical, classical, artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, religious or social viewpoint. For a more detailed conference description, consult the conference’s website:
The organising committee has invited two internationally renowned senior academics from different disciplines (Lorraine Daston, Professor and Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin; and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago) to act as keynote speakers, participate in the discussions and provide feedback to the papers presented at the conference.
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-minute paper along with a brief bio (150 words) before 15 October, 2014 to lucasconference2015@gmail.com.You will be notified whether or not your paper has been selected by 1 November, 2014. Should you have any question regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee at the same email address.
A selection of papers will be published as conference proceedings in the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucas/jlgc/. For those who attend the conference, there will be a registration fee of €50 to cover the costs of lunches, coffee breaks, excursions and other conference materials. Unfortunately we cannot offer financial support for travel or accommodation expenses.
