CALL FOR ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WRITING PROJECTS

Undergraduate Ethics Symposium
DePauw University
April 8-10, 2010

For a copy of the Call for Papers in poster format, click here. You are encouraged to post this announcement widely on your campus.

PURPOSE
The Prindle Institute for Ethics fosters interdisciplinary reflection on moral issues, including questions of justice and public policy, character, duty, and responsibility. In this our third year, we will again host the Undergraduate Ethics Symposium, designed to encourage undergraduate scholarship and artistic work. This symposium is an outstanding opportunity for student scholars and creative writers to discuss their ethics-related work with leading scholars and creative writers in their fields and to participate in a significant discussion of ethical concerns.

INVITATION
Although students may write about any ethical issues, this year we especially encourage submissions focusing on Self-Interest, Altruism and Morality: Evolutionary, Religious and Philosophical Perspectives. Students may write an argumentative essay or an analysis focused on an ethical question or subject; or they may wish to explore ethical themes that are addressed in plays, poetry, film, or fiction. In addition, students may wish to explore these themes through fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry or dramatic writings. The Institute welcomes works centered on ethics from all disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, but also the natural sciences and arts.

SELECTION PROCESS
Consisting of DePauw University faculty members, the selection committee for the Undergraduate Ethics Symposium will identify up to thirty papers, whose authors will then be invited to the Institute for the three-day symposium, April 8-10, 2010. During the Symposium, these students will meet in seminars led by one of the distinguished visiting scholars or creative writers, who will not only present their work at the Symposium but also read the students’ works and facilitate discussion about them. The students’ travel (airfare or mileage at $.38 per mile up to $400), lodging, and meals while at DePauw will be covered by the Institute.

SUBMISSIONS
Submit works by February 1, 2010 to Linda Clute at prindleinstitute@depauw.edu. (N.B. Place your name and affiliation on a separate page, so that the works may be read anonymously.) Please note that all works must be submitted electronically, so that they may be transmitted easily to the faculty readers and other students. We would appreciate your submitting the work in Chicago style. Student essayists (both scholarly and creative non-fiction) and student fiction writers should submit work which does not exceed 3,500 words. Student poets should submit 5-10 poems; student playwrights should submit a ten-minute play; screenwriters should submit a ten-page screenplay; film makers should submit a 10-minute film. Students whose works are accepted for the Symposium will be notified by March 1, 2010. For further information, please contact Linda Clute, Assistant Director, Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, P.O. Box 37, Greencastle, IN 46135.

SCHEDULE FOR SYMPOSIUM (tentative)
April 9 - 11, 2010

Thursday, April 9

Afternoon
6 p.m.
7:30 p.m.

Arrival and registration
Dinner
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Lecture by David Sloan Wilson
Friday, April 10 Morning
Afternoon
4:15 p.m.

Workshop with student writers
Workshop with student writers
PLENARY #2: Lecture by Claudia Mills
Saturday, April 11 Morning
Afternoon
Mid-afternoon

Wrap-up
PLENARY #3: Lecture by Ronald Sundstrom
Departure


SPEAKERS
David Sloan Wilson, Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, Binghamton University
Claudia Mills, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado
Ronald Sundstrom, Professor of Philosophy and Co-director: African American Studies, University of San Francisco

 

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