Fourth Annual
RIT Undergraduate Global Humanities Virtual Conference
April 8 - 11, 2024
Theme: Ethics and How We Conduct Our Lives
You can download the program of the conference here.
Postmodernism inaugurated an avalanche of redefinitions of human values. The human community appears comfortable to speak of “post” as a prefix for a new understanding about the nature of humanity. Now, post-truth, posthumanism and the attendant transhumanism, post-racism are all ideas available for redefining the human condition. The results of these ideas include dislodging of the prevailing beliefs as untenable, for example, the distinction between and among humans, animals, and technology, or the fragile and fleeting nature of truth, hence the reduction of the question of ethics, the question of good, human conduct. Yet, without ethics, humanity resorts to barbarism and various phenomena that privilege tendencies to inhumanity, recklessness, social irresponsibility, insecurities, war, hunger, fraudulence, to name a few. The theme of the conference, “Ethics and How We Conduct Our Lives,” invites examinations of what we have become as a human community. In the tradition of RIT Undergraduate Global Humanities Conference, the conference brings students from RIT Global Campuses-China, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo, Rochester-- and beyond to engage the theme through, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Cultivating Wellness: Ethics of Food Production and Consumption
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Migrant Labor
- War
- Borders, Migration, and the Refugees
- Frameworks for Ethical Conducts
- AI, ChapGPT, and Education
Guidelines
1. Your proposal should be no more than 250 words, and should contain your name, email address, school/affiliation, and the topic/title of your presentation.
2. Your proposal should show how your topic fits the conference theme and what your audience will gain from your work relative to the conference theme. We encourage students to work with their faculty mentors prior to submitting their proposals.
Proposal Due Date
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Letter of Acceptance
If your paper is accepted for presentation, a notification email will be sent to your registered email address by Thursday, February 22, 2024.
Submission
Submit your proposal through this link.
Contacts
All inquiries about the conference should be addressed to:
Jude Chudi Okpala - jcocada@rit.edu
Julie Cecchini - jtccada@rit.edu