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Call For Papers
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Tues-Thursday, June 15–17, 2010
Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA
Main Theme: Civilizational Futures
Sub-Themes:
What roles religion, in the past, today and tomorrow?
Is a global civilization developing? How would we know?
How can past civilizational crises inform the present?
Does ecology matter, or are these crises driven entirely by culture, politics, religion and other social phenomena?
Eternal Themes:
What is a “Civilization” anyway?
How are civilizations distinct from nations, societies and cultures? Are they correlated with empires?
How many are there in human history … and today?
Does history repeat itself?
What is the nature of the relationship between technology and civilization?
Are civilizational transformations necessarily traumatic, or can civilizations “transform” peacefully?
When civilizations “clash” can they hybridize by combining strengths positively? Or must one die?
How do art, language and culture matter compared to the ancient drivers of commerce and military affairs?
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Email abstracts to: Michael Andregg, mmandregg@stthomas.edu
ISCSC website at www.wmich.edu/iscsc for conference information
Style Rules
ABSTRACTS (500 words) or POSITION PAPERS (1000 words)
or RESEARCH PAPERS (3000 words) for TALKS & REFEREED PROCEEDINGS
Deadline: April 15, 2009
- Send via email as an attached file in Microsoft Word (DOC file) format or Rich Text File (RTF) format to Laina Farhat-Holzman, ISCSC Program Chair, at:ISCSCabs@yahoo.com
- Paper TITLE in centered, bold 14 point Time Roman font.
- Title followed by a skip line
- Then Authors & Affiliation
- Then a skip line
- Author e-mail addresses, centered in italics, 12 point Times Roman.
- Then a skip line
- Then the word ABSTRACT-RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (500 words) or POSITION PAPER (1000 words) or RESEARCH PAPER (3000 words) on a line by itself in 12 Point Time Roman
- For POSITION PAPERS and RESEARCH PAPERS provide up to a 25 word short Abstract, 1 tab justified in italics, 12 Point Time Roman
- Then a skip line
- Key words: provide 3-5 key words in bold, 12 Point Time Roman
- Section titles in left-justified, bold, 12 Point Time Roman.
- Text in 12 point Times Roman, justified, single spaced, no space between paragraphs, eight space indent at the beginning of each paragraph
- End note text as in item 13 above. Footnote text in justified 9 point Times Roman.
- References in APA style
- Run document through your word processors spell-checker and grammar checker.
- Send as DOC or RTF file to above email address
