The conference date, theme, and call for proposals have been released for the 2016 CCHA Central Division Conference! The conference will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market on November 3-6. This year’s theme is “Trains, Plains, and New Terrains: The Past, Present and Future of the Humanities” and proposals are now being accepted. Please see the formal CFP below and also the forms attached to this post and available for download. We hope to see you in Omaha in November for what will certainly be another wonderful Central Division Conference!
Forms for Download: CFP Central Division Conference 2016
Community College Humanities Association
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
2016 Central Division Conference
Trains, Plains, and New Terrains: The Past, Present and Future of the Humanities
November 3 – 6
Omaha, Nebraska
Hosting Institution: Metropolitan Community College
Central Division CCHA Call for Proposals, Omaha, NE November 3-6, 2016
As the biggest intercity college in Nebraska, MCC’s mission is to deliver relevant, student-centered education to a diverse community of learners. To fulfill this mission, MCC promotes excellence in teaching and learning, strengthens community partnerships, and nurtures faculty initiatives to explore
new methods and discuss ongoing questions relevant to the teaching of the humanities.
This year’s conference welcomes participants to join the discussion on how we envision, explore, and entice student creativity, through the ongoing changes in the humanities.
Help us discover new ways to connect to the rich Humanities tradition and carve a path forward by addressing vital questions regarding the future of the Humanities broadly and more narrowly as they impact Higher Education as a whole or the Community College in particular. Nebraska’s own Willa Cather noted that “there are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm,” and we aim for invigorating conversation on the sometimes tranquil, sometimes turbulent landscape
of the Humanities, including insights, lessons learned, and best practices for research, teaching, and creativity.
The theme is broad, and proposals on it can be construed as broadly as it inspires you. We invite faculty, students, Humanities deans, and community college administrators who care about the Humanities and the Liberal Arts to attend and participate
in the conference, sharing ideas, research, and artistic creations.
Suggested Topics
Suggested topics include, but are not at all limited to:
- How are changes, paradigm shifts, and transformations within different humanities disciplines (such as literature, philosophy, history, art history, music, visual arts, theater, communication, languages, political and social science, and other interdisciplinary programs) understood, prepared for, and/or determined?
- How can the humanities maximize use of digital and other new tools and platforms to enhance and accelerate student learning and creativity?
- What are the relevant questions for the future of the humanities regarding each humanities discipline, each discipline’s curriculum, and cross-discipline curriculum? What is the impact of new technologies on teaching the humanities
- How can humanities courses address current trends in relevant disciplines while maintaining a long view of the great traditions that gave them shape?
- How can the humanities integrate the increasingly close connections between science and the humanities in a “new renaissance” of collaboration?
- How can the long-ago built values be made innovative and enticing to students from a variety of backgrounds that were not considered when the traditional humanities education was formalized?
- How can the humanities create specific and viable connections with trade and career programs both in the college and in the community as a whole?
- How have grants enabled a humanistic discipline to achieve greater prominence at your campus or in your community?
- How can the digital humanities play a role in the community college?
- How have projects with the National Endowment for the Humanities and other organizations enhanced community college teaching and creativity?
- What do great figures from the history of the humanities have to offer us about our past, present, and future?
- What innovative teaching tools and strategies are making the humanities come alive in the classroom and online?
- What is the place of the fine arts in community college education?
- What opportunities can Honors programs provide humanities faculty and students?
- What contributions are part-time faculty making to the humanities programs in community colleges?
- What recognition are students of the humanities— including those in liberal arts transfer programs—getting? How are they engaging with the humanities, and what are they doing to gain recognition? What programs do community colleges have to encourage the humanities literacy?
Who Should Attend
Full- and part-time faculty, administrators, and students in the elds of literature, history, English, philosophy, languages, speech, ELA, theater, art, music, journalism, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related interdisciplinary programs are welcome.
Friends of the humanities form outside the academy, including actors, artists, curators, lmmakers, journalists, librarians, musicians, public historians, playwrights, and writers are invited to attend.
Accommodations
Embassy Suites by Hilton, Old Market Downtown Omaha
555 South 10th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
USA TEL: +1-402-346-9000 FAX: +1-402-346-4236
Cut-off date for the room rate is October 13, 2016. Conference room rate is set at: $120.00 per night; don’t miss the date! http://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/nebraska/embassy-suites- by-hilton-omaha-downtown-old-market-OMADTES/index.html
Audiovisual Needs
Audiovisual requests will be met within the limits of availability. Presenters should bring their own laptops as computers cannot be provided. Mac users should bring VGA adapters. Please be speci c about audiovisual needs, including signal source, as no smartphone cable is available, and mp3 players pose unique challenges to cable. Such needs might include screens, data projectors, ampli ed speakers, sound systems, ip charts, etc.
Additional Submission Guidelines
- All presenters, co-presenters, panelists, and moderators must be current CCHA members. Membership forms are available at http://www.ccha-assoc.org
- All presenters, co-presenters, panelists, and moderators must register for the conference and pay the appropriate registration fee.
- All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The program Committee or the Vice President of the Central Division will acknowledge receipt of all proposals and will email notification of acceptance or decline by August 1, 2016.
- All presentations should aim for audience interaction and participation.
Proposal Guidelines
- No more than two pages
- Describe the session or presentation
- Explain how it illuminates the conference theme
- Describe how the presentation will be made and any audiovisual needs (including some indication of plans for audience participation)
- Include a 150-word abstract describing the session content and what participants should learn
Proposal Submission
Address:
6301 Kirkwood Boulevard S.W. 336 Cedar Hall
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Please be sure to include as email attachments:
- Submission Form (see next page)
- Short CV (or brief bio) for the session moderator and each presenter
- ProposalIf you have any additional questions regarding the conference or proposals please contact the Conference Committee Chair:Laura Chambers
Humanities Faculty
Metropolitan Community College
(402) 457-2212
lchambers3@mccneb.edu
Address: Metropolitan Community CollegeP.O. Box 3777
Omaha, NE 68103 -0777
Forms for Download: CFP Central Division Conference 2016
Community College Humanities Association 
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