Call for Proposals: 2021 Humber @ TIFA Interdisciplinary Conference (“The Big Hoax”)

The call for proposals is now open for the seventh annual interdisciplinary conference held by Humber’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning in collaboration with the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

The name of this year’s virtual conference is “The Big Hoax: The Anatomy of Anti-Intellectualism, Denialism, and Conspiracy Theories, Past and Present.”

Held virtually on October 22 and 23, 2021, the conference is seeking individual presentation and panel proposals that examine the roots, causes and potential impacts that anti-intellectualism has or may have. Some topics for discussion include anti-media movements, climate change denial, conspiracy theories, and scientific denialism.

The deadline for proposals is May 21, 2021.

The keynote address will be delivered by internationally known author and scholar Pankaj Mishra, whose award-winning work includes travelogues (Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, and Beyond), novels (The Romantics), and 2017’s prescient political analysis Age of Anger: A History of the Present.

You can access the full call for proposals here.

More information about the conference is available on the website.