Emerging Disciplines, September 18, 2009

The symposium will feature prominent scholars from across academic disciplines who are shaping important new fields of scholarly inquiry. Participants will discuss the research questions that have served as the impetus for their new approaches, the methodological strategies that their emerging field entails, intellectual opportunities and challenges requisite to the emerging field, graduate student engagement, strategies for sustaining new research models, and other related issues.

The speakers represent a broad range of interdisciplinary fields, including music and the mind, neurohistory, deep history, cultural economy, cognitive approaches to art history, digital humanities, and new approaches to Americas studies.

This one-day symposium is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and Rice University's Humanities Research Center.