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An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Truth and Lies


DETAILS

Dates: 11th - 12th June, 2009

Location: Bangor University, JP Hall

Host: Bangor University, College of Arts and Humanities

Conference Secretary: bucahconference@googlemail.com



KEYNOTE SPEAKER


Professor Gareth Lloyd Jones

Emeritus Professor and Lecturer
School of Theology and Religious Studies
Bangor University



Conference Organizers:

Lyle Skains
Maggie Parke
Anne Parry
Ellie Sutcliffe
Sonia Fizek



Additional funding for this conference provided by:

Announcements

May 23, 2010
We finally put it all together - the Truth and Lies Conference Anthology!  It's here in its temporary home, ready to peruse in all its glory.

June 17, 2009
Whew!  It's all over.  We had a great couple of days, and we hope everyone else did too.

We've posted a post-conference survey
, so please click the link and let us know what you thought of the event.

Don't forget to submit your papers for our conference anthology.  The Call for Papers is here.

Prize Winners
As announced at the conference, our presentation prize winners were:

First Prize: Robin Kramer, for
'Biological Motion Predicts Voter Preferences'

Second Prize: Marcus Conley, for 'Lies Truthfully Told: Epistemology and Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction'

Third Prize: Cristina Gomez Castro, for 'The Trith and Lies Underneath (Self)censored Translations in Francoist Spain'

Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to all the delegates for providing feedback for one another!

June 10, 2009
The conference is upon us!  You should have received information for checking into the halls, if you booked it through us.  If not, please contact us.

If you haven't done so already, please submit your presentation to us - we need to have all presentations in .ppt, .pdf, or a link to a Google Presentation as of registration tomorrow.  Do remember to bring a back-up!

Registration starts at 11 a.m. tomorrow, and you may show up early if you like.  We're looking forward to meeting everyone, and to having a stellar conference experience!

May 1, 2009

The conference committee is pleased to offer all delegates the opportunity to apply for a hardship bursary to possibly offset some of the conference costs.  Please fill out your application by May 15, 2009.

The full conference program has now been posted!  Go to our Program tab to browse the timetable for the conference, and read full abstracts of all presenters.

April 15, 2009

All abstracts have been considered, and all submitters notified of their status.

If you submitted an abstract, and have not received notification of your acceptance status, please send an email to bucahconference@googlemail.com, and include at least two ways we can contact you (two emails, a phone number, etc.).

If your abstract has been accepted, please submit your registration.

Registration is also open for all attendees.