Caritas Veritas Symposium 2024 Call for Proposals
2024 Caritas Veritas Symposium: Collective Stories of Belonging, Peace and Justice
September 17, 2024
Proposals accepted through June 1, 2024
Our University mission statement affirms that as a Sinsinawa Dominican–sponsored institution, we prepare students to pursue truth, to give compassionate service, and to participate in the creation of a more just and humane world. The vision animating our mission claims that we will be an innovative leader in empowering graduates from diverse backgrounds to meet the challenges of an increasingly interdependent world.
This year’s Caritas Veritas Symposium explores our collective stories and how we create communities of belonging and peace. We explore our community partnerships as places where we co-create a more just and humane world. Together, we will consider the ways in which we can study, articulate and share the way we are invited to weave narratives of justice.
We invite scholarly, creative and artistic expression of the ways we engage one another in the pursuit of truth and collective wisdom. How we understand and interact with our interdependent world and experience truth in our relationships might lead us to greater reverence and care for one another. These are some of the guiding questions for this year:
- How do we celebrate our stories and honor the stories we don’t always hear as we embrace love and truth in our community?
- How do our collective stories help us foster belonging? How does the act of both listening and speaking help us embody understanding?
- How are relationships and experiences at the heart of our communal wisdom, undergirding our studies, teaching, research, and service?
- What partnerships are we building for the creation of a more just, humane, and sustainable world?
- How do our relationships create healthy coalitions for justice and peace both on campus and in our community?
All members of the Dominican University community--students, staff, faculty, alumnae and trustees alike--are invited to reflect on these questions from the perspective of their lives within their disciplines, professions, cultures, and social locations. Given the nature of the 2024 theme, we particularly encourage interdisciplinary proposals. We invite students to consider their community-based learning, internships, research projects, clinical and field placements as loci of reflection and analysis on the guiding questions.
Proposal Details
Proposals for formal papers, research presentations, ignite-style lightning talks, panel presentations, round-table discussions, workshops, dialogues, and original creative work are all encouraged. We especially welcome proposals from student presenters. The committee is happy to work with any member of the community who has an idea for a presentation, but would appreciate help or guidance in refining it into a proposal. Examples of previous presentations can be found in the Symposia Archives.
- Papers with a single author will be presented in a 30-minute format, and sessions involving multiple presenters will be allowed 60 minutes.
- We ask that panels limit themselves to no more than four presenters. Ignite-style talks will be given 5 minutes and paired with others to complete a full session.
- All sessions should allow time for conversation with participants.
- Proposals should be approximately 150 words in length.
- In addition to your proposal, please include a two-sentence description of your topic for publication in the symposium program.
- In order to design a balanced symposium accommodating as many of the best proposals as possible, the planning committee may ask some individuals to adapt their preferred presentation format to fit the program as a whole.
Proposals are being accepted now through June 1, 2024. Questions may be directed to Rachel Hart Winter, Director of the Siena Center rhartwinter@dom.edu.