{"id":4553,"date":"2025-09-08T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:16:40","slug":"call-for-papers-richard-macksey-national-undergraduate-humanities-research-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/2025\/09\/08\/call-for-papers-richard-macksey-national-undergraduate-humanities-research-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Johns Hopkins University invites submissions to the seventh annual <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/macksey-symposium\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/macksey-symposium\/\">Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium<\/a>. The Macksey Symposium brings together undergraduate students from two- and four-year institutions across the country to present their humanities and interdisciplinary research to a national audience. This year\u2019s symposium will be held from March 19-21, 2026, on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Submissions (in the form of a title and abstract) are due by <strong>December 1, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Macksey Symposium is designed to provide a development opportunity for emerging humanities scholars. Participants in the 2026 symposium can expect:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A robust audience of more than 200 presenters and guests\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A friendly, supportive, and encouraging environment\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A keynote address by a nationally recognized humanities scholar\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Info sessions on graduate programs and research opportunities in the humanities\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An opportunity to serve as a moderator for one or more sessions of presentations\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An invitation to\u202frevise their presentation into a journal-length publication for our journal of proceedings, the<em>\u202f<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmackseyjournal.scholasticahq.com%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cclarrac1%40jhu.edu%7C160310eed586442a2bb708d9dc31989f%7C9fa4f438b1e6473b803f86f8aedf0dec%7C0%7C0%7C637782927836269503%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=R1hghzU0Ade26cS3dqBOCdeAE1TjKN1Z0XBqmLOS2Eg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macksey Journal<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Application instructions can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/macksey-symposium\/apply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply<\/a> page of the symposium website. More information about the conference schedule and logistics can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/macksey-symposium\/attendance-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attendance Information<\/a> page of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please share this opportunity widely by downloading and distributing our <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/09\/Macksey-Call-for-Papers-Flyer.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/09\/Macksey-Call-for-Papers-Flyer.pdf\">printable flyer<\/a> or sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2025\/09\/Macksey-CFP-Instagram-1-scaled.png\">this version<\/a> sized for social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions are due December 1, 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":4440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,90,103],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-application-open","tag-humanities","tag-symposium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/ursca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}