Southern Plains Arts, Humanities, and Languages Conference 2025

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April 25th - 26th 2025

Registration starts at 3pm April 25th

This Year’s Theme: Wonder Unbound

Wonder is often oversimplified in our cultural imaginary, reduced to singular definitions of surprise, awe, or
admiration.

However, wonder spurs multiple complex and often paradoxical interpretations: on the one hand, intrigue; on theother, unfamiliarity, strangeness, and doubt. In the modern world, wonder acts as a commodity, often reduced tospectacle; but it also responds to the limits of rationalism and offers an alternative methodology for engaging insocial and political life.

Southern Plains invites scholars, students, artists, critics, linguists, and storytellers to investigate Wonder Unbound— that is, the complexities, possibilities, and limitations of wonder along interdisciplinary lines.

We consider both conceptual questions and practical applications of wonder, treating wonder as an essentialaspect of creation, interpretation, and experience across the humanities, arts, and languages.

With each treatment, Southern Plains aims to engage critical dialogue about the applications, implications, andlimitations of wonder.

Host or Publisher Oklahoma State University’s English Department Graduate Students