2025 Innovation, Inquiry & Creativity Symposium: Pursuing Excellence
Welcome to the Brenau University Innovation, Inquiry & Creativity Symposium!
Join us for a thought-provoking and collaborative event where faculty, students, alumni, and community members from various fields will come together to share their insights and ideas.
With a focus on interdisciplinary approaches, this symposium offers a unique opportunity to explore the scholarly work being pursued at Brenau University and in the communities we serve.
Please review the formal Call for Abstracts on our website menu for additional guidance on project submissions.
2025 Symposium Timeline
- Submissions open: December 6, 2024
- Submissions close: February 7, 2025
- Acceptance notification: February 21, 2025
- Registration deadline for presenters: March 3, 2025
- Full schedule publication: March 7, 2025
About the IIC Symposium
The IIC (Innovation, Inquiry & Creativity) Symposium is a research event featuring undergraduate, graduate, faculty, and guest presentations that span disciplines as diverse as fine arts and humanities, education, health, science, business and communication. The symposium will be held in the Brenau University Downtown Center and the Brenau University Renaissance Building in Gainesville, GA. Presentations will be made in person and live via Zoom.
Our Definition of Research
We continue to embrace the new definition of research established in the 2023 Innovation, Inquiry and Creativity Symposium. Broadly, that definition of research projects is as follows:
- Projects that involve work with existing research or texts, presenting original analysis, critique, and argumentation
- Projects that involve critical analysis of the body of scholarship written about a particular subject area
- Projects that result in original creative expression based on critical analysis and study of existing work-
- Projects that involve systematic collection and analysis of data
Why Change the Name of the Brenau Research Symposium?
In 2023, the Brenau University Research Symposium Committee made the decision to change the name of the Brenau University Research Symposium to the Innovation, Inquiry and Creativity Symposium. The committee made this decision for a number of reasons, including but not limited to the following:
- To embrace a definition of research which focuses on innovation and scholarly inquiry
- To align the symposium more closely with the type of research currently being undertaken at Brenau
- To encourage involvement from students, faculty, and staff
- To emphasize the importance of the creative arts and welcome a larger number of researchers from various departments at Brenau.
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Location
Hybrid event
Brenau Downtown Center
301 Main Street Southwest Gainesville, GA United States, 30501Registration period
December 1, 2024 - 00:00 until April 4, 2025 - 16:00
Submission period
December 2, 2024 - 00:00 until February 7, 2025 - 23:59
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact researchsymposium@brenau.edu .
