Relevant topics include but are not limited to: 

• What is the imagination? 

• Imagination as it functions in art: artist, artifact, and audience

• Imagination and self-fashioning; imagination and identity

• Literary depictions and explorations of the imagination 

• The imagination as a political battleground: propaganda, advertisement, rhetoric, etc

• Philosophic inquiry and the imagination 

• Imagination and child development; imagination and education

• The image and the word: imagination in the context of language and language arts

• Imagination and psychology

• Ethics and imagination

• Imagination and dystopian literature/post-apocalyptic film

• Imagination and the real