We welcome submissions from any discipline and encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the question of what is considered “ugly” in history, politics, aesthetics, and society. In addition to traditional research papers, we actively invite creative multimedia projects and performance-based pieces. Both conference papers as well as creative projects can use 15-18 minutes for their presentation.  We encourage pre-constituted panels of 3-4 panelists (including the chair). One of the panelists (conventionally, the chair) may submit a single proposal with details about the panel chair, other panelists, and the individual papers.