BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME: Upcoming Events | HASTAC PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103906.field_date.0.0 SUMMARY:The Future of the NYPL: A Public Discussion DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120522T223000Z DTEND:20120523T003000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/future-nypl-public-discussion LOCATION:Theresa Lang Community Center\, New School University 55 W. 13th St.\, New \n York\, NY New York\, NY United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=55+W.+13th+St.%2C+New+York%2C+NY+%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:A discussion about the NYPL's proposed renovation of their central 42nd \n Street branch. Please see my corresponding post [1] about this event. If you \n are in the greater New York metro area\, I urge you to attend!\n \n Event information:\n \n In an effort to open a public discussion of the New York Public Library’s \n Central Library Plan\, the organizers of a petition [2] calling \n on NYPL President Anthony Marx to reconsider the $350 million plan are \n holding a meeting at the Theresa Lang Community Center at the New School. \n \n The Central Library Plan and the Future of the New York Public Library\n 6:30 to 8:30 PM\, Tuesday\, May 22\n Theresa Lang Community Center\, New School University\n 55 W. 13th St.\, New York\, NY\n Sponsored by n+1 and the New York Institute of the Humanities\n \n National Book Critics Circle President Eric Banks will moderate a panel \n consisting of Joan Wallach Scott\, professor of social science at the \n Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\; architect\, preservationist\, and \n architectural historian Mark Alan Hewitt\; David Nasaw\, professor of history \n at the Graduate Center at CUNY\; and Charles Petersen\, an n+1 associate \n editor and author of a piece on the NYPL\, online now [3] and forthcoming \n in Issue 14. \n \n The NYPL has been invited to send a representative to join the discussion.\n \n http://nplusonemag.com/nypl-discussion-may-22 [4]\n \n Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/368441896537288/ [5]\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n \n [1] http://hastac.org/blogs/kylemcauley/2012/05/17/nypl-renovation-and-future-libraries\n [2] http://www.change.org/petitions/president-nypl-stop-the-foster-gutting-of-the-new-york-public-library\n [3] http://nplusonemag.com/lions-in-winter\n [4] http://nplusonemag.com/nypl-discussion-may-22\n [5] https://www.facebook.com/events/368441896537288/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101610.field_date.0.1 SUMMARY:Mobile Communication\, Community and Locative Media Practices: From the \n Everyday to the Revolutionary DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120523Z DTEND:20120524Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/mobile-communication-community-and-locative-media-practices-everyday-revolutionary-0 LOCATION:Phoenix\, AZ United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Phoenix%2C+AZ%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-conference Workshop\n May 23-24\, 2012\, Phoenix AZ\, USA\n Conference website: http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/ [1]\n Keynote Speaker: Mimi Sheller (Drexel University\, USA)\n Mobile and location-based networked interactions permeate our world. We no \n longer enter the Internet--we carry it with us. We experience it while moving \n through physical spaces. Smart phones\, GPS receivers\, and RFID tags are only \n a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that mediate our \n interaction with networked spaces and the people in them. Increasingly\, our \n physical location determines the types of information with which we interact\, \n and the people and things we find around us. These new kinds of networked \n interactions manifest in everyday social practices that are supported by the \n use of mobile technologies\, such as participation in location-based mobile \n games and social networks\, engagement with location-based services\, \n development of mobile annotation projects\, and social mapping\, just to name a \n few. The engagement with these practices has important implications for \n identity construction\, our sense of privacy\, our notions of place and space\, \n civic and political participation\, building community\, policy making\, as well \n as cultural production and consumption in everyday life.\n This preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around \n the world who are doing research in exploring how we experience our \n locally-rooted mobile networked interactions and mobile communication?s \n impact on community. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss the \n challenges that this shift in the use of both mobile phones and the Internet \n poses not only for the users but for those doing research on mobile \n communication. We welcome abstracts that will focus on the following areas:\n *  Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices\;\n *  New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social \n media\; definitions of ?community? in a mobile mediated context\n *  Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social \n networks\;\n *  Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / \n performance design and its impact on communities\;\n *  Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media\, \n new mapping practices and location-aware technologies\;\n *  Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media\;\n The two-day preconference will be comprised of formal panel presentations\, \n one keynote speaker\, opportunities for informal discussions\, and time for \n networking. Thirty ? fifty attendees are expected. The preconference will be \n at the main ICA hotel. The pre-conference registration fee will be $100.\n Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by November 15\, 2010. Please send \n them along with your name and contact information to Dr. Adriana de Souza e \n Silva (adriana@souzaesilva.com [2]).  Accepted abstracts will be notified by \n December 1\, 2010.  Final papers will be due April 1\, 2012.\n Lead Organizers:\n *  Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva (Associate Professor of Communication\, NC \n State University)\n *  Dr. Jason Farman (Assistant Professor of American Studies\, University of \n Maryland)\n *  Dr. Kathleen M. Cumiskey\, Associate Professor of Psychology\, College of \n Staten Island/CUNY)\n *  Dr. Lee Humphreys (Assistant Professor of Communication\, Cornell \n University)\n *  Dr. Richard Ling (Professor of Mobile Communication\, IT University of \n Copenhagen)\n *  Dr. Scott Campbell (Associate Professor of Communication\, University of \n Michigan)\n *  Dr. Yi-Fan Chen (Assistant Professor of Communication\, Old Dominion \n University)\n Like us on Facebook: \n http://www.facebook.com/pages/ICA-Mobile-Communication-Pre-Conference/21... \n [3]\n Follow us on Twitter: ICA12MoblPreCon\n For further information\, please contact:\n Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva\n Associate Professor of Communication\n Interim Associate Director\, Communication\, Rhetoric and Digital Media PhD \n program\n North Carolina State University\n http://www.souzaesilva.com [4]\n souzaesilva@ncsu.edu [5]\n \n \n [1] http://sociomobile.org/mobile2012/\n [2] mailto:adriana@souzaesilva.com\n [3] http://www.facebook.com/pages/ICA-Mobile-Communication-Pre-Conference/211745668890424\n [4] http://www.souzaesilva.com\n [5] mailto:souzaesilva@ncsu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103418.field_date.0.2 SUMMARY:7th Silkroad Conference "Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable \n Economic Development of Eurasian Countries" DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120524T060000Z DTEND:20120526T162900Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/7th-silkroad-conference-challenges-and-opportunities-sustainable-economic-development-eurasia LOCATION:International Black Sea university Tbilisi Georgia DESCRIPTION:7th Silk Road International Conference\n International Black Sea University in partnership with Ministry of Economy \n and Sustainable Development of Georgia and Shota Rustaveli State University\n \n The topics of duscussion:\n - Economic policies and business development\, theory and cases\n - International cooperation and trade\n - Business education\n - Globalization and new economy\n - History and culture\n - Social and geopolitical challenges\n - Tourism and investment opportunities\n \n Abstract submission deadline: April 1\, 20112\n Final paper submission deadline: April 30\, 2012\n \n Applicants should register on the conference web-site:\n http://silkroad.ibsu.edu.ge [1] and upload a 150 word abstract of their paper \n in English.\n \n No registration fee. participants should meet international transportation \n and accomodation expenses by themselves. Many cultural programs\, banquets\, \n and amazing sightseeing are the part of the conference.\n \n \n [1] http://silkroad.ibsu.edu.ge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103124.field_date.0.3 SUMMARY:Arab Women\, Media\, and Sexuality Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120526Z DTEND:20120526Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/arab-women-media-and-sexuality-conference LOCATION:York United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+York%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to the Arab Women\, Media\, and Sexuality\n conference\, to take place in York on May 26th\, 2012. This international\n conference is hosted and organised by the Centre for Women's Studies at the\n University of York. It investigates the interdisciplinary study of\n sexuality\, media\, and gender from an Arab perspective and the intersection\n between all three. AWMS conference aims to provide grounds for discussion\n and analysis of these three disciplines and to encourage debate\, research\n and networking in these fields.\n Due to the unanticipated volume of interest\, the conference will run\n concurrent panels on the following themes:\n -          Cultural Products: TV and Talk Shows\n -          Cultural Products: Music\, Novels\, and Poetry\n -          Cultural Products: Advertisements and Drama\n -          On Veiling and Unveiling\n -          East / West\n -          Resistance\n -          New Media\n The panels will feature papers by delegates traveling to York from Kuwait\,\n Jordan\, Egypt\, Portugal\, Denmark\, France\, Ireland\, the Netherlands\, Turkey\,\n Canada\, and the UK. A few delegates will be offering papers through\n long-distance conferencing. The event itself will be hosted in the Berrick\n Saul Building in the University of York campus\, and we expect the day to\n start at 9 AM and to finish at 6:30 PM. A provisional programme can be\n found on the conference?s official blog: awmsconference.wordpress.com.\n Up-to-date information can also be found on the conference?s facebook page:\n http://tinyurl.com/7kb4lgt [1]\n The registration fee for Arab Women\, Media\, and Sexuality is ?25\, to\n include documentation\, refreshments\, lunch\, and possibly a wine reception\n at the end of the day. Registration is now open on the following link:\n http://tinyurl.com/7c7neen [2] . The deadline for registration is April 1st.\n Queries should be directed to Ebtihal Mahadeen  or Rachel\n Thwaites ret508@york.ac.uk [3]\n We look forward to seeing you in York in May!\n \n \n [1] http://tinyurl.com/7kb4lgt\n [2] http://tinyurl.com/7c7neen\n [3] mailto:ret508@york.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101055.field_date.0.4 SUMMARY:Foundations of Digital Games 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120529Z DTEND:20120601Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/foundations-digital-games-2012 LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Raleigh%2C+NC%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:*Workshops: 29th May 2012*\n *Conference: 30th May to June 1\, 2012*\n *Raleigh\, North Carolina*\n \n FDG 2012\, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games\, \n is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education \n involving games\, game technologies\, gameplay\, and game design. The goal of \n the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games\, including \n new game technologies\, capabilities\, designs\, applications\, educational uses\, \n and modes of play.    \n \n FDG 2012 invites Paper\, Poster\, Panel\, Doctoral Consortium\, Demo\, and \n Workshop submissions in all research areas related to games.  This year we \n are also adding the Research and Experimental Game Festival which will \n showcase innovation in game design and game technologies.\n \n http://fdg2012.org/drupal/ [1]\n \n \n [1] http://fdg2012.org/drupal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103647.field_date.0.5 SUMMARY:Now! Visual Culture conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120531T203000Z DTEND:20120602T214500Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/now-visual-culture-conference LOCATION:NYU United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:If you guys are around NYC on May 31-June 2\, I would encourage you to come to \n this conference:\n \n [1] [2]         It should be a fun event. A lot of interesting \n scholars will be there including Wendy Chun\, Lisa Nakamura\, Jennifer \n Gonzalez\, Tara McPherson\, and Dean Chan. Here are the latest program from \n the committee:  The Conference\n \n **Program subject to final confirmation**\n \n .... Thursday May 31\, 2012\n * *\n \n *4.30—6:00 pm\n Opening 15X5 lightning talks: “What is visual culture now?”*\n Speakers include: Øyvind Vågnes [3] (U. Bergen\, Norway)\, Maxime Boidy [4] \n (U. Strasbourg\, France)\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun [5] (Brown)\, Marita Sturken [6] \n (NYU)\, Beth Coleman [7] (MIT)\, Jill Casid [8] (U. Wisconsin-Madison)\, David \n Darts [9] (NYU)\, Thomas Tsang (U. Hong Kong)\, Diana Taylor [10] (Hemispheric \n Institute\, NYU)\, Amanda du Preez [11] (University of Pretoria)\, Stephen \n Monteiro [12] (NYU Paris)\, Jennifer Gonzalez [13] (University of \n California\, Santa Cruz)\, Lisa Nakamura [14](U. Illinois\, \n Urbana-Champaign)\, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan [15] (Wissenschaftlicher \n Mitarbeiter Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)\, Magda Szczesniak (University of \n Warsaw)\n \n *6:00—7:00 pm\n Journal of Visual Culture reception*\n \n .... Friday\, June 1\, 2012\n \n *9.30 am  Coffee*\n \n *10.00—11.30 am\n “Debt\, Academic Labor and the Crisis of the Knowledge Economy”*\n Session organized by the University of Rochester Visual and Cultural Studies \n Program\n Convenor: A. Joan Saab [16] (Rochester)\n Participants: McKenzie Wark [17] (New School University) and the OWS Student \n Debt Campaign [18]\n \n *11:30 am—1:00 pm\n “Workshop on Scalar Multi-Media Authoring Platform”*\n Session organized by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture.\n Convenor: Tara McPherson [19](USC)\; Workshop led by Craig Dietrich (USC)\n \n *1:00—2:30* *pm* *LUNCH*\n * “General Assembly”*\n Convened by: International Association for Visual Culture [20]\n Food provided!\n \n *2:30—4:00 pm*\n * “We the Auteur: An Unmanifesto on Collective Filmmaking with Brooklyn \n Filmmakers Collective [21] and Meerkat Collective [22]”*\n Convenor: Keith Miller [23](Gallatin)\n Films screened/discussed include:\n /Welcome to Pine Hill/ [24](Keith Miller\, writer\, director\, editor)\n /Good Fortune/ (Landon Van Soest\, Director)\n /Stages/ Brassland [25]/ Consensus/ (Meerkat Media Collective)\n \n *4:00—5:45 pm*\n * “Interdisciplinarity”*\n Convenor: Safet Ahmeti [26](Skopje\, Macedonia\, chair Visual Culture in the \n European Union Network)\n Participants: Francesca Martinez Tagliavia [27]\, University of Paris 3 \n Sorbonne-Nouvelle\; Max Liljefors [28]\, Lund University\; Maxime Boidy\, (Social \n Science\, University of Strasbourg)\, Kévin Matz [29] (Political Science\, \n University of Strasbourg)\, Joanna Zylinska [30] (Goldsmiths College\, \n University of London)\, Allen Feldman [31] (NYU)\n \n *6:00—7:30 pm*\n *“The Practice of Visual Culture”*\n Workshop participant: Wafaa Bilal [32]\, Natalie Jeremijenko [33]\, Naeem \n Mohaiemen [34] (Bangladesh)\, Trevor Paglen [35]. Session jointly organized by \n Art/Media\, Culture and Communication at NYU.\n \n *Reception: NYU Art and Art Professions*\n \n .... Saturday June 2\, 2012\n \n *9:30 am Coffee*\n \n *10:00—11.30 am*\n *“Locating the Object in Visual Culture Studies”*\n Moderator: Raiford Guins [36] (Stony Brook University)\n Speakers:\n Hazel Clark [37] (Parsons\, The New School of Design)\n Elizabeth Guffey [38] (Purchase College)\n Amy Ogata [39] (Bard Graduate Center)\n Jaleen Grove (Stony Brook University)\n \n *11:30 am—1:00 pm*\n *“Futures of Visual Culture Publishing”*\n Session organized by the Journal of Visual Culture [40]\n Convenor: Marquard Smith [41] (University of Westminster\, UK)\n Participants: Mark Little [42] (Head of Ealing School of Art\, Design and \n Media\, UK)\, Gary Hall [43] (Coventry University\, Open Humanities Press) Sina \n Najafi [44](founding editor of Cabinet)\, Katherine Behar [45] (web editor of \n Art Journal)\, Tara McPherson (USC\, Vectors/Scalar)\n \n *1:00—2:30 pm* *LUNCH\n **Graduate Student Forum: “Food and Visual Culture.”\n *Convenors: Carlin Wing [46] and Shane Brennan [47] (NYU)\n \n *2:30—4:00 pm*\n * “INDAAR: Diasporic Asian Art”*\n Participants: Paul Pfeiffer [48](video/multimedia)\, Patty Chang [49] \n (performance)\,\n Jason Wing [50] (painting\, installation\, street art)\n Convenors: Dean Chan (U. Wollongong\, Australia) and Alexandra Chang (A/P/A \n Institute\, NYU)\n \n *4:15—5:45 pm*\n Giuliana Bruno [51] (Harvard University) and W.J.T. Mitchell [52] (U. \n Chicago)\n keynote ‘listeners’ and talkback\n \n  \n \n /Art installation will include work by Philippe Safire [53]/\n \n \n [1] http://www.visualculturenow.org/\n [2] http://www.visualculturenow.org/\n [3] http://www.sdu.dk/en/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ihks/Forskning/Forskningsnetvaerk/NNCORE/People/%C3%98yvind_V%C3%A5gnes\n [4] http://sspsd.u-strasbg.fr/Maxime-Boidy.html\n [5] http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/people/facultypage.php?id=10109\n [6] http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/faculty_bios/view/Marita_Sturken\n [7] http://cms.mit.edu/people/bcoleman/\n [8] http://art.wisc.edu/?folder=faculty&\;pageName=default&\;pageid=48&\;category=7&\;idFaculty=87&\;parentid=5\n [9] http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/David_Darts\n [10] http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/people\n [11] http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5019&\;language=0\n [12] http://www.aup.edu/faculty/dept/intcom/monteiro.htm\n [13] http://havc.ucsc.edu/faculty/jennifer-gonzalez\n [14] http://www.aasp.illinois.edu/people/lnakamur\n [15] http://www.bernardg.com/\n [16] http://www.rochester.edu/college/aah/people/saab.htm\n [17] http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1718\n [18] http://www.occupystudentdebtcampaign.org/our-principles/\n [19] http://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=6590&\;first=&\;last=mcpherson&\;title=&\;did=50&\;referer=%2Fdirectories%2Ffaculty.cfm&\;startpage=1&\;startrow=1\n [20] http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/bbpress/\n [21] http://brooklynfilmmakerscollective.com/members\n [22] http://meerkatmedia.org/about/\n [23] http://hyperallergic.com/39423/an-occupywallstreet-art-exhibition-that-reaches-out/\n [24] http://www.welcometopinehill.com/\n [25] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99m9GigTHHg&\;feature=player_embedded\n [26] http://www.rhiz.eu/person-52247-en.html\n [27] http://th-rough.eu/writers/francesca-martinez-tagliavia\n [28] http://www.pi.lu.se/o.o.i.s/29505\n [29] http://prisme.u-strasbg.fr/matz.htm\n [30] http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/zylinska/\n [31] http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/faculty_bios/view/Allen_Feldman\n [32] http://wafaabilal.com/html/bio.html\n [33] http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/\n [34] http://www.shobak.org/projects/index.shtml\n [35] http://www.paglen.com/\n [36] http://www.stonybrook.edu/complit/new/guins.html\n [37] http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/profiles.aspx?id=42391\n [38] http://www.purchase.edu/departments/academicprograms/faculty/elizabethguffey/elizabethguffey.aspx\n [39] http://www.bgc.bard.edu/programs/faculty/amy-f-ogata.html\n [40] http://vcu.sagepub.com/\n [41] http://http//2009.westminster.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english\,-linguistics-and-cultural-studies/people/visual-culture/smith\,-marquard\n [42] http://preview.tvu.ac.uk/the_university/how_the_university_works/profiles/mark_Little.jsp\n [43] http://www.garyhall.info/\n [44] http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/contributors/najafi_sina.php\n [45] http://www.katherinebehar.com/index.html\n [46] http://www.carlinwing.net/\n [47] http://hyperallergic.com/tag/shane-brennan/\n [48] http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/paul-pfeiffer\n [49] http://www.pattychang.com/\n [50] http://www.jasonwing.net/\n [51] http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/bruno.html\n [52] http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/home.htm\n [53] http://www.philippe-safire.net/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101555.field_date.0.6 SUMMARY:Emerging Learning Design Conference 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120601Z DTEND:20120601Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/emerging-learning-design-conference-2012 LOCATION:Montclaire\, NJ United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Montclaire%2C+NJ%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:*Innovative Practices for Digital Teaching and Learning*\n June 1\, 2012\n Montclair State University\n http://eld.montclair.edu [1]\n The theme for the Emerging Learning Design 2012 Conference (#ELD12) is\n *Innovative Practices for Digital Teaching and Learning*and\, like last year?s \n event\,\n promises an eclectic mix of presentations and session styles for a wide\n variety of comfort levels with technology.\n Call for Presentation\n Proposals will be peer-reviewed and must be submitted via the online form at\n http://eld.montclair.edu [2] by December 1\, 2011. For the proposal \n submission\,\n please provide a title\, 50-word description\, and 250-word abstract.\n Tracks include: Hybrid & Online Teaching & Learning\, Immersive Technology\,\n Instructional Design & Pedagogy\, Leadership & Administration\, Library\, and\n Research.\n Session types include: Concurrent\, 3 x 15\, and Ignite!\n Like our 2011 conference\, the Emerging Learning Design 2012 Conference\n (#ELD12) promises an eclectic mix of presentations and session styles for a\n wide variety of comfort levels with technology. Please share this invitation\n & website with your colleagues! http://eld.montclair.edu [3]\n Who Should Present\n Who should submit a proposal? If you have used technology in your classroom\,\n whether it went the way you expected or not\, your experiences are almost\n certainly of benefit to others. The #ELD12 Conference is an excellent way to\n share your success and tribulations with colleagues and perhaps even form\n new collaborations through networking.\n Most teachers have said\, at one time or another\, "If you have a question\,\n ask it\, because it's likely others have the same question". The same can be\n applied to submitting your experience as a proposal. If you found something\n interesting enough to invest time in\, we're sure there are others out there\n who are interested as well\, and can benefit from\, your perspective\n Who should attend\n Who should attend? Those in Higher Education and K-12 who are experienced in\n or aspiring to use technology in teaching & learning. Our Keynote\,\n Concurrent\, 3?15\, and Ignite! sessions will focus on innovative practices in\n the modern digital age. Whether it is a technology rich\, hybrid\, or online\n class\, this event showcases best practices in design and implementation for\n teachers of all disciplines and levels of technical expertise\n \n \n [1] http://eld.montclair.edu\n [2] http://eld.montclair.edu\n [3] http://eld.montclair.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102193.field_date.0.7 SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120604T130000Z DTEND:20120608T203000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/digital-humanities-summer-institute-2012 LOCATION:University of Victoria Victoria\, BC V8W 2Y2 Canada See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.ca?q=%2C+Victoria%2C+BC%2C+V8W+2Y2+%2C+ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102334.field_date.0.8 SUMMARY:2012 Galway Symposium on Higher Education - The power of the written word DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120606T230000Z DTEND:20120607T230000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2012-galway-symposium-higher-education-power-written-word LOCATION:National University of Ireland Galway Ireland DESCRIPTION:This\, the tenth Galway Symposium on Higher Education\, will focus on aspects \n of written or textual communication in higher education\, spanning topics as \n diverse as:\n \n * the development of student academic writing skills (undergraduate and\n postgraduate)\n * integrity\, voice\, identity\, narrative\, in forms old and new\n * the challenges of writing for publication in an era of metrics\n * writing for and communicating with a public audience\n * new media\, new literacies\n * models of publication: open access and its implications\n * sense-making and communication in the dgitial university\n \n The call for papers will be announced in early January and further \n information will appear then on our website at http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt  \n [1]\n \n Suggestions for keynotes\, plenary sessions\, thematic discussions and \n workshops are also welcome. \n \n Please contact: iain.maclaren@nuigalway.ie [2]  \n \n \n [1] http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt\n [2] mailto:iain.maclaren@nuigalway.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103303.field_date.0.9 SUMMARY:4th SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) \n Conference - Moving from Me to We: Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges \n with Globally Networked Learning Partnerships DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120607Z DTEND:20120608Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/4th-suny-center-collaborative-online-international-learning-coil-conference-moving-me-we-brea LOCATION:SUNY Global Center 116 E. 55th St. New York\, NY 10022 United States See map: \n Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=116+E.+55th+St.%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+10022%2C+us DESCRIPTION:*Invitation & Call for Presentations for the 4th COIL Conference: *\n \n  \n \n *When? *June 7-8\, 2012*Where? *SUNY Global Center\, 116 E. 55th St.\, NYC*How \n to Register?* *http://www.cvent.com/d/jcqly4* [1]*Questions? *Please email \n *COILConference@suny.edu* [2]\n \n *For more info about the Conference and Call for Presentations (CFP) visit: \n **www.suny.edu/global/coil* [3]\n \n The SUNY COIL Center is a leader in the emerging field of *Globally Networked \n Learning (GNL)*\; a teaching and learning methodology which provides \n innovative cost-effective internationalization strategies. GNL programs \n foster faculty and student exchange with peers abroad through co-taught \n multicultural online and blended learning environments that emphasize \n experiential collaboration.\n \n COIL’s annual conference brings together faculty\, international educators\, \n instructional technologists\, and university and college administrators from \n SUNY\, across the U.S. and around the world to share their experiences \n developing globally networked learning courses\, initiatives and best \n practices. This year’s conference will include sessions from invited \n speakers and from a CFP (see below).\n \n  \n \n *4th COIL Conference Themes*\n \n * Growing and Sustaining Globally Networked Learning Initiatives\n * Role of GNL in Integrating Intercultural and/or Global Dimensions into the\n Curriculum\n * Supporting the Faculty and Institutional Partnering Process\n * Fostering and Evaluating Student Cross-cultural Competence\n * GNL Classes as Portals to Increased Study Abroad Participation\n * Initial Outcomes of the /COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in\n the Humanities/\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n *Call for Presentations*\n \n For the first time we are inviting proposals for presentations that broadly \n support this year’s conference themes\; including individual presentations\, \n panels\, mini-workshops\, or alternative innovative formats (including those \n utilizing videoconferencing and other technologies). Joint proposals from \n cross-department and/or inter-institutional teams\, those which include \n substantial audience participation\, or which bring in student perspectives \n are particularly encouraged.\n \n Proposals are due *March 26\, 2012*. Detailed requirements can be found on the \n conference website [4].\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n *Conference Registration and Hotel Information*\n \n Please join us for an engaging and lively series of presentations and \n discussions on international online learning environments. The 2011 COIL \n Conference filled to capacity. So we recommend registering early [5] to avoid \n disappointment.\n \n  \n \n *Registration Deadlines and Rates (in Dollars)**SUNY**Other*Early Bird \n Registration by April 16\, 2012$150$235Regular Registration after April 16\, \n 2012$175$275\n \n Note: In addition to check\, credit cards and other forms of payment\, \n registrants from SUNY member campuses can use CPD Training Points.\n \n COIL has arranged special hotel rates for attendees including $140 at a hotel \n in Queens just 1-2 subway stops from the Global Center\; and $241 at two \n Manhattan hotels less than a ten-minute walk from the event. The hotel \n booking deadline is *May 5\, 2012*.\n \n Please feel free to share info our conference.\n The Twitter #tag for the event is #COILCON\n \n *For more information on the 4th COIL Conference and CFP please visit: \n *www.suny.edu/global/coil [6]\n \n \n [1] http://www.cvent.com/d/jcqly4\n [2] mailto:COILConference@suny.edu\n [3] http://www.suny.edu/global/coil\n [4] http://coilcenter.purchase.edu/page/call-presentations-4th-coil-conference\n [5] http://www.cvent.com/d/jcqly4\n [6] http://www.suny.edu/global/coil END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103886.field_date.0.10 SUMMARY:13th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120607Z DTEND:20120610Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/13th-annual-convention-media-ecology-association-crossroads-word DESCRIPTION: \n \n The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association\n \n The Crossroads of the Word\n \n June 7-10\, 2012\n \n Manhattan College\, Riverdale\, New York\n \n  \n \n *Featured Speakers*\n \n Sherry Turkle\n \n Douglas Rushkoff\n \n Terence P. Moran\n \n Jaron Lanier\n \n  \n \n For Registration and Preliminary Program\, go to\n \n http://www.media-ecology.org [1]\n \n  \n \n *Deadline for Preregistration: May 15*\n \n  \n \n Times Square\, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in New York \n City\, has often been referred to as the -Crossroads of the World.\n \n In fact\, New York City itself can be considered a crossroads of the world. \n New York Harbor is home to Ellis Island\, the main point of entry for the \n -huddled masses- who came to the United States in search of a better life\, \n particularly as part of the -great immigration- of the late 19th and early \n 20th centuries\, and who became part of America-s great -melting pot.- The \n city-s five boroughs are home to the most diverse population of any city on \n earth\, with virtually every culture and language group represented.\n \n New York is also a crossroads of the media/mass media world: home to the U.S. \n corporate headquarters of almost all of our major multinational media \n conglomerates\; home to Silicon Alley\; and the indisputable news and \n information capital of the United States.\n \n It must be added\, too\, that the way we understand\, analyze\, and make sense of \n our world and all things in it is through our human language\, in its spoken\, \n written\, and print forms. That is to say\, our world is all about words. And \n at this juncture in the history of human civilization\, in which people speak \n of a -post-literate culture\,- after media ecologist Walter Ong\, S. J.\, \n subtitled his book Orality and Literacy -The Technologizing of the Word\,- and \n media ecologist Jacques Ellul wrote The Humiliation of the Word\, we can \n perhaps say that we stand at a -Crossroads of the Word.-\n \n Convention Coordinator: Thom Gencarelli (thom.gencarelli{at}manhattan.edu).\n \n  \n \n *Featured Speakers*\n \n Sherry Turkle\, Abby Rockefeller Mauz- Professor of the Social Studies of\n \n Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and\n \n author of The Second Self\, Life on the Screen\, and her latest book Alone\n \n Together-(Thursday evening\, June 7)\n \n  \n \n Douglas Rushkoff (http://www.rushkoff.com/ [2])\, winner of the MEA's first\n \n Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual\n \n Activity\, author of ten books including the recent Program or Be\n \n Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age\, and producer of three\n \n Frontline documentaries including -Merchants of Cool-\, -The Persuaders-\,\n \n and -Digital Nation- -(Friday\, June 8)\n \n  \n \n Terence P. Moran\, Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New\n \n York University\, one of the three founding members of NYU-s media\n \n ecology doctoral program\, and author of Selling War to America: From the\n \n Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror and Introduction to The\n \n History of Communication: Evolutions and Revolutions-(Saturday\, June 9)\n \n  \n \n Jaron Lanier (http://www.jaronlanier.com/ [3])\, computer scientist\,\n \n composer\, visual artist\, author of You are Not a Gadget\, and one of Time\n \n magazine-s -100 People- for 2010 -(Saturday evening\, June 9)\n \n  \n \n The program will also include plenary sessions in celebration of the\n \n centenary of the birth of Walter J. Ong and Jacques Ellul.\n \n  \n \n Campus Housing\n \n  \n \n Campus housing at Manhattan College will be available from Wednesday\n \n night\, June 6 through Sunday night\, June 10 (with checkout on Monday\n \n morning\, June 11). This housing is situated just a two-minute walk from\n \n the buildings in which the convention will be held.\n \n  \n \n *Pricing is as follows:*\n \n -    $60 US per person per night for a private bedroom in a two-bedroom\n \n suite with a shared bath\n \n -    $100 US per person per night for a private bedroom with a private \n bath\n \n To reserve campus housing please check the following two-step process:\n \n  \n \n 1) Call Fiona Delaney\, the Office Manager at the College's Business\n \n Office\, at 1-718-862-7456\, between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern\n \n Daylight Time\, Monday through Friday. Tell Fiona you wish to reserve\n \n campus housing during the Media Ecology Association Convention\, and tell\n \n her which housing option you prefer. The College accepts Visa\,\n \n MasterCard\, American Express\, and Discover.\n \n  \n \n 2) E-mail Brian Korney at bkorney.student{at}manhattan.edu with\n \n  \n \n (a) your name-(b) your housing option-(c) the dates you will be staying.\n \n  \n \n This will guarantee your reservation and ensure that we have an accurate\n \n housing list.\n \n  \n \n *Hotels*\n \n For those of you who prefer to stay at a hotel\, you have two options:\n \n You can stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Or you can stay at a hotel\n \n In Yonkers\, New York - a few miles north of campus.\n \n  \n \n If you choose to stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan\, please note the\n \n following:\n \n (1) New York City has a great many hotels from which to choose. If you\n \n are not happy with the ones we recommend below\, you are of course free\n \n to search for your own.\n \n (2) The hotels we recommend are all located on the west side of\n \n Manhattan\, and are convenient to the No. 1 subway train\, which will take\n \n you right down the hill - a two-minute walk - from the Manhattan College\n \n campus. If you choose an alternative hotel\, we recommend that you also\n \n choose one on the West Side. (Subway directions can be found below.)\n \n (3) The recommended hotels do not offer a special convention rate\, as we\n \n are not using their services otherwise.\n \n (4) A subway ride from midtown to the campus takes about a half hour.\n \n  \n \n If you choose to stay at one of the recommended hotels in Yonkers\, New\n \n York - both of which are located about seven miles (11.25 Km) from\n \n campus - you will need to either rent a car or take a taxi to campus and\n \n back. A taxi costs approximately $16.50 US each way.\n \n  \n \n *Hotels in Manhattan*\n \n The following two hotels in Manhattan are presently pricing at about\n \n $250 per person per night:\n \n -    The Milburn Hotel - 242 West 76th Street -Manhattan College uses\n \n this hotel to house guests who wish to stay in midtown\n \n -    Holiday Inn - 440 West 57th Street\n \n  \n \n In addition\, the MEA has used the following hotel in the past. However\,\n \n it is presently pricing at $379 per person per night:\n \n -    Hudson Hotel - 356 West 58th Street\n \n  \n \n *Hotels in Yonkers\, New York*\n \n -    Hampton Inn and Suites - 160 Corporate Boulevard-Manhattan College\n \n also uses this hotel to house guests-Presently pricing at $179 per\n \n person per night (or $152 non-refundable)\n \n -    Ramada Inn - 125 Tuckahoe Road-Presently pricing at $129 per person\n \n per night\n \n  \n \n *Directions to Campus from the No. 1 Subway Line*\n \n -    Take the No. 1 subway north to the end of the line - the Van\n \n Cortlandt Park/242nd Street stop.\n \n -    Walk up the hill on West 242nd Street to College's main gate on the\n \n right.\n \n -    Signs will be posted to direct you to the buildings in which the\n \n convention is being held\n \n  \n \n http://www.media-ecology.org [4]\n \n  \n \n \n [1] http://www.media-ecology.org/\n [2] http://www.rushkoff.com/\n [3] http://www.jaronlanier.com/\n [4] http://www.media-ecology.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101483.field_date.0.11 SUMMARY:20th Anniversary British Women Writers Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120607T060000Z DTEND:20120610T060000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/20th-anniversary-british-women-writers-conference-bwwc-june-7-10-2012 LOCATION:Millennium Harvest House 1345 28th Street Boulder\, CO 80302 United States See \n map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=1345+28th+Street%2C+Boulder%2C+CO%2C+80302%2C+us DESCRIPTION:*CFP: The 20th Anniversary British Women Writers Conference (BWWC) ~ \n “Landmarks”*\n June 7-10\, 2012\n Boulder\, CO\n www.bwwc2012.com\n \n \n In 2012\, the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC) \n will commemorate its 20th anniversary by focusing on the theme of \n “Landmarks.”  Rich in both physical and metaphorical significance\, \n landmarks form loci by which we organize history and chart the development of \n individuals\, nations\, and cultures. We therefore invite papers that explore \n how women writers and their texts engage with an ever-changing geography that \n is both material and abstract. These conference papers should address the \n people\, places\, events\, and texts that have made their marks on history\, \n and/or the processes and implications of marking\, mapping\, reading\, \n preserving\, overwriting\, or erasing. Likewise\, we wish to investigate land as \n space and place\, acts and effects of landing or arriving\, marks of land upon \n people and cultures\, geographical and imaginative landscapes\, liminal \n no-(wo)man’s-lands\, and the state of being landed (or not) with property.\n \n *Please send a 500-word abstract to bwwc2012@colorado.edu [1] by January 15\, \n 2012.* Panel proposals are also welcome and are due by December 15\, 2011. \n Papers should address the conference theme and apply it to 18th-century\, \n Romantic\, or Victorian texts. See the conference website for more details:  \n www.bwwc2012.com [2].\n \n *Possible topics include:*\n /- Landmark Events and Ideas:/ Technologies\, scientific discoveries\, \n historical moments\; defining milestones\; turning points\; crises or victories\; \n anniversaries\; stages\; experiments\; memories or visions\; aesthetic debates\n \n /- Landmark Works:/ Publication and reception\; authorship or readership\; \n emerging genres\; histories or chronicles\; canon formation\; travel writing\n \n /- Geographical Land Marks:/ Historical or tourist sites\; borders and \n national boundaries\; high points and burials\; property and ownership\; \n memorials\, monuments\, museums\; ruins and traces\n \n /- Making Marks:/ Print culture\; media\; digital editions\; diaries and \n personal writings\; glosses\, annotations\, and marginalia\; building\, \n development\, or enclosure\; landscaping and gardening\; architecture\; fashion \n and costume design\; cosmetics and tattoos\; creating space and place\; \n epitaphs\, cemeteries\, tombs\n \n /- Reading\, Interpreting\, or Imagining Lands/Marks:/ Physiognomy or \n phrenology\; psychics\; reading practices\; sciences of navigation\; distance and \n time\; fictional worlds\n \n /- Mapping/Preserving Marks:/ Maps and cartography\; emblems\; classification \n systems\; libraries\, museums\, collections\; digital and non-digital archives\n \n /- Marks of Land on People: /Farming and agriculture\; gentility and nobility\; \n industry\; food and foodways\; defining the local\, national\, imperial\, native\, \n or foreign\n \n /- Contested Marks and Marks of Difference: /Stealing/transplanting \n landmarks\; marks of faith or creed\; religious practices\; the supernatural\; \n commerce\, currency\, credit\; ownership\; identity politics or marginalization\n \n \n [1] mailto:bwwc2012@colorado.edu\n [2] http://www.bwwc2012.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103386.field_date.0.12 SUMMARY:Trans-Media 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120607T081500Z DTEND:20120607T174500Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/trans-media-2012 LOCATION:The Stripe & The Vault\, University of Winchester Winchester\, HAM SO22 4NR \n United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Winchester%2C+SO22+4NR%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:*ONE DAY CONFERENCE & END OF YEAR SHOW*\, incorporating *‘/Pitch your \n Project’/\,  *School of Media and Film\, Faculty of Arts\, University of \n Winchester\, Hampshire\, UK\n \n *TRANS-MEDIA 2012* conference aims to promote and present the development and \n application of digital visualisation and technologies in media\, games\, apps\, \n assets and marketing research.\n \n Digital and social media are constantly diversifying in form and function at \n an accelerating rate. New forms of media engage with our personal and public \n world\, transforming our interaction with people\, nature\, spaces and \n information. We in turn transform media\; regurgitate it out to others with \n our own personal twist. We tamper with the technology that uses it\; we break \n it\, crack it\, and transform how it was meant to be used\, creating a new use\, \n a new form. We respond easily and quickly to requests of personal information \n that we would never have dreamt of doing\, we talk to strangers online and \n build virtual communities\, source anything we like and have 20 or 30 \n strangers let us know what they thought of it. Digital and social media have \n transformed how we interact with our environments and each other – this \n conference aims to explore how far and how much further.\n \n The School of Media and Film\, Faculty of Arts\, University of Winchester \n invites papers on the transformative power and nature of digital and social \n media.\n \n *Conference themes*\n \n Conference themes will particularly include new and emerging technologies \n and applications\, including but not limited to:\n \n * Transforming Media:*\n \n * /Visualising Ideas and Concepts/\n * /Games and Media /\n * /Transforming Media/\n \n *Transforming Market Research:*\n \n * /Social Media Marketing/\n * /The Creative Audience/\n * /User Engagement/\n \n  \n \n *Keynote Speakers: *\n \n * *Orlando Woods\, MD Brainjuicer Labs (confirmed)*\n * *Gina Fegan\, CEO D-Media & SEMN (tbc)*\n \n  \n \n *TRANS-MEDIA 2012 *incorporates the Digital Media End of Year Show for each \n year group of BA Digital Media Design and BSc Digital Media Development. Our \n new programme ‘Masters in Digital Media Practice’ student work will also \n be exhibited.\n \n *TRANS-MEDIA 2012 *also kicks off a new element to the End of Year Show. This \n is ‘Pitch your Project’ where students will be able to pitch their \n business idea to a panel of judges throughout the day.\n \n  \n \n *Registration Information*\n \n Register by the 10th May 2012. Booking form available on www.transmedia.co.uk \n [1]\n \n *Registration Fees: *\n \n The registration fee includes: attendance\, lunch and one copy of the \n conference proceedings. Prices are per person.\n \n Delegate   £20.00\,  Speaker    £10.00\,   Student   £   5.00\,  \n Trade Stand   £40.00\n \n *Cancellation Policy*\n \n Please note that payment for this event is non-refundable after the 30th May \n 2012. The University of Winchester reserves the right to cancel any event. In \n this case the full fee will be refunded. Details of event changes or \n cancellations are available on www.transmedia11.co.uk [2].\n \n \n [1] http://www.transmedia.co.uk/\n [2] http://www.transmedia11.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103894.field_date.0.13 SUMMARY:Lex-ICON Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120607T180000Z DTEND:20120610T200000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/lex-icon-conference-httplex-icon21blogspotfr-mulhouse-basel-june-7-10th-2012 LOCATION:Université de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse-Basel France DESCRIPTION:Lex-ICON : Treating image as text & text as image END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103637.field_date.0.14 SUMMARY:Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120613T130000Z DTEND:20120615T220000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/gameslearningsociety-conference-80 LOCATION:Memorial Union\, University of Wisconsin-Madison 800 Langdon St. Madison\, WI \n 53706 United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=800+Langdon+St.%2C+Madison%2C+WI%2C+53706%2C+us DESCRIPTION:The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and \n learning. Now in its eighth year\, this grassroots “indie” event is \n evolving to include more innovative content formats and new programming. The \n GLS Conference is one of the few destinations where the people who create \n high-quality digital learning media can gather for serious discussion about \n what is happening in the field and how the field can serve the public \n interest. Our event is well known for its exceptionally high quality of \n content yet “community event” feel. Each year\, we foster in-depth \n conversation and social networking across diverse disciplines including game \n studies\, education research\, learning sciences\, industry\, government\, \n educational practice\, media design\, and business. Our continued commitment is \n to reinvent learning both in and out of formal school environments through \n the promise of games and simulations.\n \n Conference highlights include: keynotes by leaders in both academics and \n industry\; interactive workshops on game research and game design\; both \n individual and symposia presentation sessions\; big debates about critical \n aspects of gaming and game design\; hands‐on game play in the arcade\; the \n “hall of failure”\; a massively multi-player evening poster session over \n cocktails & hors d’oeuvres\; fireside chats that enable cozy conversations \n among VIP speakers and attendees\; and the GLS Games and Art Exhibition. A new \n session type offered this year will be the Educational Game Arcade\, which \n will offer a space for conference attendees to play the games created by \n members of our community. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103714.field_date.0.15 SUMMARY:Virtual Visitors: why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum \n Collections online? DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120614Z DTEND:20120614Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/virtual-visitors-why-would-anyone-want-visit-virtual-british-museum-collections-online LOCATION:The British Museum United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n During June 2012\, UCL’s free\, public Lunch Hour Lectures will be uprooted \n from their usual residence at UCL and go on tour to The British Museum. This \n summer series of four Lunch Hour Lectures will feature UCL’s leading \n academics with introductions by British Museum curators.\n \n  \n \n I’m hoping that one of the lectures by Dr Melissa Terras of the UCL Centre \n for Digital Humanities entitled Virtual Visitors: why would anyone want to \n visit the British Museum Collections online? will be of interest to you\, your \n colleagues and associates.\n \n  \n \n Thursday 14 June\n \n Virtual Visitors: why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum \n Collections online?\n \n Dr Melissa Terras (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities)\n \n Launched in October 2007\, the British Museum provides virtual access to \n objects and collections via an online database\, and by the end of 2009 nearly \n 2 million records had been made available.  However\, why would anyone want \n to view a collection online rather than in person\, and what would they use it \n for? This Lunch Hour Lecture\, by Dr Terras\, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre \n for Digital Humanities\, will discuss what is known about the use of this \n virtual online resource\, and if indeed it is even used.  This talk will also \n present analysis undertaken by UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities in \n conjunction with Claire Ross and Vera Motyckova and colleagues at the British \n Museum.\n \n  \n \n This lecture can also be viewed live online at www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed [1]\n \n  \n \n If you would like some flyers with information about the lecture series\, do \n let me know.\n \n To find out more and to book tickets online\, visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour \n [2]\n \n  \n \n [1] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed\n [2] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlontour END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101856.field_date.0.16 SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies\, \n Princeton\, June 17–23\, 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120617T120000Z DTEND:20120623T160000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/call-applications-princeton-weimar-summer-school-media-studies-princeton-june-17%E2%80%9323-2012 DESCRIPTION:*/Spaces of Media/\n Second Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies\, Princeton\, June \n 17–23\, 2012*\n \n Exploring the “Spaces of Media\,” the second international \n Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies — a co-operation between \n the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für \n Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie\, IKKM) and Princeton University \n (Department of German) — will be held in the United States for the first \n time.\n \n The one-week program will take place on the campus of Princeton University \n from June 17–23\, 2012 and will be directed by Bernhard Siegert (Weimar) and \n Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton).\n \n The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies is open to advanced \n students and doctoral candidates of media studies and related fields (e.g. \n film studies\, the philologies\, philosophy\, art history\, sociology\, politics\, \n the history of science\, visual culture\, architecture\, etc.).\n \n Coordinators: Christoph Engemann l Laura Frahm (Weimar) l Mladen Gladic \n (Princeton)\n \n Please submit all inquires to ssms@princeton.edu [1]\n \n *About the Summer School*\n \n The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies provides advanced \n training in the study of media and cultural techniques. Focusing on one \n special topic annually\, the sessions will not only give participants the \n oppor- tunity to work with distinguished experts\, but will also provide a \n platform for participants to engage in dialogue with others working in \n similar or related fields. In addition to seminar sessions\, workshops\, and \n lectures\, the summer school program offers the chance for extended \n consultation with a number of internationally renowned scholars from all \n fields of media studies.\n \n The directors of the summer school will lead five seminars. Furthermore\, \n additional sessions led by the summer school faculty on particular aspects of \n the annual topic will give plenty of opportunities for interaction and par- \n ticipation. A series of evening events such as lectures and film screenings \n will further develop and delve into the theme of the summer school.\n \n Bernhard Siegert (Weimar) and Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton) will be this \n year‘s directors of the summer school.\n \n This year’s faculty will include Jimena Canales (Harvard)\, Thomas Levin \n (Princeton)\, Emily Thompson (Princeton)\, Devin Fore (Princeton)\, Anna \n Tuschling (Bochum)\, Ben Kafka (New York)\, Joel Lande (Princeton/ Chicago)\, \n Laura Frahm (Weimar)\, Christoph Engemann (Weimar)\, and Mladen Gladic \n (Princeton).\n \n A reader with texts and material for the seminars will be provided. The \n working language is English.\n \n *Annual Topic 2012: “Spaces of Media”*\n \n The 2012 Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies will focus on the \n complex intersections of media and space. Media Studies started with Harold \n A. Innis’ exploration of the role of media in shaping the cultural and \n political spaces of societies. Yet the question of how to understand the ways \n in which spaces\, localities\, and modes of navigation in such domains are all \n generated by media remains an urgent challenge for today’s Media Studies.\n \n How much do we know about the history of navigation and its technologies and \n techniques\, from maps and compasses to the latest GPS devices\, and how are we \n to understand the ways of navigating by and within files\, books\, and writing? \n Do we fully understand the ways in which the spatiality of the diagrammatic \n contributes to the operations of the signifier\, whether in the production of \n meaning or in the production of economic values\, or administrative control? \n Do we have an adequate grasp on the way in which media of distribution and \n circulation effect the constitution and control of geographic spaces? And do \n we still believe in media utopias\, according to which space has been \n successfully annihilated as an insignificant factor thanks to high \n transmission speeds and minimal transaction costs?\n \n The 2012 Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies takes its cues from \n these questions. Some of the topics that will receive particular focus during \n the week-long series of intensive seminars\, lectures and workshops include\, \n but are not limited to\, the following:\n \n * Media practices such as like note-taking\, mapping\, bookkeeping\, and filing\n with regard to their consequences for the access to\, and control of\,\n economic\, commercial\, colonial\, or imperial spaces\;\n * Historical case studies concerning different media formations\, e.g. the\n Roman Imperium and its flows of command\, the European postal sys- tem\, and\n the German Democratic Republic as a self-contained national territory\;\n * The production of architectural space by doors and windows\, corridors\,\n lifts\, and other devices\, and the hybridization of these spaces in the\n electronic and digital ages\;\n * The connection between of media\, media research and media utopia\, which\n tends to negate the specificity of space as a mere resistance to\n communication and commerce in favor of its overcoming\;\n * Political and juridical spaces such as the territory of the state or the\n space of international law was based on the distinction between land and\n sea for centuries. The sea is not only the space of what is ex- cluded\n from the orders of state and law\, and their institutions\, it is also the\n space of the “othering” of the self and of its re-invention\;\n * Categories such as nation\, homeland\, countryside\, and the metropolis that\n provide both orientation as well as an imagination of rootedness and\n identity\, are central realities of media. Theoretical and literary approa-\n ches to reframe these media spaces in terms of a global village (Marshall\n McLuhan)\, the cyberspace (William Gibson)\, a world society (Niklas\n Luhmann)\, or of imagined communities (Benedict Anderson) will be in-\n terrogated as powerful narratives that heavily influence actual politics.\n \n *How to Apply*\n \n All applications to the Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies \n should be submitted electronically as PDF file including:\n \n 1) Letter of Intent\, indicating academic experience and interest in the\n summer school’s annual topic (max. 300 words)\n 2) Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages)\n 3) Writing Sample (max. 20 pages\, double spaced\, with standard margins\; e.g.\n published article or seminar paper)\n 4) Contact information of two potential references\n \n Please label your PDF files as follows: Lastname_Letter_of_Intent.pdf\, \n Lastname_Curriculum_Vitae.pdf\, Lastname_Writing_Sample.pdf\n \n Please submit your application material no later than December 5\, 2011 to:\n \n ssms@princeton.edu\n \n Successful applicants will be notified in the first week of January 2012.\n \n Successful applicants are required to transfer a participation fee of $750 \n (not reducible) no later than February 29\, 2012.\n \n The fee covers tuition\, full accommodation\, meals\, and study material during \n the week of the summer school.\n \n A limited amount of travel funding will be available upon application.\n \n \n [1] mailto:ssms@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103890.field_date.0.17 SUMMARY:Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College (Application \n Deadline May 18th) DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120618Z DTEND:20120625Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/futures-american-studies-institute-dartmouth-college-application-deadline-may-18th LOCATION:Dartmouth College United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:Dartmouth College announces a One Week Summer Institute\n States of American Studies\n \n Monday\, June 18 - Sunday\, June 24\, 2012\n Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)\n Co-Directors: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College)\, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon \n (Northeastern University)\, J. Martin Favor (Dartmouth College)\, Winfried \n Fluck (Freie Universität\, Berlin)\, Eric W. Lott (University of Virginia)\n \n Institute Faculty:\n \n Rachel Adams (Columbia University)\, Susan Z. Andrade (University of \n Pittsburgh)\, Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh)\, Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth \n College)\, Barrymore Anthony Bogues (Brown University)\, Hamilton Carroll \n (University of Leeds)\, Eva Cherniavsky (University of Washington)\, Andrew \n Doolen (University of Kentucky)\, Soyica Diggs Colbert (Dartmouth College)\, \n Danuta Fjellestad (Uppsala Universitet)\, Nancy Fraser (New School)\, Dilip \n Gaonkar (Northwestern University)\, Donatella Izzo (Università degli studi di \n Napoli “L'Orientale\,”)\, Josh Kun (University of Southern California)\, \n Annie McClanahan (University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee)\, Günter Lenz (Humboldt \n Universität). Paula Moya (Stanford University)\, Alan Nadel (University of \n Kentucky)\, Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford)\, Sangeeta Ray (University of \n Maryland\, College Park)\, John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern \n California)\, José David Saldívar (Stanford University)\, Ramón Saldívar\, \n (Stanford University)\, Shirley Samuels (Cornell University)\, Hortense \n Spillers (Vanderbilt University)\, Johannes Völz (Goethe-Universität)\, \n Michael Warner (Yale University)\, Robyn Wiegman (Duke University)\n \n Description:\n \n The sixteenth year of the Institute is the third of a four-year focus on \n "State(s) of American Studies." The term "state(s)" in the title is intended \n to refer at once to the "state" as an object of analysis\, to the state as an \n imagined addressee and interlocutor for Americanist scholarship\, as well as \n to the reconfigured state(s) of the fields and areas of inquiry in American \n Studies both inside and outside the United States. As such\, we are inviting \n both scholars well known as "Americanists" internationally and those whose \n theoretical frameworks\, objects of study\, and disciplinary inclinations \n promise to transform the field's self-understanding.\n \n The Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature current work from \n Institute faculty (listed above) and research seminars in which all \n participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the \n plenary sessions will examine the relation between emergent and residual \n practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of \n interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are \n involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are \n interested in current critical debates in American Studies.\n \n The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that \n brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of \n influential scholars. Over the past ten years\, plenary speakers have \n recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university \n presses within the field of American Studies\, and have provided participants \n with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.\n \n Fee: The fee for the Institute (covering registration\, housing\, and seminars) \n is $695.00. The fee to attend only the Institute plenary sessions is $500.\n \n Applications: Applications for the 2012 Institute will be accepted until all \n slots have been filled\, but applications received by May 18\, 2012 will be \n granted priority. Applicants should send a brief description of their own \n projects (no more than 1 page) along with a current CV\, a writing sample \n (10-15 pages) and a $10 application fee (please make checks payable to \n “Dartmouth College”).\n \n Applications should be mailed to:\n Alexander Corey\n The Futures of American Studies Institute\n Dartmouth College\n 116 Wentworth Hall\n Hanover\, NH 03755. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101009.field_date.0.18 SUMMARY:ELO 2012 Electrifying Literature DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120620Z DTEND:20120623Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/elo-2012-electrifying-literature LOCATION:Morgantown\, WV United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Morgantown%2C+WV%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Conference\n \n http://el.eliterature.org [1] and http://conference.eliterature.org [2]\n \n \n [1] http://el.eliterature.org/\n [2] http://conference.eliterature.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101764.field_date.0.19 SUMMARY:Electronic Literature Organization 2012 Conference and Media Art Exhibit DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120620T070000Z DTEND:20120623T070000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/electronic-literature-organization-2012-conference-and-media-art-exhibit LOCATION:West Virginia University Morgantown\, WV United States See map: Google Maps \n [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Morgantown%2C+WV%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n The 2012 Electronic Literature Organization [1] Conference will be held \n June 20-23\, 2012 in Morgantown\, WV\, the site of West Virginia University. In \n conjunction with the three-day conference\, there will be a juried Media Arts \n Show open to the public at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown and \n running from June 18-30\, 2012. An accompanying online exhibit will bring \n works from the ELO Conference to a wider audience.\n \n .... Submission deadline for proposals: November\, 30\, 2011\n \n .... Notification of acceptance: December 30\, 2011\n \n We invite titles and proposals of no more than 500 words\, including a brief \n description of the content and format of the presentation\, and contact \n information for the presenter(s). Send proposals to elit2012 [at] gmail.com\, \n using plain text format in the email\, or attached as Word or PDF. All \n proposals will receive peer-to-peer review by the ELO and will be considered \n on their own terms. Non-traditional and traditional formats will be subject \n to the same peer-to-peer review process.\n \n .... Conference Planning Committee\n \n Sandy Baldwin\, West Virginia University (Chair)\n \n Philippe Bootz\, University of Paris 8\n \n Dene Grigar\, Washington State University Vancouver\n \n Margie Luesebrink\, Irvine Valley College\n \n Mark Marino\, University of Southern California\n \n Talan Memmott\, Blekinge Institute of Technology\n \n Stuart Moulthrop\, University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\n \n Joseph Tabbi\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\n \n  \n \n  \n \n .... Electronic Literature: Where is It?\n \n Even if nobody could define print literature\, everyone knew where to look for \n it - in libraries and bookshops\, at readings\, in class\, or on the Masterpiece \n channel. We have not yet created\, however\, a consensus about where to find \n electronic literature\, or (for that matter) the location of the literary in \n an emerging digital aesthetic.\n \n Though we do have\, in digital media\, works that identify themselves as \n "locative\," we don't really know where to look for e-lit\, how it should be \n tagged and distributed\, and whether or how it should be taught. Is born \n digital writing likely to reside\, for example\, in conventional literature \n programs? in Rhetoric? Comp? Creative Writing? Can new media literature be \n remediated? How should its conditions of creation be described? Do those \n descriptions become our primary texts when the works themselves become \n unavailable through technological obsolescence?\n \n To forward our thinking about the institutional and technological location of \n current literary writing\, the Electronic Literature Organization [2] and \n West Virginia University'sCenter for Literary Computing [3] invite \n submissions to the ELO 2012 Conference to be held from June 20-23\, 2012\, in \n Morgantown\, West Virginia.\n \n Bearing in mind the changing locations of new media literature and literary \n cultures\, the conference organizers welcome unconventional presentations\, \n whether in print or digital media. The point is not to reject the \n conventional conference 'paper' or bullet point presentation but to encourage \n thoughtful exploration and justification of any format employed. All elements \n of literary description and presentation are up for reconsideration. The \n modest mechanisms of course descriptions\, syllabus construction\, genre \n identification\, and the composition of author bios\, could well offer maps \n toward the location of the literary in digital media. So can an annotated \n bibliography of works falling under a given genre or within a certain \n technological context. We welcome surveys of the use of tags and keywords\, \n and how these can be recognized (or not) by readers\, libraries\, or other \n necessary nodes in an emerging literary network  Also of interest is the \n current proliferation of directories of electronic literature in multiple \n media\, languages\, and geographical locations.\n \n The cost of the conference is $150\; graduate students and non-affiliated \n artists pay only $100. The cost covers receptions\, meals\, and other \n conference events. All participants must be members of the Electronic \n Literature Organization [4]. All events are within walking distance of the \n conference hotels. Morgantown is a classic college town\, located in the \n scenic hills of north central West Virginia\, about 70 miles south of \n Pittsburgh\, PA. Local hotel and travel information will be available on the \n conference website starting October 1\, 2011.\n \n Check http://el.eliterature.org [5] and http://conference.eliterature.org \n [6] for updates. For more information\, email elit2012 [at] gmail.com.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n .... In conjunction with the Electronic Literature Organization [7] 2012\n Conference\, a juried Media Arts Gallery Exhibit will be held from\n Wednesday\, June 13 - Saturday\, June 23\, 2012 at The Monongalia Arts\n Center [8].\n \n In particular\, we are looking for works such as:\n \n 1.    Electronic literary works\, such as hypertext poetry and fiction\, \n interactive fiction\, flash poetry and fiction\, as well as other forms of elit\n \n 2.    Net art pieces\n \n 3.    Video\n \n 4.    Animations\n \n 5.    Sonic art\n \n 6.    Experimental or conceptual multimedia works\n \n 7.    Locative Works\n \n We are asking for works that can be experienced within a length of time not \n exceeding 20 minutes.  Because of the limitation of space\, all works must be \n able to be exhibited via a computer\, mobile phone\, or tablet.  We will not \n be able to accommodate live performances or installations.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n .... Submission deadline for proposals: November\, 30\, 2011\n \n .... Notification of acceptance: February 15\, 2012\n \n There are two methods of submissions:\n  \n \n CDs or DVDs should be mailed to: Dr. Dene Grigar\, The Creative Media & \n Digital Culture Program\, Washington State University Vancouver\, 14204 NE \n Salmon Creek Ave.\, Vancouver\, WA  98686.  \n \n URLs for websites should be emailed to Dr. Dene Grigar\, dgrigar@mac.com [9].\n \n Please do not email work.  No work will be considered if it arrives via \n email.  Work not selected for the show will be mailed back to artists.\n \n For more information\, contact Dr. Dene Grigar\, dgrigar@mac.com [10]\, \n 360-546-9487.\n \n \n [1] http://eliterature.org/\n [2] http://eliterature.org/\n [3] http://clc.wvu.edu/\n [4] http://eliterature.org/\n [5] http://el.eliterature.org/\n [6] http://conference.eliterature.org/\n [7] http://eliterature.org/\n [8] http://www.monartscenter.com/\n [9] mailto:dgrigar@mac.com\n [10] mailto:dgrigar@mac.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103583.field_date.0.20 SUMMARY:Supersonix Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120621T090000Z DTEND:20120623T195400Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/supersonix-conference LOCATION:RGS\, Science Museum\, V&A\, Natural History Museum\, Imperial College London \n Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=Cromwell+Road%2C+London%2C+SW7+5BD%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n The /Supersonix Conference /is an international exploration of the art and \n science of sound – in the Exhibition Road cultural quarter of London.\n \n The conference\, 20-23 June 2012\, is a partnership between the Society for \n Literature\, Science and the Arts Europe (SLSA EU) and the Exhibition Road \n Cultural Group. It will bring together artists\, scientists and academics for \n lectures and workshops\, experiments and performances.Supersonix will \n explore the subject of sound through a multidisciplinary approach.\n \n  \n \n Themes:\n \n * Sound and Body\n * Sound and Space\n * Sound and Voice\n * Sound\, Noise and History\n * Listening\n \n  \n \n We are very pleased to be able offer a range of internationally respected \n speakers who will talk about their significant contributions to the field of \n sound\, aural spaces\, listening and recording.\n \n Keynote speakers include scientist and engineer Sarah Angliss\, audio engineer \n and author Barry Blesser\, artist Rebecca Horn with musician and composer \n Hayden Chisholm\, David McAlpine (Ear Institute University College London)\, \n musicologist Louis Niebur\, neuroscientist Sophie Scott\, media historian \n Jonathan Sterne and artist-curator David Toop\, alongside presenters and \n panellists who continue to reshape the field of sound practices and research \n into sound.\n \n We are also very proud to be able to present live sound performances by Mira \n Calix\, Kaffe Matthews and Jana Winderen at the Science Museum\, as part of the \n conference.\n \n  \n \n   END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102440.field_date.0.21 SUMMARY:Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120625Z DTEND:20120626Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/african-studies-digital-age LOCATION:Rothermere American Institute 1a South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UB United \n Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=1a+South+Parks+Road%2C+Oxford%2C+OX1+3UB%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference\n \n www.scolma.org [1]\n \n June 25-26 2012\n \n Rothermere American Institute\, Oxford\n \n Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age\n \n Provisional Programme\n \n (NB This programme is subject to change)\n \n Monday 25 June\n \n 9.00-10.00      Coffee and registration\n \n 10.00-11.00    Keynote: Dr John Darwin\, Beit University Lecturer in the \n History of the British Commonwealth\, Nuffield College\, Oxford\n 'Africa in Global History'\n \n 11.00-12.30    Panel 1\n \n Jos Damen\, African Studies Centre\, Leiden\n 'Who needs a paper library in Africa?'\n \n Jonathan Harle\, Association of Commonwealth Universities\n 'Understanding the research environments of African universities and their \n implications for the use of digital resources'\n \n Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace\, British Library\n 'African studies in the digital age: Challenges for research and national \n libraries'\n \n 12.30-1.30      Lunch\n \n 1.30-3.00        Panels 2 & 3 in parallel\n \n Panel 2\n \n Daniel A. Reboussin\, George A. Smathers Libraries\, University of Florida\n 'Library research behaviour in the digital environment: Implications for \n librarians'\n \n Brenda van Wyk\, UNIZULU Library Service\, University of Zululand\n 'Information and content management of institutional repositories in southern \n Africa: A comparative study'\n \n Pier Luigi Rossi\, Research Institute for Development (IRD)\, Bondy\n 'Log analysis and text mining on internet access to dissertations of the \n Dakar sports faculty (INSEPS)'\n \n Panel 3\n \n Chris Saunders\, University of Cape Town\, and Peter Limb\, Michigan State \n University\n 'Southern African history in the digital era'\n \n Angel David Nieves\, Hamilton College and Marla Jaksch\, The College of New \n Jersey\n 'Using digital history to narrate the liberation struggle in Tanzania and \n South Africa'\n \n Lucia Lovison-Golob\, Afriterra Foundation (tbc)\n The Integration of Historical Cartography into Present-Day Cartography: The \n Darfur Case'\n \n 3.00-3.30        Tea\n \n 3.30-5.00        Panels 4 & 5 in parallel\n \n Panel 4\n \n Simon Tanner\, King's College London\n 'The impact of digitisation in Africa'\n \n James Lowry\, International Records Management Trust\n 'Digitising colonial and post-independence government papers in Kenya'\n \n Edgar Taylor\, Ashley Rockenbach and Natalie Bond\, University of Michigan\n 'Archives and the past: Cataloging and digitization in Uganda's archives'\n \n Panel 5\n \n Kate Haines\, University of Sussex\n 'Dialogue\, text and memory: Social media and literary responses to the \n post-election violence in Kenya'\n \n Jenni Orme\, The National Archives (UK)\n 'Viewing "Africa through a lens": Using digitisation and online tools at The \n National Archives to widen audience reach'\n \n Thomas Sharp\, University of Manchester\n 'A counter-hegemonic archive? The revelation of hidden histories on the \n internet: a case study from Cameroon'\n \n 5.15                 Tour of Rhodes House\n \n 7.00                 SCOLMA Golden Jubilee conference dinner\n \n St Cross College\n \n Guest speaker: Professor John McIlwaine\, Emeritus Professor of the \n Bibliography of Asia and Africa\, University College London\n \n Tuesday 26 June\n \n 9.30-10.15      Keynote: Christine Kanyengo\, Deputy Librarian\, \n University of Zambia Library\n \n 10.15-10.45    Coffee\n \n 10.45-12.30    Panel 6\n \n Stephanie Newell\, University of Sussex\n 'From stacks to pixels: How archival preservation shapes (re)search methods \n in African news'\n \n John Pinfold\n '"Can you write a biography without papers?": Researching the life of African \n adventurer Herbert Rhodes'\n \n Diana Jeater\, University of the West of England\n 'Data\, data everywhere\, but not a byte to think: Use of digital resources in \n the HE Humanities sector in southern Africa'\n \n 12.30-2.00      Lunch and SCOLMA AGM\n \n 2.00-3.30        Panels 7 & 8 in parallel\n \n Panel 7\n \n Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook\, Melville J. Herskovits Library\, \n Northwestern University\n 'Digitization at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A \n consideration of processes and outcomes'\n \n Geoffrey Mukasa\, University Library\, Uganda Christian University Library\, \n Mukono  (tbc)\n 'Digital library information resources in Uganda'\n \n Guy Thomas\, Archives and Library\, Basel Mission\n 'Reconfiguring concepts of living archives through remote access'\n \n Panel 8\n \n Gabriela Redwine\, Harry Ransom Center\, University of Texas at Austin\n 'At home and abroad: Born-digital African literary archives in the digital \n age'\n \n Amidu Sanni\, Lagos State University  (tbc)\n 'The West African Arabic manuscript heritage: challenges of the digital \n revolution in a research economy'\n \n Korklu Laryea\, University Library\, University of Ghana  (tbc)\n 'Research pathways in African studies'\n \n Massimo Zaccaria\, University of Pavia\n 'Recovering the African printed past. The case of a dispersed collection and \n the attempt to virtually rejoin it: the Eritrean case'\n \n 3.30-4.00        Coffee\n \n 4.00-5.00        Plenary: Dis/connects: Building and maintaining \n digital libraries on Africa\n \n Led by Peter Limb\, Michigan State University\n \n For enquiries and bookings please contact the SCOLMA Secretary:\n \n Lucy McCann\, Archivist\, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African\n Studies\, Rhodes House\, South Parks Road\, Oxford\, OX1 3RG\n Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270908    Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk [2]\n \n \n [1] http://www.scolma.org/\n [2] mailto:lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101365.field_date.0.22 SUMMARY:Digital Crossroads: Media\, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational \n Perspective DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120628Z DTEND:20120630Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/digital-crossroads-media-migration-and-diaspora-transnational-perspective LOCATION:Utrecht University Utrecht Netherlands See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.nl?q=%2C+Utrecht%2C+%2C+nl DESCRIPTION:28-30 June\, 2012\n Utrecht University\, the Netherlands\n \n Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce\, media\, \n national policies\, and consumer fantasies\, ethnicity\, once a genie contained \n in the bottle of some sort of locality (however large)\, has now become a \n global force\, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and \n borders - Appadurai 1996\, p. 41\, Modernity at Large\n \n \n *Conference website:* http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl [1].\n *Deadline for abstract submission and panel proposals: *January 10\, 2012\n *Conference chair:* Sandra Ponzanesi\n *Conference coordinator:* Fadi Hirzalla\n *Keynote speakers:*\n Shakuntala Banaji\n London School of Economics and Political Science\, UK\n Kirsten Drotner\n University of Southern Denmark\, Denmark\n Radhika Gajjala\n Bowling Green State University\, USA\n Eva Lam\n University of Northwestern\, USA\n Lisa Nakamura\n University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, USA\n Liesbet van Zoonen\n Loughborough University\, UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam\, the Netherlands\n The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways \n of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover\, the \n notion of migration has undergone significant shifts\, coming to signify \n imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical \n displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship \n between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and \n ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that \n also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. \n However\, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need \n of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the \n humanities and social sciences (media theory\, communication studies\, learning \n sciences\, gender studies\, cultural studies\, postcolonial theory\, migration \n and transnational studies\, among others)\, the primary aim of this conference \n is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges \n existing notions of diaspora\, identity\, nation\, family\, learning\, literacy\, \n social networks\, youth\, body\, gender and ethnicity\, asking for new approaches \n and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories.\n The conference will consider the following questions\, among others: How has \n the development of new digital technologies changed the experience of \n migration? Conversely\, how has the reality of migration impacted on the use\, \n development and distribution of new media technologies? How does the use of \n media differ among different migrant generations? How does media literacy \n impact on issues of integration and socialization in a hosting country? What \n are the differences in media access\, diffusion and use among different \n migrant communities across the world? How are race\, gender\, age\, class\, \n ethnicity and other markers of identity recodified online? How are \n transnational relationships and resources arrayed in networks? How do ideas \n and practices move across these networks? How is the notion of home or \n community\, which is no longer locatable with a "here" and "there" \n reconceptualised through digital diasporas? How do these developments impact \n on the spaces for learning and education\, which are no longer limited to \n place-based classrooms and curricula? How can learning processes and networks \n be conceptualised when these networks expand larger geographical distances\, \n and multiple communities are crossed? What resources of identity do migrants \n draw on and how are these resources hybridized in practice\, and related to \n their learning and socialization processes? In short\, how are digital \n crossroads created\, distributed and experienced in the context of migration\, \n diaspora and transnationalism?\n The conference will explore three inter-related strands of the relationships \n between media and migration:\n *Identity and diaspora (Strand 1)*\n - identity and performativity\n - gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion and online communities\n - digital borders\, digital diasporas\n - imagined communities\, transnationalism and mobility\n - digital divides (generational\, access\, skills\, user-generated content)\n - cultural industry\, participatory culture and social media\n *Migrant networks (Strand 2)*\n - mediated spatialities\n - relations between online and offline worlds\n - affinity networks and intimacy\n - media literacy and migration\n - comparative perspectives on digital media practices\n *Learning in a globalized world (Strand 3)*\n - informal learning in the digital space\n - network approaches to learning\n - immigrant learning\n - globalization and learning\n - learning & identity\n - socialization in transnational families\n For more information or questions please send an e-mail to \n info@digitalcrossroads.nl [2].\n The conference comes at the end of a five-year High Potential project\, \n entitled "Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for \n migrant youth"\, carried out by the Faculty of Humanities (project leader Dr. \n Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Prof. \n Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vanderbilt \n University\, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander\, Peabody College for Education). The \n project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimulate \n interdisciplinary research. See http://www.uu.nl/wiredup [3].\n Organization Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi: conference chair\n Dr. Fadi Hirzalla: conference coordinator\n Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan: scientific committee\n Dr. Kevin Leander: scientific committee\n Dr. Fleur Prinsen: conference committee\n Dr. Lisa Schwartz: conference committe\n Koen Leurs\, MA: conference committee\n Asli Ünlosoy\, MSC: conference committee\n \n \n [1] http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl\n [2] mailto:info@digitalcrossroads.nl\n [3] http://www.uu.nl/wiredup END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101658.field_date.0.23 SUMMARY:8th Global Conference: Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children (July \n 2012\, Oxford: United Kingdom) DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120629T113000Z DTEND:20120701T173000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/8th-global-conference-creative-engagements-thinking-children-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:8th Global Conference\n Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children\n \n Friday 29th June 2012 – Sunday 1st July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n The eighth meeting of this global research project seeks explore the concept \n of genuine ‘engagement’ within the overarching framework of \n ‘creativity’. Recognizing the many facets of ‘creative engagement’ \n and the ideals and ideas associated with children\, childhood and learning\, \n this project is grounded in an inter-disciplinary perspective and research. \n Some of the broader areas of reference have been\, and continue to be \n historical and contemporary representations of childhood\, the complex issues \n surrounding the notion and practices of creative engagement in the context of \n pedagogy and the curriculum\, changing technologies and frequently \n instrumental institutional imperatives and changes. More generally\, this \n project will also address the role of creativity in social interaction\, with \n particular reference to children’s development of life skills\, autonomy and \n independence in an increasingly complex and demanding world.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, reports and workshops are invited on any of the \n following five focus areas\;\n \n 1. The Creative Environmental Space\n ~ What spaces engender or inhibit creativity?\n ~What is the nature of the architecture of a creative space?\n ~From Theory to Practice: Case studies of creative spaces in actionWhat will \n the creative spaces of the future look like? ~Children’s views on creative \n spaces\n \n 2. The Creative ‘Inner’ Space\n ~What is the role of memory in creativity?\n ~How is the concept of creativity ‘framed’ in various disciplines?\n ~What are the origins of these forces and forms of thinking\, and links to \n creative thinking?\n ~What is the relationship between creativity and divergent thinking?\n ~How are these developed and nurtured?\n ~How do various disciplines understand these forms of thought\, and praxis?\n ~What are the similarities/differences in understanding between the related \n research disciplines?\n ~How can these be fostered in a world dominated by measurement\, outcomes and \n benchmarks?\n ~Children’s views on creativity.\n \n 3. Creativity\, Engagement and Education\n ~How do various disciplines define the concept of engagement?\n ~What is the nature of genuine learning\, genuine engagement with learning and \n their relationship to creativity?\n ~What is creativity in theory and practice? What is creative education? Can \n creative engagement be taught?\n ~Engaging with\, engagement for\, and for whom?\n ~What does engagement mean for teachers\, children and classroom practice?\n ~How does genuine engagement and creative learning relate to the architecture \n and physicality of the classroom environment?\n ~Creative engagement in the areas of planning\, resourcing\, organization\, \n management and assessment.\n ~Good practice\, classroom examples\, and effective strategies for promoting \n creativity within and across curriculum subjects.\n \n 4. Creativity\, Pedagogy and Curriculum\n ~Inter-disciplinary approaches to creative engagement in teaching and \n curricula.\n ~Historical and contemporary representations of childhood and adolescence: \n art\, film and literature.\n ~The future role of text\, the visual media as form of critical appraisal\, \n developing creativity and children’s engagement.\n ~Children\, creativity and visual literacy.\n ~Traditional literacies and creativity: what are they and how do they fit in \n the visual age?\n ~Assessing Cziksentmihaly’s work\, and in particular\, the notion of \n ‘flow’\; how this is understood by different disciplines.\n ~The role and nature multiple intelligences (re: Howard Gardner ) in \n developing creativity.\n ~Are there more intelligences than Gardner’s 7.5 – e.g. \n spiritual/existential intelligence\, and how do these ‘fit’ with \n creativity?\n ~Pedagogy\, curricular and extra-curricula approaches.\n ~Integrative case studies and examples of team based teaching.\n ~Creativity in a crowded curriculum.\n ~Education\, entertainment or edutainment\, and the ‘fit’ with creativity?\n ~Teachers\, creativity and professional development.\n ~How to assess\, analyze and describe creative practice?\n ~Institutions\, education and designing systems to develop children’s \n learning in the 21st century\n \n 5. Critical and Cultural Thinking and Children\n ~What is the optimal macro and micro-culture for developing creativity?\n ~What are the limits of cultural development for creativity?\n ~What are the enablers and inhibitors of creativity?\n ~What is critical thinking? Is it the same as critical literacy?\n ~What is the nature of engagement with critical thinking before school?\n ~Facilitating creativity: With what\, who and when?\n ~What is the role of the ’significant other’ in developing critical \n engagement at home and in school?\n ~What are the conditions that foster critical thinking at home and then in \n the school years?\n ~The  rise of the far right Christian education movement and the effect on \n critical thinking and engagement.\n ~Types of critical thinking and their relationship to creativity.\n ~Cultural contexts of critical thinking.\n ~What are the links between self-esteem and creativity?\n ~What is the nature of\, and links between teaching creatively and teaching \n for creativity?\n \n 6.Engagement\, Skills and Life Issues\n ~Emotion and links to creativity.\n ~Engaging in intercultural and human development education with children.\n ~The role of parents in developing or fostering creativity and engagement \n with life and learning.\n ~Engaging in intercultural and human development education with children.\n ~The nature of school as an enabler or inhibitor of creativity or engagement \n with learning as a whole.\n ~The idea of moral\, values and spiritual\, education as creative experiences.\n ~The role of play (in all forms) and the concept of creativity.\n ~Children creatively engaging each other: communication and cooperation\; \n problem solving\; play and social issues – ethnicity\, immigration etc.\n ~Creatively engaging the disabled.\n ~Exploring children’s needs\, wants\, wishes\, desires and hopes.\n ~The nature of natural learning theories.\n ~Developing antinomy and independence.\n ~Developing life skills\, social issues and education for citizenship.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by \n Friday11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: CE8 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not \n receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to \n look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs\n Phil Fitzsimmons\n Faculty of Education\n The University of Wollongong\n Australia\n Email: philfitz@uow.edu.au [1]\n \n Dr Rob Fisher\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: ce8@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface ’ series of research \n projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers \n may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for \n publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-en... \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-en... \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:philfitz@uow.edu.au\n [2] mailto:ce8@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-with-children/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-with-children/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101660.field_date.0.24 SUMMARY:5th Global Conference: Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120629T113000Z DTEND:20120701T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/5th-global-conference-diasporas-exploring-critical-issues-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:5th Global Conference Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues Friday 29th June \n 2012 – Sunday 1st July 2012 Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom Call \n for Papers: This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the \n contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of \n themselves as a national\, ethnic\, linguistic or other form of cultural and \n political construction of collective membership living outside of their \n ‘home lands.’ Diaspora is a concept which is far from being definitional. \n Despite problems and limitations in terminology\, this notion may be defined \n with issues attached to it for a more complete understanding. Such a term \n which may have its roots in Greek\, is used customarily to apply to a \n historical phenomenon that has now passed to a period that usually supposes \n that Di­asporas are those who are settled forever in a country other from \n where they were born and thus this term has lost its dimension of \n irreversibility and of exile. In order to increase our understanding of \n Diasporas and their impact on both the receiving countries and their \n respective homes left behind\, key issues will be addressed related to \n Diaspora cultural expression and interests. In addition\, the conference will \n address the questions: Do Diasporas continue to exist? Is the global economy\, \n media and policies sending different messages about diaspora to future \n generations? Papers\, workshops\, presentations and pre-formed panels are \n invited on any of the following themes: 1. Movies and Diasporas The presence \n and impact of displaced / globalized populations of audiences\, spectators and \n producers of new mainstream /Hollywood /Bollywood cinema are crucial to the \n emergence of this post-diasporic cinema\, as these narratives from texts to \n screen constitute a fundamental challenge for the negotiation of complex \n diasporic issues 2. Motivational Factors for Research into Diaspora Factors \n are numerous including most prominently\, artistic and musical creations\, \n intellectual outputs\, and specific religious practices and which have made a \n significant international impact. 3. Myths and Symbols: how to meet\, and get \n to know each other through the use of créative lenses Diasporas group\, \n re-group and their group myths and symbols change accordingly. Or Diasporas \n remain dominated\, their myths and symbols mirror (or rebel) their domination. \n This manifestation could take in linguistic\, artistic and other creative \n forms…right down to graffiti to propaganda. The effects of Diaspora through \n a creative lens\, as often this is where the true effects of migration and \n cultural adjustment expose themselves in a personal and celebratory way. \n These could include: * Creative Expression as a result of shifting and \n integrating cultures. Cross cultural and cross disciplinary practices / cross \n cultural collaboration / representing the self and the nation / connecting \n history to the future / third space practice * Shifting Art Practices and how \n traditional folk based art forms (art / music / literature / dance) can \n accommodate and represent modern diasporic communities in flux * New \n Languages that represent broken boundaries such as graffiti / rap / \n interactive & web based art forms / global design aesthetics / symbolism / \n sound & vision / poetry and text / Esperanto 4. Public\, Private and Virtual \n Spaces of Diaspora The controversial meaning of private/public spaces remain \n fundamental arenas in the re/construction of gendered identities in an \n in-between space as a Diaspora context nurtures challenges to traditional \n socio-cultural behaviors. Virtual Diasporas – This questions a range of pre \n conceived notions about physicality\, actuality and place (which in turn open \n up the discussions around ownership\, representation and nation). Virtual \n diasporas are not limited to the arts of course but the shifts toward new \n technologies within art and design production are highlighting such issues \n through various forms of creativity and the critique that surrounds it. We \n anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to those \n working/researching in philosophy\, education\, ethics\, cinematic / literature\, \n politics\, sociology\, history\, architecture\, photography\, geography\, \n globalization\, international relations\, refugee studies\, migration studies\, \n urban studies and cultural studies. 5. Novel ways to think about Diaspora due \n to globalization In the new global world in which cultures act simultaneously \n how should we be thinking about Diaspora? Some pertinent questions in this \n area that the conference is interested in addressing are: What are some of \n the ways to identity and define the subject in changing political boundaries \n where cultural interactions are amplified? What are the processes of social \n formation and reformation of? Diasporas that is unique to a global age? How \n do an intensified migration age that is coupled with broader and more \n flexible terrains of social structures can give Diaspora communities a window \n of opportunity to redefine their social position in both the country of \n origin and the host country? How does immigration in an age where the media \n and the internet are highly accessible\, bring individuals to deal with \n multiple levels of traditions and cultures? What new cross-’ethnoscapes’ \n and cross-’ideoscapes’ are emerging in? In what new methods can we \n capture the web of forces that influences Diasporas at the same time? Other \n aspects of Diaspora that we are interested in having discussions about are: * \n Economics of diaspora * Gendered diasporas * Queer diasporas ‘flexible \n citizenship’ * Contested diasporic identities * Invisible diasporas * \n Emerging and changing patterns – is there an ‘American diaspora’ in \n China? In Dubai? Etc. * Stateless or homeless diasporas – diasporas of no \n return * Guest workers as diasporans? * Diasporas created by shifting state \n boundaries * Internal (intranational diasporas) – for example\, First \n Nations or Indigenous/Native migration into urban areas * Diasporans by \n adoption or ‘diasporans-in-law’ (partners of diasporans adopted into \n diasporic communities\, extended diasporas through family relations\, etc.) * \n Overlapping diasporas\, entanglement * Competing claims or multiple claims on \n diasporans Inter-diasporan or multi-diasporan realities The Steering Group \n particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers \n will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th May 2012. \n Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; \n abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following \n information and in this order: a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email \n address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords. \n E-mails should be entitled: DIAS5 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text \n (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting\, \n characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). Please note that \n a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Dr S. Ram Vemuri School of Law \n and Business Faculty of Law\, Business and Arts Charles Darwin University \n Darwin NT0909 Australia Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au [1] Rob Fisher Network \n Founder and Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United \n Kingdom Email: dias5@inter-disciplinary.net [2] The conference is part of the \n ‘Diversity and Recognition’ series of research projects\, which in turn \n belong to the At the Interface programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring \n together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore \n various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted \n for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. \n Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page \n chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume. For \n further details of the project\, please visit: \n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition... \n [3] For further details of the conference\, please visit: \n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition... \n [4] Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we \n are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or \n subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au\n [2] mailto:dias5@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101662.field_date.0.25 SUMMARY:11th Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120703T113000Z DTEND:20120705T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/11th-global-conference-environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship-july-2012-oxford-united-k LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 11th Global Conference\n Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship\n \n Tuesday 3rd July 2012 – Thursday 5th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n \n Communities seeking environmental justice\n \n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the \n role of environmental thinking in the context of contemporary society and \n international affairs\, and assess the implications for our understandings of \n fairness\, justice and global citizenship. ‘Environmental justice’ is \n conceived broadly as reflecting not only justice in the context of human \n communities but also towards other species\, ecosystems\, habitats\, landscapes\, \n succeeding generations and the environment as a whole. ‘Global \n citizenship’ is understood as an awareness of individual’s relative \n responsibilities in the global context.\n \n Within this framework the 11th Conference of Environmental Justice and Global \n Citizenship will explore realizations of communities seeking environmental \n justice\, relations between these communities and the institutions and \n practices through which environmental justice is sought and attained.  \n Contributions are called for that explore the interconnectedness of people \n and the environment\, nature and natural-resource use\, and which analyse the \n challenges such interconnectedness involves. In particular\, papers are sought \n which investigate and question the inter-relationships between human and \n non-human interactions over time and the way decisions are made in \n environmental-developmental contexts. In addition\, the conference provides \n the opportunity to illustrate circumstances in which environmental justice \n has been advanced and draw out the key lessons learned. In this way the case \n studies can point the way forward to assist in attaining environmental \n justice in other situations.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, reports and workshops are invited on any of the \n following indicative themes:\n \n     * The role of community in environmental justice: how various \n conceptions of communities are seeking environmental justice.\n     * Pathways to more sustainable societies: the realization of \n environmental justice\; recognizing and building capacity for ‘wise’ \n decisions.\n     * Victims of environmental injustices: people displaced by \n environmental disruptions\; the impact of multinationals on indigenous people \n and minorities.\n     * New concepts for new environmental justice: Mother Earth’s rights\; \n rights of the nature\; constitutional rights to a healthy environment.\n     * Access to justice on environmental matters: the role of \n environmental courts and tribunals\; the challenges of enforcement and \n lawsuits.\n     * Actors/promoters of environmental justice: the criminalisation of \n activists\; the role of global civil society\; information and participation \n rights.\n     * Green business and environmental justice: GMOs and bio-fuels and \n their social\, economic and environmental impacts and benefits.\n     * Justice in cities:  environmental and social integration\; making \n cities more human.\n \n Perspectives are sought from all disciplines including:\n \n     * The natural and social sciences\, and those engaged in actor network \n theory\, agriculture and agricultural economics\, the built environment and \n urban studies\, conflict and dispute resolution\, critical geography\, \n environmental studies\, human and sustainable development\, industrial \n relations\, law\, philosophy and ethics\, political science and international \n affairs\, public policy and politics\, sociology and communication of science\, \n theology\, cultural studies and anthropology.\n     * people in the public and private sectors who are involved in \n planning and project development\, policy-making and implementation\, and \n negotiation and mediation at national and international levels\n     * people in Governmental\, inter-governmental and non-governmental \n organisations\, voluntary sector bodies\, environmental charities and groups\, \n business and professional associations\n \n The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 \n word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 11th May 2011.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to all Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract.f) up to 10 keywords\n \n E-mails should be entitled: EJGC11 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not \n receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to \n look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs:\n \n S. Ram Vemuri\n Head of Commerce\n School of Law and Business\n Faculty of Law\, Business and Arts\n Charles Darwin University\n Darwin\, NT 0909\,\n Australia\n Email: ram.vemuri@cdu.edu.au [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: ejgc11@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects run \n by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different \n areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for \n publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or no \n subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:ram.vemuri@cdu.edu.au\n [2] mailto:ejgc11@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/environmental-justice-and-global-citizenship/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101679.field_date.0.26 SUMMARY:6th Global Conference: Visual Literacies DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120703T113000Z DTEND:20120705T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/6th-global-conference-visual-literacies-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 6th Global Conference\n Visual Literacies\n \n Tuesday 3rd July 2012 – Thursday 5th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n \n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine \n and explore issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory and \n praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in fields such as \n education\, visual arts\, fine arts\, literature\, philosophy\, psychology\, \n critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers \n are welcomed from any area\, profession and vocation in which visual literacy \n plays a part.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related \n to any of the following themes\;\n \n 1. Visual Literacy as Theory\n ~What are the theoretical constructs of your discipline?\n ~What are the current debates and directions of your field?\n ~What are the various forms of socio-cultural reactions and realizations of \n visual literacy?\n ~What are the modes and nodes of interdisciplinary connections to visual \n literacy in your field?\n ~How will the concept of visual literacy be described in the next decade in \n your discipline?\n ~How does the concept of ‘framing’ fit with visual literacy in your \n field?\n \n 2. Visual Literacy as Practice\n ~What are the forms of representation and realization of visual literacy in \n your field?\n ~What are the current debates and issues around the notion of ‘practice’ \n in your field?\n ~What are the current ‘tools\, approaches and applications’ of visual \n literacy in your field?\n ~What are the current interdisciplinary connections to the ‘tools\, \n approaches and applications’ of visual literacy in your field?\n ~What are the ‘insiders views’ visual literacy? (That is from the \n perspective of artists\, taggers\, digital natives\, digital or visual \n immigrants)\n \n 3. Visual Literacy as Analysis\n ~What are the modes of visual literacy analysis in your field?\n ~What are the ‘tools’ of visual literacy analysis in your field?\n ~What are the current debates around analysis in your field?\n ~What are the current debates and forms of analysis in the areas of art \n history\, fine arts\, creative arts\, multimodality\, cinema\, television\, drama \n and IT?\n \n 4. Visual Literacy as an Interdisciplinary Overlap\n ~How is visual literacy connected to visual rhetoric and/or visual thinking: \n overlaps\, questions and differences?\n ~How is visual literacy related to sensory perception?\n ~How is curriculum design in\, or across disciplines connected to and through \n Visual literacy?\n \n The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 \n word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 11th May 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to all Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: VL6 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not \n receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to \n look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n Joint Organising Chairs\n Dr Phil Fitzsimmons\n Faculty of Education\n University of Woollongong\n Australia\n Email:philfitz@uow.edu.au    \n \n Dr Rob Fisher\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n United Kingdom\n Email: vl6@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ series of research \n projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers \n may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for \n publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/ \n [2]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/ \n [3]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence\n \n \n [1] mailto:vl6@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101681.field_date.0.27 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference:Images of Whiteness DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120707T113000Z DTEND:20120709T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conferenceimages-whiteness-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 2nd Global Conference\n Images of Whiteness\n \n Saturday 7th July 2012 – Monday 9th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n In recent years academics from a range of positions have increasingly turned \n their critical attention to the subject of racial whiteness. Publications \n include historical accounts detailing the emergence of whiteness as a racial \n category\, cultural studies exploring the meaning of whiteness across a \n variety of locations\, film and television scholars examining narratives about \n white people\, reflecting white themes\, white obsessions\, and white anxieties. \n Consistent with the shift in critical studies away from minority identity \n formations to consider ‘normative’ identities\, the study of whiteness is \n increasingly understood as central to understanding the operation of \n ‘race’ as a form of social categorisation.\n \n Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives are sought from those \n engaged in any field relevant to the study of whiteness including media and \n film studies\, performance and creative writing\, cultural theory\, sociology\, \n psychology and medical.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues \n related to any of the following themes:\n \n     * Appropriation of racial ‘otherness’ within white culture\n     * Images of whiteness in serial television\n     * Nationally-specific formations of white identity\n     * Whiteness and multiculturalism\n     * Constructions of whiteness in painting\, photography and the visual \n arts\n     * Performances of/performing ‘whiteness’\n     * Writing whiteness in fiction/non-fiction\n     * The politics and ethics of White Studies\n     * Racial whiteness\, fashion and cosmetics industries\n     * Whiteness and absence\, emptiness and death\n     * Teaching whiteness\n     * Intersections between whiteness\, gender and sexuality\n     * Conceptions of whiteness in non-white cultures\n     * Images of whiteness in non-white cultures\n     * Whiteness and consumer culture\n     * Music and music videos and whiteness\n \n Papers will also be considered on any related theme.  300 word abstracts \n should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is accepted \n for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th May \n 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; \n abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following \n information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: Whiteness2 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline).  Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not \n receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to \n look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs\n Ewan Kirkland\n University of Brighton\n Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies\n United Kingdom\n Email: ekirklanduk@yahoo.co.uk [1]\n \n Colette Balmain\n Independent Scholar\n United Kingdom\n E-mail: cb@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: white2@inter-disciplinary.net [3]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects\, which \n in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring \n together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore \n various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted \n for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. \n Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page \n chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/ [4]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/call-for-papers/ \n [5]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:ekirklanduk@yahoo.co.uk\n [2] mailto:cb@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] mailto:white2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/\n [5] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101687.field_date.0.28 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference:The Child: A Persons Project DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120707T113000Z DTEND:20120709T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conferencethe-child-persons-project-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 2nd Global Conference\n The Child: A Persons Project\n \n Saturday 7th July 2012 – Monday 9th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n After a hiatus of one year\, the Childhood Project is returning. This \n inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to \n investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. The period of life prior to \n adulthood is one of dramatic change and development of physical\, \n intellectual\, psychological\, and many other types of characteristics. The \n nature of childhood and its significance as a separate phase of life\, \n however\, is viewed quite differently in different cultures and in different \n historical eras. This conference will look at all aspects of the experience \n of childhood as well as the social and cultural perceptions of children and \n childhood. We encourage submissions on any theme to do with the nature of \n childhood\, including\, but not limited to the ones listed below.\n \n 1. Definitions of Childhood\n \n     * How has the concept of childhood developed over time?\n     * How is childhood viewed differently across different cultures and \n eras?\n     * What are the boundaries of childhood? (Are children made to grow up \n too fast? Are mature people infantilized by definitions of the boundaries of \n childhood?)\n     * Is ‘childhood’ a singular category or is it composed of quite \n distinct multiple categories? How does defining childhood also define \n adulthood and vice versa?\n \n 2. Childhood and Development\n \n     * What are the important aspects of physical\, psychological\, \n emotional\, intellectual\, moral\, social\, etc. development in childhood?\n     * How do institutions (like schools\, medical centres\, and even legal \n systems) effectively nurture the unique developmental needs of children?\n     * How has our understanding of childhood as a period of development \n changed over time? Are there ways we are still getting it significantly \n wrong?\n \n 3. Children and Relationships\n \n     * What are the dynamics of children’s relationships with their \n family\, peers\, and their community?\n     * How are children’s social relationships either experienced \n positively or negatively?\n     * What are the dynamics of children’s relationships with social \n institutions (like schools and religious organizations)?\n     * What is the nature of children’s relationships with animals and \n nature?\n \n 4. Perceptions and Depictions of Childhood\n \n     * How do adults perceive children and childhood?\n     * How do they perceive the capabilities\, responsibilities\, and \n privileges of childhood?\n     * How do they perceive their own experiences of childhood? (With \n nostalgia? embarrassment? amusement?)\n     * How do children perceive themselves?\n     * How are children and childhood depicted in academia and in the media \n such as art\, literature\, film\, television\, advertising\, etc.?\n \n 5. Other Issues of Childhood\n \n     * Children and education: What issues are the concerning how children \n are educated?\n     * Children and leisure: How is involvement in recreational activities \n (including sports) either beneficial or harmful to children?\n     * Children and the law: Does the criminal justice system effectively \n deal with children both as victims of crime and as perpetrators of crime?\n     * Children and rights: What rights do children have in virtue of being \n children? To what extent must the choices of children be respected?\n     * Children and gender: How are children socialized into \n gender-specific roles? What are the issues and concerns connected to how \n children form gender and sexual identities?\n     * What is the nature of children’s relationship to the world of \n work?\n     * Childhood in transition: how does adolescence bridge the child/adult \n world and to what extent are adolescents caught in a double-bind of being \n children and being adults?\n \n The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 \n word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 11th May 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\,  f) up to 10 key words\n \n E-mails should be entitled: CHILD2 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs:\n \n Wendy Turgeon\n Project Leader\n St. Joseph’s College\,\n New York\,\n USA\n Email: turgeon@optonline.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: child2@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for \n publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development \n for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/childhood/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/childhood/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:turgeon@optonline.net\n [2] mailto:child2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/childhood/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/childhood/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101299.field_date.0.29 SUMMARY:ePIC 2012: 10th International ePortfolio and Identity Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120709T070000Z DTEND:20120711T160000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/epic-2012-10th-international-eportfolio-and-identity-conference LOCATION:IET Savoy Place 2 Savoy Place. London WC2R 0BL. London United Kingdom See \n map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=+2+Savoy+Place.+London+WC2R+0BL.%2C+London%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n ePIC 2012 - 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference\n \n After Boston in 2011\, London welcomes the ePortfolio World Summit in 2012. On \n the 9-10-11 of July we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the \n international ePortfolio & Identity Conference. Since 2003 we have \n established a solid track record as a leading forum for connecting \n practitioners\, researchers\, technologists and policy makers in exploring \n ePortfolio and Identity practices and technologies. The conference is \n appreciated for its ability to explore current issues while leading the path \n towards possible futures.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n Should everybody have an ePortfolio? How do ePortfolios contribute to the \n identity construction process? How do ePortfolios support the acquisition of \n 21st century skills? How do ePortfolios support lifelong learning\, \n orientation and employability? How can we make ePortfolios fully \n interoperable? To find the answers to these questions\, and more\, join us at \n ePIC 2012\, the 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference\, 9-10-11 July 2012\, at \n the IET\, Savoy Place\, London.\n \n  \n -------- CONTEXT -------------------------------------------------------------\n \n \n The worldwide emergence of ePortfolios is an indicator of the need to review \n our approach to education and lifelong learning\, at the same time \n demonstrating that it is possible to make learning and assessment more \n authentic and integrated. ePortfolios are at the source of a new generation \n of tools dedicated to valuing and celebrating the achievements of the \n individual\, from nursery school to lifelong and life-wide learning. It is \n also a technology reinforcing the link between individual\, organisational and \n community learning.\n \n Over the last ten years\, considerable effort has been invested in the \n development of ePortfolio technologies and practice. To further developments \n in this field\, the main goal of the 10th international ePortfolio and \n Identity Conference is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners \n can discuss theoretical aspects\, open issues\, and innovative approaches and \n share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices in:\n \n * * development of lifelong learner / professional / citizen identity\;\n * individual / community ePortfolios and identities\;\n * recognition of informal\, lifelong and life-wide learning\;\n * accreditation of prior experience and learning (APEL)\, curriculum\n design and assessment\;\n * integrative learning and holistic development\;\n * continuing professional development and sustainable employability\;\n * development of distributed ‘communities of practice’\,  community\n and organisational development.\n \n \n -------- CALENDAR ------------------------------------------------------------\n \n Important dates for the Call for Contributions\n \n  \n * .... *5 March 2012 –  Deadline for the submission of abstracts (start\n of abstracts' review)*\n \n \n * * *26 March* – Notification of acceptance of abstracts\; authors are\n invited to register as presenter / co-presenter.\n * *23 April *– Author registration deadline (to be included in the\n conference programme)\n \n * .... *7 May 2012 – Deadline for the submission of long/short papers\n (start of full submissions' review)*\n \n * *9-10-11 July *– Conference\n * *30 July* – Publication of a draft of the proceedings\n \n * .... *30 August 2012 – Deadline for the submission of long/ short\n papers**final version*\n \n * *15 September 2012* – Publication of the proceedings\n \n \n \n  \n -------- SUMMARY -------------------------------------------------------------\n \n \n The information digest for participation in ePIC 2012\n \n * *Where?* The conference takes place at the IET [1]\, a superb venue in\n the heart of London\, on the banks of the River Thames.\n \n * *When? *conference dates are *9-10-11 July 2012*. The programme\n [2] will be available by the end of *March 2012*\, once the review of\n abstracts is over.\n \n * *How to participate?* You can join the conference as a presenter or\n delegate by paying the appropriate conference fee. Registration details\,\n including fees\, are available here [3].  Note that there is an *early\n bird discount when registering before 15 May 2012*.\n \n * *How to submit a contribution?* Details of the call for contributions are\n available here [4].\n \n * *Where to stay*? Delegates and speakers have to take care of their own\n accommodation (see suggestions [5]).\n * *Exhibition and sponsorship opportunities*: details for exhibition and\n sponsoring are available here [6].\n \n .... Contacts\n \n  \n * esther.linley@iosf.org [7]: general enquiries\, registration\, exhibition\n and sponsoring\;\n * serge.ravet@iosf.org [8]: submission of contributions\, reviews\, etc.\n * tel: +33 3 8643 1343\n \n \n \n [1] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/information/access\n [2] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/programme\n [3] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/registration\n [4] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/call\n [5] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/information/hotels\n [6] http://www.epforum.eu/2012/exhibition\n [7] mailto:esther.linley@iosf.org?subject=ePIC%202011%20enquiry\n [8] mailto:serge.ravet@iosf.org?subject=ePIC%202011%20submission END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103563.field_date.0.30 SUMMARY:Conference: An Ecology of Ideas DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120709T190000Z DTEND:20120713T155500Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/conference-ecology-ideas LOCATION:Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds 800 Asilomar Avenue Pacific \n Grove\, CA 93950-3704 United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=800+Asilomar+Avenue%2C+Pacific+Grove%2C+CA%2C+93950-3704%2C+us DESCRIPTION:We invite you to come and explore an ecology of ideas with us!\n \n Our ideas form\, grow\, and thrive in relationship. Ideas inspire and transform \n each other and their bio-cultural medium. New ones emerge unexpectedly\, some \n persist\, some change\, and some are lost\, as if they were living.\n \n The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) and Bateson Idea Group (BIG) come \n together to hold a conference on the relations among ideas as seen from \n multiple perspectives. We come from many disciplines but have common roots \n including cybernetics\, circularity\, reflexivity\, language\, culture and \n systems. For many of us these roots are enmeshed with biology\, information\, \n pattern\, design\, art\, aesthetics\, ethics and more.\n \n In a world rife with factionalism and disenchantment\, we will engage in \n conversations to integrate disciplines of knowing while taking into account \n our histories and considering our futures. We will regard both the parts and \n the whole that arises from the relations between the parts — and thus \n becomes the context for all the parts. We are concerned with the world that \n arises from how we live our ideas.\n \n ASC and BIG have common interests in dynamic systems of thought\, wisdom and \n learning. We accept that there are many views and value exploring the \n relationships between them\, rather than in insisting that any view is \n “right”. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101695.field_date.0.31 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Making Sense of: Play DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120710T233000Z DTEND:20120713T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-making-sense-play-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 1st Global Conference\n Making Sense of: Play\n \n Wednesday 11th July 2012 – Friday 13th  July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n What is “play”? The noun “play” and the verb “to play”\, though \n related\, can have quite different meanings. Either way\, the term is \n ubiquitous and plays (!) a significant part in the depiction of many common \n and important aspects of existence. This is so despite – or perhaps because \n of – the contradiction that is inherent in the concept “play”. On the \n one hand\, there is the sense of play that has to do with freedom\, \n improvisation\, inventiveness\, not-in-earnestness\, frivolity\, fun\, though \n sometimes nastiness\, too  (as in playing with someone’s affections or \n torturing others for pleasure – think Abu Ghraib photographs\, for example). \n On the other hand\, there is play which is ritualistic and rule-governed: \n sport\, drama\, musical performance\, various games\, all of which have a strong \n element of structured performance in common. However\, in both cases there is \n the implication that when we “play” (or a “play” is in progress)\, \n something not quite “for real” is taking place\, something superfluous\, \n perhaps\, from the point of view of necessity or survival. At the same time\, \n “play” appears to be something quite fundamental\, as evidenced in the \n frequency with which the term appears in discourse and the role it has \n (plays!) in metaphors such as\, e.g. “playing with fire”\, “playing \n hooky”\, “playing by ear”\, “playing rough\, playing fair” When we \n speak of children and play we vacillate between seeing play as \n ‘children’s work” and as such necessary\, essential for a child’s \n learning about the world or we dismiss it as “mere child’s play\,” as \n indeed superfluous and not of real account.  Puppies and children play and \n to that extent\, we count it as evidence of lacking the status of the serious\, \n working adult.  We might also consider the play of the senses\, both in \n children and in adults\, when we consider the delight we take in looking\, \n hearing\, tasting\, touching\, smelling—a kind of somatic play that reminds us \n of our connections to the earth and its myriad of sensuous experiences. \n Artists often consider their task to “play” with sensuous media. Even as \n they engage in the serious task of making art.\n \n The interdisciplinary project Making Sense Of: Play seeks to examine the \n various meanings of “play”\, elucidate their inter-relationships and trace \n the origins of the patterns of play and their place in the human condition. \n Variations in cultural conditions naturally impact on play\, its meanings and \n its forms\, as do\, often in a different way\, economic inequalities both within \n and between different cultures. Our deliberations will necessarily takes this \n into account. In many languages\, as in English\, throughout its etymological \n history “play” has been closely connected to the world of children and \n make believe. Academic study of play\, too\, deals predominantly with various \n aspects of children’s play and its importance in development. There is\, in \n fact\, a lack of balance between the study of play in relation to children and \n childhood on one hand\, and “play” more generally\, as outlined above\, on \n the other. For this reason our project explicitly emphasizes the \n comparatively under-explored aspects of play in linguistic\, literary\, \n philosophical\, historical\, psychological and evolutionary frames of \n reference.\n \n The following broad themes are suggested: Play  (as both – or either – \n freedom and constraint)\n \n -           in politics\n -           in literature\n -           throughout history\n -           in philosophy\n -           as a psychological issue\n -           its evolutionary significance\n -           in language\n -           as humour\n -           in metaphor\n -           play of perception\n -           play and the life-course\n -           relating to existential crisis (illness\, death)\n -           and love\n -           and hatred\n -           and power\n -           animal play\n \n The above themes are not unrelated\; they represent dimensions rather than \n categories and can therefore be combined in presentations.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by \n Friday11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 key words\n \n E-mails should be entitled: PLAY Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs:\n \n Wendy Turgeon\n Project Leader\n St. Joseph’s College\,\n New York\,\n USA\n Email: turgeon@optonline.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n mail: play@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for \n publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development \n for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/play/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/play/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:turgeon@optonline.net\n [2] mailto:play@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/play/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/play/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101694.field_date.0.32 SUMMARY:5th Global Conference: Forgiveness DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120711T113000Z DTEND:20120713T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/5th-global-conference-forgiveness-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 5th Global Conference\n Forgiveness\n \n Wednesday 11th July 2012 – Friday 13th  July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to \n investigate and explore the nature\, significance\, and practices of \n forgiveness. Asking for or granting forgiveness can be a routine part of \n everyday life\, but the nature of forgiveness as a personal\, cultural\, and \n even international practice can be complex. The acts of stating an apology \n and asking for forgiveness have also become part of a spectacle: witness \n moments of national significance to break with past wrongs. Forgiveness \n raises a variety of questions that touch on a vast array of academic \n disciplines – anthropology\, literature\, history\, philosophy\, psychology\, \n political science\, etc. In cases of significant transgressions\, social \n tensions\, and even international conflicts there are questions of what counts \n as forgiveness and how it moves from the level of individual to community\, \n national and international relationships. This conference will look at the \n full range of this complexity. To encourage innovative trans-disciplinary \n dialogues\, we welcome papers from all disciplines\, professions and vocations.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or \n broadly related to any of the following themes:\n \n 1. Questions of Definition\n ~ What is forgiveness?\n ~ What sorts of behaviour require people to seek forgiveness?\n ~ Who can grant forgiveness? Can there be meaningful third party forgiveness?\n ~ Who benefits from forgiveness and how?\n ~ Can forgiveness be required of someone? Can it ever be wrong to offer \n forgiveness?\n ~ Can we forgive an ongoing evil?\n \n 2. Psychological Perspectives\n ~ The emotional effect of victimization and the role forgiveness can play in \n either exacerbating or mitigating such feelings\n ~ The nature of self-forgiveness\n ~ Barriers to people’s ability to forgive transgressors\n ~ How a willingness (or unwillingness) to forgive can be a measure of \n self-worth or self-respect\n ~ Issues related to the psychological burden of not forgiving\n ~ What happens after the forgiveness is granted?\n \n 3. Legal and Political Perspectives\n ~ Forgiveness for past crimes of individuals – rehabilitation\, second \n chances\, and pardons\n ~ How forgiveness can play a role in criminal legal proceedings\n ~ Forgiveness as a part of social reconstruction following civil wars or \n systematic social injustices\n ~ How forgiveness can be required or granted in relationships between nations\n ~ Seeking forgiveness on behalf of others: righting historic wrongs\n ~ Difficulties connected with political forgiveness: collectiveness\, \n performative meaning of forgiveness declarations\, etc.\n \n 4. Social\, Cultural and Literary Perspectives\n ~ The role forgiveness plays in different cultures\n ~ Differences in perceptions of the importance of forgiveness in different \n societies\n ~ Forgiveness ceremonies as important cultural practices\n ~ How questions of forgiveness are used in literature\n ~ Forgiveness in cinema\, film\, tv\, radio and theatre\n ~ The role of the arts as catalyst or hindrance for actual cases of \n forgiveness\n ~ Forgiveness and the media\n \n 5. Religion and Forgiveness\n ~ Distinctions between secular and religious notions of forgiveness\n ~ The role of forgiveness in religious practices\n ~ How religious beliefs can promote forgiveness\n ~ How religions can be barriers to forgiveness\n ~ Rituals of forgiveness and their importance\n \n 6. Issues\, Connections and Relations\n - The relationship between forgiveness and restitution\n - The relationship between forgiveness and retribution\n - The relationship between forgiveness and compassion\, mercy or pity\n - The relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation\n - The relationship between forgiveness and personal growth\n \n Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by \n Friday11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 key words\n \n E-mails should be entitled: FOR5 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year.\n All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs:\n \n Charles  W. Nuckolls\n Department of Anthropology\,\n Brigham Young University\,\n USA\n Email: administrator@utahvalleycommons.com [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: for5@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for \n publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development \n for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/forgiveness/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/forgiveness/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:administrator@utahvalleycommons.com\n [2] mailto:for5@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/forgiveness/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/forgiveness/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101719.field_date.0.33 SUMMARY:4th Global Conference: Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive \n Entertainment DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120711T113000Z DTEND:20120713T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/4th-global-conference-videogame-cultures-and-future-interactive-entertainment-july-2012-oxfor LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 4th Global Conference\n Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment\n \n Wednesday 11th July 2012 – Friday 13th  July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine\, explore and \n critically engage with the issues and implications created by the mass use of \n computers and videogames for human entertainment and focus on the impact of \n innovative videogame titles and interfaces for human communication and ludic \n culture. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and \n practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which \n videogames flourish.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, workshops and reports are invited on any of the \n following themes:\n \n 1. Videogames and Gaming\n Theories and Concepts of Gaming. Identifying Key Features and Issues.\n Videogames as Text. Videogames as Interactive Image. Multidisciplinary \n Approaches to Videogame Analysis. Film\, Literary\, Art Studies and Cultural \n Studies Approaches to the Analysis of Videogames.\n \n 2. Videogame Cultures\n Emerging Practices in Online and Offline Gaming. Games as Cultural Artifacts.\n Pervasive Gaming\, Convergence and the Integration of Videogames. Videogames \n as Art.\n \n 3. Games and Society\n Ethical Issues in Videogames\, Videogame Controversy – Rating\, Violence\, \n Sex\, Morality and their relation to Maturity. Videogames and Politics. \n Propaganda Games. Censorship.\n \n 4. Games with Meaning?\n Social Impact Simulations. Educational Use of Videogames. Serious Games. \n Documentary Videogames. Political Issues. The Relationship between Game and \n Gamer.\n \n 5. Reception\, Temporality and Videogames\n Player Generations. Old Originals vs. Retro games. Indie Games and Low-Tech \n Aesthetics. Innovations in Independent Game Movements.\n \n 6. Immersion and Embodiment\n New Forms of Interaction\, Immersion and Collaboration in Videogames. Sound\, \n Music\, Touch\, and Game Space. The Role of Innovative Interfaces.\n \n 7. Works in Progress\n Games in Development. Approaches to Game Design. Discussion Workshops on \n Games under Production. Best Practice and Know-How Exchange.\n \n A presentation with a quick demo of the game and workshop proposals are \n strongly encouraged. We might offer 2 hour slot for 1-3 intensive workshops \n on design methodologies and media comparative sessions. Delegates presenting \n in the frame of workshops are eligible for publishing in special track of \n Videogames 4 ebook on methodologies.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. A \n presentation with a quick demo of the game and workshop proposals are \n strongly encouraged. We may offer a 2 hour slot for 1-3 intensive workshops \n on design methodologies and media comparative sessions. Delegates presenting \n in the frame of workshops are eligible for publishing in special track of \n Videogames 3 ebook on methodologies.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted \n simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: VG4 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year.  We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals \n submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume \n we did not receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, \n then\, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs\n Daniel Riha\n Charles University\n Prague\,\n Czech Republic\n Email: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n United Kingdom\n Email: vg4@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Critical Issues’ series of research \n projects run by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from \n different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions \n which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented \n at the conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected \n papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters \n for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-the-future-of-interactive-entertainment/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-the-future-of-interactive-entertainment/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:rihad@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:vg4@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-the-future-of-interactive-entertainment/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/videogame-cultures-the-future-of-interactive-entertainment/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103318.field_date.0.34 SUMMARY:Submissions! : The International Wikimania Conference 2012 DC DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120712Z DTEND:20120714Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/submissions-international-wikimania-conference-2012-dc LOCATION:George Washington University United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n Wikimania [1] conferences provide unique opportunities for the Wikimedia \n community and its projects (including Wikipedia [2]\, Wikibooks \n [3]\, Wikinews [4]\, Wiktionary [5]\, Wikispecies [6]\, Wikimedia Commons \n [7]\, and Wikimedia [8]) to come together\, share their common goals\, and \n develop better ways to work together on an international level. The Wikimania \n 2012 program structure is designed to create multiple opportunities for \n conference participants to actively engage with the subject matter\, the \n environment\, and\, most importantly\, each other. Washington\, D.C\, can play an \n important role in Wikimania 2012 as a locale that gathers interest in \n government\, culture\, media\, and academia around the general goals of the \n Wikimania conference series.\n \n In accordance with these goals and themes\, the program will include \n traditional conference offerings such as paper presentations\, tutorials\, \n panels\, and poster sessions\; provide lounge space and breaks throughout for \n participants to gather\; and innovate with an unconference day for attendees \n to design their own schedule and participation around common interests. \n Submissions will be reviewed and selected in advance by the program \n committee [9]. Attendees are welcome to present in the open space track of \n the conference\, regardless of whether their submitted presentations were \n accepted.\n \n The eighth annual Wikimania will be held between 12th and 14th July\, 2012 \n in Washington D.C. [10] For more information\, please visit the main site \n [11].\n \n  \n \n More info: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions\n \n  \n \n  \n \n * Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012\n * Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012\n \n \n [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikimania\n [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia\n [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikibooks\n [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikinews\n [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wiktionary\n [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikispecies\n [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikimedia_Commons\n [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MediaWiki\n [9] http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Committee\n [10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Washington_D.C.\n [11] http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102042.field_date.0.35 SUMMARY:7th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture\, Cyberspace and \n Science Fiction DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120714T233000Z DTEND:20120717T053000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/7th-global-conferencevisions-humanity-cyberculture-cyberspace-and-science-fiction-july-2012-o LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 7th Global Conference\n Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture\, Cyberspace and Science Fiction\n \n Sunday 15th July 2012 – Tuesday 17th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n Call for Papers:\n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what \n it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture\, \n cyberspace and science fiction. In particular\, the project will explore the \n possibilities offered by these contexts for creative thinking about persons \n and the challenges posed to the nature and future of national\, international\, \n and global communities.\n \n Papers\, short papers\, and workshops are invited on issues related to any of \n the following themes\;\n \n     * the relationship between cyberculture\, cyberspace\, science fiction\n     * cyberculture\, cyberpunk and the near future: utopias vs. dystopias\n     * science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium for exploring the nature \n of persons\n     * humans and cyborgs\; the synergy of humans and technology\; changing \n views of the body\n     * human and post-human concepts in digital arts and cinema\n     * digital artistic practices and aesthetics\n     * mobile media\, place and the telematic body\n     * bodies in cyberculture\; body modifications\; from apes to androids \n – electronic evolution\; biotechnical advances and the impact of life\, \n death\, and social existence\n     * artificial intelligence\, robotics and biomedia: self-organization as \n a cultural logic\n     * gender and cyberspace: new gender\, new feminisms\, new masculinities\n     * cyberpunk and steampunk: exploring the differences and similarities\n     * online cultures of virtual worlds and videogames and its impact on \n science fiction\n     * interactive storytelling\, emergent narratives\, transmedia \n storytelling\n     * nature\, enhancing nature\, and artificial intelligence\; artificial \n life\, life and information systems\n     * networked living in future city\, new urban lifestyles\n     * human and post-human politics\; cyborg citizenship and rights\; \n influence of political technologies\n     * boundaries\, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 key words\n E-mails should be entitled: VISIONS7 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs:\n \n Daniel Riha\n Charles University\n Prague\,\n Czech Republic\n Email: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: 7@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Critical Issues’ series of research \n projects run by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from \n different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions \n which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented \n at the conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected \n papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters \n for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:rihad@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:7@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/visions-of-humanity/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.101696.field_date.0.36 SUMMARY:3rd Global Conference: Revenge DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120715T113000Z DTEND:20120717T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/3rd-global-conference-revenge-july-2012-oxford-united-kingdom LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 3rd Global Conference\n Revenge\n \n Sunday 15th July 2012 – Tuesday 17th July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n Revenge\, so we are told\, is a dish best served cold: a ‘sweet’ wreaking \n of vengeance on those who have – either in reality or in our minds – \n slighted\, wronged or in some way ‘injured’ us and who are now \n ‘enjoying’ their just deserts by an avenging angel (or angels) on the \n great day of reckoning.\n \n This inter- and multi-disciplinary research and publications project seeks to \n explore the multi-layered ideas\, actions\, and cultural traditions of \n vengeance or revenge. The project aims to explore the nature of revenge\, its \n relationship with issues of justice\, and its manifestation in the actions of \n individuals\, cultures\, communities and nations. The project will also \n consider the history of revenge\, its ‘legitimacy’\, the ‘scale’ of \n vengeful actions and whether revenge has (or should have) ‘limits’. \n Representations of revenge in film\, literature\, television\, theatre and radio \n will be analysed\; cultural ‘traditions’ of retaliation and revenge will \n be considered. And the role of mercy\, forgiveness and pardon will be \n assessed.\n \n Papers will be consider the following indicative themes:\n \n ~ philosophies of revegne\n ~ vengeance in history\, literature\, and popular culture\n ~ revenge cross-culturally\n ~ is there any proper and improper time for revenge? Can an act of revenge be \n carried across generations?\n ~ revenge\, vengeance\, retaliation: to avenge\n ~ justice and revenge\; redressing the balance\, just deserts\n ~ betrayal\, humiliation\, shame\, resentment and revenge\n ~ revenge and the individual\; revenge and the group\; revenge and the nation\n ~ revenge in music and the arts\n ~ revenge in television\, film\, radio and theatre\n ~ relationship between revenge and mercy\, forgiveness\, pardon\n ~ revenge case-studies: individual\, cultural\, and historical\n \n Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 11th May 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 key words\n \n E-mails should be entitled: REV3 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Joint Organising Chairs:\n \n Charles W. Nuckolls\n Department of Anthropology\,\n Brigham Young University\,\n USA\,\n Email: administrator@utahvalleycommons.com [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: rev3@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for \n publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development \n for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/revenge/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/revenge/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:administrator@utahvalleycommons.com\n [2] mailto:rev3@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/revenge/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/revenge/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102079.field_date.0.37 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120718T233000Z DTEND:20120721T050000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conferenceapocalypse-imagining-end LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 1st Global Conference:\n Apocalypse: Imagining the End\n \n Thursday 19th July – Saturday 21st  July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n Call for Papers:\n \n From Christian concept of the “Apocalypse” to the Hindu notions of the \n Kali Yuga\, visions of destruction and fantasies of the “end times” have a \n long history.  One purpose of the conference is to explore these ideas by \n situating them in context – historical\, literary\, cultural\, political\, and \n economic (to name a few).  However\, the modern period is especially marked \n by a mixed sense of concern and fascination with apocalypse\, and today we are \n surrounded by scenarios of imminent destruction and annihilation.  The \n second aim of conference is therefore to examine today’s widespread \n fascination the apocalyptic thought\, and to understand its appeal across \n broad sections of contemporary society around the world.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress\, workshops and pre-formed panels are \n invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:\n \n     * Decline\, Collapse\, and Decay\n     * The Second Coming\n     * The Hindu Kali Yuga\n     * Sex at the End of Time\n     * Ironic and/or Anti-Apocalyptic Thinking\n     * Utopia\, Redemption and Rebirth\n     * Intentional Communities as Communities of the End Times\n     * Selling the Apocalypse\, Commodifying Disaster\, and Marketing the End \n Times\n     * Death Tourism and Disaster Capitalism\n     * The Age of Terror\n     * Global Warming and Its Denial\n     * Zombies\, Vampires\, and Werewolves in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction\n     * Disaster Fiction/Movies\n     * History as Apocalypse\n     * 2012\n     * Remembering and Reliving the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire\n     * Technology and Mass Destruction\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Monstrous Geographies \n we welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on \n Apocalypse: Imagining the End  and Monstrous Geographies for a cross-over \n panel. We also welcome pre-formed panels on any aspect of tmonstrous \n geographies or in relation to crossover panel(s). Papers will also be \n considered on any related theme.  300 word abstracts should be submitted by \n Friday 17th February 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a \n full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd May 2012. Abstracts \n should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may \n be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in \n this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: Apocalypse Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline).  Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. \n If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not \n receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to \n look for an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs\n Charles  W. Nuckolls\n Department of Anthropology\,\n Brigham Young University\,\n USA\,\n Email: administrator@utahvalleycommons.com [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: apocalypse@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects\, which \n in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring \n together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore \n various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted \n for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. \n Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page \n chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:administrator@utahvalleycommons.com\n [2] mailto:apocalypse@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/apocalypse-imagining-the-end/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102463.field_date.0.38 SUMMARY:EDVentures Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120719Z DTEND:20120721Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/edventures-conference-0 LOCATION:Miami\, FL United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Miami%2C+FL%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:EDVentures Conference: Miami\, FL: July 19-21. Organized by EIA. This \n gathering at the beachfront Eden Roc Hotel and Resort will bring together \n best and brightest for an in-depth look at industry trends\, opportunities for \n business growth\, and leadership from industry experts. Last year's lineup \n included Tom Vander Ark and Frank Catalano. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102074.field_date.0.39 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of \n Monstrosity DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120719T113000Z DTEND:20120721T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-monstrous-geographies-places-and-spaces-monstrosity-july-2012-oxford-un LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 1st Global Conference:\n Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity\n \n Thursday 19th July – Saturday 21st  July 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n CALL FOR PAPERS:\n \n What is the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic – those \n places monsters inhabit but also places that are configured as being \n monstrous in and of themselves? Places that engage notions of self and \n otherness\, inclusion and exclusion\, normal and aberrant\, defense and \n contagion? From the Necropolis to the Killing Fields and from the Amityville \n Horror to the island of Dr. Moreau\, geographical locations have acted as the \n repository or emanation of human evil\, made monstrous by the rituals and \n behaviors enacted within them\, or by their peculiarities of atmosphere or \n configuration. Whether actual or imagined\, these places of wonder\, fear and \n horror speak of the symbiotic relation between humanity and location that \n sees morality\, ideology and emotions given physical form in the house\, the \n forest\, the island\, the nation and even far away worlds in both space and \n time. These places act as magnets for destructive and evil forces\, such as \n the island of Manhattan\; they are the source of malevolent energies and \n forces\, such as Transylvania\, Area 51 and Ringu\; and they are the fulcrum for \n chaotic\, warping energies\, such as the Bermuda Triangle\, Atlantis and \n Pandemonium. Alongside this\, there exist the monstrous geographies created by \n scientific experimentation\, human waste and environmental accidents\, creating \n sites of potential and actual disaster such as the Chernobyl nuclear plant\, \n the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the BP oil disaster\, and the devastated \n coastline of Tohuku\, Japan. These places raise diverse post-human quandaries \n regarding necessities in the present leading to real or imagined futures of \n humanity and habitation.\n \n Encompassing the factual and the fictional\, the literal and the literary\, \n this project investigates the very particular relationships and interactions \n between humanity and place\, the natural and the unnatural\, the familiar and \n the unfamiliar\, and sees a multitude of configurations of human monstrosity \n and evil projected\, inflicted\, or immanent to place. Such monstrous \n geographies can be seen to emerge from the disparity between past and \n present\, memory and modernity\, urban and rural and can be expressed through \n categories of class\, gender and racial difference as well as generational\, \n political and religious tensions.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress\, workshops and pre-formed panels are \n invited on issues related to any of the following themes:\n \n Monstrous Cartographies:\n ~Terra incognita\n ~Real and Mythic lost lands: eg.\, Atlantis\, D’yss\, and Shangri-La\n ~Utopias/Dystopias\, future cities in time and space\n ~Malevolent regions: eg.\, Lemuria\, Bermuda Triangle\, Transylvania\n ~Sublime landscapes\n ~Bodies as maps and maps as bodies\, eg. Prison Break\n \n Monstrous Islands:\n ~As sites of experimentation. Dr. Moreau\, Jurassic Park etcAs a beacon for \n evil: eg.\, Manhattan in Godzilla and Cloverfield\n ~As site of ritual evil and incest: eg.\, Wicker Man\, Pitkin Islands\, Isle of \n the Dead\n ~Imperialist intent and construction: eg.\, Prospero’s Island\, Hong Kong\, \n Hashima\n \n Monstrous Cosmographies:\n ~Evil planets and dimensions\n ~Comets\, meteorites and beings from unknown worlds\n ~Worlds as dark reflections/twins of Earth\n ~Planets and alien landscapes that consume and mutate earthly travelers\n \n Monstrous Environmental Geographies:\n ~Polluted lakes and landscapes\n ~Landfills\, oil spills and mining sites\n ~Melting icecaps and landforms at risk from global warming\n ~Land impacted by GM crops and associated experimentation\n ~Sites of starvation\, disaster and pestilence\n ~De-militarized zones and no-man’s lands\n \n Monstrous Religious Sites & Ritualistic Monstrosity:\n ~Armageddon\, Apocalypse and final battlegrounds\n ~Hell\, the Underworld and Valhalla\n ~Eden\, Paradise\, El Dorado\, Shangri La\n ~Sites of religious ritual\, sacrifice and burial\n ~Houses and haunts of murderers and serial killers\n \n Monstrous Political Environments\n ~The land of the enemy and the other\n ~Sites of attack and retaliation.\n ~Sites of revolution and protest\n ~Landscapes of incarceration\n ~Border crossings\n ~Magical realist landscapes of escape\n ~Ghettos\, shanty towns and relocation sites\n ~Urban and rural\, cities\, towns and villages and regional and national \n prejudice\n \n Monstrous Landscapes of Conflict:\n ~Battlefields and military graveyards\n ~Concentration camps and sites of genocide\n ~Minefields and sites of damage\, destruction and ruin\n ~Arsenals\, bunkers and military experimentation\n \n Uncanny Geographical Temporalities:\n ~Old buildings in new surroundings\n ~Buildings with too much\, and those without\, memory\n ~Soulless Architecture\n ~Ideological architecture\, palaces\, museums etc\n ~Places held in time\, UNESCO sites and historical and listed buildings\n ~Old towns and New towns\, rich and poor\n ~Appearing and disappearing towns/regions\, eg.\, Brigadoon\, Silent Hill.\n \n Monsters on the Move:\n ~Contagion\, scouring and infectious landscapes\n ~Monsters and mobile technologies: phone\, video\, cars\, planes\, computers etc\n ~Fluid identities\, fluid places\n ~Touring Monstrosities\, dreamscapes and infernal topologies\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Apocalypse– we \n welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Monstrous \n Geographies and Apocalypse for a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed \n panels on any aspect of tmonstrous geographies or in relation to crossover \n panel(s).\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 27th February 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 25th May 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts \n may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f0 up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Monstrous Geographies Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs\n \n     * Jessica Rapson\n       Goldsmiths University\,\n       London\,\n       United Kingdom\n       E-mail: enp02jr@gold.ac.uk [1]\n       .\n     * Rob Fisher\n       Network Founder & Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n       Freeland\, Oxfordshire\n       United Kingdom\n       E-mail: mg1@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume. \n Some papers may also be invited for inclusion in the Journal of Monsters and \n the Monstrous.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:enp02jr@gold.ac.uk\n [2] mailto:mg1@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monstrous-geographies/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102464.field_date.0.40 SUMMARY:5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online \n Learning DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120725Z DTEND:20120727Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/5th-annual-international-symposium-emerging-technologies-online-learning LOCATION:Las Vegas\, NV United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Las+Vegas%2C+NV%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online \n Learning: Las Vegas\, NV: July 25-27. Organized by Sloan-C\, this year focuses \n on emerging and innovative uses of technology designed to improve teaching \n and learning online. Party down at the Venetian-Palazzo with fellow peers and \n educators\, for whom the conference is geared towards. Got something to share? \n Calls for presentations open until March 5. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103119.field_date.0.41 SUMMARY:SCRATCH@MIT DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120725T130000Z DTEND:20120729T010000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/scratchmit LOCATION:MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst Street Cambridge\, MA United States See map: Google \n Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=75+Amherst+Street%2C+Cambridge%2C+MA%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:SCRATCH@MIT CONFERENCE\n \n July 25-28\, 2012\n http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/ [1]\n Join educators and researchers from around the world to share experiences and \n imagine the possibilities of Scratch!\n With Scratch\, everyone can program their own interactive stories\, games\, \n animations\, and simulations -- and share their creations with one another \n online. More than 2 million projects have been shared on the Scratch website \n (http://scratch.mit.edu [2])\, with thousands of new projects every day.\n The conference will feature workshops\, panels\, presentations\, demos\, and \n posters on a wide variety of Scratch-related topics\, from technologies to \n pedagogies\, from applications to implications.\n Deadline for proposals: February 15\, 2012\n For more information\, see http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/ [3]\n \n \n [1] http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/\n [2] http://scratch.mit.edu/\n [3] http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102465.field_date.0.42 SUMMARY:Serious Play Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120821Z DTEND:20120823Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/serious-play-conference-0 LOCATION:Redmond\, WA United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Redmond%2C+WA%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:Serious Play Conference: Redmond\, WA: August 21-23. Check out all the latest \n and raddest simulations and serious games at the the sacred halls of the \n DigiPen Institute. You'll find just about everything here--from your basic \n Flash math apps to state-of-the-art biofeedback simulations for combat stress \n and medical training. Yeah\, pretty serious--and not the typical \n commercial-grade games you'll find on store shelves. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103885.field_date.0.43 SUMMARY:Summer Social WebShop 2012 @UMCP DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120821Z DTEND:20120824Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/summer-social-webshop-2012-umcp LOCATION:College Park\, MD United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+College+Park%2C+MD%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n The faculty at the University of Maryland\n \n in sociology\, computer science and the iSchool along with the Social\n \n Media Research Foundation are hosting an NSF sponsored workshop on\n \n technology mediated social participation (TMSP) with an emphasis on\n \n social networks and social media.\n \n  \n \n The workshop is open to US doctoral students in a variety of\n \n disciplines (social sciences\, computer science\, information science\,\n \n etc.) and includes a stipend to support participation.\n \n  \n \n The Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop_UMD) is 4-day interdisciplinary\n \n workshop for US graduate students (August 21-24\, 2012) at the\n \n University of Maryland\, College Park organized by leading researchers\n \n for graduate students at US universities studying social-networking\n \n tools\, blogs and microblogs\, user-generated content sites\, discussion\n \n groups\, problem reporting\, recommendation systems\, and other social\n \n media.\n \n  \n \n For more information and application go to:\n \n http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2012 [1]\n \n Application deadline for best consideration: June 8\, 2012\n \n  \n \n Please pass this following announcement along to your students and\n \n other groups that may be interested.  This short \n \n announcement describes our workshop\, and the link in that announcement\n \n leads to more details:\n \n  \n \n We are also using twitter to spread this announcement.  You can see\n \n the original tweet (for retweeting) at http://bit.ly/Mc2PZk [2] and the\n \n original text is:\n \n  \n \n US Grad student applications wanted for #Webshop2012 #UMD #HCIL #NSF\n \n #SMRF #TMSP #SNA #Socialmedia Aug 21-24 .http://bit.ly/KXmiYd\n \n \n [1] http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2012\n [2] http://bit.ly/Mc2PZk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103833.field_date.0.44 SUMMARY:OP*EN: Open P* Exploratory Network (p= philosophy\, process\, projects\, policy\, \n practices) DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120822Z DTEND:20120824Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/open-open-p-exploratory-network-p-philosophy-process-projects-policy-practices LOCATION:Second Life United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n On August 22-24\, 2012\, SUNY—Empire State College will be hosting a virtual \n conference on open education.  The conference is global in scope and will be \n occurring over multiple time zones\; therefore\, the event will be conducted in \n a virtual world called Second Life.  The modality will be a \n synchronous/asynchronous mode—participants can attend sessions as they \n occur\, or session presentations will be recorded for play back at later \n times.  Currently\, we seek individuals to participate in the conference.\n \n *Call for Presentations (and Posters) *\n \n The OP*EN Virtual Conference welcomes presenters and posters that integrate \n one or more of these themes\, as they relate to the concept of open \n education.    As the aim is to cover open education for a world-wide \n audience\, we would value a range of presentations\, challenges\, and \n discussion-starters around these areas:\n \n * Philosophy:  what conceptual\, sociological\, institutional\, and\n educational underpinnings separate open education from other forms of\n teaching and learning?  What are the core issues in defining openness\,\n and what other forms of openness are required for open education (open\n leadership\, open science\, etc.)?  Are there related concepts\, constructs\,\n and paradigms that serve or enhance openness as a concept?\n * Process:    what ways can a resource\, course\, learning experience move\n into the process of becoming “open”?   How can current courses and\n resources be moved from behind ivory towers into open educational areas? \n   How can current post-secondary institutions transform themselves into\n open universities? \n * Projects:   what are the examples of projects within your experience\,\n personal\, institutional or within your learning sphere that you would like\n to offer as a model or best practice? \n * Policy:   are there institutional issues that surround Open Education\n within your educational sphere?     Have projects and ideas been\n brought forward within your institution and what organizations\, governance\n groups\, unions\, or professional organizations have spoken to these\n issues?   What areas /do you expect /might influence policy within your\n educational and learning sphere?  What public policies effect openness\n (regulation\, legislation\, grants\, accreditation)?\n * Practices:   in what ways have you or your colleagues begun to consider\n and develop open resources and practices?  \n \n We encourage a variety of presentation styles as well as topics.  The only \n common element we ask from all presentations and posters is that it should in \n some way challenge your audience to take openness to the next level.\n \n Abstracts/summaries/battle plans or other treatments should be emailed to \n open@esc.edu [1] by  June 22nd\, 2012.\n \n For more information: http://commons.esc.edu/open/ [2]\n \n \n [1] mailto:open@esc.edu\n [2] http://commons.esc.edu/open/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102108.field_date.0.45 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference\,Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health\, Illness and \n Disease Project DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120830T113000Z DTEND:20120901T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conferencemaking-sense-chronicity-health-illness-and-disease-project LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 2nd Global Conference\n Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health\, Illness and Disease Project\n \n Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n \n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the \n processes by which we attempt to create meaning in chronic illness. The \n apparent increase in and diversity of chronic conditions calls for better \n understandings of the spaces between health and illness that chronic patients \n occupy\, often for most of their lives. How can we articulate the tension \n between the biomedical model of chronicity and its embodied experience? What \n language and other forms of representation can we use to map\, chart and begin \n to explore the meanings possible within such spaces? What insights can these \n provide to inform better chronic care management? What is the relationship \n between chronicity and wellbeing? How do individuals\, societies and cultures \n make sense of chronicity?\n \n We particularly welcome papers/ worshops/ short performances on topics which \n might include\, but are not restricted to:\n \n 1. The Borderlands:\n - well but ill\; degrees of wellness\; degrees of illness.\n - chronic illness\; terminal illness\n - chronic pain/ acute pain\n - metaphors for and of the journey\n \n 2. Understanding CI\n - clinical trials/ Big Pharma and CI\n - identity and sense of self\n - shame\, stigma and guilt\n - medicine\, the clinical gaze\, and CI\n - the relationship with our body\n \n 3. Living with CI\n - CI and family\n - CI and work\n - CI and disability\n - CI and ethnicity\n - CI and gender\n \n 4. Giving CI Voices\n - the language of CI\n - narrating CI\n - representing CI\n - performing CI\n \n 5. Coping with CI\n - chronic pain\n - managing chronic illness/self-managing chronic illness\n - life\, time and reinventing meaning\n - healthcare and CI\n - living well\n \n Papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.\n \n The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Chronicity will run alongside the fifth \n of our projects on Making Sense Of: Madness and we anticipate holding \n sessions in common between the two projects.  We welcome any papers or \n panels considering the problems or addressing issues that cross both \n projects. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts \n should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for \n the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June \n 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; \n abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: CHR2 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chair .\n \n Maria Vaccarella\n Hub Leader\, Making Sense Of: and Marie Curie Research Fellow\, King’s \n College\, London\n E-mail: maria.vaccarella@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n       .\n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Network Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\, Freeland\, \n Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: chronicity2@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Making Sense Of:’ series of research \n projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from \n different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions \n which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at \n this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected \n papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard \n copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/chronicity/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/chronicity/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:maria.vaccarella@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:chronicity2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/chronicity/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/chronicity/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102109.field_date.0.46 SUMMARY:5th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Madness DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120830T113000Z DTEND:20120901T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/5th-global-conference-making-sense-madness LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n 5th Global Conference\n Making Sense Of: Madness\n \n Thursday 30th August 2012 – Saturday 1st September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n Call for Papers:\n \n This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of \n madness across historical periods and within cultural\, political and social \n contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons \n and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. \n Seeking to encourage innovative inter\, multi and post disciplinary dialogues\, \n we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines\, professions and vocations \n which struggle to understand the place of madness in the constitution of \n persons\, relationships and the complex interlacing of self and other. In the \n 4 previous conferences we had the participation of friends and colleagues who \n have experienced forms of madness in their personal lives\, and they have \n always been not only welcome\, but also moving and illuminating for all: Such \n contributions based on the actual experience of madness from within are \n always welcome to our annual events.\n \n In particular papers\, workshops\, presentations and pre-formed panel proposals \n are invited on any of the following themes:\n \n 1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need Madness?\n ~ Critical explorations: beyond madness/sanity/insanity\n ~ Continuity and difference: always with us yet never quite the same\n ~ Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence and re-emergence of madness\n ~ Profound attraction and desire\; fear of the abyss and the radical unknown\n ~ Naming\, defining and understanding the elusive\n \n 2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions\n ~ Love as madness\; uncontrollable passion\; unrestrainable love\n ~ Passion and love as a remaking of life and self\n ~ Gender and madness\; the feminine and the masculine\n ~ Anger\, resentment\, revenge\, hate\, evil\n ~ I would rather vomit\, thank you\; revulsion\, badness and refusing to comply\n \n 3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality\n ~ Madness\, sanity and the insane\n ~ Being out of your mind\, crazy\, deranged … yet\, perfectly sane\n ~ Deviating from the normal\; defining the self against the normal\n ~ Control\, self-control and the pull of the abyss\n ~ When the insane becomes normal\; when evil reins social life\n \n 4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the Politics of Madness\n ~ The social allure and fear of madness\; the institutions of confining mad \n people\n ~ Servicing normality by castigating the insane and marginalizing lunatics\n ~ Medicine\, psychiatry\, psychology\, law and the constructions of madness\; \n madness as illness\n ~ Contributions of the social sciences to the making and the critique of the \n making of madness\n ~ Representations\, explanations and the critique of madness from the \n humanities and the arts\n \n 5. Creativity\, Critique and Cutting Edge\n ~ Madness as genius\, outstanding\, out of the ordinary\, spectacularly \n brilliant\n ~ The art of madness\; the science of madness\n ~ Music\, painting\, dance\, theater: it is crazy to think of art without \n madness\n ~ The language and communication of madness: who can translate?\n ~ Creation as an unfolding of madness\n \n 6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating Promise of Madness\n ~ Metaphors of feeling free\, unrestrained\, capable\, lifted from reality\n ~ Madness as clear-sightedness\, as opening up possibilities\, as re-visioning \n of the world\n ~ The future\, the prophetic\, the unknown\; the epic\, the heroic and the tragic\n ~ The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness\n ~ The insanity of not loving madness\n \n 7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life about and from Madness\n ~ Cultural and social constructions of madness\; images of the mad\, crazy\, \n insane\, lunatic\, abnormal\n ~ What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from madness how to cope with \n reality\n ~ Recognising madness in oneself\; relativising madness in others\n ~ Love\, intimacy\, care and the small spaces of madness\n ~ Critical and ethical implosions of normality and normalness\; sane in insane \n places and insane in sane places\n \n Papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.\n \n The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Madness will run alongside the second of \n our projects on Chronicity and we anticipate holding sessions in common \n between the two projects.  We welcome any papers or panels considering the \n problems or addressing issues that cross both projects. Papers will be \n considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by \n Friday 26th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full \n draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts \n should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up tp 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Madness Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n Organising Chairs\n \n Gonzalo Araoz\n Project Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and University of Cumbria\, Cumbria\, \n United Kingdom\n E-mail: gon@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Network Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\, Freeland\, \n Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: mad5@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Making Sense Of:’ series of research \n projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from \n different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions \n which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at \n this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected \n papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard \n copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:gon@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:mad5@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102137.field_date.0.47 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Reframing Punishment DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120903T113000Z DTEND:20120905T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-reframing-punishment LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *1st Global Conference\n Reframing Punishment*\n \n Monday 3rd  September – Wednesday 5th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n The concept of punishment has a long history and diverse cultural\, social and \n criminological meanings.  Research and debate is often focused on the \n offender\, the offence\, the state and legal codification.  In contrast\, this \n project seeks to re-frame these debates in order to combine the insights they \n produce with broader cultural meanings\, social representations and \n ritualistic or other activities.  Therefore\, the aim of the project is to \n develop different ways of understanding the penetration and complexity of \n shared understandings of punishment from a variety of perspectives\, \n approaches and practitioner experiences.  Reframing the debate might be done \n through papers aimed the personal or social levels.  We encourage unique \n approaches to punishment in terms of boundary control\, whether it is control \n of evil\, the politically subversive\, the economically disruptive\, or \n punishment in pursuit of system stability or marginalisation of \n liminality.   Papers might also cover punishment issues relating to \n defining the contours of disgust\, desire\, dread\, or the abject.  They may \n even consider the operation and consequences of both wrongdoing and various \n forms of societal/social punishment.  Accordingly the project welcomes \n papers\, work-in-progress and pre-formed panels from diverse areas of study \n such as the humanities\, social sciences\, business\, science\, law schools and \n the arts\, as well as practitioners.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, reports and workshops are invited on issues broadly \n related to any of the following themes:\n \n     * Cultural (including cross-/inter-cultural) notions of what \n constitutes punishment\n     * Religious/spiritual punishment\, asceticism\, whether self-inflicted \n or externally imposed\n     * Pain\, fear and corporal punishment\n     * Punishment\, public services and performance measurement\n     * Punishment and child development/child rearing\n     * Punishment rituals\n     * Punishing the body for pleasure (modification\, BDSM\, smoking\, etc)\n     * Punishing the body in the name of beauty and fashion\n     * Representations of punishment in contemporary times and across \n historical periods\n     * Theories of punishment and deviants: What is punishment’s purpose? \n Ideal methods? Is punishment limited to humans? What about animals or nature\, \n and in some societies\, why is imprisonment such a key form of punishment?\n     * Proportionality\, materiality and other concepts used to administer \n punishment(s)\n     * Shame\, forgiveness\, vengeance\, retribution and punishment\n     * The limits of punishment: whether controlled by the state\, \n institutions or groups\, including sports groups\, cults\, gangs\, the military\, \n etc.\n     * Shifting social attitudes toward punishment\n     * Self-harm\, abuse and control\n     * Space and its role in enhancing or ameliorating punishment\n     * The relationship(s) between discipline and punishment\n \n Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Space and Place– we \n welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Reframing \n Punishment and Space and Place for a cross-over panel. We also welcome \n pre-formed panels on any aspect of Reframing Punishment or in relation to \n crossover panel(s).\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Space and Place– we \n welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Reframing \n Punishment and Space and Place for a cross-over panel.  The Steering Group \n particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by \n Friday22nd June 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to all \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 key words\n E-mails should be entitled: PUNISH Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Joint Organising Chairs:*\n \n Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith\n Conference Leaders\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n New Zealand\n E-mail: shs@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email:  punish@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for \n development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-punishment/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-punishment/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:shs@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:punish@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-punishment/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-punishment/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102147.field_date.0.48 SUMMARY:3rd Global Conference: Space and Place DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120903T113000Z DTEND:20120906T050000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/3rd-global-conference-space-and-place LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *3rd Global Conference\n Space and Place*\n \n Monday 3rd  September – Thursday 6th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and \n recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces\; \n boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructed a lived landscape \n of division and disenfranchisement\; and ideology constructs a national \n identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion.  The \n construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative \n arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in \n establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. \n Politics\, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is \n the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and \n multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics \n and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place.  \n We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology\, \n architecture\, urban geography\, the visual and creative arts\, philosophy and \n politics and also actively encourage practioners and non-academics with an \n interest in the topic to participate.\n \n We welcome traditional papers\, preformed panels of papers\, workshop proposals \n and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines \n express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect \n of space and place\, including the following:\n \n *1. Theorising Space and Place*\n ~Philosophies and space and place\n ~Surveillance\, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary \n life\n ~Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a “meshwork of \n paths” (Ingold: 2008)\n ~The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a \n temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005)\n ~The language and semiotics of space and place\n \n *2. Situated Identities*\n ~Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres\n ~Work spaces and hierarchies of power\n ~Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and \n Occidentalism\n ~Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space\n ~Disabled spaces/places\n ~Queer places and spaces\n \n *3. Contested spaces*\n ~The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place \n including the construction of gated communities as a response to \n real/imagined terrorism.\n ~The relationship between power\, knowledge and the construction of place and \n space\n ~Territorial wars\, both real and imagined.\n ~The relationship between the global and the local\n ~Barriers\, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived \n spaces\n ~Space and place from colonisation to globalisation\n ~Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place\n ~Transnational and translocal places\n \n *4. Representations of place and space*\n ~Embodied/disembodied spaces\n ~Lived spaces and the architecture of identity\n ~Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces\n ~Set design and the construction of space in film\, television and theatre\n ~Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative \n arts\n ~Technology and developments in the representation of space including new \n media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing\n ~Future cities/futurology and space\n ~Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts\n ~Space in computer games\n \n Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Reframing Punishment \n – we welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on \n Reframing Punishment and Space and Place for a cross-over panel. We also \n welcome pre-formed panels on any aspect of Space or Place or in relation to \n crossover panel(s).\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to \n the Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, \n following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: SP Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not \n receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your \n proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an \n alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n \n Matt Melia\n Conference Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Kingston University\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: mjmelia2002@gmail.com [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Founder and Network Leader\,\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom.\n E-mail: sp3@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects\, which \n in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring \n together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore \n various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted \n for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. \n Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page \n chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/... \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:mjmelia2002@gmail.com\n [2] mailto:sp3@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103392.field_date.0.49 SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Congress 2012\, University of Sheffield\, UK DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120905T230000Z DTEND:20120907T230000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/digital-humanities-congress-2012-university-sheffield-uk LOCATION:University of Sheffield United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:*CALL FOR PAPERS*   *The deadline for submissions is 30th April 2012. All \n proposers will be notified by 11th May 2012.*   The University of \n Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of \n Expert Centres and Centernet has announced its Call for Papers for a \n three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th - 8th September \n 2012.  The Digital Humanities Congress is a new conference which will be \n held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of \n knowledge\, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital \n humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within \n arts\, heritage and humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a \n means of dissemination. As such\, proposals related to all disciplines within \n the arts\, humanities and heritage domains are welcome. The conference will \n take place at the University's new residential conference facility\, The \n Edge.  *Keynote Speakers*  \n * Professor Andrew Prescott (Head of Department\, Department of Digital\n Humanities\, King's College London)\n * Professor Lorna Hughes (University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections\n at the National Library of Wales)\n * Professor Philip Ethington (Professor of History and Political Science\,\n University of Southern California and Co-Director of the USC Center for\n Transformative Scholarship)\n \n \n  The conference website will provide access to delegate registration as well \n as further information about the programme and facilities: \n http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 [1] For enquiries about submitting a \n proposal\, please contact Michael Pidd: m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk [2] The \n Humanities Research Institute is one of the UK's leading centres for the \n digital humanities: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk [3] The Network of Expert \n Centres is a collaboration of centres with expertise in digital arts and \n humanities research and scholarship\, including practice-led research: \n http://www.arts-humanities.net [4] Centernet is an international network of \n digital humanities centres: http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet [5]\n \n \n [1] http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012\n [2] mailto:m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk\n [3] http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk\n [4] http://m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk\n [5] http://m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102138.field_date.0.50 SUMMARY:6th Global Conference\,Fear\, Horror and Terror DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120907T113000Z DTEND:20120909T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/6th-global-conferencefear-horror-and-terror LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *6th Global Conference\n Fear\, Horror and Terror*\n \n Friday 7th September 2012 – Sunday 9th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine \n and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear\, horror and terror. In \n particular the project is interested in investigating the various contexts of \n fear\, horror and terror\, and assessing issues surrounding the artistic\, \n cinematic\, literary\, moral\, social\, (geo) political\, philosophical\, \n psychological and religious significance of them\, both individually and \n together.\n \n In addition to academic analysis\, we welcome the submission from \n practitioners\, such as people in religious orders\, therapists\, or victims of \n events which have been provoked by experiences of fear\, horror and terror – \n for example\, social workers\, those involved with the legal system\, medical \n practitioners\, or fiction authors whose work aims to evoke these reactions.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related \n to any of the following themes:\n \n *1. The Contexts of Fear\, Horror and Terror*\n - case studies\n - professions dealing with the Fear\, Horror and Terror (Therapists\, Clergy\, \n etc.)\n - creating and experiencing fear\, horror and terror\n - the properties of fear\, horror and terror\n - contexts of fear\, horror and terror\n - the language\, meaning and significance of fear\, horror and terror\n \n *2. At the Interface of Fear\, Horror and Terror*\n - the role of fear\, horror and terror\n - emotional releases (pleasant or negative) achieved by Fear\, Horror and \n Terror\n - techniques of fear\, horror and terror\n - marketing fear\, horror and terror\n - recreational fear\, horror and terror\n - aesthetic fear\, horror and terror\n - the body\, temperature\, touch\, taste or sound and fear\, horror and terror\n -silence as a strategic subversion of the operation of fear\, horror and \n terror\n -fear\, horror and terror and the visible/invisible\n \n *3. Representations of Fear\, Horror and Terror and:*\n - the imagination or the sublime\n - pleasure\, hope\, despair\, anxiety\, disgust\, dread\, loathing\n - art\, cinema\, theatre\, media and the creative arts\n -survival horror video games\n - literature (including children’s stories)\n - the other\n - technology\n - the future\n \n Papers  will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this \n order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: FHT Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith\n Conference Leaders\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n New Zealand\n E-mail: shs@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Founder and Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: fht6@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’ series of research \n projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from \n different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions \n which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at \n this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected \n papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard \n copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terr... \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:shs@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:fht6@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102330.field_date.0.51 SUMMARY:1st global Conference: The Graphic Novel DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120907T113000Z DTEND:20120909T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-graphic-novel LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *1st Global Conference:\n The Graphic Novel*\n \n Friday 7th September 2012 – Sunday 9th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is \n an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”\n ― Alan Moore\, V for Vendetta\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine\, explore and \n critically engage with issues in and around the production\, creation and \n reading of all forms of comics and graphic novels. Taken as a form of \n pictographic narrative it has been with us since the first cave paintings and \n even in the 21st century remains a hugely popular\, vibrant and culturally \n relevant means of communication whether expressed as sequential art\, graphic \n literature\, bandes dessinees\, tebeos\, fumetti\, manga\, manhwa\, komiks\, strips\, \n historietas\, quadrinhos\, beeldverhalen\, or just plain old comics. (as noted \n by Paul Gravett)\n \n Whilst the form itself became established in the 19th Century it is perhaps \n not until the 20th century that comic book heroes like Superman (who has been \n around since 1938) became\, not just beloved characters\, but national icons. \n With the globalisation of publishing brands such as Marvel and DC  it is no \n accident that there has been an increase in graphic novel adaptations and \n their associated merchandising. Movies such as  X-men\, Iron man\, Watchmen \n and the recent Thor have grossed millions of dollars across the world and \n many television series have been continued off-screen in the graphic form\, \n Buffy\, Firefly and Farscape to name a few.\n \n Of course America and Europe is not the only base of this art form and the \n Far East and Japan have their own traditions as well as a huge influence on \n graphic representations across the globe. In particular Japanese manga has \n influenced comics in Taiwan\, South Korea\, Hong Kong\, China\, France and the \n United States\, and have created an amazing array of reflexive appropriations \n and re-appropriations\, in not just in comics but in anime as well.\n \n Of equal importance in this growth and relevance of the graphic novel are the \n smaller and independent publishers that have produced influential works such \n as Maus by Art Spiegleman\, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi\, Palestine by Joe \n Sacco\,  Epileptic by David B and even Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware  that \n explore\, often on a personal level\, contemporary concerns such as gender\, \n diaspora\, post-colonialism\, sexuality\, globalisation and approaches to \n health\, terror and identity. Further to this the techniques and styles of the \n graphic novel have taken further form online creating entirely web-comics and \n hypertexts\, as in John Cei Douglas’ Lost and Found and Shelley Jackson’s \n Patchwork Girl\, as well as forming part of larger trans-media narratives and \n submersive worlds\, as in the True Blood franchise that invites fans to enter \n and participate in constructing a narrative in many varied formats and \n locations.\n \n This projects invites papers that consider the place of the comic or graphic \n novel in both history and location and the ways that it appropriates and is \n appropriated by other media in the enactment of individual\, social and \n cultural identity.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress\, workshops and pre-formed panels are \n invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:\n \n *    * Just what makes a Graphic Novel so Graphic and so Novel?:*\n       ~Sources\, early representations and historical contexts of the \n form.\n       ~Landmarks in development\, format and narratology.\n       ~Cartoons\, comics\, graphic novels and artists books.\n       ~Words\, images\, texture and colour and what makes a GN\n       ~Format\, layout\, speech bubbles and “where the *@#% do we go \n from here?”\n \n    * * The Inner and Outer Worlds of the Graphic Novel:*\n       ~Outer and Inner spaces\; Thoughts\, cities\, and galaxies and other \n representations of graphic place and space.\n       ~ Differing temporalities\, Chronotopes and “time flies”: \n Intertextuality\, editing and the nature of Graphic and/or Deleuzian time.\n       ~ Graphic Superstars and Words versus Pictures: Alan Moore v Dave \n Gibbons (Watchmen) Neil Gaiman v Jack Kirby (Sandman).\n       ~Performance and performativity of\, in and around graphic \n representations.\n       ~Transcriptions and translations: literature into pictures\, films \n into novels and high/low graphic arts.\n \n *    * Identity\, Meanings and Otherness:*\n       ~GN as autobiography\, witnessing\, diary and narrative\n       ~Representations of disability\, illness\, coping and normality\n       ~Cultural appropriations\, east to west and globalisation\n       ~National identity\, cultural icons and stereo-typical villains\n       ~Immigration\, postcolonial and stories of exile\n       ~Representing gender\, sexualities and non-normative identities.\n       ~Politics\, prejudices and polemics: banned\, censored and comix \n that are “just plain wrong”\n       ~Other cultures\, other voices\, other words\n \n    * * To Infinity and Beyond: The Graphic Novel in the 21st Century:*\n       ~Fanzines and Slash-mags: individual identity through \n appropriation.\n       ~Creator and Created: Interactions and interpolations between \n authors and audience.\n       ~Hypertext\, Multiple formats and inter-active narratives.\n       ~Cross media appropriation\, GN into film\, gaming and merchandisng \n and vice versa\n       ~Graphic Myths and visions of the future: Sandman\, Hellboy\, Ghost \n in the Shell.\n \n Papers can be accepted which deal solely with Graphic Novels. This project \n will run concurrently with our project on Fear\, Horror and Terror – we \n welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Fear\, \n Horror and Terror and Graphic Novels for a cross-over panel. We also welcome \n pre-formed panels on any aspect of the Graphic Novel or in relation to \n crossover panel(s).\n Papers  will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this \n order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: GN1 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Nadine Farghaly\n Paris-Lodron University\, Salzburg\,\n Austria\n E-mail: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-Mail: gn1@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Education Hub series of research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume or volumes.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net\n [2] mailto:gn1@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102132.field_date.0.52 SUMMARY:10th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120910T113000Z DTEND:20120913T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/10th-global-conference-monsters-and-monstrous LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *10th Global Conference\n Monsters and the Monstrous*\n \n Monday 10th September – Thursday 13th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n \n For this 10th Anniversary of the Monsters and the Monstrous Project we are \n looking forward to the future\, and so are starting from Franco Moretti’s \n comment that “the monster expresses the anxiety that the future will be \n monstrous.” Our focus then will be on Monsters of the Future\, no matter \n from which time or place that future is viewed. So whether the present is \n Medieval\, Renaissance\, Enlightenment\, Romantic\, Modernist or Post Modernist \n it is the ways that\, as further noted by Moretti\, a “new order of beings” \n makes manifest the terror of an unknown and uncontrollable tomorrow and the \n forms these creatures take.\n \n As such the monster becomes not the return of the repressed but an immanent \n Imaginary that constantly harasses and harangues the borders of the Real. \n Just as Grendel\, Caliban\, Frankenstein’s Monster\, Dr. Moreau’s creatures \n and the clones from Blade Runner can be seen to manifest a hybrid future that \n blurs the borders between human/non-human\, the humane and the in-humane\, the \n converse is equally true where the tomorrow they envision is as much \n degenerative as it is evolutionary. Here\, as in Wells’ the Time Machine\, or \n Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness\, the future is in fact a portal to the \n past and that the true anxiety we feel is not for inevitable change but for a \n monstrous stasis that\, like the vampire\, will lock us forever in a \n never-ending present (not unlike Wittgenstein’s immortality of the \n never-ending moment). This then is a call for monstrous visions of the \n future\, whether it is a new and alien land or one that is only too familiar\; \n for the Post-Human\, the Non-Human and the Anti-Human\, the Robot\, the Golem \n and the Cyborg\, the Pure-bred\, the Hybrid and the Mudblood\, the Unborn\, the \n Unliving and the  Undead.\n \n Papers\, reports\, work-in-progress\, workshops and pre-formed panels are \n invited on issues related to any of the following themes:\n \n *Monstrous Places/Spaces of the Future:*\n ~The city\, the town\, the home of the future.\n ~Environmental disasters\, global warming\, nuclear meltdowns\, plagues and \n terra incognito.\n ~Dystopias/utopias\n ~New Worlds\, forgotten worlds\, undiscovered worlds: Atlantis\, Shangri-la. \n Eldorado\n \n *Human Monsters:*\n ~Medical experimentation\, cloning\, reproduction.\n ~Cyborgs\, robots and inanimate bodies made real\n ~Hybrids\, both real and supernatural\, post-human and beyond human.\n ~Evolution and degeneration\n ~Actual bodies and supernatural bodies.\n ~Monsterisation of the human body: fragmentation\, surgical modification and \n bodies without organs\n \n *Monstrous Aliens & Alien Invaders:*\n ~Invasions of unknown beings\, conquistadors\, Martians\, heavenly or alien life \n forms.\n ~Humans as invaders\, Starship Troopers\, Iain M. Banks’ The Culture\n ~Parasites\, diseases\, flora and influences\n \n *Monstrous Generations:*\n ~The glorification of Youth\, Logan’s Run and In Time.\n ~Monstrous adolescents.\n ~Demonic children and alien babies.\n ~Middle-aged zombies and serial killers\, possessed grandparents\n ~Romantacising the Monster: Paranormal Romance\, dark lovers and heroes\, \n Twilight\, Vampire Diaries and Dexter.\n \n *Monstrous Politics:*\n ~Protest\, revolt and revolution\n ~Zombie Capitalism and undead labour\n ~Class\, status and the aristocracy\n ~Post colonialism\, diasporas and migration.\n ~Ageism\, sexism\, health-ism and separatism e.g\, District 9\, Metropolis\, \n Matrix\, Daybreakers.\n \n Papers can be accepted which deal solely with specific monsters. This project \n will run concurrently with our project on The Erotic– we welcome any papers \n considering the problems or addressing issues on Monsters and The Erotic for \n a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed panels on any aspect of the \n monstrous or in relation to crossover panel(s).\n 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Abstracts should be submitted to the \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, \n following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Monsters Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication.We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Sorcha Ni Fhlainn\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n School of English\, Trinity College\, Dublin\, Ireland\n E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Founder & Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\n United Kingdom\n E-mail: m10@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n *Simon Bacon*\n Poznan\,\n Poland\n Email: baconetti@googlemail.com [3]\n \n The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume. \n Some papers may also be invited for inclusion in the Journal of Monsters and \n the Monstrous.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/ \n [4]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/call-for-papers/ \n [5]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:snf@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:m10@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] mailto:baconetti@googlemail.com\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/\n [5] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102162.field_date.0.53 SUMMARY:7th Global Conference: The Erotic DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120911T113000Z DTEND:20120913T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/7th-global-conference-erotic LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *7th Global Conference\n The Erotic*\n \n Tuesday 11th September – Thursday 13th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\n \n *Call for Papers*\n \n Mapping the field of the erotic is a complex and frustrating endeavour\; as \n something which permeates lived experience\, interpersonal relationships\, \n intellectual reflection\, aesthetic tastes and sensibilities\, the erotic is \n clearly multi-layered and requires a plethora of approaches\, insights and \n perspectives if we are to better to understand\, appreciate and define it.\n \n This inter- and trans- disciplinary project seeks to explore critical issues \n in relation to eroticism and the erotic through its history\, its emergence in \n human development\, both individual and phylogenetic\, as well as its \n expression in national and cultural histories across the world\, including \n issues of transgression and censorship. The project will also explore erotic \n imagination and its representation in art\, art history\, literature\, film and \n music. These explorations inevitably touch on the relationship between \n sexualities\, gender and bodies\, along with questions concerning the perverse\, \n fetishism and fantasy\, pornography and obscenity.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, workshops and pre-formed panels are also invited on \n any of the following themes:\n \n     * the erotic and identity\n     * disability\, ethnicity\, gender\, class and eroticism\n     * the erotic in education and the education of the erotic\n     * eroticism in popular culture and media: cinema\, tv\, theatre\, radio\, \n newspapers and magazines\, the internet in all its forms\n     * the erotic in literature and on the screen exploitative eroticism\, \n e.g.\, pornography\n     * the erotic\, ethics and philosophy the eroticised (or de-eroticised) \n body\n     * absence\, control and excess of the erotic\n     * the erotic and sexuality: is there a difference\, and if so\, what? \n the erotic in representation\n     * the erotic and (post- neo-)colonialism\n     * eroticism in the making of the exotic\n     * the erotic in mythology\n     * the erotic and the non-human’ (vampires\, zombies\, cyborgs\, etc)\n     * eroticism and technology: sex toys and other turn-ons\n \n This project will run concurrently with our project on Monsters and the \n Monstrous – we welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing \n issues on Monsters and The Erotic for a cross-over panel. We also welcome \n pre-formed panels on any aspect of the monstrous or in relation to crossover \n panel(s).\n We welcome submissions from within specific disciplinary boundaries\, but we \n are also particularly interested in interdisciplinary contributions that \n balance the scope of insight that disciplines bring with the limitations that \n disciplinary boundaries create in failing to recognise cross-disciplinary \n connections\, which neglect important historical and cultural perspectives on \n the development of the ‘erotic’ as a locus of attention. Consequently\, we \n are particularly keen to encourage submissions that are not subsumed within \n disciplines\, but cut across and between disciplinary vocabularies to provide \n new synergies\, domains and inter-disciplinary possibilities. We warmly \n welcome proposals which go beyond traditional paper presentations and \n encompass also panels\, performances and workshops.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.\n \n Abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in \n Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: The Erotic Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n \n Natalia Kaloh Vid\n University of Maribor\,\n Slovenia\n Email: nkv@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Founder and Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-mail: er7@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Gender and Sexuality series of research \n projects\, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:nkv@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:er7@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103529.field_date.0.54 SUMMARY:CFP deadline extended: Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120912T230000Z DTEND:20120913T230000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/call-papers-girls-and-digital-culture-transnational-reflections LOCATION:King's College London\, Strand Campus United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:*Call for Papers: Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections*\n \n An international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for \n Culture\, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital \n Humanities\, King’s College\, London.\n \n September 13 & 14 \, 2012\, King’s College London\, Strand Campus\n \n This conference seeks to bring together current research exploring the \n relationship between contemporary girlhood and digital culture\, in a \n transnational frame. Drawing on approaches from the arts\, humanities and \n social sciences  the conference will look at how contemporary \n transformations and transnational interconnections may be challenging \n existing social and cultural categories\, power structures and global \n hegemonies. The conference will consider the following questions:\n \n *What are the key debates in current research on girls\, young women and \n digital culture?\n \n * How might a transnational lens raise new questions\, and what new ideas does \n it make thinkable?\n *Is digital culture global culture?\n *How does the development of new digital technologies affects notions and \n experiences of girlhood?\n * How are girls using new digital technologies?\n *How do ideas and practices move across national borders? \n *What effects do transnational interconnections have on girlhood and digital \n culture?\n \n  \n \n Speakers include: \n \n Lisa Nakamura\n \n ShaniOrgad\n \n Kalpana Wilson\n \n Jessica Ringrose\n \n RupaHuq\n \n Simidele Dosekun\n \n Papers will be welcomed from across the social sciences\, arts and humanities\, \n including sociology\, geography\, media and communication studies\, digital \n humanities\, web science\,gender studies\, queer studies\, cultural studies and \n postcolonial theory\, as well as from artists\, activists\, grassroots and \n community initiatives and policy makers/think tanks.\n \n Themes of the conference include:\n \n Girls experiences of digital culture\n Gender and social media\n \n Sexuality\n Activism and politics\n Identity and subjectivity\n Development\n \n Gender and blogging\n \n Gender\, play and digital culture\n Power and digital divisions\n Convergence\n Intersectional and transnational approaches\n \n Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to \n *girlsanddigitalculture@gmail.com* [1]*\, *by 23rd April 2012\n \n  \n \n For further details and updates see\n \n  \n \n http://girlsanddigitalculture.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ [2]\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n \n [1] mailto:girlsanddigitalculture@gmail.com\n [2] http://girlsanddigitalculture.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102161.field_date.0.55 SUMMARY:6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism\, Conflict and Belonging DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120915T233000Z DTEND:20120919T050000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/6th-global-conference-multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *6th Global Conference\n Multiculturalism\, Conflict and Belonging*\n \n Sunday 16th  September 2012 – Wednesday 19th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place \n that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the \n implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In \n particular\, the project will assess the context of major world \n transformations\, for example\, new forms of migration and the massive \n movements of people across the globe\, as well as the impact of globalisation \n on tensions\, conflicts and on the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking \n to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues\, we warmly welcome \n papers from all disciplines\, professions and vocations which struggle to \n understand what it means for people\, the world over\, to forge identities in \n rapidly changing national\, social and cultural contexts.\n \n Papers\, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following \n themes:\n \n *1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other*\n ~ Who is Self and who is Other?\n ~ The new value of social diversity and cultural multiplicity\; breaking with \n homogeneity and sameness\n ~ What is the place of difference and alterity\, of normality and \n normalisation in defining identity and membership\n ~ How to account for social membership and cultural identity?\n ~ Making sense of transformations and their effects over culture\, identity \n and membership\n ~ Othering\, excluding\, stygmatising\n \n *2. Nations\, Nationhood and Nationalisms*\n ~ What does it mean\, today\, to belong to a nation?\n ~ New migrants\, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral to \n central countries\n ~ Resurgence of the local and the diminishing importance of the national\n ~ Are we living post-national realities?\n ~ What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social \n membership?\n ~ Models of multiculturalism and the contemporary experience of \n multiculturalism(s)\n ~ Assimilation\, integration\, adaptation and other forms of placing the \n responsibility of change on the Other\n \n *3. Institutions\, Organizations and Social Movements*\n ~ Evaluating the promises and institutions of post-national governing\n ~ Institutions and organisations that do more for money than for people\n ~ Political battles over globalization\n ~ Social movements\, new rebellion and alternative globalizations\n ~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political \n intentions or control\n ~ New forms of global exclusion\n \n *4. Persons\, Personhood and the Inter-Personal*\n ~ De-centering individuals and the making of persons\; thinking and acting \n with others in mind and interpersonally\n ~ Tensions\, contradictions and conflicts of identity formation and social \n membership\n ~ New sources and forms of belonging\; new tribalism\, localism\, parochialism \n and communitarianism\n ~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion\, ideologies and \n religions\, politics and power\, nations and geography\n ~ Who am I if not the relation with others?\n ~ Non-recognition as cultural violence\n \n *5. Media and Artistic Representations*\n ~ The role of new and old media in the construction of cultures and \n identities\, of nations and place\n ~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing and stereotyping\n ~ The contested space of representing culture\, identity and belonging\n ~ Art\, media and how to challenge the rigid and impenetrable constructions of \n culture\n ~ Living\, being and belonging through art\n ~ Life imitating art and fiction\n \n *6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life*\n ~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to \n the sharing of cultures?\n ~ Cultural claims and human rights\n ~ Exploring multiculturalism as a plural experience: Shouldn’t we be \n talking about multiculturalisms?\n ~ Living in a context with the cultural markers of a different context: Is \n that transculturalism?\n ~ Languages\, idioms and new emerging forms of wanting to bridge the \n ‘invisible’ divide of cultures\n ~ Symbols and significations that connect people to places other than \n ‘their own’\n ~ Culture\, identity and belonging by choice\n \n *7. New Concepts\, New Forms of Inclusion*\n ~ Recognition and respect without exclusion\n ~ An ethics for social relations in a new millennium\n ~ What to do with historically old concepts like tolerance\, acceptance and \n hospitality?\n ~ Should not we all be strangers? Should not we all be foreigners?\n ~ Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?\n ~ Loving the other within the self\; building fluid boundaries of belonging \n and being\n \n The 2012 meeting of Multiculturalism\, Conflict and Belonging will run \n alongside the forth meeting of our project on Fashion – Exploring Critical \n Issues and we anticipate holding sessions in common between the two \n projects.  We welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing \n issues of Fashion\, Multiculturalism\, Conflict and Belonging.\n \n Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts \n may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: Multiculturalism Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Dr S. Ram Vemuri\n School of Law and Business\, Faculty of Law\, Business and Arts\n Charles Darwin University\n Darwin NT0909\, Australia\n Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n E-Mail: mcb6@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au\n [2] mailto:mcb6@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102112.field_date.0.56 SUMMARY:4th Global Conference: Fashion DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120916T113000Z DTEND:20120919T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/4th-global-conference-fashion LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *4th Global Conference\n Fashion*\n \n Sunday 16th  September – Wednesday 19th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n \n Fashion is a statement\, a stylised form of expression\, which displays and \n begins to define a person\, a place\, a class\, a time\, a religion\, a culture\, \n subcultures\, and even a nation. This inter-disciplinary and \n trans-disciplinary conference seeks to explore the historical\, social\,  \n economic\, political\, psychological and artistic phenomenon of fashion\, a \n powerful component of contemporary culture.  Fashion lies at the very heart \n of persons\, their sense of identity and the communities in which they live. \n Individuals emerge as icons of beauty and style\; cities are identified as \n centres of fashion\; the business of fashion is a billions of dollar per annum \n global industry\, employing millions of people.  The project will assess the \n history and meanings of fashion\; evaluate its expressions in politics\, \n business\, pop culture\, the arts\, consumer culture\, and social media\; \n determine its effect on gender\, sexuality\, class\, race\, age\, nation and other \n sources of identity\; and explore future directions and trends.\n \n Building on the foundations of previous meetings\, publications and \n collaborations\, the conference will be structured around five main areas of \n focus. Each area will have the opportunity to enjoy specific as well as whole \n group sessions. Papers\, presentations\, demonstrations and workshops are \n invited on the following themes:\n \n *1. Understanding Fashion*\n - Fashion\, Style\, Taste-Making\, and Chic\n - Fashion and Fashionability\n - Fashion and Zeitgeist\n - History of Fashion\n -The Future of Fashion\n \n *2. Learning and Fashion*\n - Tools and Methodology\n - Theorizing Fashion: Disciplines and Perspectives\n -Fashion Education\n - Identifying\, Defining and Refining Concepts (e.g.\, ‘style\,’ \n ‘fashion\,’ ‘look\,’ ‘fad\,’ ‘trend\,’ ‘in & out’)\n - Studying and Documenting Fashion (curatorial practice\, collections\, \n archives\, and museums)\n -Fashion Specialists (e.g.\, pattern makers\, fitters\, embroiders\, tailors\, \n textile experts)\n -The Materials of Fashion\n \n *3. Representing and Disseminating Fashion*\n - Fashion Icons\n -Designer and Muses\n -Stylists\n - Style Guides and Makeover Shows\n - Fashion Photography\n - Fashion Magazines\, Blogs\, and Social Media\n -Films and Documentaries about Fashion\n -Fashion and the Performing Arts\, Music and Television\n - Celebrities as Fashion Designers\n \n *4. Identity and Fashion*\n - Fashion and Identity (e.g.\, class\, race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, age\, \n nation\, transnationalism\, religion\, etc.)\n - Fashion: (Sub)Cultures\n - Fashion\, Politics\, and Ideology: e.g.\, ‘message’ fashion\; political \n platform\, regimes\, and revolutions)\n - Ethical Issues in Fashion (e.g.\, cruelty free fashion\, eco-fashion\, \n exploitative labour\, the ‘fakes’ market)\n -Fashion as Performance\n - Fashion\, the Body\, and Self-Fashioning (e.g.\, beauty standards\, body art\, \n weight\, plastic surgery\, etc.)\n \n *5. The Business of Fashion*\n -Fashion Professions and Trades\n -Fashion Cities\, Fashion Weeks\, Fashion’s Night Out\n -Fashion Marketing (e.g.\, brands\, flagship stores\, guerilla stores\, \n eCommerce)\n -Fashion Models\n -Fashion Forecasting\n -Marketing Platforms (e.g.\, communication\, streaming video\, social media\, \n etc.)\n -Fashion Markets: Vintage\, Nostalgia\, Mass\, Luxury\, Emerging\n -Producing Displaying Fashion (production sites\, showrooms\, runways\, window \n displays\, websites\, etc.)\n - The Rise of the Accessory as a Driving Force of Fashion\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. 300 word abstracts are due by Friday 3rd February 2012. If an \n abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Emails containing the abstracts should be \n submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: FASHION4 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please Note: In this email  please attach TWO versions of your abstract as \n follows:\n \n 1) One with title and body of abstract only (no identification of the \n author—this version will be for our blind peer review process).\n 2) The other with the following information about the author(s): affiliation\, \n email\, title of abstract\, title and body of abstract\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Jacque Lynn Foltyn\n Professor of Sociology\, Dept of Social Sciences\,\n College of Letters and Sciences\, National University\, CA\, USA\n E-mail: jfoltyn@nu.edu [1]\n \n *Dr Rob Fisher*\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: fash4@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects. \n The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/fashion/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/fashion/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:jfoltyn@nu.edu\n [2] mailto:fash4@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/fashion/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/fashion/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102166.field_date.0.57 SUMMARY:4th Global Conference: Strangers\, Aliens and Foreigners DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120921T113000Z DTEND:20120923T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/4th-global-conference-strangers-aliens-and-foreigners LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *4th Global Conference\n Strangers\, Aliens and Foreigners*\n \n Friday 21st September 2012 – Sunday 23rd September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers*\n \n This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the crucial place that \n strangers\, aliens and foreigners have for the constitution of self\, \n communities and societies. In particular the project will assess world \n transformations\, like phenomena we associate with the term \n ‘globalisation’\, new forms of migration and the massive movements of \n people across the globe\, as well as the impact they have on the conceptions \n we hold of self and other. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary \n dialogues\, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines\, professions and \n vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people\, the world \n over\, to forge a sense of self in rapidly changing contexts where it is no \n longer possible to ignore the importance of strangers\, aliens and foreigners \n for our contemporary nations\, societies and cultures.\n \n Papers\, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following \n themes:\n \n *1. Transformations of Self*\n ~ How is Self interweaved with Other? And the many ways in which Self depends \n on Other\n ~ Acknowledging the importance of strangers for our lives\, for our sense of \n well-being\n ~ Recognising our dependence on aliens and foreigners for our communities\, \n cities and towns\, for our countries and nations\n ~ The decline of the value of sameness and homogeneity\, the rise of diversity \n and plurality\n ~ Opposing the construction of self by othering\, excluding and stigmatising\n \n *2. Boundaries\, Communities and Nations*\n ~ Who is a stranger? Aliens and foreigners to whom?\n ~ New migrants\, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral to \n central countries\n ~ Trans-national networks and the blurring of boundaries\; are we living \n trans-national and post-national realities?\n ~ Assimilation\, integration\, adaptation and other forms of placing the \n responsibility of change on foreigners\n ~ What has happened to ideas like acceptance\, hospitality and cosmopolitanism\n \n *3. Economies\, Institutions and Migrants*\n ~ Labour migration as key for economic growth and prosperity\n ~ The politics of making aliens\, foreigners and migratory labour \n ‘invisible’\n ~ Global politics of money over people\; new forms of global exclusion\n ~ Social movements\, new rebellion and alternative globalisations\n ~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political control\n \n *4. Art and Representations*\n ~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing and stereotyping\n ~ The contested space of representing self and other\, native and foreigner\n ~ Art\, media and how to challenge the rigid constructions of art and culture\n ~ Fictions of strangers\, stories of aliens\, fables of foreigners\n ~ The artistic constructions of otherness\n \n *5. Self (inevitably) linked to Other*\n ~ De-centering selves\; who am I if not the relation with others?\n ~ Thinking and acting with others in mind\; orienting life inter-subjectively\n ~ Tensions\, contradictions and conflicts of living recognising aliens and \n foreigners\n ~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion\, ideologies and \n religions\, politics and power\, nations and geography\n ~ Non-recognition as social and cultural violence\n \n The 2012 meeting of Strangers\, Aliens and Foreigners will run alongside a \n second of our projects on Beauty and we anticipate holding sessions in common \n between the two projects.  We welcome any papers or panels considering the \n problems or addressing issues that cross both projects. Papers will be \n considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by \n Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full \n draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts \n should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Strangers Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Dr S. Ram Vemuri\n School of Law and Business\, Faculty of Law\, Business and Arts\n Charles Darwin University\n Darwin NT0909\, Australia\n Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au [1]\n \n *Rob Fisher*\n Network Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n E-Mail: saf4@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au\n [2] mailto:saf4@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102236.field_date.0.58 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference: Beauty: Exploring Critical Issues DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120921T113000Z DTEND:20120923T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conference-beauty-exploring-critical-issues LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *2nd Global Conference\n Beauty: Exploring Critical Issues*\n \n Friday 21st September – Sunday 23rd September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for papers:*\n \n “The first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty\,” wrote the \n poet-playwright- novelist Yukio Mishima\, in Temple of the Golden Pavilion as \n he pondered beauty’s relevance\, meanings\, and the spell it cast over him. \n Beauty is complicated by the word beauty itself. Limited or overloaded\, \n beauty has been celebrated as essential or denounced as irrelevant. The \n existence of beauty has been challenged\, called a search for El Dorado. Some \n find no beauty in life\, a recurring motif in subcultures\, music lyrics\, and \n the notes left by suicides. Others dismiss that perspective\, arguing that \n common sense\, experience\, and multidisciplinary research reveal the reality \n and centrality of beauty in our lives. But what exactly is beauty? \n Speculations about the nature of beauty are various and contradictory. Some \n philosophers have argued that it will remain a mystery. Other theorists have \n held less modest beliefs\, arguing that beauty expresses a basic spiritual \n reality\, has universal physical properties\, or is an experience and \n construction of mind and culture. The beauty ‘project’ will explore\, \n assess\, and map a number of key core themes.\n These will include:\n \n *1. Understanding Beauty*\n - Defining beauty\n - Theorising beauty\n - Power of beauty\n - History of beauty\n - Politics of beauty\n - Culture of beauty\n - Religion of beauty\n \n *2. Experiences of and Representations of Beauty*\n - Pursuit of beauty\n - Expressions of beauty\n - Appearance of beauty\n - Making beauty\n - Documenting beauty\n - Emotion and beauty\n - Beauty and seduction\n - Representing beauty in art\, literature and popular culture\n \n *3. Beauty and Nature*\n -Beauty and the natural world\n -Beauty and the Sublime\n -Beauty and desire\n -Science and mathematics of beauty\n -Medical aspects of beauty\n \n *4. Beauty\, Culture\, and Identity*\n - Beauty subcultures\n - Beauty and social stratification: gender\, sexuality\, class\, race\, \n ethnicity\, age\, etc.\n - Beauty collectors\n - Beauty specialists\n - Beauty disciples\n -Enhancing the body beautiful: cosmetics\, tattoos\, piercings\, surgical \n interventions\, and other forms of body modification\n \n *5. The Business of Beauty*\n -Beauty and consumer culture\n -Beauty and cultural capital\n -Beauty professions and trades\n -Beauty cities\n -Beauty marketing and forecasting\n -Professional beauties (models\, actors\, celebrities\, beauty pageants etc.)\n -Fashion and beauty\n -Glamour and beauty\n \n *6. Diminishing the Beautiful*\n -Beauty and transgression\n -Beauty and ugliness\n -Beauty and aging\n -Defiling the beautiful\n -Destroying the beautiful\n -Beauty and death\n -Beauty and decay\n \n Papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.\n The 2012 meeting of Beauty will run alongside a second of our projects on  \n Strangers\, Aliens and Foreigners and we anticipate holding sessions in common \n between the two projects.  We welcome any papers or panels considering the \n problems or addressing issues that cross both projects\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 22nd June 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both \n Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with \n the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Beauty Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Dr Jacque Lynn Foltyn\n Project Leader\n Professor of Sociology\, Dept of Social Sciences\, College of Letters and \n Sciences\, National University\, CA\, USA\n E-mail: jfoltyn@nu.edu [1]\n \n *Dr Rob Fisher*\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: beau2@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects. \n The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:jfoltyn@nu.edu\n [2] mailto:beau2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102129.field_date.0.59 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference: Gender and Love DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120925T113000Z DTEND:20120927T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conference-gender-and-love LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION:2nd Global Conference\n Gender and Love\n \n Tuesday 25th September – Thursday 27th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n *Call for Papers:*\n \n The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field intertwined with feminism\, \n queer studies\, sexuality studies\, postcolonial studies\, and cultural studies \n (to name just some relevant fields).\n \n This project calls for the consideration of gender in relation to various \n kinds of love (with regard\, for example\, to self\, spirit\, religion\, family\, \n friendship\, ethics\, nation\, globalisation\, environment\, and so on). How do \n the interactions of gender and love promote particular performances of \n gender\; conceptions of individual and collective identity\; formations of \n community\; notions of the human\; understandings of good and evil? These are \n just some of the questions that occupy this project.\n \n This conference welcomes research papers which seek to understand the \n interaction and interconnection between the concepts of love and gender\; and \n whether\, when\, how and in what ways the two concepts conceive and construct \n each other.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues \n related to any of the following themes:\n \n *1. Love as a Disciplinary Force: Productions of Gender*\n * Love\, Gender\, Essentialism and Ontology\n * Love\, Gender and Narrative\n * Love\, Gender and the Law\n * Love\, Gender and Religion\n \n *2. Norms\, Normativity\, Intimacy*\n * Rituals and Rites\n * Conventions\, Commitments and Obligations\n * Choices and Respect\; Loyalty and Trust\n * Transgressions and Taboos\n \n *3. Gendered Yearnings*\n * Personhood and Identity\n * Body Politics and Belonging\n * Love and Gender Performativity\n * Transgender Desires\n * Queer Kinship Formations\n * Queer Conceptualisations of the State\n \n *4. Global Perspectives on Gender and Love*\n * Transformations of Intimacy in a Global World\n * Sex and Choice\n * Reproductive Rights\n * Sexual Citizenship\n * Gender\, Love and Trans/Nationalism\n \n *5. Representations of Gender and Love*\n * Aesthetics and Intelligibility\n * Gendered Narrations of Love\n * Media\, Gender and Love\n \n For 2012\, the /Gender and Love/ project will meet alongside our project on \n /"Skins" and Contemporary Culture/. It is our intention to create  \n cross-over sessions between the two groups – and we welcome  proposals \n which deal with the relationship between gender and love and "Skins" and \n contemporary culture. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission \n of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related \n theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If \n an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Abstracts should be submitted \n simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n \n E-mails should be entitled: GL2 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n \n *Dikmen Yakalı Çamoğlu*\n Department of Communication Sciences\n Dogus University\, Istanbul\,\n Turkey\n Email:* Dikmen Yakali [1]*\n \n *Dr Rob Fisher*\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: *Rob Fisher* [2]\n \n  \n \n The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface ’ series of research \n projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers \n may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for \n publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:dyakali@yahoo.com\n [2] mailto:gl2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102130.field_date.0.60 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: 'Skins' and Contemporary Culture DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120925T113000Z DTEND:20120927T170000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-skins-and-contemporary-culture LOCATION:Mansfield College Oxford United Kingdom See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.co.uk?q=%2C+Oxford%2C+%2C+uk DESCRIPTION: \n \n *1st Global Conference\n 'Skins' and Contemporary Culture*\n \n Tuesday 25th September 2012 – Thursday 27th September 2012\n Mansfield College\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n Now in its sixth series on E4 in the UK and first series on MTV in the US\, \n the brainchild of father-son writing team Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain has \n gained popularity and critical acclaim for the honesty\, authenticity and \n humour of its no-holds-barred depiction of the teenage experience. In a \n reflexive turn\, Skins has become a cultural phenomenon whose influence is \n registered through its status as essential teen viewing\, the Skins party \n craze and the tendency among fans to perceive their own identities and \n experiences in relation to characters and situations from the show. The \n richness of Skins as a televisual text supports wide-ranging explorations of \n the show’s aesthetic\, thematic\, ideological\, social and technological \n implications.\n \n We therefore invite papers and preconstituted panels that address any aspect \n of Skins\, such as:\n \n     * Representations of teenage life and teen culture\n     * Identities: gender\, class\, race\, sexualities (hetero-\, homo-\, bi-\, \n fluid\, queer\, etc.)\n     * Death and the concept of mortality\n     * Mental illness/psychology/psychoanalysis\n     * Fandom\n     * Transnational reception\n     * Analysis of fanvids\, fanfics\, fanart\n     * Assessments of the meaning/cultural significance of specific \n storylines (c.f. the Naomily phenomenon)\n     * Plotline controversies and moral panics\n     * Adapting Skins for the American market\n     * Narrative and storytelling\n     * Creator/showrunner as author\n     * Genre analysis\n     * Modes of comedy\n     * Defining the ‘Skins aesthetic’\n     * Uses of inter-textuality/pop culture allusions\n     * Fashion\n     * Music\n     * Space and place: Bristol on screen\n     * Skins novels\n     * Acting and performance\n     * Cameos and guest stars\n     * Fame and celebrity\n     * Production process studies\n     * Technologies of production\, distribution and reception in the \n post-broadcast era\n     * Skins and Channel 4/E4/MTV\n     * Comparative analyses of Skins and other television shows\n \n For 2012\, the Skins and Contemporary Culture project will meet alongside our \n project on Gender and Love It is our intention to create  cross-over \n sessions between the two groups – and we welcome  proposals which deal \n with the relationship between gender and love and Skins and contemporary \n culture. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words \n should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Abstracts should be submitted \n simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, \n WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: SKINS Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n *Ann-Marie Cook*\n Visiting Fellow\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and \n Innovation\,\n Queensland University of Technology\,\n Australia\n E-mail: annmariecook75@gmail.com [1]\n \n *Dr Rob Fisher*\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: skins@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects. \n The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are \n innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this \n conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may \n be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/skins/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/skins/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:annmariecook75@gmail.com\n [2] mailto:skins@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/skins/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/skins/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102466.field_date.0.61 SUMMARY:EdNET 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20120930Z DTEND:20121002Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/ednet-2012 LOCATION:Baltimore\, MD United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Baltimore%2C+MD%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:EdNET 2012: Baltimore\, MD: September 30-October 2. Join over 550 executives \n and industry leaders for three days of networking and building new business \n relationships. It's an expensive ticket (close to $1K). In 2011\, EdSurge \n friend\, Snehal Patel\, founder of math gaming company\, Sokikom\, describes \n EdNet as "uber-networking. The meeting brings together lots of big\, \n traditional companies in the K-20 space." Great place if you're looking to \n cozy up to those players. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102468.field_date.0.62 SUMMARY:GFE 16th Annual Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121024Z DTEND:20121026Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/gfe-16th-annual-conference-0 LOCATION:New York\, NY United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:GFE 16th Annual Conference: New York City\, NY: October 24-26. If you're a \n nonprofit\, consider checking out the annual gathering of the Grantmakers for \n Education\, an organization of private and public nonprofits  that provide \n support for educational philanthropies. Last year's sessions highlighted the \n craft of education grantmaking\, covering a range of topics across early \n learning\, K-12 education\, out-of-school time and postsecondary success. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103518.field_date.0.63 SUMMARY:ASIST 75th Annual Meeting: Information\, Interaction\, Innovation DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121026Z DTEND:20121031Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/asist-75th-annual-meeting-information-interaction-innovation-celebrating-past-constructing-pr LOCATION:Baltimore\, MD United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Baltimore%2C+MD%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION: \n \n ASIST 75th Annual Meeting\n \n Information\, Interaction\, Innovation: Celebrating the Past\, Constructing the \n Present\, and Creating the Future\n \n October 26-31\, 2012\, Baltimore\, Maryland\n \n  \n \n IMPORTANT DATES\n \n 1) Papers\, Panels\, Workshops & Tutorials \n \n Deadline for submissions:  April 30\n \n  \n \n 2) Posters\, Demos & Videos:\n \n Deadline for submissions:  June 10\n \n  \n \n http://asis.org/asist2012/ [1]\n \n \n [1] http://asis.org/asist2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103820.field_date.0.64 SUMMARY:ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies: Experimental Methods in \n Communication. DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121101Z DTEND:20121101Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/essachess-%E2%80%93-journal-communication-studies-experimental-methods-communication LOCATION:France DESCRIPTION: \n \n  \n \n *Call for Papers for volume 6\, n° 1(11)/ 2013*\n \n  \n \n -------- *ESSACHESS – JOURNAL FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES* -------------------\n \n *www.essachess.com*\n \n  \n \n -------- *EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN COMMUNICATION* -----------------------------\n \n  \n \n Coordinators:\n \n Françoise BERNARD (University of Provence\, France) and Vincent MEYER \n (University of Lorraine\, France)\n \n  \n \n Experimental methods are increasingly employed in Information and \n Communication Sciences (ICS). The coordinators of /Essachess – Journal of \n Communication Studies/ want to offer in this issue a progress report on \n “Experimental methods in communication”. Indeed\, in a set of relevant \n disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, the epistemological \n interest for these approaches and their complementary input is widely \n recognized. We want to address the question extremely important for ICS\, \n especially within the French setting:In what theoretical frameworks\, \n for which subjects\, and under what conditions are these \n methods employed and do they prove relevant?\n \n  \n \n This issue intends to present and bring to light  – in their diversity of \n implementation and of subjects dealt with –issues\, challenges\, and specific \n methodological contributions of ICS research. These methods allow for a new \n approach and open new perspectives on info-communicational phenomena \n (Courbet\, 2010). They also provide answers to public and social demands \n (including call for proposal) who are increasingly concerned about the \n administration of evidence and proofs. Moreover\, they allow for a \n participatory research and/or action research. Finally\, this issue could \n help bring together the work of researchers using this approach within ICS \n both in France as well as internationally.\n \n  \n \n The expected contributions will\, by an international comparison\, fit \n into four research directions:\n \n – Question the experimental situation from different angles: How \n experimental approaches make it possible to specify and describe certain \n components and characteristics of information and communication? How can they \n make possible the replication of the results? What can we “replicate” as \n part of the reality? How to develop hypotheses in relation to a field or a \n theory? How is the diversity of the experimental situations defined: as a \n natural context or as a controlled context?\n \n – Describe the procedures employed in different fields and engage in \n discussions on specific procedures and tools\, for example: technical \n procedures like the one known as “real time responses" (RTR) used to \n measure the expression of feelings and opinions about media contents (Maier\, \n Maier\, Maurer\, Reineman and Meyer\, 2009)\; devising communication procedures \n used in specific areas (publicity\, environment\, public health\, etc.)\; the \n study of receptivity according to socio-cognitive and behavioral effects \n (Bernard\, Courbet\, Falkowicz-Halimi\, 2010).\n \n – Address the issue of selection\, status\, and place of the experimental \n subjects. The experimental method can be presented as a case study or as a \n specific situation\, isolated sequences with different meanings for the \n participants but in theory\, controlled by the researcher. How do researchers \n challenge such research practices?\n \n –      – Provide an account of the relationship between methods and\, \n more broadly\, of the practices of methodological pluralism: How can the \n experimental methods be articulated with other methods as part of research \n projects ? Within the variety of experimental methods\, to what degree are \n they associated with distinct approaches – for example\, the approach \n ‘quasi-experimental’ to what degree refers to methodological pluralism ? \n What are the questions asked in the context of these inter-methods ? Is the \n opposition between the traditional hermeneutic-interpretive  method  \n /versus/ the experimental method outdated?\n \n  \n \n *Important Deadlines*\n \n  \n \n – *November 1st\, 2012*: submission of the proposition of article in the \n form of a summary of 400-500 words. The proposal must include a list of \n recent references\;\n \n – December 15\, 2012: acceptance of the proposal\;\n \n – *April 15\, 2013*: full paper submission\;\n \n – June 1st\, 2013: full paper acceptance.\n \n  \n \n Papers should be between 6\,000-10\,000 words in length. Papers can be \n submitted in English or French. The abstracts should be in English and \n French\, max. 200-250 words followed by 5 keywords. Please provide the full \n names\, affiliations\, and e-mail addresses of all authors\, indicating the \n contact author. Papers\, and any queries\, should be sent to:\n \n essachess@gmail.com\n \n  \n \n Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by e-mail. The journal will \n be published in July 2013.\n \n \n [1] [1] The journal „ESSACHESS” has been indexed in the databases \n ProQuest CSA\, EBSCO Publishing\, Ulrich’s\, Gale\, J-Gate\, DOAJ\, CEEOL\, Index \n Copernicus.\n \n \n [1] http://hastac.org///C:/Users/Dell/Desktop/ESSACHESS_%20CFP_vol6_1_11_2013.doc#_ftnref1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103152.field_date.0.65 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference: Conflict and Communication DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121104T123000Z DTEND:20121106T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conference-conflict-and-communication LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n  \n \n 2nd Global Conference\n Conflict and Communication\n \n Sunday 4th November – Tuesday 6th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call For Papers:*\n \n Our ability to communicate successfully affects so many aspects of our lives. \n Difficulties\,  indeed failures\, or breakdowns in communication can play a \n major role in hostility\, conflict and war. Communication problems can also \n lead to personal frustration and desired outcomes not being realised.\n \n The nature of our communications can raise larger contextual issues about \n human learning\, exchange of knowledge and the nature of humanity. How can we \n communicate where those involved have quite different languages\,  \n specialisations and views of the world? How can we avoid conflict when we \n strongly disagree based on the great differences in how we perceive things? \n How can we appreciate and consider highly divergent views from our own? How \n can we still communicate effectively when the conceptual gap is so large? How \n can we make good decisions and complete tasks when communication is \n difficult?\n \n Wars may be started and sustained by communication difficulties. When we \n communicate we are not just stating facts\, but also emotions and personal \n positions that may underlie them. In the cut and thrust of everyday life\, \n being able to recognise\, track\, and respond to the varied levels in \n communication can be challenging. It may require us to appreciate knowledge \n and realities vastly different than our own\; bridging communication gaps may \n place us well outside our comfort zone.\n \n This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore \n these and other topics and create dialogue about communicationand conflict. \n We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including communication \n studies\, journalism\, public affair’s\, public relations\, philosophy\, \n psychology\, literature\, management\, business studies\, information technology\, \n science\, the visual and creative arts\, music\, politics and also actively \n encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to \n participate.\n \n We welcome traditional papers\, preformed panels of papers\, workshop proposals \n and other forms of performance recognising that different disciplines express \n themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of \n Communications including the following:\n \n *1. Non-violent\, or compassionate\, communication (NVC)*\n *Honest self- expression\n *Empathy\n *Spiritual Connections\n *Active Listening\n \n *2. Communication and Conflict*\n *Workplace\n *Domestic\n *International Relations\n *Cultural\n *Spiritual\n *War\n *Terrorism\n \n *3 . Communication breakdowns and breakthroughs*\n *Breakdowns (e.g. language and gender differences\, misinterpretations\,mental \n illness\, failure to notice\, to listen\, effects of complexity\, & disagreements \n etc.)\n *Breakthroughs (Creative responses such in music\, drama\, literature\, art\, \n humour\, etc.)\n \n *4 . Dehumanising Communication*\n *Reification\n *Alienation\n *Portraying others\, strangers\, the enemy\n *Effects of technology (electronic communication)\n \n *5. Dialogue*\n *Friendship\n *Philosophy\n *Dialogical Relationships\n *Counselling\n *Teaching\n *Respect and recognition\n \n *6. Communication in Health and Illness*\n *Stories and symptoms\n *Communicating meaning\n *Role of communication in treatment\n *Communicating identity and experience\n *Communicating care\n \n *7. Communication and decision making*\n *Role of communication in making decisions\, (group decisions)\n *Conflicting opinions and views\n *Group think\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word \n abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is \n accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday \n 23rd September 2011.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: Communication2 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication.We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n \n Paul James\n Project Leader\, IP Australia\n Australia\n Email: pj@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n       .\n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\,Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: cc2@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed \n for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:pj@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:cc2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103153.field_date.0.66 SUMMARY:4th Global Conference: Bullying and the Abuse of Power DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121104T123000Z DTEND:20121106T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/4th-global-conference-bullying-and-abuse-power LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 4th Global Conference\n Bullying and the Abuse of Power\n \n Sunday 4th November – Tuesday 6th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call For Papers*\n Bullying is a global problem. Whether it takes place in the schoolyard\; the \n board room\; the corridors of academe\; a detention centre for alleged \n terrorists\; a government office\, or cyber space\; and whether it involves \n insult\, physical assault or manipulation of the environment with the \n intention of making another person’s life intolerable\, bullying involves \n the abuse of power. Everyone is affected by it\, whether directly or \n indirectly.\n \n All of us know people who are bullied\, and all of us know bullies\, though we \n may be unaware that we do. After all\, bullies may seem\, on the surface\, to be \n kind\, caring and supportive human beings\, interested in nurturing others. And \n if they have been kind to us\, we may fail to perceive their unkindness to \n others.\n \n Bullying goes on at every level\, often goes on behind closed doors\; inside \n private emails\, and in actions that might appear innocuous. It grows out of \n the ability that many (and perhaps most) people have\, to find enjoyment and \n fulfilment in exerting power over others. It depends for its existence either \n on a lack of empathy and human feeling\, or on the developed ability to \n suspend empathy. It can ruin lives\, and it can end lives. We should not allow \n ourselves to believe that because it is not open to view\, bullying is not \n present.\n \n In the first two years of Bullying and the abuse of power\, a number of themes \n have emrged. Two of these – bullying in schools and bullying in the \n workplace (including universities) are unsurprising and have featured \n strongly in both earlier conferences. Alongside these\, and other themes with \n a practical focus\, such as cyber bullying\, participants have wrestled with \n the problem of saying exactly what is to count as bullying\, and how far its \n boundaries extend.\n \n Abstracts are now invited for Bullying and the Abuse of Power 3\, for \n individual contributions or for symposia of three papers. Abstracts that \n illuminate and comment on more than one sphere in which bullying manifests \n itself\, are especially welcomed\, as are abstracts that draw together insights \n from more than one academic\, professional or vocational area\, or that draw \n from more than one cultural or theoretical perspective. Abstracts are also \n especially welcomed that focus on bullying in areas where the abuse of power \n is less commonly thought of in this way\, including the ill treatment of \n elders\; genocide\; human trafficking\, and bullying in international relations \n and international trade.\n \n *1. Bullying in School/in the Workplace*\n ~ Bullying of older people/disabled people\n ~ Sexual bullying\n ~ Racial bullying\n ~ Religious intolerance\n \n *2. From Playground Bullying to Genocide/Bullying: How Far Can it Go?*\n ~ Human Rights abuses\n ~ Genocide\n ~ The Holocaust\n ~ Human trafficking\n \n *3. International Relations*\n ~ Cultural intolerance\n ~ Terrorism as a means of persuasion\n ~ Imposition of the wishes of the developed world on developing countries\n ~ Bullying of Indigenous people\n \n *4. Multinationals\, Impoverished Nations and Corner Shops*\n ~ The effects of globalisation on business\n ~ Changing patterns of shopping: corner shops vs superstores\n ~ Advertising and vulnerable consumers\n ~ Cut price goods and low pay for workers\n \n Papers will be considered on any related theme.  Abstracts should be written \n in simple language and for individual contributions should be no longer than \n 300 words\, while for symposia they should include a 150 word overview for \n each contribution and a 200 word overview for the whole session (please take \n these word limits seriously). Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May \n 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper \n should be submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n Abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in \n Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: BULLY4 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n Gavin J Fairbairn\n Professor of Ethics and Language\n Leeds Metropolitan University\n Leeds\n United Kingdom\n Email: G.Fairbairn@leedsmet.ac.uk [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Priory House\, Wroslyn Road\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR\n Email: bully4@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Ethos Hub series of ongoing research and \n publications projects conferences\, run within the Critical Issues domain \n which aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to \n share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and \n academic exploration. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference \n will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be \n developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/bullying-and-the-abuse-of-power/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/bullying-and-the-abuse-of-power/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:G.Fairbairn@leedsmet.ac.uk\n [2] mailto:bully4@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/bullying-and-the-abuse-of-power/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/bullying-and-the-abuse-of-power/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103150.field_date.0.67 SUMMARY:9th Global Conference: War\, Civil Conflict\, Security and Peace DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121107T123000Z DTEND:20121109T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/9th-global-conference-war-civil-conflict-security-and-peace LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n 9th Global Conference\n War\, Civil Conflict\, Security and Peace\n \n Wednesday 7th November – Friday 9th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n \n What is the experience of war and what does it mean to us? Is war an \n extension of politics by other means? The locomotive of technology? Does a \n state of peace truly exist\, or do we perpetually live in absentia bello ? Is \n humankind at war in its most natural state\; or is human society – despite \n perceptions and ongoing conflict around the world today – actually moving \n toward an aversion to war and toward a state of peace? Are Human Rights \n illusory and is the quest for Human Security achievable?\n \n This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to provide a \n challenging forum for the examination and evaluation of the nature\, purpose \n and experience of war\, and its impacts on all aspects of communities across \n the world.\n \n Viewing war as a multi-layered phenomenon\, this conference series invites \n committed academics\, non-academic based professionals from all walks of life\, \n including those from Military forces\, serving or retired\, Emergency\, Aid and \n Development Organisations (IOs\, International Non-Governmental Organisations \n (INGOs)\, NGOs and other Non-State Actors (NSAs) or Trans-National Social \n Movement(TNSMs)\, Commercial companies and corporate institutions\, the public \n services\, Faith based institutions\, charities\, the media\, the medical \n professions\, the arts and students in all related fields of interest\, to \n explore the historical\, legal\, social\, human\, religious\, economic\, and \n political contexts of conflicts\, and assess the place of nations\, alliances\, \n politics\, the military\, peace activism\, science\, academia\, faith\, the \n humanitarian sector\, art\, journalism\, literature\, music\, the media and the \n internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare.\n \n In particular papers\, workshops\, reports\, formed panels and presentations are \n invited on any of the following themes\;\n \n *1. How do we Talk about War?*\n Portrayal\, awareness\, language and expression. How do we come to understand \n war in contemporary and historical cultures?\n \n     * The Language of modern contemporary warfare\, the language of war in \n society\, in the work space and popular culture\; obscuration of conditions of \n being at ‘war’ and the condition of ‘peace’.\n     * Militarization of society\, propaganda\, war toys\, computer gaming\; in \n fashion -‘military chic’.\n     * Representing the realities of war versus ‘national interest’ – \n images of the heroism\, glory\, tacit and explicit justifications of war\; the \n horror of war and societal responses.\n \n *2. Representations and Experiences*\n Viewing War as a multi-layered social phenomena.\n \n     * The individual experience of war\, the impact of war\, in protest\; in \n the alleviation of the impacts of war and in peace building.\n     * Nations\, Communities and individuals recovering from war\, trauma\, \n rehabilitation and nation building.\n     * The experience of war\; art\, literature\, music\, poetry\, cinema and \n the theatre\; the role of the media – journalism\, radio\, television\, the \n internet\; propaganda.\n     * The representations and experiences of protest.\n \n *3. History and Development of Warfare and War Fighting.*\n How have we fought and why. Lessons learned\, mistakes repeated.\n \n     * Warfare in human history\, revisionism and post-revisionism.\n     * The sources\, origins\, and causes of war\; why and how do wars begin?\n     * Means and methods in war – land\, sea\, air\, space\, nuclear\, \n chemical\, biological\; terror and terrorism\; conventional and guerrilla \n warfare\; civil war\; ‘total’ warfare’. Where are the new \n ‘battlespaces’?\n     * The nature of warfare\; strategy and strategic thought\; changes and \n the implications of changes in the ways wars are fought\; the influence and \n effect of technologies\; nuclear deterrence/compellance\; changes in the nature \n and role of military personnel\; information and information warfare.\n     * New and perceived ‘Revolutions in Military Affairs’.\n \n *4. Extent\, Conduct and Morality*\n Can war even be distinguished from peace\, combatant from non-combatant\, who \n are legitimate targets? The totalisation of war in modern society and \n culture.\n \n     * Where are we now? How has war pervaded our society and culture in \n everyday life?\n     * The extent of war\; geo-political\, physical\; blockades\, sanctions\, \n defence expenditure and the impact on social and public policy\; on social and \n human capital.\n     * The regulation and control of warfare\; how is and should warfare be \n conducted? What are the limits of conflict? Are there any prohibitions in \n fighting a war?\n     * Globalization\; the human\, geographic\, social and economic boundaries \n of war in the modern era.\n     * Resource warfare\, food\, water\, oil and mineral wealth\, challenges in \n the 21st century.\n     * International Humanitarian Law and Conflict.\n \n *5. Human Rights and Human Security*\n Have the means and methods in war\, finally outpaced International law and \n norms of behaviour? What protection is available? If truth is the first \n casualty in war\, is human rights the second?\n \n     * Human security issues\; protection\, shelter\, economic security\; \n public health.\n     * Human rights\; protection\, promotion and abuses\; genocide\, ethnic \n cleansing\; terrorism\; scorched earth\; war crimes\; crimes against humanity.\n     * The Humanitarian space in conflict.\n     * Armed non-state actors\, roles\, practices and regulation.\n     * Gender and Race in War and Peace.\n \n *6. The Boundaries of War*\n How far will humankind push the limits of acceptable behaviour and practice \n in war?\n \n     * The ‘morality’ and the ‘ethics’ of war\; just war\; \n deterrence\; pre-emptive war\; defence and self-defence\; the influence of \n nationalism\; the place of human rights\; societies and the military\; increases \n in moral sensibilities – qualms about carpet bombing\, collateral damage\; \n the status of combatants in warfare\, the impact of civilians\; neutrality.\n     * War and religion\; the important role of religion\, the church\, and \n the intellectual elite in multi-ethnic conflict specifically and in war in \n general\; just war\, jihad and crusade.\n     * War and gender\; women in war\; impact\, abuses\, role in war as \n combatants and in peace building. Gender equality issues and peace building\, \n cultures of violence in society propagating conflict.\n     * Children and war\, child soldiers\, trauma\, exposure\, conditioning\, \n propaganda\, bereavement\, expression though play\, art and behaviour.\n     * Slavery and war\; past\, present and future\; unwilling combatants\, \n from janissaries to mamelukes\, to conscripts and child soldiers.\n     * Resistance under occupation\, where collaboration ends and resistance \n begins? Forms of resistance.\n \n *7. Prevention and Peacebuilding*\n Can we give peace a chance? Viewing war as un-natural\, preventable within a \n variety of frameworks. The legal mechanisms and the trans-national social \n movements ‘waging peace’.\n \n     * Peace building\; means and methods\; negative peace and building a \n positive peace\; war-termination and nation-building.\n     * The prevention of war\; the role of conflict resolution\; avoiding \n war\; peace-keeping\; the role and importance of law and international legal \n order\; the rise and impact of non-violent movements.\n     * The effectiveness of Supra-National\, Trans-National and \n International organsiations in conflict prevention\, mediation and resolution.\n     * Peace and Balances of Power.\n     * Disarmament and Arms Control.\n     * Conscientious objection\, alternative service.\n     * The Peace Movement.\n \n *8. The Role of Non-state Actors and NGOs in War and Post-conflict.*\n Breaking the state conundrum\, participation in relief from the depredations \n of war\, alleviating the suffering\, advocacy from theatres of war. Or \n compromising humanitarian Aid? Force multipliers? Abrogating combatant’s \n responsibilities toward their populations.\n \n     * History: The Quakers to the Red Cross and beyond.\n     * NGOs\, the ‘third space’ actors in the relief of the impact of \n warfare\, aid and development programmes\, refugees and IDPs\, child soldiers\, \n landmines / cluster munitions\; small arms light weapons (SALW/DDR)\, Depleted \n Uranium (DU)\, NGOs prolonging conflict by abrogating state and combatants \n responsibilities in time of conflict.\n     * Armed non-state actors. Terrorists? Freedom fighters? Private \n security companies and forces. Mercenaries in the modern world.\n \n *9. Future War: Revolutions in Military Affairs – Emerging Types of \n Warfare.*\n Be afraid\, be very afraid. Are there no limits to mans inhumanity to man?\n \n     * Cyber-war Virtual war\; cyber-terrorism\; cyber-power\, cyber-war\; \n computer technologies in the conduct of war.\n     * Technology leaps – acquiring WMD.\n     * Space war – fantasy or an emerging reality? Issue in the \n militarisation and weaponisation of space.\n     * Bio-warfare: gene warfare\; the genetic codes of agriculture and \n livestock as targets in war\n     * Economic warfare in a Globalised world.\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If \n an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: WAR Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year.\n All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Joint Organising Chairs:*\n Graeme Goldsworthy\n Webster University and the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)\,\n The Netherlands\n Email: graeme@inter-disciplinary.net [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: war9@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/war-virtual-war-human-security/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/war-virtual-war-human-security/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:graeme@inter-disciplinary.net\n [2] mailto:war9@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/war-virtual-war-human-security/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/war-virtual-war-human-security/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103169.field_date.0.68 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Sport DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121107T123000Z DTEND:20121109T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-sport LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 1st Global Conference\n Sport\n \n Wednesday 7th November – Friday 9th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call For Papers:*\n Sport has a chimeric value in modern life. On the one hand\, millions of \n people choose to play sports or become supporters of sports. For these \n people\, sport is a social good\, something which brings people together for a \n common purpose\, provides a sense of security and belonging\, and enjoyment and \n excitement\; and for participants a sense of fulfilment\, well-being and \n physical fitness. On the other hand\, there is an increasingly vocal backlash \n against sport: by people in communities affected by the demolishing of homes \n to make way for facilities for mega sports event\; by sports journalists weary \n of the doping and the match-fixing and the behaviour of elite athletes\; by \n fans sickened by the way their sports have become tainted with the evil of \n global commerce\; and by scholars and others critical of the importance given \n to sport in modern times. This project aims to bring together scholars from a \n wide range of disciplines – sociology\, cultural studies\, philosophy\, \n history\, political studies\, urban studies\, geography\, and psychology and \n sport science – who are interested in exploring the Janus face of sport\, to \n try to better understand the status of sport in our everyday lives. The \n project is for cheerleaders of sport\, critics of sport\, and all those \n in-between who would like to make a contribution to this inter-disciplinary \n approach to understanding sport.\n \n We would be interested in research or theory papers on the following themes:\n \n ● Sport and social identity\n ● Ontology of sport\n ● Ethics and sport\n ● Anti-sport social movements\n ● Commercialization and sport\n ● Sport and place\n ● Problems in sport science\n ● History of modern sport\n ● Measuring the value of sport\n ● Sport and popular culture\n ● Sport and celebrities\n ● The politics of sport\n ● Sports fandom\n \n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If \n an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be \n submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising \n Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the \n following information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.\n E-mails should be entitled: SPORT Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year.\n All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Joint Organising Chairs:*\n Karl Spracklen\n Leeds Metropolitan University\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: K.Spracklen@leedsmet.ac.uk [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: sport1@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research \n projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests \n to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and \n exciting.\n \n Multiple eBooks and volumes of themed papers have been published or are in \n press from the previous conference meetings of this project. All papers \n accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication \n in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed for publication in a \n themed hard copy volume\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:K.Spracklen@leedsmet.ac.uk\n [2] mailto:sport1@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103154.field_date.0.69 SUMMARY:9th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Dying and Death DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121110T123000Z DTEND:20121112T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/9th-global-conference-making-sense-dying-and-death LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 9th Global Conference\n Making Sense Of: Dying and Death\n \n Saturday 10th November – Monday 12th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call For Papers:*\n This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and \n the ways culture impacts care for the dying\, the overall experience of dying\, \n and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past three decades\, scholarship in \n thanatology has increased dramatically. This particular conference seeks a \n broad array of perspectives that explore\, analyze\, and/or interpret the \n myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. \n Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about “a good death” and \n norms that seek to achieve it\, culture also operates as both a vehicle and \n medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. \n Sadly\, too\, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.\n \n  A key emphasis in this year’s conference will be an exploration of the \n connections between health care systems\, caregivers\, and matters of public \n policy that serve those at the end-of-life. This conference specifically aims \n to assess how heath care systems\, patients\, and staff intersect during \n end-of-life care\, and explores how important the caregiver-patient \n relationship continues to be amidst end-of-life issues and decisions.\n \n We also welcome submissions that produce conversations engaging historical\, \n ethnographic\, normative\, literary\, anthropological\, philosophical\, artistic\, \n political or other terms that elaborate a relationship between death and \n culture.\n \n Papers\, reports\, presentations\, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited \n on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:\n \n *1: Health Care Systems: Patients\, Staff\, and Institutions*\n \n     * Modern Health Care Delivery Systems and Care for the Dying\n     * Palliative Care\n     * Hospice\n     * Elder Care/Ageing in Place Models\n     * Trauma and Emergency Care\n     * Nursing Homes/Skilled Facilities/Residential Care Facilities for the \n Elderly (RCFEs)/Assisted Living\n     * Clinical Competencies in Pain Management and Symptom Control\n     * Measurements\, Incentives\, Regulatory Statutes\, and Recommendations\n     * Continuity of Care Across Treatment Settings\n     * Interdisciplinary Care\n \n *2: The Caregiver-Patient Relationship*\n \n     * Caregiver’s (Physician’s?) Obligations and Virtues\n     * Medical Paternalism and Respect for the Patient\, Autonomy\n     * Truth-Telling\n     * Informed Consent\n     * Medicine in the West for a Multicultural Society\n     * Contested Therapies Within the Physician-Patient Relationship\n     * Conflicts of Interest\; Problems of Conscience\n     * Caregiver Stress/Caregiver Burnout/Compassion Fatigue\n     * Being With Someone Who Is Dying\n     * Assessment Challenges/Barriers\n \n *3: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions*\n \n     * Defining Death\n     * Organ Transplantation and Organ Donation\n     * The Interplay of Ethical Meta-Principles at the End of Life\n     * Nonmaleficence\n     * Beneficence\n     * Autonomy\n     * Death Anxiety\n     * Choosing Death\n     * Advance Directives/Advance Planning/Physician Order for \n Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST)/Do Not Resuscitate\n     * Considering End-of-Life Issues and Decisions and Legislation\n \n *4: Relationships Between Death and Culture:*\n \n     * music\n     * literature\n     * film\n     * broadcast media\n     * religious broadcasting\n     * journalism\n     * athletics\n     * comic books\n     * novels / poetry / short story\n     * television\n     * radio\n     * print media\n     * internet / technology\n     * popular art / architecture\n     * sacred vs. profane space\n     * advertising\n     * consumerism\n \n Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts \n may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Care\, Dying and the End of Life Abstract \n Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline).Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the \n year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Nate Hinerman\n Nursing/Theology and Religious Studies\n University of San Francisco\n San Francisco\, USA\n E-mail: nphinerman@usfca.edu [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-Mail: dd9@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:nphinerman@usfca.edu\n [2] mailto:dd9@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103155.field_date.0.70 SUMMARY:3rd Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Suicide DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121110T123000Z DTEND:20121112T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/3rd-global-conference-making-sense-suicide LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 3rd Global Conference\n Making Sense Of: Suicide\n \n Saturday 10th November – Monday 12th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call For Papers:*\n \Suicide\, the deliberate and intentional act of ending one’s life\, is an \n assault on our ideas of what living is about. Whether we believe that we have \n the right to end our own life because we no longer wish to live\, or that \n suicide is never morally permissible\, the fact that people can arrange their \n deaths and that some do\, challenges us to think about the nature of life\, and \n of death.\n \n Suicide is a global problem. For some people it seems like a sensible \n solution to the problems of living\, or at least it seems to them that in some \n circumstances\, it can be a rational and morally acceptable thing to kill \n oneself. To others this seems absurd because\, although suicide may solve the \n problems that the suicider has been experiencing\, it does so at the expense \n of their experiencing anything at all. What’s more\, it does so at the \n expense of friends\, loved ones\, and others who are affected\, including those \n who have to deal practically with its aftermath.\n \n At the inaugural conference of Making Sense Of: Suicide\, we had many vigorous \n discussions\, which addressed suicide from a wide range of perspectives\, \n including psychology\, sociology\, anthropology\, philosophy\, psychiatry and the \n law. Abstracts are now invited for Making Sense Of: Suicide 2\, for individual \n contributions or for symposia of three papers. They should be written in \n simple language and for individual contributions should be no longer than 250 \n words\, while for symposia they should include a 150 word overview for each \n contribution and a 200 word overview for the whole session. (Please take \n these word limits seriously)\n \n Abstracts are especially welcomed that take seriously the ways in which \n thinking about and responding to the human act of suicide may be enhanced by \n viewing it from more than one disciplinary perspective. They may address a \n wide range of topics which are hinted at by following questions:\n \n     * Is all deliberate self killing\, suicide? Is suicide always about the \n desire to be dead? Or does it sometimes have other meanings? Is suicide \n always fatal?\n     * What’s the point of suicide? (Why do people do it?) Is suicide \n ever a rational choice? Can suicide be an act of love? Is it ever an act of \n hate?\n     * Why do people suicide in different ways? What explains the \n differences in suicide rate\, in different populations? How can we best reduce \n the rate of suicide?\n     * Is suicide harmful\, and if so\, who does it harm – the suicider\; \n his friends and relatives\; onlookers and those who become involved in his \n death or in its aftermath? How are people affected by the suicide of someone \n they knew or loved? Does it matter how well they knew him?\n     * How does suicide relate to other apparently similar human acts\, such \n as euthanasia and self harm? Is ‘attempted suicide’ always about the wish \n to die? Or is it sometimes about the atempt to change the world\, or to escape \n from it for a time? Are euthanasia and assisted suicide the same? (If not\, \n how do they differ?) Is it ever OK to assist another to die? Does the \n suicider’s motivations\, intentions and wishes make a difference to whether \n it is OK to assist him in arranging his death?\n     * Is suicide ever a valid form of political protest? If a person kills \n himself to make a political point\, is his death necessarily suicide? Is \n suicide bombing\, really about suicide?\n     * Should the desire to suicide be regarded as an indication that one \n needs psychiatric or psychological treatment? Are all suicidal people\, by \n definition\, suffering with a mental illness? Or can suicide be the result of \n a rational choice? If so\, in what circumstances is it rational to want to \n die?\n     * How is suicide addressed in literature\, fine art\, music\, theatre and \n film? What\, if anything\, can clinicians learn from literary authors\, \n including novelists\, poets and playwrights\; artists\, musicians and directors \n in theatre and film?\n \n Papers will also be considered on any related theme. Abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; \n abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following \n information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Suicide3 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n \n Gavin Fairbairn\n Leeds Metropolitan University\,\n Leeds\, United Kingdom.\n Email: G.Fairbairn@leedsmet.ac.uk [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Founder and Leader\, Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\,\n United Kingdom\n Email: sui3@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suicide/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suicide/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:G.Fairbairn@leedsmet.ac.uk\n [2] mailto:sui3@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suicide/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suicide/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103240.field_date.0.71 SUMMARY:2nd Global Conference: Writing: Paradigms\, Power\, Poetics\, Praxis DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121110T123000Z DTEND:20121112T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/2nd-global-conference-writing-paradigms-power-poetics-praxis LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 2nd Global Conference\n Writing: Paradigms\, Power\, Poetics\, Praxis\n \n Saturday 10th November – Monday 12th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n This global research and publications project on Writing will explore the \n many facets of writing from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to \n explore the many intertextual and intersemiotic facets of writing as they \n exists in the digital age but also taking into account the historical forces\, \n process and mechanisms\, their relationships to contemporary writing forms\, \n and the possibilities of future directions.  ‘All writing comes from \n somewhere’ and with this axiom in mind this project will not only examine \n the pragmatic elements of writing but also the complex issues concerning the \n metafunctions of writing as a creative and purposeful process across various \n disciplines.\n \n Papers\, presentations\, reports\, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited \n on\, but not limited to any of the following focus areas\;\n \n *1. Writing as a Creative Process: Theory and Practice*\n \n     * What are the origins and forms of creative writing?\n     * What are the personal and interpersonal relationship between \n creativity and writing?\n     * How is effective and creative writing developed and nurtured?\n     * How do various disciplines understand the pragmatic elements of \n writing and the thought processes that underpin writing?\n     * What are the similarities/differences in understanding between the \n related research disciplines?\n     * How can creative writing be fostered in a world dominated by \n measurement\, outcomes and benchmarks?\n     * How do authors actually write?\n \n *2. Writing across the Disciplines: Theory and Practice*\n \n     * How do various disciplines define writing?\n     * The psychology\, philosophy and pedagogy of writing of various fields \n of thought\n     * What is creativity in theory and practice in the business world?\n     * Can writing be taught?\n     * How do readers engage with writing?\n     * What does engagement with writing and the writing process mean for \n adults and for children?\n     * How does writing develop in all age groups or across age groups?\n     * What are the various forms Inter-disciplinary approaches to teaching \n writing?\n     * Historical and contemporary representations of writing as art\, in \n film and literature?\n     * The future role of writing?\n     * How will the visual media be related to writing in the next decade \n or beyond?\n     * The relationships between children’s engagement with television\, \n film\, visual literacy and writing?\n     * Traditional forms of writing: what are they and how do they fit in \n the visual age?\n     * The role and nature of learning theories and their view of writing\n \n *3. Critical and Cultural Thinking*\n \n     * How is writing linked to critical thinking? Is it the same as \n critical literacy?\n     * Where does this writing ability come from?\n     * What is the role of the ’significant other’ in developing \n critical engagement with writing at home\, school and beyond?\n     * What are the conditions that foster critical thinking and critical \n writing?\n     * How is writing engendered and produced in different contexts of \n cultural contexts?\n     * Developing writing as life skills\, social issues and education for \n citizenship in the 21st century\n \n Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts \n may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Writing2 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Phil Fitzsimmons\n Faculty of Education\,\n Avondale College of Higher Learning\n New South Wales\, Australia\n E-mail: phil.fitzsimmons@avondale.edu.au [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-Mail: write2@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Education Hub series of research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume or volumes.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/ [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:phil.fitzsimmons@avondale.edu.au\n [2] mailto:write2@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103695.field_date.0.72 SUMMARY:CFP - International Symposium - The digital subject: questioning hypermnesia \n - University of Paris 8\, 13-15 november 2012 DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121113Z DTEND:20121115Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/cfp-international-symposium-digital-subject-questioning-hypermnesia-university-paris-8-13-15- LOCATION:University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis 2 rue de la Liberté Saint-Denis \n 93200 France DESCRIPTION:*CFP - International Symposium - The digital subject: questioning hypermnesia \n *\n \n University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis\, November 13-15\, 2012\n \n Labex Arts-H2H\n \n  \n \n *Organizers:*\n \n Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Department of philosophy\, LLCP\, SPHERE\, EA 4008)\n \n Claire Larsonneur (Department of anglophone studies\, Le Texte Étranger\, \n EA1569)\n \n Arnaud Regnauld (Department of anglophone studies\, CRLC – Research Center \n on Literature and Cognition\, EA1569)\n \n  \n \n *Call for papers*\n \n  \n \n Today’s digital technologies of inscription and preservation have enabled \n the creation of substantial electronic archives and complex databases while \n ushering in new ways of archiving knowledge exemplified by collaborative \n encyclopedias. Such technical developments have foreshadowed a radical \n reconfiguration of human relations to the world and knowledge at large\, and \n delineate a probable mutation in our understanding of the human subject.\n \n  \n \n Hypermnesia\, a recurrent motif in science fiction narratives\, was already \n prefigured in H. G. Wells’ (/World Brain/\, 1937) or Borges’ works \n (“Funes el memorioso\,” 1944). From then on\, the notion has migrated into \n other literary genres\, be they published in traditional print or in a digital \n medium. Similarly\, the possible externalization and extension of memory is \n one of the cornerstones of contemporary philosophical theories (such as that \n of the “extended mind”) on both sides of the border separating the \n analytical and continental schools of philosophy.\n \n  \n \n Right after the Second World War\, machine memory\, the thematization of \n subjective memory in reference to computer memory\, the potential alteration \n of the very nature of human memory due to the development of machines were \n recurrent issues in discussions pertaining to cybernetics and they are still \n vivid in the contemporary diagnosis of posthumanism.\n \n  \n \n Of particular interest is the scope and typology of works featuring the theme \n of hypermnesia\, from fantasies of omnipotence to rewritings of the Babel \n myth\, to political\, cultural and economic policy blueprints. This call for \n papers invites contributions from various fields and disciplines (the history \n of science and technology\, literature\, philosophy among others) which \n question the theme of hypermnesia and memory through the prism of the \n ambiguous relationship between man and machine\, in a historical as well as in \n a more contemporary perspective.\n \n  \n \n At the crossroads of philosophy\, literature and the history of science and \n technology\, this symposium is part of a broader long-term project focusing on \n the digital subject\, a subject whose status and attributes appear to have \n been altered by the real or fictional development of digital calculating \n machines from Babbage to Internet.\n \n  \n \n The working languages will be French and English. Contributions may be \n submitted in either language and should not exceed 3000 characters. Please \n enclose a brief bio-bibliographical note.\n \n This symposium has received the support of the LABEX Arts-H2H scientific \n committee.\n \n Contact: hypermnesia@univ-paris8.fr [1]\n \n Deadline for submissions: June 15\, 2012\n \n Contributors will be informed of the scientific committee’s decision by \n September 15\, 2012.\n \n  \n \n \n [1] mailto:hypermnesia@univ-paris8.fr END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103241.field_date.0.73 SUMMARY:3rd Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Suffering DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121113T123000Z DTEND:20121115T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/3rd-global-conference-making-sense-suffering LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 3rd Global Conference\n Making Sense Of: Suffering\n \n Tuesday 13th November – Thursday 15th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n *Call for Papers:*\n This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore if\, or to what \n extent\, meaning can be found in suffering. During the course of living our \n lives\, we are invariably forced to stop and question why we suffer – be it \n through illness\, pain\, loss\, grief or the multitude of distressing \n circumstances which we encounter. Problems arise in a variety of contexts and \n due to a bewildering variety of conditions. And because our lives are \n constant streams of experience\, the nature of suffering and consequently the \n ‘meaning’ of such suffering continually varies and changes.\n \n The conference aims to raise and assess a variety of questions related to the \n nature of suffering\, the origins of suffering\, the ‘meaning’ of \n suffering\, explanations for suffering and responding to suffering. Papers\, \n workshops\, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the \n following themes:\n \n *I. What is Suffering?*\n •    Defining ‘suffering’. What is ‘suffering’? How do we \n approach ‘suffering’?\n •    Is suffering unique or exclusive to human beings?\n •    Non-human suffering\n •    Categories of suffering. Suffering as – a problem\; a condition\;  \n an expression\; an experience\; a position of powerlessness\; a consequence of \n meaninglessness\; a result of affliction.\n \n *II. The Roots of Suffering*\n •    The origins of suffering\n •    Suffering as universal\; as international\; as national\; as local\; as \n particular\n •    Suffering and history\n •    The contexts and conditions of suffering\n •    Producing suffering\n \n *III. The Meaning of Suffering*\n •    Suffering and meaning\n •    Suffering and language\n •    What is at stake when dealing with suffering?\n •    The ‘limits’ of suffering\n •    The dangers of suffering\n \n *IV. Explaining Suffering*\n •    suffering and explanation\n •    theories of suffering: the work of the disciplines\n •    theories of suffering: the work of the professions\n •    theories of suffering: the work of the vocations\n •    silence and suffering\n \n *V. Suffering and Practice*\n •    suffering\, apathy and indifference\n •    alleviating suffering\n •    practices causing\, prolonging\, truncating\, overcoming\, relieving or \n resolving suffering\n •    suffering\, hope and despair\n \n *VI. Suffering and Religion*\n •    Suffering from the perspective of religious traditions\n •    Suffering and sacred texts\n •    Portraits of suffering and sufferers\n •    Suffering and ‘redemption’\n •    Suffering and atheism\n \n *VII. Representing Suffering*\n •    suffering and representation\n •    suffering in literature\n •    suffering in the media\n •    suffering in tv\, film\, theatre and radio\n •    suffering in cybercultures\n \n *VIII. Confronting Suffering*\n •    meaning\, suffering and action\n •    overcoming suffering\n •    should suffering be overcome?\n •    case studies\n •    practice(s)\, resolution(s)\, settlement\n \n Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be \n submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the \n conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 3rd August 2012.\n \n 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs\; abstracts \n may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats\, following this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: Suffering3 Abstract Submission\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special \n formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). \n Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All \n accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge \n receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a \n reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; \n it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative \n electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs*\n \n Nate Hinerman\n Nursing/Theology and Religious Studies\n University of San Francisco\n San Francisco\, USA\n E-mail: nphinerman@usfca.edu [1]\n \n Rob Fisher\n Network Leader\n Inter-Disciplinary.Net\,\n Freeland\, Oxfordshire\, United Kingdom\n E-Mail: suffer3@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n \n The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects\, \n which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries programmes of \n Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas \n and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and \n challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are \n eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to \n go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suffering/ \n [3]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suffering/call-for-papers/ \n [4]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.\n \n \n [1] mailto:nphinerman@usfca.edu\n [2] mailto:suffer3@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suffering/\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/suffering/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103250.field_date.0.74 SUMMARY:1st Global Conference: Immersive Worlds and Transmedia Narratives DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121113T123000Z DTEND:20121115T180000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/1st-global-conference-immersive-worlds-and-transmedia-narratives LOCATION:Salzburg Austria DESCRIPTION: \n \n 1st Global Conference\n Immersive Worlds and Transmedia Narratives\n \n Tuesday 13th November – Thursday 15th November 2012\n Salzburg\, Austria\n \n     * The Novel\n     * The Film\n     * The Television Series\n     * The Graphic Novel\n     * The Facebook Page\n     * The Tweets\n     * The Fan-Sites\n     * The Video Game\n     * The You-Tube Clips\n     * The Smart Phone\n     * The Convention\n     * The Theme Park\n     * The Merchandising\n \n *THE CALL*\n This call for papers is about where the story starts and where it ends\, about \n who writes the story and who reads it and whether any of these definitions \n apply when we are in the story itself. This then is about world making and \n about the media\, mediums and machinery that converge to make it possible. The \n rhizomic qualities of a smart phone that enmesh us into the real world also \n connect and implicate large parts of ourselves in imaginary and virtual \n spaces\; with people we have never met and places we will never see other than \n through the app\, the blog or the social networking site.\n \n /“In the final decade of the 21st Century\, men and women in rocket ships \n landed on the moon. By 2200 AD\, they had reached the other planets of our \n solar system. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive \n through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly \n surpassed. And so\, at last\, mankind began the conquest and colonization of \n deep space”\n (The Forbidden Planet)/\n \n                              *  THE EXAMPLE*\n True Blood. Originally from Charlene Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries \n series of novels. Now a hit television show. It has a facebook page and \n characters from the series produce You Tube videos (Jessica- Baby Vamp). The \n stars from the show share tweets with fans and each other but not as \n themselves but the characters they play. Viral marketing spreads adverts and \n teasers for products that come from the show\, not just simple merchandising \n but items such as Tru-Blood\, the synthetic blood substitute that bases the \n premise of the show where vampires can become part of society. The graphic \n novel\, written by the television series creator Allan Ball and which extends \n storylines from the show. Fangtasia\, the vampire bar from the series is \n recreated in actual real life venues and where people can dress as vampires. \n At each point of entry the “reader’ can choose which parts and to what \n level they want to engage\, or participate\, in the narrative enabling various \n levels of emersion and ways to influence and change the world that one is \n entering. Who writes the story and what story are they writing and who \n consumes what and who and is everyone welcome?\n \n /“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” (Dracula)/\n \n But who can enter this world and how does it impinge on our own? Is it only \n for the wealthy\, the westernised\, the capital-ised? How does it purposely \n exclude and include certain groups and why? What is the future of the \n technologies and the types of narratives involved? Will it become a world \n that people never want to leave or one that will expand to consume our former \n notions of what constituted reality. Where does the story end and real life \n begin?\n \n (Keywords: Transmedia\, Convergence\, Particpatory\, Affinity\, ReMix\, \n Hypersocibility\, Techologies\, Medium\, Narrative\, Story\, Play\, Interaction\, \n Emersive\, Virtual)\n \n *THE WHAT?*\n The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel \n proposals\, works in progress\, performances\, literary and visual presentations \n and practitioner case studies. Papers will also be considered on any related \n theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012. All \n other significant dates please see Details page.\n \n *THE WHO?*\n Those that study\, research or take part in transmedia narratives or \n convergence cultures\, film and media studies\, gaming and virtual worlds\, \n literature and fandom\, marketing and advertising\, graphic novels and \n animation\, artists\, writers …SHOULD APPLY\n \n *THE HOW?*\n Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; \n abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following \n information and in this order:\n \n a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\, e) body \n of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords\n E-mails should be entitled: TM1 Abstract Submission.\n \n Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and \n any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or \n underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of \n the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We \n acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do \n not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive \n your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for \n an alternative electronic route or resend.\n \n *Organising Chairs:*\n Phil Fitzsimmons: philfitz@uow.edu.au [1]\n Rob Fisher: tm1@inter-disciplinary.net [2]\n Simon Bacon: baconetti@googlemail.com [3]\n \n For further details of the project\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/immersive-worlds-and-transmedia-narratives/ \n [4]\n \n For further details of the conference\, please visit:\n http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/immersive-worlds-and-transmedia-narratives/call-for-papers/ \n [5]\n \n Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are \n not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence\n \n \n [1] mailto:philfitz@uow.edu.au\n [2] mailto:tm1@inter-disciplinary.net\n [3] mailto:baconetti@googlemail.com\n [4] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/immersive-worlds-and-transmedia-narratives/\n [5] http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/immersive-worlds-and-transmedia-narratives/call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.102469.field_date.0.75 SUMMARY:National Summit on Education Reform DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20121127Z DTEND:20121128Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/national-summit-education-reform LOCATION:Washington\, DC United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+Washington%2C+DC%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:National Summit on Education Reform: Washington D.C: November 27-28. A \n "one-stop-shop" for lawmakers and policymakers slugging away at education \n reform. Last year\, which featured Sal Khan and Rupert Murdoch\, was certainly \n eventful (for lack of a better word)\, with protesters heckling and \n questioning the motives of for-profits in edtech. Hey--who says these things \n can't get a little rowdy? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103884.field_date.0.76 SUMMARY:The Digital Humanities Winter Institute @MITH DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20130107T150000Z DTEND:20130111T150000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/digital-humanities-winter-institute-mith LOCATION:University of Maryland College Park\, MD 20742 United States See map: Google \n Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+College+Park%2C+MD%2C+20742%2C+us DESCRIPTION:*Join Us:*\n Monday January 7\, 2013- Friday\, January 11\, 2013\n University of Maryland\n College Park\, MD USA\n \n /*Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute*/\n \n \n MITH will host the first annual Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) \n [1]\, from Monday\, January 7\, 2013\, to Friday\, January 11\, 2013\, at the \n University of Maryland in College Park\, Maryland. We’re delighted to be \n expanding the model pioneered by the highly-successful Digital Humanities \n Summer Institute (DHSI [2]) at the University of Victoria to the United \n States.\n \n DHWI will provide an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to \n different kinds of digital scholarship while mingling with like-minded \n colleagues in coursework\, social events\, and lectures during an intensive\, \n week-long event located amid the many attractions of the Washington\, D.C. \n region.\n \n Courses are open to all skill levels and will cater to many different \n interests. For the 2013 Institute we’ve assembled an amazing group of \n instructors [3] who will teach everything from introductory courses on \n project development and programming\, to intermediate level courses on image \n analysis\, teaching with multimedia\, and data curation. DHWI will also feature \n more technically-advanced courses on text analysis and linked open data. We \n hope that the curricula [4] we’ve assembled will appeal to graduate \n students\, faculty\, librarians\, and museum professionals as well as \n participants from government and non-governmental organizations. We \n especially welcome members of the HASTAC community.\n \n An exciting program of extracurricular events [5] will accompany the formal \n DHWI courses to capitalize on the Institute’s proximity to the many \n cultural heritage organizations in the region. This stream of activities\, \n which we’re calling “DHWI Public Digital Humanities\,” will include an \n API workshop\, a hack-a-thon\, and opportunities to contribute videos and other \n materials to the 4Humanities [6] campaign to document the importance of the \n humanities for contemporary society.\n \n Both the outward-looking DHWI Public Digital Humanities program and the week \n of high-caliber\, in-depth digital humanities coursework will be kicked off by \n the Institute Lecture [7]. This year’s speaker will be Seb Chan\, currently \n the Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian\, Cooper-Hewitt\, \n National Design Museum in New York City.\n \n We hope that many of you will join us this winter in Maryland for what \n promises to be a terrific event. Registration is now available at this site \n [8].\n \n Like DHSI\, we will be offering a limited number of sponsored student \n scholarships [9] to help cover the cost of attending the Institute. The \n scholarships are made possible through the generosity of this year’s DHWI \n Instructors and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\n \n To keep up with news and events related to DHWI\, follow @dhwi_mith [10]. For \n all other enquiries\, please contact Jennifer Guiliano\, dhinstitute@umd.edu \n [11]\n \n \n [1] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi\n [2] http://www.dhsi.org\n [3] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=node/25\n [4] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=courses\n [5] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=dhwi_public_dh\n [6] http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/\n [7] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=keynote\n [8] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=registration\n [9] http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=scholarships\n [10] http://twitter.com/dhwi_mith\n [11] mailto:dhinstitute@umd.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103926.field_date.0.77 SUMMARY:Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20130215T130000Z DTEND:20130217T010000Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/networked-humanities-within-and-without-university LOCATION:University of Kentucky United States See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=%2C+%2C+%2C+%2C+us DESCRIPTION:Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University\n \n A Digital Humanities Symposium\n \n February 15-16\, 2013\n \n The University of Kentucky\n \n Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Digital Media Program\n \n  \n \n Keynote Speakers:\n Kathleen Stewart\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Texas\n \n  \n \n Malcolm McCullough\, Professor of Architecture\, University of Michigan\n \n  \n \n Of all the topics of interest to the digital humanities\, the network has \n received little attention among digital humanities proponents.  Yet\, we live \n in a networked society: texts\, sound\, ideas\, people\, movements\, consumerism\, \n protest movements\, politics\, entertainment\, academia\, and other items \n circulate in networks that come together and break apart at various moments. \n While there exist networked spaces of interaction for digital humanities work \n – such as HASTAC or specific university centers -  we still must consider \n how networks affect traditional and future goals of humanities work. Have the \n humanities sufficiently addressed the ways their work\, as networks\, affect \n other networks\, within and outside of the humanities? What might be a \n networked digital humanities or what is it currently if it does\, indeed\, \n exist? Can an understanding of the humanities as a series of networks affect \n – positively or negatively - the ways the public perceive its research\, \n pedagogy\, and mission?\n \n  \n \n The University of Kentucky’s Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Digital Media Program \n invites proposals for a two day symposium devoted to discussion of the \n implications of a networked digital humanities. The symposium will bring \n together academic and professional audiences in order to rethink the taxonomy \n of humanities so that we emerge with a network of people and ideas beyond the \n traditional taxonomy of “humanities” work. Thus\, talks will not be \n limited to traditional humanities areas of study. \n \n  \n \n Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):\n \n ·      Public humanities work\n \n ·      Networks among disciplines\n \n ·      Ecologies\n \n ·      Animal and human networks\n \n ·      Online spaces\n \n ·      Mapping/Geography\n \n ·      Economics and the humanities\n \n ·      Labor and the humanities\n \n ·      Digital production of texts\n \n ·      Community work\n \n ·      Workplace organization\n \n ·      The university as network\n \n ·      Archives and Obsolescence\n \n  \n \n  \n \n February 15-16\, 2013\n \n  \n \n Panels\, roundtables\, performative pieces\, and alternative forms of delivery \n are welcome and encouraged.\n \n  \n \n No registration fee to attend or present. Please send 250 word proposals to  \n Jeff Rice j.rice@uky.edu [1]  by September 1\, 2012.\n \n  \n \n \n [1] mailto:j.rice@uky.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.103851.field_date.0.78 SUMMARY:HASTAC VI International Conference DTSTAMP:20120522T224228Z DTSTART:20130425Z DTEND:20130428Z URL;VALUE=URI:http://hastac.org/events/hastac-vi-international-conference LOCATION:Toronto Canada See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.ca?q=%2C+Toronto%2C+%2C+%2C+ca DESCRIPTION:Celebrating HASTAC's 10th anniversary\, this will be our first conference held \n outside the U.S. The HASTAC VI conference will be held *April 25-28\, \n 2013* in Toronto\, Canada and at York University. More details will follow as \n they become available. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR