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Wednesday, June 1, 2016



ADVED 2016- 
2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
ADVANCES IN EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

10-12 October, 2016 - ISTANBUL (TURKEY)

 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
ADVED 2016-2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES will be held in Istanbul (Turkey), on the 10th, 11th and 12th of October 2016 is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics, independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and discuss issues concerning all fields of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities.
ADVED 2016 provides the ideal opportunity to bring together professors, researchers and high education students of different disciplines, discuss new issues, and discover the most recent developments, researches and trends in education and social sciences.
Academics making efforts in education, subfields of which might include higher education, early childhood education, adult education, special education, e-learning, language education, etc. are highly welcomed. 
Due to the nature of the conference with its focus on innovative ideas and developments, papers related to all areas of social sciences including communication, accounting, finance, economics, management, business, marketing, education, sociology, psychology, political science, law and other areas of social sciences; also all areas of humanities including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, ethics, folklore studies, history, language studies, literature, methodological studies, music, philosophy, poetry and theater are invited for the international conference.
Also academic presentations in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Social Sciences and Humanities are highly welcomed.
For a detailed look for the conference topics please click here
People without papers can also participate in this conference as audience so long as they find it interesting and meaningful.
Submitted papers will be subject to peer review and evaluated based on originality and clarity of exposition.

A TRULY INTERNATIONAL EVENT
You will be able to share all your experiences with other experts in a truly international atmosphere. This conference will be held at international level. Plenty of participants more than 60 different countries are expected to attend.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The language of the conference is English (Papers in Turkish are also welcomed). Simultaneous translation will not be provided.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
You are invited to submit your abstract proposal (only in English) to contribute to ADVED 2016 (in person or virtually) with your experiences and projects in the areas of education or social sciences. 


PUBLICATIONS
1.  All the accepted full papers are going to be published in the Abstracts & Proceedings CD-ROM (e-book) with an ISBN number and will be given to the participants on the conference day.
2. Participants also will be able to reach and download the Abstracts & Proceedings E-publication from OCERINT's online e-library (http://www.ocerint.org/index.php/digital-library) web site.
3. ADVED 2016 Abstracts & Proceedings will also be included in Google Scholar and sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
4. NEW!!! The accepted papers (depending upon their author’s wish) will also sent to be reviewed for publishing in one of our peer reviewed online International journals with an ISSN number (IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education  and  IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences) which are also sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Citation Indexes.

A MAGIC VENUE : ISTANBUL 
In addition to your professional experience in ADVED 2016, you will be able to enjoy one of the most impressive cities in the world, Istanbul, unique for its culture, historical and artistic richness, cultural and musical events of all kinds, lovely weather in autumn and tasty gastronomy.
Istanbul is one of the world's great cities famous for its historical monuments and magnificent scenic beauties. It is the only city in the world which spreads over two continents: it lies at a point where Asia and Europe are separated by a narrow strait - the Bosphorus. Istanbul has a history of over 2,500 years, and ever since its establishment on this strategic junction of lands and seas, the city has been a crucial trade center.
We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul!
Organized By:

For any further queries about the ADVED 2016 conference: adved16@hotmail.com

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

INTERNATIONAL LITERARY CRITICISM CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 7-8, 2016 / ISTANBUL, TURKEY


LITCRI '16 / V. International Literary Criticism Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions). Since 2012, a nearly two hundred presentations by scholars from different places of the world have been hosted by DAKAM’s LITCRI Conference and four proceedings books have been published.


Papers will be published in DAKAM's online library and in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBNnumber), which will be given to you in a DVD box and will be sent to be reviewed in the "Thomson & Reuters WOS' Conference Proceedings Citation Index-CPCI"



LITCRI '16 / V. International Literary Criticism Conference will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions). Since 2012, a nearly two hundred presentations by scholars from different places of the world have been hosted by DAKAM’s LITCRI Conference and four proceedings books have been published.

The event will be held together along with LANGUAGE, PHONETICS AND ETYMOLOGY '16 / International Conference in Language Studies, TRANSLATION STUDIES '16 / International Conference on Translation and Interpreting and LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING '16 / International Conference on Education and Language. Participants will be able to attend any of the sessions of these conferences.

AGENDA:


Abstract submission: 
JULY 1, 2016

Registration: 
AUGUST 26, 2016

Full papers submission:
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016



KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Professor Mediha GOBENLI teaches since 2000 comparative literature at Yeditepe University. She has published Zeitgenössische türkische Frauenliteratur (Comparative Turkish Women’s Literature) (Berlin, 2003) and Direnmenin Esteti?ine Güven (Faith in the Aesthetics of the Resistance) (Istanbul, 2005), a comparative analysis of Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands and Vedat Türkali’s novel Güven (Faith). She has also published journal articles and book chapters on Comparative Women’s Literature, Exile and Literature, Migrants’ Literature, and Turkish Literature.


                    
Themes

MAIN TOPICS

-Modern and Contemporary Novels and Short Stories
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Reading the Classics
- Bestselling Literature
- Comparative Literature and Case Studies
- Literature For Children And Young Adults
- Crime/Detective Fiction and Science Fiction
- Comic/Graphic Novel

HISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Discussions in the History of Literature
- New perspectives in History and Case Studies
- Literary Criticism and Critical Theory
- Objectivism and Subjectivism in Literary Criticism
- History of publishing, books and libraries
- New media and literature: Theory and case studies

THEORY
- Essential Texts on Literary Theory
- Author as Critic: Theoretical texts by authors
- Literary characters vs human beings
- The “constructedness” of fiction: consequences for literary interpretation Literature as history, history as literature
- Theoretical dimensions of the idea of “representation”
- Symbolism, metaphor, narrative levels: consequences for philosophical
- The concepts of “meaning” and “truth”in literary works
- Relationship between explicit content and critical elaboration
- Hermeneutics of suspicion / symptomatic reading vs. taking the works on its own terms
- Definition and concepts by literary movements or periods

INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
- Interdisciplinary Studies on literature
- Modernism and Representation modernism
- Structural relationship between literature and linguistics
- Quantitative Reasearch on Literature
- Philosophy and fiction
- Language, culture and poetry
- Politics, sociology and class struggle
- Biographies of Authors and Poets

WORLD LITERATURE
- Concept of World Literature
- The position of translation on the literature scene
- Literature after orientalism
- Cosmopolitanism
- The position of comparative literature
- The function of power relations
- Logistics of literature
- Activities, education and fairs

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

ICLSL 2016

After the success of “National Conference on General Linguistics” (NCL), the department Linguistics, University of Kelaniya organised “First International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka” (ICLSL 2015).
The enthusiasm showed by local and international researchers in making the ICLSL 2015 a platform for their research within the branches of Linguistics was commendable.
In 2016, ICLSL reaches its second step as the “Second International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka”.
The Organising Committee of ICLSL 2016 warmly welcomes local and international researchers to forward their abstracts to iclsl2016@gmail.com  and make the conference a platform for their research findings.
Important Dates

Extended Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
 30th May 2016 

 Notification of Acceptance and Review Comments
30th May 2016

 Deadline for Resubmission
20th June 2016
  
Registration Period
20th June 2016 - 25th July 2016

 Conference Date
25th August 2016

Following format should be followed in preparing abstracts 
 Title of the abstract - Times New Roman 14 Bold 
Author’s name and affiliation - Times New Roman 12 
Abstract should be in single paragraph not exceeding 300 Words
-   Times New Roman 12 with 1.5 Spacing   5 Keywords

 Forward your abstracts to    iclsl2016@gmail.com 

Monday, May 23, 2016

 International Conference on Literature, Culture and World Peace 2016 (Pune, India)

NL 6/5/13, Sector-10, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, India- 400 706


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
LITERATURE, CULTURE &WORLD PEACE
23rd&24th September 2016
www.herso.org www.litsight.com
Venue
Dnyansagar Institute of Management & Research
SKP Campus, Near Pune-Mumbai Highway,
Baner-Balewadi, Pune, India




About Us

Higher Education and Research Society is a Mumbai based international learned society
concerned with the advancement and understanding of higher education, especially
through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by the systematic research and
scholarship. The Society aims to be the leading international organisation in the field to
support and disseminate research and education. We commit sustainable development
and focus on the solutions to spread the scientific attitude in academicians and citizens,
practical and solution-based approach to higher education in general; introduction of
applied education, social inequality, awareness of literature and language, climate change
and many more…
The Society intends to play a role of a catalyst to enable researchers in different
regions and disciplines to exchange information, share discussions on professional and
theoretical issues, and initiate and co-ordinate research. Purely committed to the cause of
academics in a „top-down pattern‟, the prime goal of the society is to encourage and
foster research by providing a platform to showcase the innate research aptitude of the
academician. Promoting academic research and scholarship into Language and
Literature, Humanities, Basic Sciences, Technology and Management streams, the
society is determined to bring about a scholarly get-together of the intellectuals.
The society has to its credit three mega international conferences held at Pune and
Nagpur with 400 plus delegates each time, a workshop and many MoUs with Research
Centers. For the future conferences the Society invites applications from reputed

institutions as „Venue Partners‟ in India
SUB THEMES 
Peace Studies
 Peace Polemics
 Philosophy of Peace
 War and Peace
 War Literature
 Role of Literature/s in Promoting Peace
 Environment and Peace
 Space and Peace
 Democracy and Peace
 Immigration/Migration and Peace
 Literature and Humanitarianism
 Literature and Cultural History
 Conflict Resolution and Disarmament

 Literature and Human Rights Philosophy and Ethics
 Communalism and Sectarianism
 Cultural Integration and Fragmentation
 Spirituality and Literature
 Gandhism and Literature
 Non-violence and Peace
 Buddhism and Literature
 International Law and its Execution
 Globalization and Peace
 Trench Poetry and Beat Poets
 Existentialist Stance in Literature
 Absurdity and Literature
 Inequality and Justice
 Literature of Protest and Peace
 Literatures of Gender Apartheids
 Literature and Ideology
 Globalization and Geopolitical Polarization
 Religion of War /Religion on War
 Ethnic Studies
 Literary Social Paradigm
 Literatures of Underrepresented
 Gender Trouble in Literature
 Nihilist and Jingoist Sentiment in Literature.
 Literature and Nationalism
 Regionalization and Internationalization
 Literature and Utilitarianism
 World Literature and New Literatures
 Ethnocentrism in Literature
 Literature and Class/ Caste / Race
 Rising Soft Powers in World Politics
 Subnationalism and Supranationalism
 Literature and Multiculturalism
 Terrorism and Literature
 Fundamentalism and Peace
 Xenophobia in Literature
 Agrarianism and Literature
 Regionalism and Regional Literature
 Rhetoric and Techno-culture
 Literature and Digital Divide
 Literature and Social Media
 Technology and Peace
 International Relations: Literary Depictions
 Cyber War and Science Fiction
 Globalization, Media and Peace
 Domestic Peace
 Education / Teaching for Peace
 Youth for Peace

ANY OTHER TOPIC(S) RELEVANT TO THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE
Submission of Abstracts
The participants may send ABSTRACTS of their standard research papers up to 10th July
2016 (Regular Fees) or after 10th July (Late Fess) to sudhirnikam@gmail.com
conforming to the “Submission Guidelines” uploaded on www.herso.org OR
www.litsight.com.
“Registration Form” may be downloaded from the same websites. The details regarding
selection will be communicated within two days from the date of submission of abstract.
The registration process has to be completed within three working days from the date of
selection of the abstract.
The complete research paper for presentation may be submitted on the conference day at
the registration counter.


 Address for Correspondence

Dr Sudhir Nikam
A-2, 503, Punyodaya Park
Near Don Bosco School, Adharwadi
Kalyan (West), Thane, India- 421 301
Mobile: +919322530571 / +919405024593
Email: sudhirnikam@gmail.com 


Registration Fees

Registration fees should be paid through NEFT/Online Payment within “three working
days” as per the guidelines mentioned in the “SELECTION MAIL.”
Registration up to 10th July 2016
INR 2000/- (without accommodation)
INR 3000/- (with accommodation)
Registration after 10th July 2016
INR 2500/- (without accommodation)
INR 3500/- (with accommodation)Literary Insight: A Refereed
International Journal
(ISSN 0975-6248)
Annual Print Journal since 2010 (January)
Contact:-litsight@gmail.com
Contemporary Discourse: A Peer
Reviewed International Journal (ISSN
0976-3686)
Biannual Print Journal since 2010 (January / July)
Contact:- litsight@gmail.com
 SPOT REGISTRATIONdoes not include accommodation. However, spot
registration with accommodation is permissible to „foreign delegates only‟,
subject to availability and obtaining prior permission.
 „Moderate‟ accommodation on sharing basis will be provided for outstation
delegates during conference days (23rd&24th). The stay before the conference day
will be charged separately. Since limited number of rooms are available, delegates
are requested to register well in advance. The rooms will be allocated on firstcome-
first-serve-basis.
 Registration fees covers Conference Kit, Breakfast, Tea and Lunch during
conference days.
 Maharashtrian Vegetarian food will be served during conference days.
 A co-presenter or an accompanying person will have to make separate
registration.
 No T.A./ D.A. is paid to the Delegates.
Mode of Payment
Registration fees should be paid through NEFT/online payment only as per the guidelines
mentioned in the “SELECTION MAIL.”


Publication

The Registered Delegates are entitled to get their research paper published online in the
Journal of Higher Education & Research Society: A Refereed International
(ISSN 2349-0209) Oct16/April17 issue “subject to approval” by the reviewers.
 The “Selection Mail” following submission of ABSTRACT contains all the
detailed guidelines regarding publication. The authors need to strictly follow them.
 The approved submissions to be presented in this conference or some other relevant
paper should be mailed „separately‟ ONLY AS PER THE GUIDELINES
MENTIONED IN THE “SELECTION MAIL.”
 The only email for publication related communication is hersomumbai@gmail.com
 The final decision regarding publication of the article resides with the Convener /
Organizing Secretary.
Dr Madhavi Nikam Dr Sudhir Nikam
(Convener) (Organising Secretary)
Best Compliments


 FOR FURTHER DETAILS...http://herso.org/international-conference-on-literature-culture-and-world-peace-2016-pune-india/

Friday, May 20, 2016

CFP: "Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Then and Now" 



 
Call for Papers

May 28, 2016
 
United Kingdom

Colonial America, Indigenous Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Native American History / Studies, Pre-Columbian History / Studies

Proposals are welcome for 20-minute papers, or panels of three speakers, exploring indigenous cultures and languages from a range of methodological approaches and geographical contexts. As the name suggests, our conference welcomes submissions across a range of time periods, from historical to contemporary times.
Papers might consider themes including, but not limited to:
  • Revitalisation and preservation
  • Uses of indigenous histories
  • Cultures under threat
  • Oral tradition and education
  • Literature and translation
  • Community and identity
Submission
For individual papers, please submit a title, 200-word abstract and short biography.
For panel proposals, please submit a title and 200-word abstract for each paper and a short biography of each speaker.

Proposals should be sent to Harriet Smart at ILCConference2016@gmail.com  by Friday 28 May 2016.

Contact Info: 
Harriet Smart
PhD Candidate in History
 
University of Sheffield
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
UK
 
@harrietlcsmart
 
‘Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Then and Now’ Conference
University of Sheffield, 12 and 13 September
@ILCC2016
Contact Email: