Call for Papers

"India, the self and the other: Conflict, Dialogue and Synthesis"

9th Annual Debrupa Bal Memorial National Students’ Seminar.

Date: 3-4 February, 2017

Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

Concept Note:
India, like any other cartographical domain, is not just a geographical space but a historical and ideological construction in itself. A myriad cultural(social, religious, political and economic) presences exert cardinal influences in the congregation of India or the ‘Indian self’. These diversified presences also make it difficult to claim a pure, unadulterated, homogenous 'Indian' identity. The colonial onslaught also had a profound impact on the said identity.
This seminar will address both the exclusionary as well as the inclusionary dialectics with respect to the construction of Indian identity/identities. It will be an enquiry into the processes, material and ideological, that construct the notion of the self, and how they create the ‘other’ addressing the dialogic of exclusion as well as assimilation. In addition to the enquiry into what is the ‘other’ as opposed to or emanated from the 'self' – the imagination of 'India' by the ‘other’ and the ‘other’ by that of 'India' is significant, since the imagining apparatus is often moulded by perspectives emerging from living imbrications in different locations. The multi-ethnic fabric of India has the self-other dynamics playing within its geographic boundary as well populated by differentially discerned nexuses of ‘otherization’. Keeping in mind a wide gamut of literary/artistic/cultural productions that articulate the conflict, dialogue, and synthesis of the self-other dynamics in pertinence to India, this conference invites papers addressing, but not necessarily restricting, themselves to the following sub-themes:
• India as envisaged by the West and vice versa
• Orientalism and response
• Diasporic texts
• Travel writing in, about, and beyond, India
• The multi-ethnic Indian fabric
• Urban-rural interface
• Classic , canon and transgression
• Gender, class and race
• Popular media
• Indigenous productions



Abstracts clearly mentioning the the title of the paper, name, designation and contact details of the author(s) and not exceeding 300 words are to be submitted by 21st December, 2016 to dbms.ju17@gmail.com
Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 10th January, 2017.
Full papers need to be submitted by 26th January, 2017.
For further enquiry, contact:
Parthasarathi Bhaumik (bhaumikps@gmail.com)
Krishnendu Pal (krishnendupopopal@gmail.com)

The 2017 International Education Social Sciences & Humanities Research Conference In London

DATES: 5 - 7 April 2017

VENUE: The  Imperial London Russell Square London UK

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 (Miss a deadline please Contact us via email)

OVERVIEW

The ICBTS Conference Center, four years ago for organized conference, hosts the International Conference Education Social Sciences and Humanities in London to promote all academic research in the field.

Please join us for the ICBTS 2017 International Academic Conference Education Social Sciences and Humanities. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their ideas, proposals, or completed research in all areas of education. Since 20 to 30 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with a different perspective. An extensive list of acceptable topics is available on our website. 

We will be held at Imperial London Hotel Russell Square London that is best all every thing.

The Topic of Research:

Education

-Distance Education

-E-learning

-Higher Education

-Lifelong learning

-Teaching and learning

-Primary Education

Social Sciences Humanities

-Arts

-Anthropology

-Art History

-Humanities

-History

-English

-Information Sciences

-Islamic Studies

-Language

-Linguistics

-Literature

-Local Govrnment

-Law

-Music

-Museums and heritage

-Occupational Sciences

-Philosophy

-Poetry

-Politics

-Popular Culture

-Psychology

-Religious studies

-Social Sciences

-Sociology

-Woman's history

International Business

-Advertising

-Banking and finance

-Business

-Business Ethics

-E-commerce

-Economics

-Human Resources

-Management

-Marketing

Tourism Hospitality

-Tourism

-Hospitality

-Hotel management

-Transport

INQUIRIES

Inquiries: conferenceteam@icbtsconference.com

Web address:

http://www.icbtsconference.com/15663526/london-education-social-sciences-humanities

Sponsored by: The ICBTS 2017

Full-length papers, topics of paper, reviews, research-in-progress papers, case studies and /or abstracts,  relating to all areas of Social Sciences, Humanities,Language, Linguistics, Literature, Arts, English, Art History, Islamic Studies, Local government, Museums, Heritage, Music, Poetry, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Religious Studies are invited for the above international conference. An author can present up to two papers. This Conference supported by International Journal of Business Tourism and Applied Sciences (index list in Paris, France) Vol. 3 No.2

This conference several academic please choose submitted  :

* International Education Social Sciences and Humanities Research Conference

Submission, Review Process and Announcement of Acceptance

Please submit full papers and/or abstracts not over 20 November 2016 (please note you can submitted papers anytime before this deadline). To submit paper, please click on “Paper Submitted” Link in the website and fill in the form, attach your paper and click submitted. You can submit full paper or abstract which will be blind reviewed. The notice relating to acceptance of abstract and/or full paper will be provided within 2 weeks after we receive them. Please see the submission guidelines.

Written Feedback and Publications Opportunity

Quality papers will be considered for publication in the following international peer reviewed by IJBTS journals with ISSN: 2286-9700, IJBTS international Journal of Business Tourism and Applied Sciences. World Journal of Global Business Management Economy Finance Banking Tourism and Sciences Technology However the best quality papers will be considered for IJBTS Journal, subject to compliance to review report, editorial comments, conference feedback and payment of applicable submission fees.

Awards and Conference Proceedings and other Benefits

Best paper award will be announced in each track and will be published in any of the above journals and a certificate will be issued to the events. All accepted abstract and full papers  (for those who register for the conference) will be published in the refereed conference proceedings with ISBN and will be published electronically via a separate website, namely, www.ijbts-journal.com which also contains proceedings of previous conferences and efforts will be made to publish via google scholar. There is an option that the participant can serve as session chair and/or discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest and certificate will be issued to such participant.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please click on the links provided on www.icbtsconference.com for more information.

For other enquiries please email Dr.Chayanan Kerdpitak via email address: Conferenceteam@icbtsconference.com

Academic Advisory Program Chairs:

Professor Dr. Kai Heuer, Wismar University, Germany

Professor Dr. Ebrahim Soltani, Hamdunbin Smart University, Dubai UAE

Program Chair:

Dr. Chayanan Kerdpitak, CK Research Thailand

Dr. Vipin Naddaa, Universissty of Sunderland, London UK

Call For Papers

Two Day National Seminar on 

Trans (gendered) Lives: Praxis of Silence and Exclusion

UGC SPONSORED , organised by Department of English, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, University of Delhi

7-8 February, 2017

Themes

Broad areas to be covered by the seminar:
• discursive and non-discursive strategies used by trans writers
• Review of Trangender literature
• Discourse on transgender bodies and identities
• Transgender narratives and counter narratives
• Understanding transgender identities and it's overlapping categories of transexual, transvestite, androgyne, cross-dresser, etc.
• Indian and western perspectives on transgender
• Art, literature and films as modes of transgender expressions and resistance



Abstract Submission
Please mail the abstract of the paper in about 300 words to Harpreet Bahri at harpreetbahri@gmail.com by 31 December 2016. And a soft copy of the paper by 10 January 2017.
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Contact Details
Harpreet Bahri ( Convenor of the Seminar)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi
Email: harpreetbahri@gmail.com
9811208178
01125573610

Call For Papers

International Conference:

“Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies”

Co-sponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program

October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017 International Conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” that will be cosponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program. 

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research (http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr) is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides. One of the Center’s primary research themes is Digital Genocide Studies. 

Digital technologies have begun to significantly influence contemporary scholarship, theories, and methods in the social sciences and humanities. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites scholars from all disciplines to examine the relationships between digital methodologies, practices, ethics and contemporary Holocaust and genocide studies. How can digital humanities shape, challenge, or complement contemporary genocide studies and vice versa?

The two-day international conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” will be held on October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. The conference will investigate the ways in which digital tools and methods, new media, and information technologies can help us to challenge conventional wisdom regarding Holocaust and Genocide Studies by raising new questions, improving our understanding, deepening our analysis, widening our field of view, or pioneering new approaches. Especially of interest would be how digital humanists from a range of disciplines and methodologies can broaden our methodological approaches to the study of the causes, consequences, and prevention of genocide. We encourage diverse approaches to the conference theme that draw from a wide variety of critical lenses and approaches, as well as focus on any time period, case study, or medium.

Submissions on the following themes are particularly encouraged:

• Digital methodologies and their applicability to genocide studies

• Quantitative genocide research

• Big data methodologies and comparative genocide studies

cagr.usc.edu

• Digital technologies (such as wearable devices, 3D printing, and others) and their

applicability to genocide studies

• Creation, curation, promotion and analysis of digital genocide resources and collections

• Audio and visual genocide testimonies and their digitization, preservation, and

accessibility

• Social, institutional, global/regional, multicultural, and multilingual aspects of digital

genocide research

• Ethics of digital genocide studies

• Tools and methods of genocide studies that could fruitfully contribute to or influence the

digital sphere and the field of digital humanities

Founded in 2014, the Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the USC Shoah Foundation. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides, focusing on the origins of genocide and how to intervene in the cycle that leads to mass violence. The Center organizes annual international workshops and conferences, hosts a speaker series on genocide and mass violence, and offers a competitive international research fellowship program. For further information please consult: http://cagr.usc.edu.

The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive holds over 54,000 digitized and fully searchable video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan,Guatemalan and Armenian genocides, and the Nanjing Massacre in China. The interviews were conducted in 41 languages and in 62 countries. They encompass the experiences not only of survivors in these contexts, but also of witnesses, liberators, aid providers, and war crimes trials participants.

The USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program enables postdoctoral and graduate student fellows to gain training in emerging digital technologies while advancing research in the humanities. A partnership between the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC Libraries, the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program possesses a unique set of attributes that positions our fellows to emerge from USC with extensive understanding of compelling problems, deep connections to scholars working in their areas of expertise, and enhanced digital skills developed through multi-disciplinary training in state-of-the-art techniques and technologies.

We welcome proposals for single paper presentations and for theme-specific panels comprising no more than three presenters. 

Please send a CV and a one-page abstract of the proposed paper or an abstract of the proposed panel plus an abstract of each paper of the proposed panel before January 15, 2016 to cagr@usc.edu.

Travel support will be available. Please include your travel request with your abstract.  

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Graduate Conference 2017

Guilty Pleasures and Confessional Spaces: Storytelling and the Digital Dionysus

March 31 - April 1, 2017

Ninth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Call for Papers

Although cultural conceptions of shame, punishment, and voyeuristic pursuits have reconfigured themselves across different eras and cultures, the inherent and hidden pleasures of transgression remain—linking desires, actions, and modes of thought. Individual pleasures stand in stark contrast to socially defined constructions of guilt and shame—particularly in the generation of postmemory. Palimpsestic experiences of trauma, pain, and the past continue to shape our memories, expectations, and how we communicate. These recurring themes and the strictures that legislate how pleasure is performed in public and private spaces can shape the pleasures we derive from transgressing them.

This conference seeks to interrogate the implicit and explicit relationships between the crimes we commit, the structures we violate, and the stories we tell. Specifically, we intend to investigate the notion of space—both imaginary and concretely defined—and the role it plays in shaping contemporary discourses of pleasure and punishment. Additionally, this conference will engage with these discourses in the age of information. How does this liminal space—an online bacchanalia of obscured identities, open transgression of social and cultural norms, and hidden impulses writ large—function as a construct that facilitates unique and revolutionary means of seeing and communicating on a global level?

Possible session topics include but are not limited to:

    Confessional acts as sites of pleasure

    Pleasure and transgression as a form of escapism

    Palimpsest, postmemory and collective trauma

    Post-colonialism & memory/ narrative

    Memory construction and storytelling in guilty societies

    Biopolitics: state-controlled bodies and narratives

    Cultural displacement and legislation of hybrid identities

    Violating  and transgressing notions of space

    Transgressive, anonymous and public identities in the digital world

    Cultural memory and digital humanities

    Voyeurism, Orientalism and the exoticized Other

Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be comprised of the keynote address and panels on Friday, followed by additional panels on Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues presented and discussed in more detail and depth. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel so that they can participate in the entire event, including the workshop.  There will also be a closing reception Saturday evening, which is open to all participants and audience members.

Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by January 27, 2017.  Selected participants will be notified by February 3, 2017.

You can also visit our webpage for additional information about the conference: http://fll.unm.edu/clcs-graduate-conference/call-for-papers.php  

Note: Housing available with graduate students and limited travel funding may be also available, please inquire!

Contact us at csconference.unm@gmail.com