CFA: International Conference on 'AI and Society", School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University, Bangalore. Dates: 1-3 March 2024

Concept Note and Submission Details:

The blinding glare of AI makes us squint in a combination of hope and fear. We have to take pause and redirect the glare through the prisms of diverse domains and disciplines, to take advantage of the perhaps still-too-human ability to detach and reflect, immerse, and observe, both at the same time. The reflective part of the conference not only steers away from the enchantment of grand questions and grand paranoia, but invites the best combination of breadth and specificity, accessibility and depth, freedom and discipline. The immersive dimension, on the other hand, asks us to submit to the most eclectic manifestations of AI: whether it is about talking to a therapy bot, co-creating AI art, using AI mechanisms to generate historical narratives and research documents, using AI devices to encounter health and climate hazards, diving into an AI-generated metaverse, and many other aspects. Such immersions are meant to usher in new possibilities of reflection. While recent incarnations like ChatGPT force us to take stock of the disruption brought about by the generative paradigm, we will also acknowledge earlier inflections that AI brought about in recommendation systems, translation engines, image-processing, cultural understandings, socioeconomic growths, among many others. Are some of these inflections such as therapy bots and AI-driven media poised for their own respective singularities? Is there a possibility of building an intersectional alliance with AI so that the singularities do not emerge as all-pervading, imperial, and dictatorial entities around us?

What makes this collective exercise in contemplation unique is the meeting ground it offers for theorists, practitioners, critics, and enthusiasts. Located in Bangalore, which is India’s de facto AI capital, this is envisaged to be a one-of-a-kind exchange involving a thriving AI community of academic experts drawn from the world over. Slicing through the jargon of technological advances, the arcane dialect of academia, and the authentic vernacular of consumers and users, the conference does not presume a pre-existing language for communication, but instead hopes to arrive at one. Concerning these arguments, the conference invites Ph.D. scholars, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers, and faculties from different educational and research institutions to contribute abstracts on the following sub-themes (but not restricted to):

• AI and philosophy

• AI and Cultural Studies

• AI and Political Science

• AI and Psychology

• AI, Science and Technology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS)

• AI and Media

• AI, Design, and Art

• AI, Translation Studies and Machine Learning

The range and scope of topics have been kept wide enough to enable conversations and inputs from actual stakeholders of AI (technocrats and policymakers). 

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Submissions should be able to underline why the research problems concerned matter beyond their sub-disciplines. Interested contributors need to submit an extended abstract of 800-1000 words and the timeline of submission is 31st January 2024. The contributors will be informed about the outcome of their submission on/by 15th February 2024. 

After the conference, selected presenters would be invited to submit chapters for conference proceedings. 

Please send the abstracts to both 

Dr. Ravi Chakraborty (ravi.chakraborty@alliance.edu.in) and 

Dr. Sayan Dey (sayan.dey@alliance.edu.in).

Conference Call : International Conference on Gender and Women's Studies -Mumbai-2024

Welcome to the 11^th International Conference on Gender and Women's Studies 2024  which will be held on 8-10 July in Mumbai,India. We are thrilled to invite you to a dynamic and inclusive space where scholars, activists, and advocates from around the world will converge to engage in enlightening discussions and innovative explorations of gender-related issues. Through vibrant discussions,illuminating workshops,networking tours and insightful dialogues, 

we embark on a journey to deepen our understanding, challenge conventions, and shape a more inclusive tomorrow. GWS2024 will derive inspiration from powerful presenters from around the globe while getting up to date on the latest research findings on Gender Equality, Feminism, Women’s Empowerment and LGBTQ+++ Studies. This event, now in its 11th year, is renowned worldwide for its thought-leading- and cutting-edge content, unrivaled networking opportunities and friendly atmosphere for both presenters and participants.

• Intersectionality and Its Implications
• Feminist Theories and Methodologies
• Gender and Sexuality in Media and Culture
• Women's Health, Rights, and Empowerment
• Masculinities: Reconstructing Notions and Narratives

• LGBTQ+ Studies and Inclusivity
• Gender, Environment, and Sustainability
• Women's Leadership and Political Participation
• Gender Equity in Education and Workplaces
• Activism, Advocacy, and Social Change

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

This invitation is for you to submit an abstract along with the application. The categories of the abstracts accepted for presentation at the GWS2023 are, but not limited to, original research papers, published articles, Dissertations/PhD thesis, Works in progress, Research abstracts, Project proposals, Case studies and reports on current issues aligned with the conference theme etc

Abstracts of no more than 400 (Max. 400) words should be submitted by 15 April 2024 to abstract@womenstudies.info Please include your name, affiliation, contact information, and a brief bio (Profile). Proposals for individual presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and artistic presentations are welcome.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

All the papers will have the opportunity to be published as part of the conference proceedings after review in the Asian Studies International Journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 April 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: Within 5 working days
•  Early bird registration deadline: 15 January 2024
• Standard registration deadline: 15 April 2024
• Late registration deadline: 30 April 2024

Join us in this intellectual journey as we unravel, analyze, and celebrate the complex tapestry of gender and women's studies. Together, let's pave the way for a more inclusive and equitable world.

For inquiries, please contact ppca3000@gmail.com

We are looking forward to welcoming you to GWS2024 in Mumbai, India

Dr. Prabhath Patabendi

Convener GWS2024

INTERNATIONAL #CONFERENCE ON #MEMORY #STUDIES -DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY LORETO COLLEGE, #KOLKATA- February, 2024)

 

CONCEPT NOTE:

Memory studies is a multidisciplinary field which combines intellectual strands from literature, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology, among others. Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory (1896), Paul Ricœur’s Memory, History and Forgetting (2004), French historian Pierre Nora’s Realms of Memory (1996) and Jacques Le Goff’s History and Memory (1992) have inspired much research in the area of memory studies. Memory can be both an individual phenomenon as well as societal and collective. Forms of remembering operate as individual and collective representations of the past and they constitute a range of cultural resources for personal, social and historical identities, privileging particular readings of the past and subordinating others. Collective memory can serve as a therapeutic practice for a community and its members, as it comprises an active constructive process during which the members of a community participate in interpreting and processing shared past experiences (particularly traumas) into eventual memory representations, often in such forms as narratives, dramatizations, art, and ritual. Literature thus forms an important medium of cultural memory. The mass media plays a key role in the constitution of memory – and the politics of remembering is intrinsically connected to power.  The act of remembering, whether involving individual, socio-historical or cultural representations of the past, is a process which involves selections, absences and multiple, potentially conflicting accounts. Memories are part of a larger process of dynamic cultural negotiation involving history and literature, which defines memories as narratives, and as fluid and mediated cultural and personal traces of the past. In the modern world, then, memory is an important means of establishing authority or destabilising grand narratives of history and power, of evoking nostalgia and helping to forge personal and national identity.

The conference will seek to address issues such as the following:

How do we represent the past to ourselves and to others? Which of our many pasts do we represent, and when, where, and why do we change those representations? How do those representations shape our actions, identities, and understandings? How do individual-level processes interact with collective ones, and vice versa? What does it mean to think about “memory” in these broad ways? In what ways are we ethically and politically obligated to remember, and what are the consequences of forgetting or failing to meet these obligations?

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Stef Craps (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Dr. Abhishek Parui (IIT Madras)

Special Plenary Sessions:

Dr. Itay Lotem (University of Westminster, London)

Ms. Roberta Bacic (Founder of Conflict Textiles, Northern Ireland)

We invite paper submissions of 15-20 minutes duration from scholars whose work addresses topics including, but not limited to the following fields:

• Memory and oral history
• Contested histories and memory
• Memory, memorials, the visual arts, archives, installations
• Landscape and memory
• Memory and trauma (slavery, Partition, World Wars, Holocaust, Irish conflict, genocide, apartheid, 9/11, pandemic etc)
• Literature and nostalgia
• Memory and the diaspora
• Memory and the Media
• Collective Memory
• Cultural Memory

 

To submit a proposal, please send abstracts to conferencememorystudies@gmail.com 

Please include the following in one PDF:

• Paper title

• Paper abstract (250-word maximum)

• CV with your full name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), title, and email address

 

Paper presenters will be informed by 15 November, 2023.

 

Conference Convenor: Sukanya Dasgupta

Co-Convenor: Suparna Ghosh

Head of the Organizing Committee: Srijita Chakravarty

 

Following the conference, a selection of papers will be chosen by the organizers for inclusion in a proposed edited volume.