International Conference on Journalism: Who Creates the News?- 13 January 2019, United Kingdom

Call For Papers:

News making and the influence of sources on news production have been a focus of interest of scholars since 1970s when Sigal published his seminal study on news sources. Much has changed since then and while routine sources such as Government’s press releases and other information still influence news agenda, entrepreneurial sources such as charities and NGOs are also making a momentum in acting as sources to journalists. In part, charities became sources because of newsworthiness their work adds to journalists who can argue they are serving the public by reporting on charity activism and raising awareness of charitable causes. However, journalists also report using contacts when sourcing news, and many academic studies reported increased reliance on PR content, because of which journalism also earned the nickname “chournalism”.

In addition, growing number of studies report that women are not as present in newsrooms as much as men, and that newsrooms still remain a place for blokes. Nevertheless, some studies reported that not only women do not participate in main news writing as much as men but that when something moves from traditional “female” sections (such as health, lifestyle and food) to news then it is again men who write on these topics and not women.

Major political debates revealed question of media ownership and influence of editorial policies on news content and sourcing stories. For example, during the Brexit debate in the UK newspapers such as The Guardian took a pro-remain stance while newspapers such as The Daily Mail and The Sun pushed for the leave vote. Therefore, the question is also who creates editorial policy, and how these editorial policies influence the agenda of each newspaper? What does having an editorial position means for news and journalism? How do we understand news and news making? Is impartiality truly a myth?

Nevertheless, SEO also had an impact on journalism because media organisations now need not only serve as watchdogs of democracy and inform the public on current events, but they also need to create content that their audiences are searching for on search engines. Some argue that this has had a negative impact on journalism as media organisations are producing content their audiences want to consume rather than serving the public by informing them on what they find relevant and newsworthy. Whether we see SEO as negative or positive, it is a fact that it changed journalism and brought to a stakeholder orientation within media organisations, with which it also diminished media’s traditional gate keeping function.

These and other issues are the subjects of our conference. Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following topics,

Exploration of sources in creating news
Agenda setting studies
Women in journalism
Editorial policies and news making
Media ownership and its influence on news making
Impartiality in news reporting
Journalism education
Journalism and public opinion
Journalism freedom
Fake news
Fact checking
Reporting the truth
SEO and its influence on journalism
Reporting standards
Investigative journalism
Social media as a source of news stories
The role of social media presence in building a career in journalism
Citizen journalism
The role of PR in news production


















Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit paper proposals.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 15 October 2018. Decisions will be sent by 1 November 2018 and registrations are due by 15 December 2018. In case we collect enough abstracts earlier, we will send decisions earlier.  

Conference fee is GBP 180, and it includes
The registration fee
Conference bag and folder with materials
Access to the newsletter, and electronic editions of the Centre
Opportunity for participating in future activities of the Centre (research & co-editing volumes)
Meals and drinks
Sightseeing for second day of the conference
WLAN during the conference
Certificate of attendance

Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is a private institution originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia. Since July 2016 the Centre is registered in Leeds, UK.

Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

Information for non-EU participants:

The Centre will issue Visa letter to participants with UK entry clearance requirement. The British Home Office has a very straightforward procedure, which is not excessively lengthy and the Centre will also issue early decisions to participants with Visa requirements.

Contact Info: 

Dr Martina Topic

Contact Email: 

martinahr@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/international-conference-on-journalism-who-creates-the-news/

CFP:Imagine Queer: the Radical Potential of Queerness Now,Newcastle University, 12th October 2018, United Kingdom

The aim of the conference is to consider interdisciplinary approaches to the transgressive potential of queerness today. Considering grassroots LGBTQ+ activism, artistic practices, as well as academic discourse of queer theory, we seek to identify and address issues arising in the current transnational socio-political conditions. How can biopolitics be challenged by queer temporalities? How can radical activism of preceding decades be re-contextualised and employed now? Can queer social formations, based on friendship, kinship, and affective communities, be used to reconsider the heteronormative structures aided by the legislation in the international context?

Looking forward, we are interested in restoring the potential of transgressive queer activism, much of which has been now directed into the struggle of LGBTQ+ communities to enter the realm of normative domesticity, compromising its ability to challenge the state apparatus. Based on interdiciplinary, cross-national, and transhistorical research practices, we seek to address these questions in relation to nationhood, citizenship, and human rights. We encourage academic and practical responses to the analysed problem from interdisciplinary, cross-generational, and multinational perspectives.

The possible themes might include, but are not limited to:

• Challenging chronobiopolitics
• Community-based approaches to academic research
• Radical potential of queer archives
• Queer spatialities and temporalities
• De-centralising HIV/AIDS narratives
• Engaging with marginalised LGBTQ communities
• Queer citizenships and nationalisms
• Queer utopias and activism
• Radical art-making
• Queer artistic methodologies
• Now what? Explorations of queer futurities
• Disrupting centre/margins discourses
• Practices of resilience and stigma management

Please include 350-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations and a short biographical note in your application.

 The proposals should be sent to imaginequeer2018@gmail.com by 31st May 2018.

Keynote Speakers:

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Professor Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Prof Plummer has written extensively in Sociology and LGBTQ Studies during his formal working years. He is the founder editor of the journal Sexualities (edited it from 1996 to 2012), and the author of several textbooks: “Sociology: The Basics and Sociology: A Global Introduction.” His notable works include “Sexual Stigma” (1975), “The Making of the Modern Homosexual” (1981), “Telling Sexual Stories” (1995), “Documents of Life” (2001), “Intimate Citizenship” (2003) and “Sociology: The Basics” (2010). In “Intimate Citizenships,” Prof Plummer explores some ongoing public debates around the personal life – from ‘test tube babies’ to ‘lesbian and gay families’ – whose essence may be captured by Plummer’s prominent concept of “Intimate Citizenship,” and which he will revisit in his keynote address. https://kenplummer.com/

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Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is a Montreal-born artist and diarist based in Edinburgh. His artistic work mediates emotional encounters with musical, art historical and Queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. In his work you will find bells, bouquets, ceramic vases, enchanted forests, folding screens, gay elders, glitter, gold leaf, love letters, imaginary paintings, madrigals, megaphones, mirrors, naked men, sex-changing flowers, sign language, subtitles, and the voices of birds, boy sopranos, contraltos, countertenors, and sirens. Nemerofsky’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is part of the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Thielska Galleriet Stockholm and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. His current artistic research involves audio portraits of the private libraries and gardens of Queer scholars and community elders. www.nemerofsky.ca

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Contact Email: imaginequeer2018@gmail.com

URL: https://imaginequeer2018.wixsite.com/conference

Funded International Conference on Translating Feminism: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency- 13-15 June 2018-University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Organised by the Leverhulme Trust International Network

'Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation' 

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 

13-15 June 2018 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The transformation of women's sense of self - individually and collectively - is one of the most significant socio-cultural events of the past 50 years to have occurred around the globe. Western-focused historiographies of 'second-wave' feminisms have only made the first few steps in addressing the geographical biases in their self-narration and in the very definition of feminism. A whole world unfolds when one considers the many guises of female agency aimed at social transformation, and articulated through text. 

The focus of this Conference is on the translocal, transcultural and translingual connections between such texts and their authors. In what ways do texts connect activists operating in different local environments? How are actors influenced by intellectual and political sources originating from other localities and different cultural environments? What happens to a text when it is adapted to a new environment and is politically operationalised in different circumstances? 

We adopt a broad understanding of 'text', which includes both published and unpublished work, recorded and unrecorded words, and can range from literary fiction to oral testimony and activist pamphlets. Feminism, too, is defined here in very broad terms - including any action aimed at subverting the gender status quo and foregrounding female agency. Finally, we understand translation as a process of cultural transfer across languages, but also within the lexicons and registers of single languages. While the prime focus of the Network has been on the period since 1945, papers incorporating longer-term perspectives and earlier periods are very welcome. 

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Claudia de Lima Costa (UMass Amherst) 

Panels and themes will include: 

* Intersectional approaches in translation 

* Feminist vocabularies and dictionaries 

* Patterns of transmission/questions of centre and periphery 

* Self-translation/intimate translation 

* Intergenerational translation 

* Pedagogies of feminist translation 

* Sexism in/and language 

* Feminism and specialized translation (e.g., medical or legal translation) 

* Feminisms and literary translation 

* Feminism, translation and international institutions (e.g., the UN International Women's Year 1975) 

* Men and feminism 

* Multilingual contexts and the absence of translation 

* Multilingual spaces of negotiation (e.g., book fairs) 

* Social media 

Please note the Conference will also feature a strand on 'Feminist Translating: Activists and Professionals', organized in collaboration with Glasgow's Centre for Gender History, and involving roundtable discussions and workshops with activist-translator communities and publishers working with a feminist ethos. All Conference delegates will be welcome to attend, and its programme will be announced alongside the main Conference programme. 

Please send us your abstract by 15 January. You will be notified of acceptance by 15 February. The programme will be announced and registration will open on 1 March. 

Your abstract should be between 250 and 350 words. Please include your email address and (if applicable) institutional affiliation, as well as a three-sentence biography. All abstracts, as well as queries, should be sent to: translatingfeminism@gmail.com

'Feminist Translating: Activists and Professionals': If you would like to be involved in the activist-translator strand please contact us separately by email. 

Limited funding to cover travel and accommodation is available for researchers working on temporary contracts, and for academics working outside Europe and North America. If you wish to benefit from this please clarify in your cover letter how you meet these criteria. 

Organisers:

Dr Maud Bracke, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Glasgow 

Dr Penelope Morris, Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow 

Dr Emily Ryder, Network Facilitator, Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow 

Ruth Abou Rached - Translation and Intercultural Studies 

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures 

University of Manchester 

ICIT 2018 : 20th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation London, United Kingdom

ICIT 2018 : 20th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

October 15 - 16, 2018

Call for Papers

The ICIT 2018 : 20th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Interpreting and Translation. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. 

Conference Aims and Objectives

The ICIT 2018: 20th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Interpreting and Translation. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Interpreting and Translation.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

- Interpreting and Translation

- Ad hoc translation/interpreting

- Adult/Child language brokering (oral and/or written), Family interpreting

- Anthropology

- Applied linguistics

- Bilingual dictionaries and translation

- Brokering between deaf adult signers and hearing groups

- Cognitive science

- Crime in Translation

- Crime, translation and the law

- Cultural studies

- Education, and other social sciences

- Ethnicity, translation and tradition

- Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting Studies

- Gender and Sexuality Studies

- Globalisation, translation and cross-cultural dialogue

- Historical survey of a journal and its use of translation

- Intellectuals and the impact of translation

- Intercultural Studies

- Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Non-professional Interpreting and Translation

- Interpreting studies

- Journal as a vehicle of translation

- Language politics and cultural translation

- Literacy brokering

- Literary translation and journal publication

- Media and Visual Studies

- Modernity, translation and transformation

- Non-professional interpreting and/or translation

- Non-professional media interpreting and translation

- Non-professional, church/religious interpreting and translation

- Political Discourse

- Scholarship, translation and journals

- Science and Technology

- Scientific and Technical Discourse

- Semantics and Pragmatics

- Social change, translation and interpreting

- Sociology and Politics

- Subtitling and dubbing thrillers

- Terminology

- Text/Corpus Linguistics

- The challenges of translating crime fiction

- The role of translation and interpreting in criminal justice

- Theory and Practice of Translation

- Transfer studies

- Translation studies

Important Dates

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline   December 23, 2017

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection   March 23, 2018

Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline   June 23, 2018

Conference Dates   October 15 - 16, 2018

Important Notes

Please ensure your submission meets WASET's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission GUIDE before submitting your paper. 

https://www.waset.org/conference/2018/10/london/ICIT/dates 

International Research Conference on Women's and Gender Studies and for Women in Research 

10th to 11th October 2017 

Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

THIS CONFERENCE OFFERS A PLATFORM FOR:

• Discussion relating to the current status of women, with a special focus on the following categories that constitute potential challenges to gender equality and women’s rights: the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the refugee crisis, rising levels of (and political legitimisation of) sexual violence and misogyny, cuts in child-care and services for disabled people, lack of access to paid parental leave, tax and welfare reforms, the gender pay gap, sexual harassment and the rise of zero-contract hours.
• International researchers and scientists from academia, industry and government to present their studies to a multi-disciplinary audience, exchange experiences, discuss proposals, and disseminate results on women’s and gender studies.
• Raising awareness and encouraging dialogue on the proposed topics, with the aim of creating lasting productive partnerships between the participants.

All submitted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, edited under the Creative Commons Licence (Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International/CC BY-ND 4.0), which will also contain a report and catalogue of activities. This book will be available on the WomenBeing webpage to download for free, and it will also be freely distributed to schools, institutions, research centres and individuals who request it.

The aim of this conference is to create an international forum for debate and exchange on the main challenges facing women in today’s society, and to reflect on the ways in which we can, individually and collectively, propose solutions to these problems.

The conference begins on the 10th of October – Ada Lovelace day – which celebrates women of the present and the past, whose achievements have contributed so much to humanity. Like Ada Lovelace, there are many women fighting for equality, for their rights, and for peace. In the last year, there has been a growing awareness of the need to address the problems that women are experiencing, to speak and to take action.

WomenBeing builds upon this momentum by providing a ‘loudspeaker’ for academics, civil servants, researchers, social activists, journalists and private individuals to make their voices heard on the main challenges that women are facing in 2017.

Deadline:

Submission of abstracts: 1st of August 2017

Acceptance notification: 20th of August 2017

Submission of full papers: 20th of August 2017

Early bird registration: 10th of September 2017

Submit Your Abstract:

1. PREPARE YOUR ABSTRACT

2. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT USING THE FOLLOWING FORM

(In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.)

If you have any question, please send us an e-mail to info@womenbeing.co.uk.

Please Do Visit our Website for more details:http://www.womenbeing.co.uk/

Join us on the 10th and 11th of October in Edinburgh to enrich our discussions.

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