The 3rd International Conference on Postdisciplinary Approaches 2018

Knowledge as Disobedience, Expression and Creativity

2-5 February 2018, Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand

What is this conference about?

Following the success of the 1st International Conference on Postdisciplinary Approaches held in Neuchatel, Switzerland (19-22 June, 2013) and the second conference hosted by the Copenhagen Business School (22-24 June, 2015), we are delighted to announce that the 3rd event will take place in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2-5 February 2018. The theme for our Auckland gathering is Knowledge as Disobedience, Expression and Creativity. We welcome all types of presentations that address postdisciplinarity in a range of contexts – including, but not limited to, epistmology and knowledge production, practice and action, ways of being and becoming, and relational theory. We particularly encourage non-western perspectives vis-à-vis oral literature, art and performance.  

Postdisciplinarity has been previously articulated as an invitation to different interpretations, critical analysis, and creative problem solving – extending also to questioning conventional processes of knowledge making. To appreciate the breadth and scope of postdisciplinary approaches, we invite you to read the special issue which emerged out of the first conference in Neuchatel – published recently in Tourism Analysis (link:Volume 21, Number 4).

The 3rd International Conference on Postdisciplinary Approaches is open to academics from all walks of life, regardless of disciplinary background or affiliation. Researchers are invited to present in the form of research papers, movies or audio-visual material, exhibitions, performances, music, literary writings such as poetry or short stories and other creative expressions. A combination of several of these is also very much welcome. We recognise that there are a number of different ways in which research can be communicated; we are committed to accommodating such needs.

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If you are planning to join us, please pre-register by clicking on the REGISTER INTEREST button (at the bottom of this page). This will help us with the conference organisation and to determine the final registration costs. Please note that the conference will be limited to 120 delegates. 

The aim of the 3rd International Conference on Postdisciplinary Approaches is to extend the boundaries of what constitutes ‘legitimate’ knowledge. The conference is open to academics from all walks of life, regardless of disciplinary background or affiliation. We welcome presentations dealing with postdisciplinarity approaches to knowledge as disobedience, expression and creativity.

Researchers are invited to present their knowledge production and passion in the form of research papers, movies or audio-visual material, exhibitions, performances, music, literary writings, such as poetry or short stories and other creative contributions. A combination of these forms of expression is much welcomed. We recognise that there are a number of different ways in which research can be communicated, and we are committed to accommodating the needs of individual and group expressions.

Important dates and information

Abstract submission opens 30 April, 2017 and closes 15 October, 2017

Registration opens 1 May, 2017 with the following options:

The “I am keen & I am IN!” registration opens 1 May and closes 31 July, 2017

       Price: NZD$ 850.00 [Student: NZD$700.00]

The “I am definitely COMING” registration opens 1 August and closes 30 November, 2017

       Price: NZD$ 950.00 [Student: NZD$ 800.00]

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The “I will be LATE” registration opens 1 December, 2017 and will remain open until 2 February, 2018

       Price: NZD$ 1,050.00 [Student: NZD$ 900.00].

Please note that this conference will be limited to 120 participants. The review process will take approximately 4 weeks – the sooner we receive your proposal, the sooner we can get back to you regarding the acceptance of your presentation so that you can make most of the discounted registrations.

Submissions of presentations

Submissions and registrations will be processed via our website www.postdisciplinary.net

The submission system will be up and running by 30 April, 2017.

Instructions for presentations

All presentations should address/reflect postdisciplinarity and the theme of knowledge as disobedience, expression and creativity. Send us a brief explanation of how your ideas link to the themes of this conference and an example of what & how you would like to present. This will enable the members of the Scientific Committee to assess the relevance and quality of your work, and plan the logistics for the event.

 For research papers: submit an abstract between 200-300 words including references.

 For audio-visual presentations or similar: submit a summary between 150-200 words describing the aims and/or the conceptual basis of your work. An example/trailer of any audio-visual material may be useful (e.g. 3-5 min visual summary).

 For exhibitions and performances: submit a summary between 150-200 words describing the aims and/or the conceptual basis of your work. A visual example (e.g., a photo/drawing) may be required.

 For music, literary writings such as poetry or short stories: submit a brief text (150-200 words) explaining the connection of your work to the themes of the conference. A sample of your work may be required.

 More information regarding submissions will be available online in April.

 There will be a prize for the most creative and disobedient presentation!

Publication opportunities

Aside from the Conference Proceedings, we will work towards producing a special issue based on selected presentations at the Postdisciplinarity Conference 2018. The details of specific publications will be announced at a later stage. Please check our website for regular updates.

We are working hard on making this a fun, inclusive and empowering event. Forget PowerPoints and endless streams of talks… You will be immersed in flows of inspiration, sparked by vibrant conversations and stimulating ideas. Liberate your mind!

We are looking forward to welcoming you in 2018!

Nga mihi

The Auckland postdisciplinary team

Convernor:

Dr Tomas Pernecky, AUT---           Email: postdisciplinary2018@gmail.com

Local Organising Committee:

Dr Heike Schänzel, AUT

Dr Shelagh Mooney, AUT

Dr Nancy McIntyre, AUT

Dr Keri-Anne Wikitera, AUT

Dr Tomas Pernecky, AUT.

We are looking forward to seeing you in summery Auckland in 2018!​

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International Conference 

on Mermaids,Maritime Folklore, and Modernity

24-27 October 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

This interdisciplinary conference addresses mermaid and related creatures from folklore, myth, legend, and the imagination in 19th-21st Century culture.

The past decades have seen an explosion of mermaid imagery in global popular culture, across cinema, television, literature, music, design, performance, cosplay, and web-based forms. Mermen, selkies, sirens, and newer figures such as caecelia and merlions have also come to prominence. From Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Little Mermaid’ to Jennifer Donnely’s WaterFire Saga, from Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide to Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid (美人鱼), from Edvard Eriksen’s iconic ‘The Little Mermaid’ statue to Banksy’s Dismaland distortion, from the Weeki Wachi Springs mermaid show to the digital mermaids at Macau’s City of Dreams, mermaids have served as figures of romance, horror, comedy, mystery, lust, and adventure across countless media and cultural practices.

Cultural globalisation has granted mermaid associations to numerous non-western creatures and deities. Representations of aquatic spirits from around the world (West Africa’s Mami Wata, Thailand’s Suvannamaccha, Indonesia’s Nyai Loro Kidul, Russia’s rusalka, Brazil’s Iara, etc.) increasingly influence and are influenced by western mermaid culture. This process historically occurred in the West itself, as figures from Mesopotamia and Classical antiquity influenced Medieval and Early Modern European perceptions and interpretations of encounters with aquatic beings.

About the conference.

On 24-25 October, delegates will visit mermaid-related sites and engage in Copenhagen’s local culture. On the evening of 25 October, delegates will visit the enchanting Tivoli Gardens amusement park. Conference presentations will take place at VerdensKulturCentret on 26-27 October.

Keynote speakers.

Philip Hayward (University of Technology, Sydney & Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia), author of Making a Splash! Mermaids (and Mermen) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media (forthcoming, JLP/University of Indiana Press).

Jenny Kokai (Weber State University, Ogden, USA), author of Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature (forthcoming, Southern Illinois University Press).

How to make a presentation.

Papers and panels are invited on all aspects of mermaids and related entities in 19th-21st Century culture. Presentations will address such issues as:

• Representations in popular culture and fine art

• Aficionado cultures and/or cosplay

• Contemporary folk belief

• Cultural Theory and interpretation

• Sexualities and identification

• Roles as objects of horror, comedy, sex, etc.

• International comparisons.

The deadline for abstracts is 31 March 2017. We recommend that you submit your abstract early. Artists working in various media are also invited to approach the organisers about presenting their work at the conference.

Publication.

Participants will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers to a special issue of the journal Shima (http://www.shimajournal.org) on theme of ‘Mermaids, Maritime Folklore & Modernity’ to be published in 2018.

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ARE PREVENTING SOME PEOPLE FROM SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: If you are unable to submit your information using the form to the right, please e-mail all of the requested information to Adam Grydehøj (agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org).

This interdisciplinary conference addresses mermaids and related creatures from folklore, myth, legend, and the imagination in 19th-21st Century culture.

Proposing a presentation.

To propose a presentation, fill in all sections of the form to the right.

Submission Type: Select a submission type:

Standard Presentations last a maximum of 20 minutes, followed by around 10 minutes’ audience discussion. These talks may be accompanied by PowerPoint presentations.

Organised Sessions are groups of 3-4 Standard Presentations concerning a single theme and organised by the presenters (rather than the conference’s scientific committee). To propose an organised session, the corresponding author must submit a title and abstract for the session as a whole, including the names of the authors. Each participating presenter must then submit the abstracts that form part of the Organised Session.

Abstract: The abstract of your talk must be between 150-200 words total, including title. Shorter or longer submissions may be ignored. Make sure to include a title for your abstract. Do not format the text using italics, bold, or underlined words, and avoid discipline-specific jargon and citations to other works.

Biographical Note: Your biographical note (maximum 100 words) should be written in complete sentences and include your research areas, academic degree, and affiliation as applicable. If the presentation has more than one author, the corresponding author should provide biographical notes for the other authors as well.

Visit us :http://www.islanddynamics.org/mermaidconference.html

4th International Conference on Media and Popular Culture

13-14 January 2018

Leeds, United Kingdom

Conference venue: Queens hotel, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ

RATIONALE

It is an unobjectionable fact that media participate in formation of our daily lives by creating identities, images, and by generally influencing our views. This applies not only to politics (i.e. political campaigns), but also to the formation on how we see ourselves and others, e.g. women, ethnic groups, religious groups, etc. Agenda setting research has established decades ago that media set public agendas, and tell us both what to think about (agenda setting) and how to think about a certain issue (media framing). Popular culture, on the other hand, also affects our daily lives by fostering images and ideologies, and by selling a way of life that is presented as acceptable or non-acceptable. All these influences form our daily lives and views of others, and while the media and popular culture do not influence all people, on all issues and at all times, they do have a significant influence on our views and actions. These and other issues are the subject of the conference.

Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following panels:

Media and identity

Media and political campaigns

Media and discrimination

Women in the media

Media Bias

Media and democracy

Media and human rights

Popular culture

Media and memory

Media and history

History of media and popular culture

Media and diplomacy

Audience studies

Media and religion

Media and Business

Agenda setting and media framing theories

Prospective participants are also welcome to submit proposals for their own panels. Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit paper/panel proposals.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com) by 15 December 2017

Conference fee is GBP180, 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)

Discount towards participation fee for future conferences

Meals and drinks

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 (EU). Since July 2016 the Centre is registered as a private institution in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Information for non-EU participants

The Centre will issue Visa letters to participants who need entry clearance to attend the conference in the UK. We will also issue earlier decisions to allow Visa applications. The British Home Office has a straight forward procedure for the Visa applications that are not excessively lengthy, and the Centre will assist where and when necessary.

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.

Event Website: http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/4th-international-conference-on-media-and-popular-culture/

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International Conference

When the Music Takes Over.

Musical Numbers in Film and Television

University of Salzburg, 8 – 10 March 2018

Keynote Speakers:

Richard Dyer (King’s College, London)

Amy Herzog (Queens College, New York)

Call for papers

Musical numbers have served as constitutive elements of cinema since its early days in the so-called silent period. From the musical moments in silent films emerged the film musical as a specific genre. Musical numbers remain central components beyond generic categories and have succeeded from early sound film musicals to recent TV shows.

In this conference we want to focus on “musical moments” in fictional film and television. Musical numbers in fictional films have been analyzed according to their functions and their relation to the narration. Expanding these issues from numbers in (mostly) film musicals, Amy Herzog (2009, 7) defines “musical moments” as scenes or sequences that occur “when music, typically a popular song, inverts the image-sound hierarchy to occupy a dominant position in a filmic work. The movements of the image, and hence the structuring of space and time, are dictated by song.” If musical moments are not subjugated to the filmic narrative, the focus of their scholarly analysis is able to shift from narrative functions and motivations towards issues such as affect, performance, musical and filmic style and structure, visual musicality, configurations of cinematic time and space, gender construction, modes of audience address, reception, fan culture and more broader philosophical questions about the ontology of cinema. Examining “musical moments” can sharpen our view on cinema in general and can stimulate new theoretical and methodological approaches in the field.

This international conference strives to establish a dialogue between researchers from various disciplines in order to develop new directions for the analysis and interpretation of one of the most crucial elements in filmmaking and one of the pivotal issues of film music research.

We invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels and poster presentations that explore the manifold research potentials of musical moments on screen(s).

We invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels and poster presentations that explore the manifold research potentials of musical moments on screen(s).

Themes

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Musical numbers in silent cinema
• Singing in silent cinema
• Dancing in silent cinema
• Performing gender in musical numbers
• Performing bodies
• (De)constructing star images with music numbers
• Inter- and transmedial aspects of performances in film
• Musical numbers in European cinema
• Non-western traditions (Bollywood, Brazilian musicals etc.)
• Ideological aspects: the utopian potential of musical numbers
• Negotiating different semantic systems: filmic representation of musical form (in musical moments)
• Repetition and difference: musical numbers between affirmation and subversion
• Methodological and theoretical questions (musicological, philosophical, psychological approaches etc.)
• Reception of musical numbers
• Musical numbers and fan culture

Submissions and inquiries should be made to aniela.buzatu@sbg.ac.at.

Deadline for abstracts is April 30th 2017.

Individual abstracts should be no more than 300 words and a short biography (max. 250 words). Panel proposals must include four individual abstracts or three abstracts and one respondent as well as an additional paragraph describing the focus of the panel, including a title. The chair should not be one of the panel presenters and if a panel does not include a chair, the conference committee will appoint one.

Submissions and formal inquiries should be made to aniela.buzatu@sbg.ac.at.

Notice of acceptance: June 2017

A proceedings publication with a reputable academic publisher in an international, peer-reviewed series is envisaged.

Please note that we accept only in-person, original presentations. Video or Skype presentations are not possible. The conference language is English. We will collect a moderate conference fee to be paid at arrival in order to cover coffee breaks and conference material.

Contact

The conference is organized by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project “The Austrian Music Film, 1912-1933” and the Department for Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg, in collaboration with the Kiel Society for Film Music Research.

Conference Committee

Claus Tieber, Conference Director & Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg, University of Vienna

Email: claus.tieber@univie.ac.at

Phone: +43 664 23 08 522

Nils Grosch, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: nils.grosch@sbg.ac.at

Anna K. Windisch, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: anna.windisch@gmail.com

Phone: +43 660 5796708

Franziska Kollinger, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: franziska.kollinger@sbg.ac.at