International Conference on Business, Education, Law and Interdisciplinary Studies (BELIS-17)

Call for Papers/leaflet

New Full Paper/Poster/Abstract Submissions Deadline: April 27, 2017

The idea of 4th International Conference on Business, Education, Law and Interdisciplinary Studies (BELIS-17) scheduled on June 29-30, 2017 at London (UK) is for the researchers, scientists, scholars, engineers and parctitioners from all around the world to present and share ongoing research activities. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

BELIS-17 is sponsored by Dignified Researchers Publication (DiRPUB).

All full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. One Best Presentation Award from each session will also be distributed at the time of the conference

All accepted papers of BELIS-17 will be published in the printed conference proceedings with valid International ISBN number. Each Paper will be assigned unique Digital Object Identifier(DOI) from CROSSREF and the Proceedings of the Conference will be archived in DiRPUB's Digital Library. The papers can be submitted to Emerging Sources Citation Index [THOMSON REUTERS] OR SCOPUS Indexed journals for review and possible indexing with additional charges (the conference fee is compulsory to be paid).Kindly email if interested.

ALL selected Papers will be Published ONLINE in the following Journal (without any additional cost). If interested email:

• International Journal of Humanities and Management Sciences (IJHMS) ISSN 2320 –4036 (Printed Version) ISSN 2320 –4044 (Online Version)

English is the official language of the conference. We welcome paper submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full (and original research) papers (which is NOT submitted or published or under consideration anywhere in other conferences/journal) in electronic (DOC or PDF) format alongwith the contact information.







SUBMISSION METHODS
1. Email:editor@drhss.org
OR
2. Electronic Submission System ( .doc/.docx/.pdf formats)

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.docx, .doc, .pdf) will be accepted  by Electronic Submission System. Any question,  please contact: editor@drhss.org

DOWNLOADS
The following are the links to the DiRPUB copyright form as well as the DiRPUB conference's/Journal's template for the Camera ready Paper/Final paper:

• DiRPUB Copyright Form
• DiRPUB Conference .doc/.docx Template
• DiRPUB Conference .doc/.docx Template ONLY Abstract

There are NO specific instructions for poster preparation. Just prepare and print the poster in Portrait style of size A1 or below and make sure to put more Pictures/Diagrams/Graphs to depict the results so that poster should look vivid and gets everybody’s attention.

Just prepare the one-page electronic format just as that of the conference template attached and print that on the any size in A1

Contact Email:
For any inquiry about the submission and conference, please feel free to contact us at: editor@drhss.org
All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the Conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the Conference and are subject to both review and editing.

Conference: WOMEN AND POLITICS IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY: THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION 

Organized by

Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, IbnZohr University (Morocco)

In collaboration with

University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Proposals due: April 20, 2017

Venue: Kenzy, Farah Azghor. Ouarzazate

It is our privilege and honor to invite proposals for panels or individual papers for our upcoming International Conference on Gender and Politics on the theme of “Women and Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: The Road to Sustainable Democracy and Democratization” to be held in October 24-26, 2017. The Conference is hosted and organized by the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The conference venue, which is Kenzy, Farah Azghor in the city of Ouarzazate Morocco, is located in a charming town in southeastern Morocco, 205 kilometers from Marrakech and at the edge of the Sahara. Referred to as the “door of the Desert,” Ouarzazate is known internationally for its historic kasbah fortresses and its studios, where many Hollywood films were made.

This conference is unique in three ways. First, its cutting-edge content deals with the prospects of sustaining women’s rights and empowerment in an age of uncertainty, where more nations in many parts of the world seem to be rolling back hard fought democratic freedoms. It provokes many new challenging research questions which clearly show that the old boundaries of concepts dissolve and that new approaches and fresh thinking are needed. Second, its international scope aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform and a stimulating international academic forum including all sorts of stakeholders, create many opportunities for networking and socializing with the participants. Third, it is being held in a charming location called Ouarzazate; a city in southeastern Morocco, known internationally for its historic kasbah fortresses and its studios, where many Hollywood films have been made.

Additionally, the conference affords spaces and times for less formal discussions, which are an important factor supporting the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of experiences so needed in one’s academic life. Our esteemed keynote speakers are well-known for their dynamic, informative and thought provoking speeches. ICGP’17proudly presents the following keynote speakers: Professor Fatima Sadiqi from the University of Fez in Morocco, Professor Dahlerup Drude from University of Stockholm in Sweden; Professor miriam cooke from the Duke University in USA and Professor Aili Mari Tripp from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in USA. ICGP’17 welcomes young researchers, the next generation of experts in our field, and invites them to contribute and meet with the seniors.

Please examine our call for papers and consider joining us in Ouarzazate October 24-26, 2017. ICGP’17 is a very promising international meeting place and a stimulating venue for presenting research on the future of women’s rights.    

Papers may address, but are not restricted to any of the following themes:

• Gender and citizenship;
• The role of women and women’s movements in sustaining democracy;
• Gender quotas and women’s political representation/participation;
• Women’s rights and gender(ed) policies in established democracies;
• Political economy/capitalism, democracy and gender;
• Eco-feminist perspectives on environmental governance;
• The implications of the retreat of democracy for women in politics and society;
• Gender rights and democratic transition;
• Women’s rights and gender policies before and after the Arab Spring protests;
• The role of women in countering terrorism;
• Gender, Politics and masculinity;
• Gender, conflict and militarization;
• Gender and peacemaking/peace building/conflict resolution/mediation;
• The relation between gender, democracy and violence;
• Women’s leadership and democracy/democratization;
• The role of international institutions in fostering gender equality in relation to democracy.

We seek a broad range of contributions on (but not limited to) politics, philosophy, psychology, gender studies, history, economics, law, organizational studies, and sociology as well as interdisciplinary proposals. We welcome a variety of presentation formats, such as individual paper presentations, panel sessions and roundtable discussions. We especially welcome an intersectional approach to any of the topics. 







The working language of the conference will be English with no translation provided.

Deadline for Proposals: April, 20 2017
Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit their work for potential publication in a special issue in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS).

Contact Info: 

Hanane Darhour
Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate (Morocco)

Contact Email: 

icgp.fpo@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.icgp.fpo.ma

AHM Conference 2017

Materialities of Postcolonial Memory

7 -9 December 2017

University of Amsterdam

Call for Papers

 As questions of racism are prominent in public debate, the colonial and slavery pasts represent more than ever key sites of both social encounter and contestation. The fields of heritage and memory studies, however, have been slow to respond to these urgent issues. This conference engages with these debates through the lens of materiality, broadly understood. Our understanding of materiality encompasses, on the one hand, the enduring, ruinous effects of colonialism around the globe, its often unarticulated material traces in former metropoles and colonies, as well as the mostly unacknowledged role of migration and displacement. On the other hand, we wish to address the range of interventions, from protest movements to artistic initiatives and museum spaces, which act upon the manifold legacies of past injustices in the present.

Reflecting on the materiality of bodies, objects, sites, ruins, traces and interventions, this international conference examines the awkward, aphasiac and contested memories of colonial and slavery pasts by bringing together scholars from heritage and memory studies, postcolonial and performative studies, critical race studies, archaeology and material culture, art history, archival studies and digital humanities, conflict and identity studies and other areas. We invite scholars to present papers which critically analyse these issues, and especially consider the role of materiality in their case studies. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Decolonizing heritage and memory studies.
• Contemporary nation-states and transnationalism. 
• Postcolonial ruination: migration and displacement, prisons, poison, borders.
• Museums as sites of contestation and issues of repatriation. Materialities of cultural racism and strategies of resistance.
• Memory interventions and narratives in public spaces.
• Postcolonial landscapes and cityscapes. 
• Colonial object biographies and postcolonial agency.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ann Stoler (Columbia University); Prof. Lynn Meskell (Stanford University); Prof. Nikita Dhawan (Innsbruck

University); Prof. Wayne Modest (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Abstracts for papers or panels (250 words max) including a short biographical statement (150 words max) should be sent to ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com before 1 June 2017. The conference fee is €40 for employed academics and €15 for students. Speakers are expected to arrange accommodation and transport on their own; we will offer suggestions for hotels and other practical information. For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.ahmpostcolonialmemory.humanities.uva.nl.

Organization: Dr. Paul Bijl, Dr. David Duindam, Dr. Ihab Saloul, Dr. Chiara de Cesari

Conference Assistants: Sanne Letschert, Maria Dijkgraaf

This conference is organised with the support of: AHM, ASCA, KITLV, NICA and NwO

Contact Info: 

For questions, registration and submission, please contact the student assistent of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture of the University of Amsterdam: Sanne Letschert. She is in the conference organisation and has more detailed information on the objectives of the school and the conference. 

Please contact her through ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com.

Contact Email: ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com

URL: http://www.ahmpostcolonialmemory.humanities.uva.nl 

International Conference on
Cultures of Occupation Conference
 - January 2018

University of Nottingham (UK)

 Call for Abstracts

The aim of this three-day conference (January 12-14, 2018), organised through the ERC-funded 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia' (COTCA) project, is to bring scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and countries together to explore the fundamental question which drives the COTCA project itself: how does 'foreign occupation' (broadly defined) shape cultural expression? Although the focus of COTCA is Asia, we welcome submissions from scholars working on occupation in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific, the Americas, etc. The organisers are particularly interested in comparative or theoretical papers which will help speak to a wider audience beyond specific cases of 'occupation'.

Possible themes for papers might include (but are not limited to):

1. The development of visual and/or auditory cultures under foreign occupation

2. Comparative studies of cultural expression or cultural production under occupation

3. Artistic, musical, literary, or architectural responses to -- or everyday forms of cultural expression under -- occupation

4. Challenging the 'collaboration'/'resistance' dichotomy when examining culture under occupation

5. The gendering of cultural expression and cultural production under occupation

6. Cultural expression and historical memory of wartime or other forms of occupation.

Proposals for individual 20-minute papers, or for panels of three papers (no discussants required), are welcome from scholars at all stages of their careers (including early career researchers and doctoral students). Abstracts of 300 words, along with a short biographical note of no more than 100 words (indicating institutional affiliation, position and contact details), should be sent to COTCA2018@nottingham.ac.uk by the deadline of 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday, May 31, 2017.

Presenters selected for the conference will be eligible for reimbursement of economy class travel costs, and will be provided with 3 nights of hotel accommodation in Nottingham.

Contact Info: 

Dr Jeremy Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham

Contact Email: COTCA2018@nottingham.ac.uk

URL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/history/cotca-conference-2018/cotca-conference-2018.aspx