ICMFS 2013

 International  Conference on Media

 and Film Studies 

10th August, 2013 News！The third round submission deadline: September 10, 2013. (Click)

7th August, 2013 News! The conference venue is available (Click)

30th July, 2013 News! The first round notifications have been sent.

10th July, 2013 News! The second submission deadline: August 10, 2013. (Click)

28th June, 2013 News! Professor Donald Chang would be invited be the keynote speaker. (Click)

17th June, 2013 News! Dr. Hing Kai would be invited be the keynote speaker. (Click)

9th May, 2013 News! The conference venue is avaliable now. (Click)

Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2013.

ICMFS2013 has been listed in the IEDRC Conference Search. (Click)

Welcome to the official website of the ICMFS 2013 International Conference on Media and Film Studies - ICMFS 2013, will be held during November 18-19, 2013, in London, UK. ICMFS 2013, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Media and Film Studies, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Media and Film Studies and related areas.

All papers for the ICMFS 2013 will be published in the IPEDR (ISSN: 2010-4626) as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by Electronic Journals Digital Library, EBSCO, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Cross Ref and sent to be reviewed by ISI Proceedings.

One Best Paper will be selected from each oral session. The Certificate will be awarded in the Welcome Banquet on November 19, 2013.

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/published/under consideration anywhere in other conferences/journal) in electronic (PDF only) format through the easy chair conferences management system website or via emailicmfs@iedrc.net.
Disclaimer: The content of the website is subject to change. The information on hyper linked or referred to web sites is neither investigated nor analyzed by the conference organizers. No warranty or representation, express or implied, is given as to the accuracy or completeness of that information. In no event will the conference organizers accept any liability with regard to the information contained in this web site or any other hyper linked or referred to web sites.

Call for Presentations

2nd Global Conference

Friday 14th March – Sunday 16th March 2014
Prague, Czech Republic

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This conference seeks to explore the boundaries of (re)production, not merely as physical birth but more broadly as a gateway which signals origins, indicates a process of continual bodily, sexual, cultural (and even viral) change and transitions, and which speaks of a future and futures possibly unknown.

From iconic images of the incarnation to depictions of monstrous births, the cultural rituals and mythologies of birth and reproduction continue to fascinate us. Bodies that copulate, bodies that reproduce, bodies that replicate, change, decay—or divide—produce anxiety as well as a source of tremendous creativity about the boundaries of who we think we are and what we have it in us to become. Reproduction, like evolution, reminds us that we are ever in flux, that change is inevitable and that we are always ‘on the way’ without the final destination ever being sure. Birth, like death, forces us to acknowledge the limits of our bodies and our ‘selves.’ Additionally, this age of epidemics and viral warfare incites dystopic visions of a future where the effective reproducers are micro-organisms, where humans have been replaced by a replicating other. We seek to explore not only the biological imperative of preserving a species, but also our search for origins, our search for ourselves, our desires, our sexual identities, our gods.

We invite perspectives that explore production and re-production, which wrestle with questions of identity, issues of the body and bodies, and which explore the ever blurring boundaries of the physical, the technological, the sexual and the cultural. We likewise invite reflections on whether the nature of our origins tells us anything about who and what we are; whether it lays the ground for understanding what we will become and how our future will unfold. What is the nature of our transition from birth through life to death? Is the end present in the beginning, and does this complicate our notions of evolutions and transitions as forward progress? What does it mean to be pregnant? To impregnate? What concerns are raised about a woman’s body historically, culturally, politically, her ability to feed, grow and harbour new life, as well as her control over her own reproductive destiny? What about bodies that replicate without sex? Cloning? Hermaphroditic reproduction? What about non-human reproduction, about invasive species, about viral epidemics?

We encourage contributions from inter, multi and transdisciplinary perspectives, from practitioners working in all contexts, professionals, ngo’s and those from the voluntary sector. We will entertain submissions drawn from literature, medicine, politics, social history, film, television, graphic novels and manga, from science to science fiction.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Historical discourses about reproduction
• The monstrosity of birth: monstrous births
• Birth in the dystopic narrative
• Freak(s) – of nature; of technology; accidents of birth
• Religious discourse of reproduction
• Gender and biomedicine
• Queering reproduction
• Motherhood/fatherhood/parenthood
• Technologies of and for the body
• Reproduction and ethical practice
• Managing reproductive bodies: law, health care and medical practice
• The “changing” body: rebirth and metamorphosis
• Invading and possessing bodies
• Eugenics, social biology and inter-racial generation
• Genetic engineering and “nightmare” reproductions
• Science fiction: inter-species reproduction: non-human reproduction
• Viral reproduction and pandemic

What to send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st November 2013. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 17th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: BR2 Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chair:
Rob Fisher: br2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s)

If you like this project then you might like: 21st Century Science, Body Horror, Childhood, Evil, Women and the Feminine, Femininities and Masculinities, Graphic Novel, Monsters and the Monstrous, Queer Sexualities, The Patient, Time, Space + Body, Visions of Humanity in Cybercultures, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Look out for Open Access Journals on Film Studies, Women Studies, Gender Studies, English Language & Literature

Open Access Journals

• 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
• Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
• CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
• Cyber Literature
• English Language and Literature Studies
• Gender Studies
• Indian Review of World Literature in English
• Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature
• International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature
• Intersections: Journal on Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
• Journal of Feminist Scholarship
• Journal of International Women Studies
• Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
• L1 Educational Studies in Language and LIterature
• Scope: Journal of Film & TV Studies
• Studies in Literature and Langugae
• The Criterion: An International Journal of English
• Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women & Gender Studies

CFP: 4th Derrida Today Conference

Call for Papers:

The Derrida Today Conference will focus on the ongoing value of either Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, to the political-ethical, cultural, artistic and public debates and philosophical futures that confront us.

The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We will accept papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and contemporary issues, such as: philosophy, phenomenology and other theoretical/philosophical thinkers, literature, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, law, film and visual studies, haptic technologies, photography, art, music, dance, embodiment, feminism, race and whiteness studies, disability studies, politics, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory, sexuality, education, science (physics, biology, medicine, chemistry), IT and multimedia, technology, etc. We also accept papers that engage in the spirit of deconstructive thought (if not on Derrida or deconstruction itself).

The conference is based on the journal Derrida Today (Chief Editors: Nicole Anderson & Nick Mansfield. The journal is published by Edinburgh University Press, ISSN: 1754-8500). EUP Journal Website: http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/drt

Information about past Conferences and the Journal can be found at the Derrida Today conference archive

Due dates for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: 1st October 2013 (notification of acceptance of abstracts will be at the end of Oct 2013).

Individual Abstracts & Panel Proposals should be sent as an attachment to derridatodayconference@gmail.com

Conference  Venue: Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New York City, USA.

Date: 4pm 28th May - 6pm 31st May, 2014.

Keynotes: Karen Barad (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA), Elizabeth Grosz (Duke University, USA), Martin Hägglund (Yale University, USA), Michael Naas (De Paul University, USA).

Conference Directors and Organisers: Samir Haddad (Fordham University, NY) and Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University, Sydney).

Call for Papers – Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen

Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen

The University of Sheffield, 14-16 May 2014

The release of Cameron Mackintosh’s screen production of Les Misérables into cinemas in December 2012 reopened an age-old debate: how do you adapt Broadway musicals for the big screen? The urge to capitalise on the commercial triumph of material that was written for the stage has often brought uncomfortable results, with no clear strategy for success. Sometimes, a new team of writers is brought in to write a different score under the same title, as with On the Town (1949), many of whose Bernstein songs were replaced. Similarly, The Band Wagon (1953) features its Broadway star (Fred Astaire), title and a few songs, but is otherwise quite distinct from its source as a revue. For the screen version of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane reconceived their script and score around a specific new performer, Barbra Streisand, making numerous changes to their Broadway show along the way. Other films are much more faithful to their Broadway counterparts, such as My Fair Lady (1964) and West Side Story (1961), but sometimes this approach is criticised as failing to acknowledge the change of medium, with “stagey” results.

Changes of text, star, technology and audience can unsettle the apparent stability of a Broadway hit and this conference aims to deal head on with this discomfort/instability. Film scholars, musicologists, practitioners, historians and sociologists are equally encouraged to participate in this truly interdisciplinary conference. The keynote speech will be given by Professor Geoffrey Block (author of “Enchanted Evenings”), and the conference respondent will be Professor Stephen Banfield (author of “Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals”).

Innovative presentation formats are strongly favoured. In particular, we would like to encourage panels in which scholars and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds will have the opportunity to discuss ideas including (but not limited to) the following:

-          The impact of changing star performers between stage and screen

-          Problems of condensing or retaining material for the screen

-          Ideas of authenticity and faithfulness in reproducing stage shows on the screen

-          Archival evidence illustrating the adaptation process

-          Analytical comparisons of parts of the stage and screen versions of a musical

-          Sociological discussions regarding changes of audience resulting in screen adaptation (e.g. from New York to a global audience)

Proposals for twenty-minute papers, panels or other presentation formats should be submitted electronically by Tuesday 10 September 2013, 11:59 p.m. Students wishing to present developmental work are warmly encouraged to apply to speak for 5-10 minutes if they prefer.

Abstracts should be around 250 words and may be accompanied by a CV. Please send files in .doc or .pdf formats.

Send all proposals to restagingthesong@gmail.com

It is expected that some of the presenters will be invited to develop their papers into chapters for a subsequent book publication.

For queries, please contact conference convenor Dominic McHugh at d.mchugh@sheffield.ac.uk

The Restaging the Song conference is part of The University of Sheffield’s Stagestruck! Broadway Meets Hollywood Festival, 14-18 May 2014. It includes screenings of seven film adaptations of Broadway musicals to complement the conference, including Roberta (14 May), Funny Girl (1968, 15 May), Show Boat (1936, 16 May), The Band Wagon (1953, 17 May), Les Miserables (2012, 17 May), On the Town (1949, 18 May) and Dreamgirls (2006, 18 May). Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker, and there will be an exhibition of posters and memorabilia in the Workstation, adjacent to the conference room. Book launches and other events will be announced in due course.

Stagestruck! is sponsored by the University of Sheffield’s Arts Enterprise programme (http://www.shef.ac.uk/artsenterprise/index) and “Restaging the Song”  is presented in association with the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film (http://researchinfilm.group.shef.ac.uk).

 For  more details visit: 

http://www.stagestruckfestival.com/call-for-papers-restaging-the-song-adapting-broadway-for-the-silver-screen-2/

2013 Annual Conference on Education Innovation

Call for Papers 


2013 Annual Conference on Education Innovation
21-23 November, 2013

The Annual Conference on Education Innovation  (ACEI 2013) will be held in OKINAWA,  Japan during November 21-23,ACEI 2013 is a dynamic, three-day convergence of industry leaders, visionaries, entrepreneurs, investors, and activists who are truly and deeply passionate about education

ACEI 2013 is to provide a platform for researchers,academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Networking and Digital Society.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.

All the submitted papers in these proceedings have been peer reviewed by at least two reviewers drawn from the chairs of committees depending on the subject matter of the paper. Reviewing and initial selection were undertaken electronically. A joint committee meeting was held to resolve the final paper selection and a draft programme for the conference.

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Key DatesAbstract Submission Deadline      August 31, 2013Abstract Acceptance Notification       September 15, 2013Pre-registration Deadline                  October 05, 2013ACEI Conference Date                      November 21-23, 2013 

Main Topics:

The conference theme includes, but not limited to, the following topics: 

Academic Advising and Counseling Art Education Adult Education APD/Listening Acoustics in Education Environment Business Education Counselor Education Curriculum, Research and Development Competitive Skills Continuing Education Distance Education Early Childhood Education Educational Administration Educational Foundations Educational Psychology Educational Technology Education Policy and Leadership Elementary Education E-Learning E-Manufacturing ESL/TESL E-Society

Geographical Education Geographic information Systems Health Education Higher Education History Home Education Human Computer Interaction Human Resource Development Indigenous Education ICT Education Internet technologies Imaginative Education Kinesiology and Leisure Science K12 Language Education Mathematics Education Mobile Applications Multi-Virtual Environment Music Education

Pedagogy Physical Education (PE)Reading Education Writing Education Religion and Education Studies Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Rural Education Science Education Secondary Education Second life Educators Social Studies Education Special Education Student Affairs Teacher Education Technology in Education Cross-disciplinary areas of Education Ubiquitous Computing Virtual Reality Wireless applications Other Areas of Education

General Information on PresentationParallel Sessions Parallel Sessions will run on November 21st and 22nd. Sessions are usually 90 minutes in length, and normally include six or seven presenters. Presentations and EquipmentAll meeting rooms are equipped with a screen, an LCD projector, and a laptop computer installed with PowerPoint software.  You will be able to insert your USB flash drive into the computer.  We recommend that you bring two copies of your presentation in case if one fails.  You may also link your own laptop computer to the projector cable, however if you use your own Mac please ensure you have the requisite connector. A Polite Request to All Participants
Participants are obliged to arrive on time for all sessions, whether to their own, or to those of other presenters.  Presenters should pay special attention to the time slots that are subject to be divided equally among all oral presentations in one session to ensure that each presenter has equal right to presentation.  The session chair is responsible for taking care of the fair division of presentation time.
Poster Sessions & Poster Requirements1. Materials Provided by the Conference Organizer:
    • X Racks & Base Fabric Canvases (60cm×160cm)
    • Adhesive Tapes or Clamps2. Materials Prepared by the Presenters:
    • Home-made Poster(s)3. Requirement for the Posters:
    • Material: not limited, can be posted on the canvases
    • Size: smaller than 60cm*160cm

Contact us:Email: acei@acei-conf.org

2013 International Symposium on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Education
  
(ISLLLE 2013)
7-9 November, 2013
www.isllle.org

To provide an access among many to rich ideas on educational excellence, ISLLLE starts holding conference in November at Osaka, Japan. ISLLLE Conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators with interests in language, linguistics, literature, and education at all levels from around the world. The theme of the International Symposium on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Education is designed to attract the research communities to promote connections between theory and practice and explore different perspectives on the application of research findings into practice.

We are kindly welcoming scholars coming from the international and local regions as well as professors, scholars and prospective teachers to Osaka, Japan. The overarching theme of this annual conference reflects important trends and issues on language, linguistics, literature, and education. With inclusive support and recognition from both its attendees, this conference will take effort in keeping its quality and hence making contribution to the field of language and education.

Important Date:

Conference Dates:	November 7-9, 2013
Abstract Submission Deadline	August 20, 2013
Abstract Acceptance Notification	September 10, 2013
Registration Deadline	September 30, 2013

Submission format

Please follow the formatting rules provided by the conference, and provide the information of the corresponding author such as name, department, affiliation, city, and country.

For full papers, the content should include titles, abstracts, keywords in English, methodologies, results and references. All submitted papers/abstracts should be saved in the form of Microsoft Word files (*.doc), not in pdf files.ISLLLE_paper format.doc

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Language	Literature
Language acquisition and learning Language Education Intercultural Education Language Program Evaluation Innovation in language teaching and learnings Language Teacher Education (collaborations and practices) Language Teaching Methodology Language Curriculum Development Language Testing and Assessment Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education The role of language and communication in human cognition Translation	Poetry and Prose (fictional and non-fictional) Contemporary Literature Comparative Literature Media (television, drama, film and others) Classic Medieval and Renaissance Literature Literature and Other Arts Literature and History
Linguistics	Education
Applied Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics Computational Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Sociolinguistics Contrastive Linguistics Interlinguistics Psycholinguistics Phonetics Phonology Text Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Dialectology Etymology Forensic Linguistics Historical Linguistics Lexicology Linguistic statistics Linguistic typology Morphology Neurolinguistics Orthography, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Stylistics and Semantics	Biology Education Chemistry Education Comparative Education Early Childhood Education Education Policy and Administration/Leadership Education Science Educational Communications and Technology Educational Measurement and Evaluation Educational research E-learning Elementary Education Family Education Graduate and Postgraduate School of Curriculum Instruction Higher Education Human Resource Development Imaginative Education Information and Communications Technology in Education Information and Computer Education Language and Creative Writing Language Education Language Education Mathematics Education Music Education Physical Education Preschool Education Psychological Studies in Education Rehabilitation Counseling Rural Education Social Studies Education Special Education Teacher Training Vocational Education Writing Education