SOCIOCRI '16 

 3rd International Sociology and Critical 

Perspectives Conference

  @ Istanbul, coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center). 

Political science and sociology have developed a variety of theories and empirical research on social movements. With regard to these studies, subjects such as definitions of social movements, functions of social movements, and possible forms of social movements at different scales are going to come under spotlight in SOCIO CRI ’16. The aim is to explore the dynamics of social movements, along with the ideas that motivate their activists and supporters. Given the significance of the mass movements in numbers of countries during the early years of this decade, we especially welcome papers discussing these – while also welcoming papers on other topics such as history and theory of social movements.

http://www.dakamconferences.org/sociocri

PUBLICATION

All submitted papers are subject to double blind peer review. Conference proceedings are going to be available on DVD as e-book and DAKAM's digital library with an ISBN number before the conference and will be sent to be reviewed for inclusion in the "Thomson & Reuters Web of Science's Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (CPCI) and Google Scholars.

AGENDA

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 18, 2016

Deadline for registration: April 22, 2016

Deadline for full papers submission: April 29, 2016 

THEMES

Labor Movements and Economy

Laws and Justice

Urban Sociology

Body and Social-Stratification 

to be Anti Authoritarian/ Civil Disobedience

Cultural Movements

Ecology and Environment

Practice and Documentation

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Berch Berberoglu / University Of Nevada

Prof. Dr. Sibel Kalaycioglu / Middle East Technical University

Prof. Dr. Helga Rittesberger Tilic / Middle East Technical University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Umut Bespinar / Middle East Technical University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Demet Lukuslu / Yeditepe University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Basak Can / Koc University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Fulya Dogruel / Gaziantep University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Z. Nurdan Atalay Gunes / Mardin Artuklu University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Yucel Karadas / Gaziantep University

Assist. Prof. Dr. Cagatay Topal / Middle East Technical University

Dr. Sinan T. Gulhan / Uludag University

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

You can submit your abstract by entering the online registration system EASYCHAIR at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sociocri16 

You will receive a reply to your proposal within three weeks following a double-blind review process.

Call for Presentations

Letters and ConflictThe 5th Global Meeting: The Writing ProjectCall for Presentations 2016Thursday 1st September – Saturday 3rd September 2016Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Research on letters is one of the most exciting subjects of interdisciplinary enquiry to have emerged over the last few years. The epistolary has developed into a field of interest to scholars in history, linguistics, literary and literacy studies, media theory, art criticism and digital humanities, and has proven to be a fertile ground of encounter between these perspectives. Building on earlier successful conferences which have focussed on the private and public spheres, gender and the role of letters in building intellectual, political and literary communities, we are issuing a call for papers on Letters and Conflict. We are looking to bring together a group of people who have the widest possible backgrounds and interests to share and exchange on the issue of conflict (within the context of letter writing) that concerns us all today. Such inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary dialogue has the aim of both enriching current thinking on these themes and ultimately opening up new areas of discourse for debate and scrutiny on an international level.

Both letters and conflict should be understood in the broadest possible sense, from the letters of soldiers in ancient wars to an email from a drone operator. It could also include legal conflict, letters of espionage, political debate, letters which inform on political deviants or letters of defamation and blackmail. Conflict could also be taken in an emotional sense: letters of divorce or separation and letters of inner conflict or psychoanalysis. Far from wanting to focus solely on the research value of such letters, we welcome input from those who receive and deal with them in a professional or other capacity.

We look forward to your submission, as individual papers or pre-formed panels, on any interpretation of the theme of letters of conflict from any discipline and any geographical area. We also welcome alternative styles of presentation, practitioner activities and submissions from outside academia. These might include but are not limited to:

·         Importance of epistolary communications in ancient or modern warfare

·         Political prisoners, POWs and written messages to family, friends

·         Protest letters and their contribution to seminal issues

·         Epistolary communities versus government

·         Open letters to newspapers concerning terrorism, war

·         Defamation of character, hate mail, blackmail

·         Letters circulating during civil conflict

·         Family disputes or dynastic power struggles

·         Censorship during time of war or imprisonment

·         Environmental protest in epistolary form

·         Role of letters in augmenting or appeasing conflicts

·         Recently discovered unopened correspondence from past wars

·         Re-introduction of the use of letters in modern wars and conflicts

·         Technologies and means of letter exchange in times of war

·         Letters of political refugees or exiles

·         Provocative or angry letters to editors and reaction

·         Letters of conflict embedded in novels, films, plays

·         War correspondence of generals, commanders or heads of government

·         Epistolary documents uncovered at military forts or camps

The Project Team particularly welcomes submissions of pre-formed panel proposals.

Call for Cross-Over Presentations

The Letters and Conflict project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Space and Place and another project on Food. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.

What to Send:300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 15th April 2016.All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed.

You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 29th April 2016.

If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th August 2016.

Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.

E-mails should be entitled: Letters and Conflict Abstract Submission

Organising Chairs:

Linda McGuire: linda.mcguire@escdijon.edu

Rob Fisher: lettersconflict@inter-disciplinary.net

This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

A number of eBooks and paperback books have been published or are in press as a result of the work of this project. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

Ethos

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. 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.

 European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Cultural Studies, to be held from July 24-27, 2014, at the Thistle Hotel Brighton, in the United Kingdom.

Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton, London and the South-East of England, join a global academic community…

2014 Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing

Local, national and global cultures have been transformed by an intensification of human migration, mobility and multi-culture with multiple and complex claims of home, identity and belonging. Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways. This conference, which focuses on the borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing, is therefore about examining how the culture of everyday life is regulated and contested across diverse political, economic and social contexts, and whether and how it creates spaces of belonging with others.

The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion, critical reflection and analysis about emerging social, political and cultural identities that are formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings and their expression and about the possibility of making them shared across differences.

We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):

• Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
• Belonging and the intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
• Seeking refuge, unruly belonging(s) and border politics
• Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging
• Communication, new technologies and belonging
• Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
• Cultural politics of survival/transgression
• New imaginings/formations of home
• Citizenship beyond borders
• Multicultural exhaustion/renewal
• Belonging in the Anthropocene
• Multiple and complex belongings
• Re-locating culture across borders
• Convivial cultures and the imagined communities
• Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings

We hope that the 2014 conference theme will encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. We look forward to seeing you in cosmopolitan, diverse and fun Brighton, the perfect European home for IAFOR’s latest Cultural Studies event!

Professor Baden Offord
Professor of Cultural Studies & Human Rights, Southern Cross University, Australia
Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Conference Co-Chair

Professor Stuart Picken
Chair, Japan Society of Scotland
Chair, IAFOR IAB
Conference Co-Chair

Professor Koichi Iwabuchi
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia
Director of the Monash University Asia Institute
Conference Program Adviser

IAFOR Global University & Institutional Alliance – Working Together

IAFOR works with our university partners to nurture and encourage the best in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary research. We work with senior administrators and professors in our partner institutions to develop programs which are timely, thought-provoking and academically rigorous. The global partnership alliance means that our interdisciplinary conferences are backed by some of the world’s foremost institutions of learning. For a full list of university and institutional partners, click here.

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Journals

Publishing Opportunities: Authors of Accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR journals associated with the conference. For more information about the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies and other journals, click here.

International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary

The European Conference on Cultural Studies is organized as part of a month long series of academic events in the UK organized by IAFOR. Those attending the ECCS will have the opportunity of attending the following conferences held in parallel for no extra charge:
ECP2014 – The Inaugural European Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences
ECERP2014 – The Inaugural European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

About the Event

Date/Time: Thursday, July 24, 2014 - Sunday, July 27, 2014 (All Day)
Venue: Thistle Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2014

Streams: Belonging and the intersections of gender / race / religion / sexuality,Belonging in the Anthropocene, border politics Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging, Citizenship beyond borders, Communication & new technologies and belonging Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging, Convivial cultures and the imagined communities, Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings, Cultural politics of survival/transgression, Multicultural exhaustion/renewal, Multiple and complex belongings, New imaginings/formations of home, Re-locating culture across borders,Seeking refuge, Trans-cultural displacement/belonging, unruly belonging(s)

Call for Presentations

7th Global Conference

Sunday 7th  September – Tuesday 9th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford

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Call for Presentations

Madness: what is it? Why does it exist? Where and when does it happen? How does it happen, and to whom? Like otherness to identity, madness might have always been used to define its opposite, or defined by what it is not. Madness or its absence are intrinsically linked to everything we do and do not, to all we aspire and escape. It could even be linked to our origins and fate. This international, inter-disciplinary conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are interested as well in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand the place of madness in the constitution of persons, relationships and the complex interlacing of self and other. In the six previous conferences we had the participation of people who have experienced forms of madness in their personal lives, and their presentations have always been not only welcome, but also moving and illuminating for all: Such contributions based on the actual experience of madness from within have been an essential part of our conferences and this year we encourage again the submission of abstracts based on first hand experience.

In particular presentations, papers, workshops, performnaces and exhibitions are invited on any of the following themes:

1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need Madness?
~ Critical explorations: beyond madness/sanity/insanity
~ Continuity and difference: always with us yet never quite the same
~ Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence and re-emergence of madness
~ Profound attraction and desire; fear of the abyss and the radical unknown
~ Naming, defining and understanding the elusive

2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions
~ Love as madness; uncontrollable passion; unrestrainable love
~ Passion and love as a remaking of life and self
~ Gender and madness; the feminine and the masculine
~ Anger, resentment, revenge, hate, evil
~ I would rather vomit, thank you; revulsion, badness and refusing to comply

3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality 
~ Madness, sanity and the insane
~ Being out of your mind, crazy, deranged … yet, perfectly sane
~ Deviating from the normal; defining the self against the normal
~ Control, self-control and the pull of the abyss
~ When the insane becomes normal; when evil reins social life

4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the Politics of Madness
~ The social allure and fear of madness; the institutions of confining mad people
~ Servicing normality by castigating the insane and marginalizing lunatics
~ Medicine, psychiatry, psychology, law and the constructions of madness; madness as illness
~ Contributions of the social sciences to the making and the critique of the making of madness
~ Representations, explanations and the critique of madness from the humanities and the arts

5. Creativity, Critique and Cutting Edge
~ Madness as genius, outstanding, out of the ordinary, spectacularly brilliant
~ The art of madness; the science of madness
~ Music, painting, dance, theater: it is crazy to think of art without madness
~ The language and communication of madness: who can translate?
~ Creation as an unfolding of madness
~ Madness as an unfolding of creativity

6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating Promise of Madness
~ Metaphors of feeling free, unrestrained, capable, lifted from reality
~ Madness as clear-sightedness, as opening up possibilities, as re-visioning of the world
~ The future, the prophetic, the unknown; the epic, the heroic and the tragic
~ The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness
~ The insanity of not loving madness

7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life about and from Madness
~ Cultural and social constructions of madness; images of the mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, abnormal
~ What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from madness how to cope with reality
~ Recognising madness in oneself; relativising madness in others
~ Love, intimacy, care and the small spaces of madness
~ Critical and ethical implosions of normality and normalness; sane in insane places and insane in sane places

Presentations will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.

In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Time, Space and Body and Madness and Empathy.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: MADNESS7 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using 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 Chairs

Gonzalo Araoz: gon@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: mad7@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the ‘Making Sense Of:’ series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conferenc

Call for Presentations

8th Global Conference

Thursday 11th September – Saturday 13th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Call for Presentations
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In particular, the project will assess the context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact of globalisation on tensions, conflicts and on the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

Proposals, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes:

1. State borders and mobility
- State’s obligation in admitting migrants
- State security and border control
-  Immigration policy and political ideology of nation-state
- Permeability of state boundaries under globalization
- Redefining borders under globalized world

2. Irregular migration
- Illegal migration or irregular migration?
- Irregular migration: whose account?
- Irregular migration and transnational mobility
- Irregular migration, exploitation and human rights violation
- Rights and protection of irregular migrants

3. Religion and gender
- Gender differences in migration
- Religious practices and gender equality under migration
- Migrants and freedom of religion
- Religious and ethnic minorities under multiculturalism
- Religious extremism and the challenge on pluralism

4. Human rights and citizenship
- Universality of human rights
- Citizenship and rights entitlement
- Caste system in the contemporary world
- Human rights protection for non-citizens
- Conflicting rights

5. Identity formation and belongingness
- Identity formation and transnational migration
- Integration and preservation of minority cultures
- Intergenerational differences on identity formation of migrants
- Value conflict and belongingness
- Recognition or redistribution under contemporary economic development

6. Redefining multiculturalism
- Changing concepts in the study of ethnicity and multiculturalism
- Researching multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism: the East-West discourse
- States commitment towards multicultural practices
- Multiculturalism versus nationalism
- Historical construction of multiculturalism and its application in the contemporary world

Proposals will be considered on any related theme.

In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fear, Horror and Terror and Multiculturalism.

What to Send
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Multiculturalism 8 Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using 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 ChairsRaees Baig: raees.baig@gmail.com
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri: mcb8@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

Call for Presentations

3rd Global Conference

Sunday 7th  September – Tuesday 9th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford

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This conference seeks to explore the multifaceted nature of space, time and the body in order to question the ways in which we construct, experience and understand our world. We encourage an examination of time, space and/or the body as either independent or interconnecting areas ‘suspended in webs of significance’ (Geertz, 1973). Exploring our existence and interaction within these ‘webs’, it becomes apparent that societies consist of embodied people who constantly participate in specific tasks, at particular times and in constructed spaces. For example, Turner (2004:38) has suggested ‘every society is confronted by four tasks: the reproduction of populations in time, the regulation of bodies in space, the restraint of the interior body through disciplines and the representation of the exterior body in social space.’ Taking these four tasks as our starting point, this conference project invites proposals from a range of disciplines such as architecture, social geography, the visual and creative arts, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, law and religious studies, archaeology, media and audience studies, the classics and philosophy, social and natural sciences, business studies, information science, popular culture and politics. We also welcome case studies or other approaches from practitioners such as artists, health professionals, psychologists, writers, law makers and policy analysts.

Recognising that different disciplines and practitioners express themselves in different mediums, we welcome traditional papers, panels, workshop proposals and other forms of performance (as can be accommodated in the space provided). Accordingly topics are sought on different aspects and/or relationships between any combination of space, time or the body or on how these categories are understood, mythologised and constructed in order to affect, effect, order and/or control each other.

Invited topics can include any of the following themes and related areas:

Understanding Space, Time and the Body
- Academic theories
- Narratives, definitions and perceptions
- Interdisciplinary studies, cross cultural comparisons
- Institutions, organisations, constructions, and deconstructions
- How access to information on space, time and the body is controlled, distorted and facilitated

Contexts for Space, Time and the Body
- Architecture: the construction and constraints of space
- Art, sculpture and installation practices
- Work and power as a temporal-spatial event
- Time and the spatiality of movement
- City planning and change over time or terrain
- History and public/social policy changes towards crime and punishment
- Age and the impact of space and time
- Boundaries and controls

Representations of Time, Space and the Body
- Language and embodied/disembodied characters in literature, film, theatre, TV, graphic novels, games:
narrative, music and mis-en-scene
- Different genres over time: changes in interpretation, popularity and relevancy
- Novels, plays, poems, short stories and time (eg: short time span, the inter-generational epic – how does this work, what are the impacts?)
- The voice, dance and music
- Time as the ‘enemy’

Relationships within Time, Space and the Body
- The body as a place and space for storytelling (eg: the body as victim/survivor, tattoos)
- Non-human or post-human bodies in space and time
- The ‘body politic’ or the political body: Who ‘owns’ the body? – patient or practitioner or …?
- Monetising/economics of production between time, space and body
- Accounting: the consequences of periodic reporting and impact on the valuation of space
- Legislative/legal constructions as related to time, space, body
- Changing attitudes toward: pain, death, suffering, religion, family, gender, sexuality, disability or fashion

Experiencing Time, Space and the Body
- Time, ‘performativity’ and identity
- Religion, spirituality, forms of altered consciousness and ritual
- Indigenous cultures and cosmologies in space and time
- Cyclical, spiral, dreamtime, memory or linear time
- Doing Time: space and punishment
- Body modification and body horror
- Emotions or rationality: reactions to space, particularly public spaces (eg: how do we ‘feel’ when … can that reaction be replicated, can it impact or trigger other reactions?)
- Monstrosity, technology and futurology

At the end of the conference, the aim will be to further develop the discussions and dialogues presented at this conference into new and continued interdisciplinary research that will help us make sense of the contested categories of time, space and the body.

In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups – and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Time, Space and Body and Madness.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: TSB3 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 Chairs

Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: tsb3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.  Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

Department of Translation Studies

The English and Foreign Languages University

Hyderabad, India-500 007

Call for Papers

3-day National Seminar from 24^th – 26^th March, 2014

on

Translating Oral/Folk texts from Indian Languages into English:

A Relook at the (Re)Formations of Orientalism/Nationalism/Community in the Colonial and Postcolonial contexts

Understanding the Orientalist discourse in the Indian context has heavily relied on colonial archive in English and also the Indological work in 18^th and 19^th century. The role of translation in constituting the Orientalist discourse on India or in the emergence of Indology is also relatively only slightly explored, and the researchers have shown how translations of Sanskrit texts into English played a major role in constituting India (Indology).  There are also quite a number of studies of translations into Indian languages from English which explore how modernity was translated through such acts of translations, and how the colonial texts were morphed into nationalist ones during this period. But there seems to be a whole lot of other texts that were in Indian languages and in oral form were translated into English during the colonial period. Some of these texts which have been retranslated and reissued in print form have become iconic texts in the context of linguistic nationalism in India. Translation of “poems” of Bhakti saints like Sarvajna, Valluvar,  Tukaram, Kabir, Meera etc.; translation of folk stories, songs from different languages including tribal languages in 19^th century and early 20^th century; translation of classical/written texts of some of the Indian languages like Telugu,  Tamil and Kannada into English and other European languages are yet to be understood in terms of their implications for the twin discourses of Orientalism, Nationalism that emerged in the 19^th and  20^th century India. Some of these texts/saints whose popularity was limited to a particular caste/community/region become the icon of a language through such translations into English during the 19^th century. The seminar examines such oral/folk non-Sanskrit texts translated into English both by the colonizers/missionaries and the native elite, and probes the implications of these translations in certain socio-political discursive formations. It is hoped that this seminar, by bringing scholars who are working on such translations to deliberate on the issues, will produce a sizable body of knowledge in the area which might bring to light the neglected areas of research within the academic field now come to be known as post-colonial studies/ translation studies.

Following are some of the textual translation corpus on which proposal for papers can be submitted:

·         Translation of Bhakti Literature in 19^th and early 20^th century into English by the missionaries/colonizers

·         Translation of Folk/Oral literature of Tribal and Non-tribal Indian languages in the form of anthologies by the colonizers/missionaries

·         Translation of same set of texts by the native elite  subsequently.

·         Problems of bringing such oral texts, which are dynamic, into static book form and into an alien language and the politics of this process.

·         Role of such canonical non-Sanskrit texts in Understanding/constituting India in 19^th and early 20^th century

The papers can focus on answering any of the following issues or any other related ones:

§  Who were the translators? Why did they choose these texts for translation?

§  What were the modes of documenting the dynamic oral texts in print form?

§  What were the methods of translation adopted to bring them into an alien language?

§  What functions did such translations perform in Indology?

§  What role did such translations play in constituting Orientalism and Nationalism?

§  What were the consequences of translating/canonizing such texts in the Indian language cultures/societies?

§  If some of these texts/authors (like Thirukkural,  Sarvjna, Tukaram) went on to become the icons of a particular language, can we say that translations played a major role in this?

§  If multiple translations of the text have appeared over a period of time what prompted the subsequent translations?

§  Do the subsequent translations play the role of critiquing the earlier translations? If yes how?

Important Dates:

Submission of Abstracts: 20^th January, 2014

Acceptance will be conveyed by 31^st January, 2014

Submission of Full Papers by 5^th March, 2014

Please send an abstract of 500 words (maximum) in ms word format or any other compatible format to the Coordinators of the Seminar:

Send  your abstracts to   tsnseflu2014@gmail.com

Registration

Local Participants:   200

Non-local Participants:  500

Students:  100

Note: The organizers are not in a position to pay TA or DA to any participants due to the paucity of funds. However, local hospitality at Hyderabad would be extended to all participants.

Dr. H. Lakshmi

Associate Professor  & Head

                  &

Dr. Tharakeshwar V.B.

Associate professor

Department of Translation Studies

The English and Foreign Languages University

Hyderabad-7

 For  further information  mail us:  tsnseflu2014@gmail.com