3rd International Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography Conference CONTEMPHOTO ’16 Conference aims at achieving a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on identity in the form images with special focus on gender issues, immigration, urban issues and memory. Multiple roles of visual culture are going to be explored in relation to urban psychology, daily life, the self and expression of the identities in urban landscapes as a document, art, advertisement or hobby. 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. THEMES 01. VISUAL CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY 01.1. Photography as an art and Identity 01.2. Identity and Visual Culture 01.3. Social Stratifications and Image 02. SPACE, URBAN ISSUES AND PHOTOGRAPHY 02.1. City as a Scene 02.2. City as an Atelier 02.2. City as a Subject 03. DOCUMENTATION & MEMORY 03.1.Documenting the Memory 03.2.Documenting the Present 03.3. Documenting the History of Visual Culture 04. VISUAL CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS 04.1. Media and Visual Culture 04.2 Politics and Image 04.3 Visual Communication VENUE The conference will be held at Cezayir Meeting Halls (Hayriye Caddesi 12, Galatasaray, Beyoglu) http://www.cezayir-istanbul. Cezayir building was built in 1901 as a school by the Italian Workers' Society. The building, with its 2005 renovation, has been transformed into a landmark establishment serving under the Cezayir Garden, Cezayir Lounge and Cezayir Rooms brands on its three floors. Housing a restaurant, a lounge, a bar and meeting rooms as well as providing a wide range of cultural events in its halls. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The scientific committee consists of significant scholars, Orhan Cem CETIN- Bahçe?ehir University Murat GERMEN- Sabanc? University Is?k SEZER- Izmir Dokuz Eylul University Beyhan OZDEMIR- Izmir Dokuz Eylul University Fulya Ertem BASKAYA - Izmir University of Economics F?rat ARAPOGLU- Kemerburgaz University Gary Roderick McLEOD- Izmir University of Economics http://www. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION You can submit your abstract by entering the online registration system EASYCHAIR at https://www.easychair.org/ You will receive a reply to your proposal within three weeks following a double-blind review process. | |
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
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.
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/
You will receive a reply to your proposal within three weeks following a double-blind review process.
Call for Presentations
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.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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)
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