Scholarship  - MSc and DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development

Deadline 20 January 2017

Applications are invited for the part-time MSc and DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford.  

The next admissions round closes on 20 January 2017.  

The MSc Programme Scholarship also closes on this date (more information below).

We would be grateful if list members would share this information with students, colleagues and associates for whom it will be of interest.

The Sustainable Urban Development programme at the University of Oxford offers part-time master's and doctoral courses for practitioners and researchers engaged in cities and urban issues. It attracts architects, educators, engineers, lawyers, financiers and investment analysts, landscape architects, project managers, planners, property developers and surveyors.

• Flexible part-time master's and doctoral programmes – study while working
• Dynamic and thriving research, graduate and practitioner community
• International perspective and reach, drawing on Oxford's interdisciplinary expertise
• Strong associations with leading organisations, including the Prince's Foundation for Building Community and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Opportunities to network and to develop valuable cross-sector connections
• Access to Oxford’s internship schemes

 MSc Full Fee Programme Scholarship

The MSc Programme Scholarship will cover all course fees (and college fees) across both years of the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development for October 2017 entry. The Scheme is open to all new candidates for the MSc. No separate application process will apply, but candidates seeking to be considered for the Scholarship need to have submitted a full application by 20 January 2017. Candidates need to present a consistent record of excellence both academically and professionally.  Full details are available on the MSc website.

Please visit our website www.conted.ox.ac.uk/urban or contact us on sud@conted.ox.ac.uk and +44 (0)1865 286952 for further information about each course, funding opportunities and how to apply.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories

An International Symposium hosted by Power Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

11-13 October 2017

Proposals due 28 February 2017

Studies focused on gender in Southeast Asian societies have emerged, in recent decades, in approximate concurrence with the development of regionally focused Southeast Asian art histories. The founding premise of this international symposium is that there has hitherto been insufficient discursive intersection between these two fields.

Topics discussed may include:

• accounts of individual artists and collectives whose work engages with gender;
• investigations of gender in the exhibitionary, critical, and historiographical receptions of works of art, from any period
• considerations of the relationships between artists and/or works of art and larger Southeast Asian cultural constructs of gender, as enacted in political, economic, religious and other domains.

Proposals will be particularly welcomed for papers that address what new perspectives and methodological approaches are brought to the fore through studies that are attentive to gender, and/or that re-assess art historical narratives through the lens of gender. Histories of art from antiquity to the present will be considered, in the hope that intellectual exchange between scholars working on the “pre-modern,” “modern,” and “contemporary” will be mutually generative.

As the first symposium of its kind, Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories aims to establish the parameters of current research, and to develop inter-disciplinary and transnational frameworks for future studies in the field. To this end, proposals are invited from researchers working in and between a range of disciplines, including but not limited to: archaeology, area studies, comparative literature, gender studies, heritage studies, history, film studies and media studies, in addition to art history.

In addition to more established scholars, early career researchers (including postgraduate researchers) are particularly welcomed. The conference organizers are pleased to offer selected participants financial assistance toward the cost of travel and accommodation, with preference given to those based in Southeast Asia. In developing scholarly networks, the event organizers will also facilitate international collaborations and mentorships, in which early career researchers accepted for participation will be given feedback on their presentations, and encouraged to submit their papers to the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Asian Studies Review (indexed in Scopus).

The symposium will be launched by a keynote address from Professor Ashley Thompson, the Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. Symposium participants and up to twelve additional attendees, on a competitive basis, will also be invited to participate in a half-day masterclass led by Professor Thompson, and a professional development workshop.

Abstracts in English of approximately 500 words, as well as biographical statements of approximately 100 words, should be sent to yvonne.low@sydney.edu.au before 28 February 2017. 

Applicants seeking support for travel and accommodation expenses should also include a short statement of financial need.

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories is convened by Yvonne Low, Roger Nelson, Clare Veal, and Stephen Whiteman. The event is generously supported by the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Power Institute, the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, and the School of Literature Art and Media at the University of Sydney.

International Conference in Translation Studies: “Translation and Minority”

University of Ottawa, School of Translation and Interpretation

November 10-11, 2017

Keynote speakers (confirmed):

Anthony Pym, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain

Debbie Folaron, Concordia University, Canada

Here at University of Ottawa’s School of Translation and Interpretation we provide established and emerging researchers of various backgrounds with an opportunity to share the results of their work on Translation Studies as an academic discipline and on its future avenues of development. This year’s topic is Translation and Minority.

Scientific committee:

Lin Chen, Tongji University, China; Rainier Grutman, University of Ottawa, Canada; Germana Henriques Pereira, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil; Hala Kamal, Cairo University, Egypt; Catherine Leclerc, McGill University, Canada; Kris Peeters, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Nike Pokorn, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Peng Wang, University of Maryland, USA

Minor-ness has been imagined in various ways: from unspeakability in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (1998) or Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject (1982) and from carnival in Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque body (1993) or Georges Battaille’s notion of excess (1991), to the potentially revolutionary Body without Organs that embarks on various lines of flight (Deleuze and Guattari 1988) in order to escape sameness and embrace difference. In all its forms, the minor has the potential to be truly free: in becoming, in already being constructed and still being constructed, as a way to acknowledge interstices and particularity, ethnic diversity, and cultural heterogeneity.

In ‘minor’ contexts, translation is the underpinning condition for difference, preserving identity, and serving local concerns—which have often been neglected for the benefit of a more general image of the global ethos. In recent years, there have been claims that Translation Studies is becoming wonderfully aware of its Eurocentric / Western roots and biases (Gentzler 2008, Tymoczko 2007, Trivedi 2006) and that efforts are being made towards a more democratic view on the role translators and Translation Studies scholars from all cultures play in defining the field. However, various terms such as Eurocentrism or Westernization are still actively used in TS and so are a number of biased comparative paradigms that acknowledge and endorse the precedence of a centre. Various small European countries are still happily pigeonholed as ‘minor’ nations that follow in the footsteps of ‘major’ cultures like France and England, while other small countries all over the world, for which translation plays a paramount role, are largely unaccounted for.

First, our conference aims to contribute to the internationalization of the field of Translation Studies by presenting scholarly work which focuses on theories and practices originating in ‘minor’ contexts (which translate more) and in lesser-translated languages. Second, we invite contributions which address new translation practices and new ways of defining translation in more visible cultures, which have long been associated with certain more hegemonic traditions. Last but not least, we welcome research work that places translation at the nexus between humanities and science and shows how technology helps redefining translation beyond the prevailing geographical paradigm.

The conference themes will revolve around, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

Theoretical understandings of minor-ness;

New paradigms for ‘minor’ and minority cultures in Translation Studies;

Narratives of marginality and identity: small nations in translation;

Nomadism and transnationalism: translators redefining themselves;

Restoring the balance: lesser-translated languages in TS;

Practices of the peripheries: translators at work in ‘minor’ contexts;

Activist translation: the voice of the few;

Bilingualism, multilingualism, and diglossia;

Minoritization of ‘major’ languages through heteroglossia;

‘Minor’ practices in translation;

Translation and cultural analytics;

Overcoming minor-ness through the digital revolution.

Each presentation will be allotted 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute question period. The working languages of the conference are French and English.

Scholars are invited to submit a 300-word abstract in Word format (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single spaced). Please make sure to include the following information (in this order): the title of your presentation, your name, affiliation, e-mail address, abstract, 5 key-words, short bio (70-80 words), and selected bibliography. Pdf files are not accepted.

Papers are to be submitted via the Easy Chair system by May 30, 2017. We are unable to accept e-mail submissions.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tm2fd 

All authors are to be notified on June 15. For questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizer, Raluca Tanasescu, at rtana014 [at] uottawa.ca.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

For More Details visit us at    https://translationandminority.wordpress.com/about/

Summer Fellowships for Young Scientists at the International Institute

for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

Funding is available for PhD students interested in three months of

collaborative research during June to August 2017 on

Evolutionary and Ecological Modeling

at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

in Laxenburg, Austria.

Young scientists from all countries are eligible for stipends provided by IIASA’s Evolution and Ecology Program (EEP) that contribute to travel and accommodation costs. Students from IIASA’s 24 member countries – Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, USA, and Vietnam – are eligible for fellowships that provide full coverage of travel, accommodation, and living expenses.









Model-based summer research projects are invited in the following indicative areas:

Evolution of cooperation
Governance of common goods
Systemic risk and network dynamics
Eco-evolutionary dynamics
Evolutionary community ecology
Food-web evolution
Vegetation dynamics
Adaptive speciation
Disease ecology and evolution
Evolutionary conservation biology
Fisheries management
Fisheries-induced evolution
Adaptive dynamics theory and models
Spatial models in ecology and evolution

Applicants are encouraged to prepare a research proposal that corresponds to their scientific interests and to EEP’s research agenda. Accepted  applicants will begin work before the summer, by planning their research in collaboration with their IIASA supervisors. Previous experiences with implementing and studying evolutionary or ecological models are important assets for working in EEP. To improve chances of being selected, potential applicants are highly welcome to send informal inquiries regarding their specific research interests and plans to EEP’s program director Ulf
Dieckmann (dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at<mailto:dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at>).


Online applications will be accepted until Wednesday, January 11, 2017 (24:00 CET).
Since 1977, IIASA’s annual Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP), has attracted 1800+ students from 86 countries. The YSSP 2017 will take place from June 1 to August 31. IIASA is located in the former summer palace of Austria’s royal family, ca. 15 km south of Vienna. IIASA’s summer program offers exceptional opportunities for acquiring experience in an international and interdisciplinary research environment. Research training is based on regular personal interaction with advising scientists, and typically leads to a publication in an international
journal, as well as to a chapter in a candidate’s PhD thesis.









Some useful links:
+ Information about IIASA’s Evolution and Ecology Program
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/eep
+ Details about the summer program, and online application
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/…/ConditionsEligibility/Conditions-a…
+ Examples of successful YSSP projects
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/…/AbouttheProgram/YSSP-in-EEP.en.html
+ General information about IIASA
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/…/abo…/whatisiiasa/what_is_iiasa.html
Ulf Dieckmann













Program Director
Evolution and Ecology Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
A-2361 Laxenburg
Austria
Email dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at
Phone +43 2236 807 386
Phone secretary +43 2236 807 231
Fax +43 2236 807 466 or +43 2236 71313
Web www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/EEP

Conference for Researchers of English Language 2017: 

English Language Studies in Contemporary Indian Context - Issues and Challenges 

(30-31 March 2017) 

 is being organised by researchers at the Centre for English Language Studies, University of Hyderabad.

National Conference
Ph.D. and M.Phil. Research Scholars can present papers
Postgraduate students, Independent researchers, and English Teachers can participate
Peer reviewed selection of Abstracts
Registration mandatory to present papers and to participate
Early-bird offer on Registration Fee up to 15 February, 2017
Accommodation for outstation candidates

The English language has played a crucial role in shaping the Indian psyche since the early 19th century and impacted the intellectual, social, economic and cultural domains of the nation. It continues to impact Indian society even today, defining concepts like development, modernity and literacy. Further, it has serious consequences for employability, media, culture, and the academia. A Study of the ways in which English has impacted our thinking and the conceptual and pedagogic manifestations it has had in varied fields have been some of the concerns of recent research in the field of English Language studies (ELS) in India.

This conference would provide a platform to discuss and deliberate some of these issues. Specifically, it generates thinking and research on language policy and planning, curriculum development, multilingual education, Indian English, and use of English in India. The focus will be on the ontological, epistemological, axiological and methodological issues and challenges.

The ideas generated through critical discussion and deliberation in the conference will help explore future research possibilities in the field of English Language studies. This first Research Scholars Conference from the Centre for English Language Studies (CELS) intends to explore the scope of ELS as a discipline in India.

We welcome papers from research scholars on the following areas:

Aspects of English language learning, teaching and evaluation
Issues related to multilingual and bilingual education
Understanding language policy and planning
The politics of English
Perspectives on Indian English and the use of English in India
Exploring discourse studies in the context of English in India

Extended Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 20 January, 2017

Instructions for Registration

Please read the instructions carefully before you proceed.
Pay the registration fee.
Modes of Payment

• Online transfer (Please note down the Transaction Reference ID)
• Cash deposit (Please keep a scanned copy of the receipt ready for upload)

Fee Details
Early-bird offer: Rs. 500 up to 15 February, 2017
Rs. 700 from 16 February to 5 March, 2017
Account details

Account Number	36215135949
Account Name	CELS RESEARCH SCHOLARS FORUM
Bank	State Bank of India
Branch	Hyderabad University Campus
IFSC Code	SBIN0005916

Online registration is mandatory for both participants and presenters

Contact Us

Research Scholars’ Forum
Centre for English Language Studies
University of Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500046

+91 7893784095
+91 8801103372
+91 9573942207
coordinator@celscorel.in
http://celscorel.in

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University of Hyderabad

University of Hyderabad (Academic)

CELS @ UoHyd

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International Conference

Gendering the Urban Imaginary: Fantasy, Affect, Transgression

12-13 May 2017

Keynote speaker: John McLeod
University of Leeds, UK

University of Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies

Organisers:

Ágnes Györke, Senior Lecturer, Department of British Studies
Imola Bülgözdi, Senior Lecturer, North American Department                 

Call for Papers

The Gender, Translocality and the City Research Group at the University of Debrecen is pleased to announce its second annual conference, which is going to explore the role of gender, fantasy, and emotion in the production of urban space. Papers focusing on urban fantasy in twentieth- and twenty-first-century anglophone literary, visual and cultural studies are invited for presentation, and we also encourage submissions relying on psychogeographical approaches to explore the (post)modern imaginary of city life. Papers investigating the modern(ist) city, postmodern labyrinths, art and the aestheticization of urban space, the playable city, uncanny metropolises, paranormal urban worlds, suburban and subterranean space, spectral cities and fantasy scapes, for instance, are welcome. Presentations addressing "the mutually defining relation between bodies and cities" (Elizabeth Grosz) will be considered as well, especially if focusing on the "atmosphere" (Teresa Brennan) or "sense of place" (Jon Anderson) as the articulation of affective traces which define subjectivities in relation to specific environments. We also encourage submissions on topics such as transgressions, fear, and the city; metamorphoses, enjoyment, and urban space; emapthy and the city; and so on.Theoretical contributions investigating the intersections between affect theory and city studies, including, but not limited to, the works of Sarah Ahmed, Elspeth Probyn, Carolyn Pedwell, for instance, and Michel De Certeau, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Grosz, etc., are also within our scope of interest.

We particularly welcome submissions exploring gendered readings of the following themes:

• The imaginary of everyday life

• Fantasies of corporeality

• Street art and the aestheticization of urban space

• The city and empathy

• The femme fatale and the urban imaginary

• The ideal city and fantastic dystopias

• Metamorphoses, enjoyment, and the city

• Compassion, forgiveness, and the city

• Nightmare and the city

• Shame, shaming, and the city

• Fear, vulnerability, and the city

• Transgression, terror, and urban space

• Embodied placemaking and fantasy

• Virtual geographies: embodiment and affect in cyberspace

• Urban identities, rootedness and the "sense of place"

Please send 300-400-word abstracts to urbanimaginary@gmail.com before 6 February 2017.

Advanced MA and PhD students are warmly encouraged to submit abstracts to present papers in regular sessions, and the conference also aims to provide an opportunity for them to discuss their research projects related to the theme of the call (dissertation proposals, chapters, articles, etc.). Graduate students are invited to organise 60-minute or 90-minute roundtable discussions and workshops with 3-4 participants. Please submit a 400-word proposal about the issues to be discussed, including the format you would prefer, and a 300-word summary of the role of each student in your group (for instance, moderator, respondent, etc.).

Deadline: 6 February 2017.

Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2017.

Selected papers will be published in a thematic issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, a peer-reviewed journal listed by the MLA and available on ProQuest and JSTOR.

Registration fee : 30 EUR (normal); 20 EUR (students)

Partial registration fee waivers are available to participants from low and middle income countries, please apply before 28 February 2017.

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Contact Info: 

Gender, Translocality and the City Research Group

University of Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies

http://www.ieas.unideb.hu/index.php?p=1519

Organisers:

Ágnes Györke, Senior Lecturer, Department of British Studies

Imola Bülgözdi, Senior Lecturer, North American Department

Contact Email: 

urbanimaginary@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.ieas.unideb.hu/index.php?p=1574

International Conference on 

Arts, Social Sciences, History & Interdisciplinary Studies

 (ASSHIS-2017)

Call for Papers/leaflet

New Full Paper/Poster/Abstract Submissions Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017

The idea of International Conference on Arts, Social Sciences, History and Interdisciplinary Studies (ASSHIS-2017) scheduled on April 20-21, 2017 at Kyoto (Japan) 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.

ASSHIS-2017 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 ASSHIS-2017 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 Proceeding will be also submitted to SCOPUS/ISI Thomson for review. In addition the proceedings will be indexed at all major search engines.

Top Selected papers will be Published in the following Canadian Journal: 

Journal of Global Management Research ISSN 1488-4569  

Link: http://gmrjournal.uqam.ca/   

Country of Publisher: Canada

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

Submit: Abstract / Full Paper / Posters Before: Jan. 15, 2017 (Early Bird)

(If you like to publish full paper then submit "full paper" only)

- Printed conference proceedings with ISSN/ISBN number will be provided at conference 

- The papers can be online in ISSN Journal / Each Paper will be assigned unique Digital Object Identifier(DOI) from CROSSREF-USA and Online DOI Indexed Proceedings (without any additional cost)

- Top Selected papers will be Published in the following Canadian Journal: Journal of Global Management Research ISSN 1488-4569  Link: http://gmrjournal.uqam.ca/  Country of Publisher: CANADA (without any additional cost)

- The paper can be published online in SCOPUS Indexed journals with additional charges. If interested then tell conference secretary at the time of Submission so that the review will be done accordingly. 

SUBMISSION METHOD

Please Email Abstract / Full Paper / Poster in .doc/.docx format: editor@drhss.org

TOPICS

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 

- Anthropology

- Art History

- Arts

- English

- History

- Information science

- Interdisciplinary studies

- Islamic Studies

- Language

- Linguistics

- Literature

- Local Government

- Multidisciplinary Studies

- Museums and heritage

- Music

- Occupational Science

- Philosophy

- Poetry

- Politics

- Psychology

- Religious studies

- Social Sciences

- Sociology

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

- Children and Youth

- Communications and Media

- Complex Systems

- Conflict resolution

- Creativity

- Culture

- Disaster Management

- Discourse

- Film studies

- Gender studies

- GLBT Studies

- Globalization

- HIV/AIDS

- Human Rights

- Identity

- Leadership

- Memory

- Poverty

- Public Policy

- Sexuality and eroticism

- Spirituality

- Sport science

- Sustainable development

- Tourism

- Urban studies

- Violence

REGIONAL STUDIES 

- African Language

- African Literature

- African Studies

- American Studies

- Asian Studies

- Built Environment

- Development Studies

- European Studies

- Health Disparity

- Human Geography

- Human Geography

- Income Disparity

- International Relations

- Labour Economics

- Liberal Arts education

- Literacy Perspectives

- Multiculturalism

- Psychology Of Violence

- Racial Equality

- Racial Issues

Important Dates

Round 1:

Early Conference Registration Fees on or Before Jan. 26, 2017

Deadline of the Full Paper/Abstract Submission - Jan. 15, 2017

Acceptance Notification  - Jan. 23, 2017

Deadline of the Registration - Jan. 26, 2017

Conference Dates - April 20-21, 2017

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

Enquiries: editor@drhss.org

Web address: http://drhss.org/conference/158

Sponsored by: DRHSS

Organized by: Professor Dr. Kazuaki Maeda, Department of Business Administration and Information Science, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan