Funded ICSSR sponsored National Workshop on Research Methodology,20th Feb-01st March 2018, CSSRM,Ambedkar University Delhi

Aims and Objectives

The workshop aims to dwell into a set of theoretical perspectives that inspire ethnographic and qualitative research, engage with the set of sensibilities and values that underlie research in these traditions and in acquiring a collection of skills such as rapport building, knowledge on specific data collection methods, maintaining data/notes in different forms, analysing the data and writing.

The objectives of the workshop are:

(1) To make participants gain an understanding of the current theoretical basis that underlie qualitative research and ethnography

(2) To equip the participants with knowledge and skill of using one or more qualitative methods including ethnography

(3) To build the capacity of participants to analyse qualitative data, and

(4) To facilitate the participants to learn different forms of writing that involves qualitative research.

Course Contents

Introduction

Theoretical basis of qualitative research

Data collection methods in qualitative research

Ethnography

Rigour in qualitative research and ethnography

Analysis in qualitative research

Using Atlas-Ti for analysis of qualitative data

Writing Qualitative Research

Course Transaction

A combination of lecture, interaction, self-study, out-door exercise, demonstration and in-class hands-on exercises.

Eligibility Criteria

Current MPhil and PhD research scholars registered in a social science discipline/area of study. Preference will be given to applicants registered with universities in Delhi or neighboring states.

Travel

Outstation participants are eligible for sleeper class train or actual bus fare as per ICSSR norms. Reimbursement shall be made only on submission of proof of confirmed train tickets or original bus tickets.

Board and Lodging

Outstation participants would be provided modest facilities for stay (twin sharing) and food on request. Local participants would be provided only lunch and tea/snacks during the programme break.

Key dates

Last date for receipt of filled application forms: 02 Feb 2018

Date for intimation of selected applicants: 03 Feb 2018

Date for confirmation of participation by selected participants: 07 Feb 2018

Dates of workshop: 20th Feb to 01st Mar 2018.

How to Apply

(1) Send scanned copy of duly filled application form available at http://aud.ac.in by email to cssrm@aud.ac.in or by post to

The Course Director (ICSSR Research Methodology Workshop), Centre for Social Science Research Methods, Ambedkar University Delhi, Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate, Delhi, 110006 on or before 02 Feb 2018.

(2) Application has to be forwarded by competent authority

(3) Application form has to be sent along with a copy of MPhil/PhD registration certificate and

(4) A synopsis on current state of their research.

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Application form: Click here (pdf)

International Conference on Human Rights, Gender Studies Law & Social Sciences Feb 22-24, 2018,Chandigarh, India

Welcome to ICHGLS - 2018

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The International Conference on Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences 2018 (ICHGLS - 2018 ) to be organized by International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation (IMRF) in collaboration with International bodies shall be one of the significant conferences in Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences Community held in conjunction with the UGC Approved - Human Rights International Research Journal (Refereed Journal - SE Impact Factor 2.54)

The Conference is designed with Special Invited Research Lectures, Paper Presentations and Poster Presentations. International Conference on Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences -2018 is honored by bringing UGC Approved - Human Rights International Research Journal Vol-6 Spl Issue with ISSN 2320 – 6942 with all papers accepted for publication. The main intention is to reflect the pioneering state of research in Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences. 

Some non-technical talks connected with promotion of research in Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences will also be convened. 

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Call for Papers

Original research papers in the following disciplines but not confined, related to Human Rights, Gender Studies, Law & Social Sciences from Post Graduate Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, Scientists are invited for presentation.​

​Human rights |Gender equality | Gender-based violence |Gender-biased sex selection

Human Rights of Women and Children |Status of Indigenous People| Human Trafficking |Child Labour | Child Sexual Abuse |Conflict between IPR and Human Rights | Racial Discrimination | Human Rights of Migrant Workers | Human Rights of Aged and Disabled | International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law | Juvenile Justice Issues | Literary Portrayals of Justice, Security & Human Rights | Media & Culture

Migration Studies & Globalization | Psychological Interventions for Victims of Political Torture | Psychology & Law |Political Violence & Social Movements | Race, Ethnicity & Justice | Theoretical & Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Human Rights |Restorative Justice

Legal theory - Philosophy | Positive law and non-positive law discussions |Economic analysis |Sociology

Legal systems - Civil law |Common law and equity | Religious law | Sharia law |

Legal subjects - International law | Constitutional and administrative law | Criminal law | Contract law

Tort law |Property law | Equity and trusts etc., and allied fields

Social Sciences 

Anthropology |Archaeology |Criminology |Demography |Economics |Geography (human) |History International relations |Jurisprudence |Linguistics |Pedagogy |Political science |Psychology |Science education |Sociology | Public Administration |Journalism etc., and allied subjects.

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Submission of Papers

Participants intending to present papers in conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to ichgls2018@gmail.com. 

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Important Dates

Participation is for limited number. 

To reserve your participation with the notified fee and with out any late charges register the earliest

Last date to submit Abstract : 30/01/2018

Last date to Register : 10/02/2018

Contact Us 

If you need more information, have questions, or would like to offer a suggestion, please be in touch. 

You can contact us via phone, email.

We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 

Tel: +91 9618777011, +91 9533421234

Email : ichgls2018@gmail.com

HQ : Vijayawada, Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India

www.imrf.in | www.imrfjournals.in | www.imrfedu.org

Call for papers - 1st International e-Conference on Translation Translation in and for Society. Investigating Sociological and Cultural Aspects in Literary and Specialised Domains 26-28 September 2018.

Call For Papers:

The University of Cordoba (Spain) and KU Leuven (Belgium) are proud to announce the First International e-conference with the title: Translation in Society and for Society. Investigating Sociological and Cultural Aspects in Literary and Specialised Domains.

Following the remarkable success of the e-Conference CNERU for young researchers (Cordoba, 4-5 April 2017), this virtual conference aims to create a shared space for reflection on topics related to sociological aspects concerning translation theory and practice. The conference will be held in English using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, a real-time video conferencing tool that lets you add files, share applications, and use a virtual whiteboard to interact. Collaborate with Blackboard opens right in your browser, so you don’t have to install any software to join the conference.

Aim and Scope

The “Sociological Turn” in Translation Studies is a phenomenon that has interested the discipline since the 1990s (Snell-Hornby 2006; Wolf and Fukari 2007; Wolf 2010; Angelelli 2014). The success of the first ATISA conference “The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies” (2010) opened up new avenues of research, shifting the focus from textual aspects of translation to a broader analysis of social factors that have an impact on the translator and translations as social products. According to Wolf (2010), the Sociology of Translation has interested research in the field of “T&I training institutions, working conditions, professional institutions and their social role, questions of ethics in translation, (auto)biographies of translators and interpreters, larger accounts such as translation on the global market, sociopolitical aspects of translation, translation and its role in activism, etc.”. The scholar distinguishes three kinds of translation sociology:

• The sociology of the agents of translation – focusing on translation activity from the point of view of institutional and individual agents;
• The sociology of the translation process – focusing on the social environment and constraints (such as censorship) affecting the production of all types of translation, such as multimodal translation in which different codes coexist in new and changing textual formats;
• The sociology of translation as a cultural product – focusing on reception, promotion and literary criticism across time and space.

Drawing on the new ways in which these three developments are outlining translation research and practice, this conference aims to shed light on the productive and multi-faceted cross-fertilisation of Translation Studies and Sociology. 

We invite papers related but not limited to the following topics:

• Translation and interdisciplinarity: the sociological approach
• Legal and sworn translation with the new migration flows
• Gender issues in translation
• Sociological aspects related to multimodal translation
• The role of multimedial translation in a mass-media society
• The reception and promotion of translation
• Imagology and translation
• Translation for the cultural industry
• Ethical challenges for translators in the 21st century
• The status of the translation profession
• Industrial translation vs. professional translation
• Pros and cons of machine translation and its impact on the market
• Translation and power relations
• Translation of minorized languages and cultures

Submissions are invited for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (excluding references). Please submit your abstract including the title of the paper, author name, affiliation and e-mail address to:

lr1romum@uco.es; transieco@uco.es

Do not forget to fill in the following form in order to submit your abstract (Abstract_Form)

Selected papers will be published in an edited volume following a peer-review process.

Key dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2018

• Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2018

• Registration open: 15 May 2018

• Early-bird registration available until: 31 August 2018

Conference fees

Early registration fee (before 31 August 2018): €20

Fee after 31 August 2018: €30

For More Details:

http://www.uco.es/servicios/publicaciones/ocs/index.php/translation_society/index/pages/view/call_for_papers

CFP:Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities,October 25-27, 2018. Georgia, United States

                                                                   

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 33^rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 25-27, 2018. 

We welcome submissions from across the Humanities, Fine Arts, and the Social and Natural Sciences, dealing with INTERSECTIONALITIES/INTERCONNECTIONS/LIMINALITIES and the many relations and intersections between them. Papers, exhibits, performances and screenings may be submitted by scholars, graduate students, writers, artists, and performers.  

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

Professor Juanamaría Cordones-Cook is the University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor, the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages and a member of the Academy of Letters of Uruguay. Her scholarship includes contemporary Spanish American literature, theater, and visual arts with a focus on Afro-Hispanic writers and artists. Along with an extensive publication record of journal articles and award-winning books, Cordones-Cook’s research also incorporates image, sound, and movement, having produced and directed oral histories and documentaries. An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Professor Cordones-Cook has built a panoramic compendium and archive of Havana’s Black Renaissance with over twenty documentaries on artists and writers of the African Diaspora with emphasis on Cuba.

                                                                    

We encourage presentations about Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities on topics including, but not limited to:

• Africana and Indigenous Studies
• Literary studies of all periods, places, and times
• African, Maghrib and Saharan Studies
• Haitian studies
• Filmography
• Afro-Hispanic Studies
• Opposing concepts such as: war/peace; love/hate; local/global; citizens/immigrants; etc.
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Imperialism and the Natural Sciences
• Cultural studies
• Migration, immigration and globalization
• Feminism, queer and postcolonial theory
• Linguistics, language and bilingualism
• Eco-criticism
• Memory, memorials, and commemoration
• Study abroad
• Anthropology
• Geography and cartography
• History, historiography, and historical revisions
• The visual arts, including film studies, photography and graphic design
• Environmental Studies and Urban Studies
• Health and travel concerns     
• Theatre, scenes and landscapes
• Philosophy
• Myths and mythology
• Music, including musical history and theory
• Economics, including commerce, marketing and trade

We especially welcome presentations about Haitian Studies to honor Dr. Flore Zephir. Dr. Albert Valdman, Director of the IU Creole Institute, will participate in this important recognition.

For individual proposals please submit a one-page, double-spaced abstract to Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle at azapata@westga.edu.  Include the presenter’s name, institution, email address, phone number, and any audio-visual or technical requirements for the presentation on a separate page. Papers in French, German and Spanish are welcomed as part of a pre-organized panel.

Submissions for panels of 3-4 presenters are especially welcome.  For panel proposals please submit the panel title, abstracts, and contact information for all speakers and for the panel moderator.  Proposals are due by May 15th, 2018.

Organizing committee:

Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle (University of West Georgia)

Dr. Tomaz Cunningham (Jackson State University)

Dr. Kyle Lawton (University of West Georgia)

2018 registration fees:

• All UWG faculty and All graduate students: $65
• Faculty, scholars, and other participants:  $110

Contact Info: 

Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle

Contact Email: azapata@westga.edu

URL:https://networks.h-net.org/University%20of%20West%20Georgia

CFP:Imagine Queer: the Radical Potential of Queerness Now,Newcastle University, 12th October 2018, United Kingdom

The aim of the conference is to consider interdisciplinary approaches to the transgressive potential of queerness today. Considering grassroots LGBTQ+ activism, artistic practices, as well as academic discourse of queer theory, we seek to identify and address issues arising in the current transnational socio-political conditions. How can biopolitics be challenged by queer temporalities? How can radical activism of preceding decades be re-contextualised and employed now? Can queer social formations, based on friendship, kinship, and affective communities, be used to reconsider the heteronormative structures aided by the legislation in the international context?

Looking forward, we are interested in restoring the potential of transgressive queer activism, much of which has been now directed into the struggle of LGBTQ+ communities to enter the realm of normative domesticity, compromising its ability to challenge the state apparatus. Based on interdiciplinary, cross-national, and transhistorical research practices, we seek to address these questions in relation to nationhood, citizenship, and human rights. We encourage academic and practical responses to the analysed problem from interdisciplinary, cross-generational, and multinational perspectives.

The possible themes might include, but are not limited to:

• Challenging chronobiopolitics
• Community-based approaches to academic research
• Radical potential of queer archives
• Queer spatialities and temporalities
• De-centralising HIV/AIDS narratives
• Engaging with marginalised LGBTQ communities
• Queer citizenships and nationalisms
• Queer utopias and activism
• Radical art-making
• Queer artistic methodologies
• Now what? Explorations of queer futurities
• Disrupting centre/margins discourses
• Practices of resilience and stigma management

Please include 350-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations and a short biographical note in your application.

 The proposals should be sent to imaginequeer2018@gmail.com by 31st May 2018.

Keynote Speakers:

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Professor Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Prof Plummer has written extensively in Sociology and LGBTQ Studies during his formal working years. He is the founder editor of the journal Sexualities (edited it from 1996 to 2012), and the author of several textbooks: “Sociology: The Basics and Sociology: A Global Introduction.” His notable works include “Sexual Stigma” (1975), “The Making of the Modern Homosexual” (1981), “Telling Sexual Stories” (1995), “Documents of Life” (2001), “Intimate Citizenship” (2003) and “Sociology: The Basics” (2010). In “Intimate Citizenships,” Prof Plummer explores some ongoing public debates around the personal life – from ‘test tube babies’ to ‘lesbian and gay families’ – whose essence may be captured by Plummer’s prominent concept of “Intimate Citizenship,” and which he will revisit in his keynote address. https://kenplummer.com/

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Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is a Montreal-born artist and diarist based in Edinburgh. His artistic work mediates emotional encounters with musical, art historical and Queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. In his work you will find bells, bouquets, ceramic vases, enchanted forests, folding screens, gay elders, glitter, gold leaf, love letters, imaginary paintings, madrigals, megaphones, mirrors, naked men, sex-changing flowers, sign language, subtitles, and the voices of birds, boy sopranos, contraltos, countertenors, and sirens. Nemerofsky’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is part of the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Thielska Galleriet Stockholm and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. His current artistic research involves audio portraits of the private libraries and gardens of Queer scholars and community elders. www.nemerofsky.ca

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Contact Email: imaginequeer2018@gmail.com

URL: https://imaginequeer2018.wixsite.com/conference

Literary and Cultural Studies Symposium: Conference Theme: Labour- May 3-4, 2018, Department of English Language and Literature, Yaşar University,

Call For Papers:
As the Department of English Language and Literature, Yaşar University, we are delighted to announce our second Conference in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. The title of the conference is “Labour,” and it will be held in Izmir, Turkey on May 3rd and 4th, 2018.

The organizers would also be happy to receive proposals for contributions in an alternative format, such as workshops, exhibitions, installations, etc. A more detailed description of the conference and a list of possible topics are below:

In this era of outsourcing, offshoring, casualization and digital production, does labour still work in accordance with the conventional paradigms for its analysis? At a time when traditional left-wing politics and organized labour have, in diverse places, experienced an enduring sense of crisis, do we need to insist once again with redoubled urgency on the critical unearthing of the exploitation of labour as the occluded infrastructure of our social and cultural systems, the obscured motor of history itself, or must we rather start again from a new historicization, novel forms of cultural and sociological analysis which explore the complexity, variability and multivalency of the very concept of work? This conference aims, from an interdisciplinary perspective, to re-examine the status and usefulness of “labour” as a term of analysis within literary and cultural studies.

In the wake of the interventions of feminist, postcolonial and critical race theory, among other strands of radical critique, can labour any longer—if it ever could—be seen as a single category, a universal underlying bedrock to be struck in the analysis of diverse cultural formations? How have alternative paradigms within the social sciences for the analysis of biopolitics, the reproduction and regulation of bodies, displaced the concern with labour, and how have they opened up possibilities for a richer account of labour and gender, labour and libido, the organization of leisure and laziness, the “race-ing” of labour, the work of ethnicity? In the light of such challenges, can the figure of the worker or the notion of the working class function as anything other than a residual and nostalgic fantasy? What remains to be said of the work of fantasy itself, the work of the literary imagination and of cultural creativity and activism? Is “labour” still effective as a rallying point for an oppositional political imaginary? Is the “work” evoked in contemporary accounts of psychological tasks such as mourning or memory compatible with a materialist account of labour?

If socialist feminism in particular has long drawn attention to overlooked sites of labour and (re-)production, including the home as a workplace, how do re-organizations of social space demand renewed examination of the location of work? While globalization has enabled new forms of mobility—including the profitable smuggling of bodies across borders—how has the entanglement of space and production wrought new forms of segregation, new geographies of difference, opportunity and exploitation? What novel forms of dispossession stem from work which appears to have no material place or product, such as the labour associated with information and communication technologies? How can literary and cultural studies examine their own entanglement in the organization of labour, including the question of the university as a place of work?

Precisely because of our emphasis on the mobility, variability and complexity of the putatively singular concept of “labour,” and the critical pressure we want to place upon its transferability across academic disciplines and fields of analysis, we hope that this conference will offer more than a series of independent scholarly interventions. We invite proposals for 25-minute papers from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, and we plan to organize opportunities for response, discussion and workshops, which we hope will promote space for comparative and interdisciplinary debate and dynamic encounters between alternative paradigms.

Possible topics include:

Literary Labours

Labour, Leisure and Laziness

Digital Labour and Digitization as Dispossession of Labour

Segregation and Inequality in Modern Labour

Sex Work: Labour, Libido, Commodification

The Production of Urban Space

By Hand and By Brain: Intellectual and Cultural Labour

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Production

The Labour of Ethnicity and the Race-ing of Labour

Housework and Its Value(s)

Labour, Habit, Ritual

Labour and Mobility

Biopolitics and/or the Commodification of the Body

Reproduction

Memory Work and the Labours of Mourning

The Myth(s) of the Labouring Classes

Students and Instructors as Workers

City, Class and Gentrification

Re-working: The Labour of Translation and Adaptation

Proposals for papers are welcome by January 20th, 2017 and should be sent to clcs@yasar.edu.tr. 

Contact Info: 

Esen Kara, Yaşar University Department of English Language and Literature, Izmir, Turkey 

Contact Email: clcs@yasar.edu.tr

URL: https://clcs.yasar.edu.tr

3rd International Pedagogical and Linguistic Conference ‘Educational Role of Language. How to we understand it?’, 14-15 June 2018 Lithuanian University, Vilnius,

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd ERL Conference aims to collect different perspectives from around the globe concerning what the educational role of language is. We want to discuss this fundamental question in relation to language beliefs (i.e. what concepts the role of language rests on), language activity (what language activity supports the development the best), language experience (what emotional position to language on the part of learners is fostered by different educational systems) and language matrices (what language images/representations serve educational purposes the best). For more questions, see http://www.educationalroleoflanguage.ug.edu.pl/3rd-conf-scope.

Prospective presenters are encouraged to submit proposals for papers and demonstrations/posters that offer theoretically- or empirically-grounded answers to any of the aforementioned questions. Ideally, they might include in the papers/presentations a direct reply to the ERL III’s main question in as simple a fashion as possible so that all the participants can better appreciate their perspective. We welcome proposals from educators and scientists representing various language-related positions, including teachers of different nationalities, pedagogues, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, educational theoreticians, anthropologists of language, and all others whose work combines linguistic and educational studies. The ERL III’s main languages are English and Lithuanian, but we also accept proposals in other languages and we shall provide interpreters should it prove more convenient.

The Conference Proceedings will be submitted for evaluation and indexing in Thomson Reuters Conference Citation Index. Preceded by ERL I and ERL II at the University of Gdansk, the ERL III Conference is additionally meant to strengthen and expand our international cooperation undertaken as the Educational Role of Language Network. This being the case, the ERL III Conference shall also serve – similarly to the first two ERL conferences – as a platform for live discussions of international pedagogically-linguistic projects. For more on the Network, see http://educationalroleoflanguage.ug.edu.pl/aims-projects or http://educationalroleoflanguage.ug.edu.pl/teams-studies.

ERL papers have been published in ranked journals and interdisciplinary monograph, which we wish to be the case also with those from the ERL III Conference. As their destinations varies and is decided on after the conference (depending mostly on whether particular papers are more pedagogically- or linguistically-oriented), we request prospective presenters/authors to essentially follow APA guidelines. (the GOOD NEWS is that currently one issue of a ranked journal has already been secured for publications from the ERL III conference only). All further information on specific journals and rules shall be available at the ERL website.

Please note that:

-          the deadline  for paper proposals and conference registration is 31 March 2018

Early submissions are most welcome so that we can prepare the programme in advance

-          at the ERL Conferences we build up projects-oriented teams, which you may join.

Contact Info: 

tel. 48 509 747 531; pedmd@univ.gda.pl (Michal Daszkiewicz - main organiser)

Contact Email: 

educationalroleoflanguage@ug.edu.pl

URL: 

http://educationalroleoflanguage.ug.edu.pl/erl-conferences