4th International Conference on Humanity and Social Sciences (ICHSS 2017)

May 6-8, 2017

Place: Macau, China

Welcome to ICHSS 2017
2017 4th International Conference on Humanity and Social Sciences (ICHSS 2017) is the main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out.ICHSS 2017 will be held in Macau during May 6-8, 2017 by IEDRC. ICHSS 2017 aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Humanity and Social Sciences, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Humanity and Social Sciences and related areas.
The best oral presentation will be selected from each session, and the certificate will be awarded right after the session.


Call for Papers

2017 4th International Conference on Humanity and Social Sciences-ICHSS 2017 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Humanity and Social Sciences. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Administrative Sciences
Anthropology
Applied Social Modeling and Simulation
Area Studies (African, American, Asian, European, Hispanic, Islamic, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Russian, Women\'s and all other cultural and ethnic studies)
Behavioral and Psychological Sciences
Business
Business Information Management
Business Information Systems
Business, Economics, Management and Marketing
Business, Finance and Tourism Management
Cognitive, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
Communication and Information Technologies in Social Sciences
Communication, Communities and e-societies
Communities and Communications
Complex Socio-Cognitive-Technical Systems
Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences
Computation and Social Networks
Computational Methods in Social Science
Confluence of Social Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity
Country studies
Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies with International Relations
Data mining in Social Science
Digital Libraries, Archives and Repositories
Economics, Financial and Industrial Systems
Economics, Markets and Systems
Education and Information Technologies
Education Science and Technology
Educational Technology
Electoral Competition
Energy Alternatives
Energy, Environment, Sustainable Development
Environmental studies
E-Society and Online Communities
Ethical Issues and Challenges
Ethnic Studies/International Studies
Finance
Gender Studies
Geographic Information Systems
Geography and Geological Sciences
Health Issues and Services
History
Human and Social Evolutionary Complexity
Human Development based on psychological and social concepts
Human Rights Development
Human-Computer Interactions
Human-Environment Interactions
Information and Communication Systems
Innovation, Technology and Society
Interdisciplinary Research and Studies
International Relations & Collaborations
Journalism
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Land-Use Modeling Techniques and Applications
Law and Justice
Learning and Behavioral Modeling
Management
Management Information Systems
Mathematical Modeling in Social Science
Media and Communications, Technology
Open Learning and Distance Education
Organizational Decision Making
Physics Methods for Analyzing Social Complexity
Policy/Public Administration/Public Health
Political Science and Decision Making
Politics, society, and international relations
Population and Development
Preservation and Green Urbanism
Psychology
Public Administration
Public Governance
Race/Ethnic Studies
Social and Organizational Networks
Social Complexity
Social Computing
Social Network Analysis
Social Systems Dynamics
Social Work
Social-Psychological, Social, Organizational, and Technological Systems
Socio-Cognitive-Technological Systems
Sociology
Sociology and Social Computation
Sport and Physical Education
Standards for Metadata, Ontologies, Annotation, Curation
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Economic Development
Sustainable Human and Social Development
Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Sustainable Urban Transport and Environment
Technology and Education
Technology, Society, Environmental Studies
Urban and Regional Planning
Urban Studies
Violence, Extremism, and Terrorism
Virtual Communities and Communications



Submission

Each paper is limited to 5-8 pages normally, additional pages will be charged. Please follow the Conference format.

Formatting Template (DOC) (IJSSH)

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.
Note: For a few authors who don't expect any publication of your papers, you're welcome to submit the abstracts to ichss@iedrc.net.

Paper Page Limit:
Regular Papers: Each paper must be no more than 8 pages (including the abstract, figures, tables, and references).


Extra Pages: Extra pages will be charged $50 (US dollars) per extra page.

Submission Method:
--Please log in the Electronic Submission System to submit your paper; ( .pdf only) (full paper)



Registration

Each paper is limited to 5-8 pages normally, additional pages will be charged. Please follow the Conference format.
Good News! All authors can join the IEDRC for free right now, then you can register the conference as "IEDRC Member"(450 USD). Please visit the following website for more information. (http://www.iedrc.org/list-22-1.html)
* One regular registration can cover a paper within 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.
** One regular registration with one or more additional papers has only one proceeding book or journal.
*** Student fee is ONLY applicable for students who are FIRST authors.
**** For the authors who have difficulties to pay US Dollars, such as Iran, please pay Euros.
***** If you would like to register the conference and publish your paper as the reviewer, please send email to ichss@iedrc.net. (Only Ph.D holder can apply)


Registration fee
Authors (Student) -380USD
Authors (ICHSS Reviewer) -420USD
Authors (IEDRC Member) -450USD
Authors (Non Member)- 480USD
Presentation Only-350USD
Listeners-300USD
One-Day Tour-80USD
Additional Paper (s)-300USD
Additional Page-50USD
Extra Proceeding/Journal-50USD

Authors' registration includes:
Technical Sessions
Coffee breaks on May 7, 2017
Lunch & Dinner on May 7, 2017
Conference bag and/or conference accessories
Conference document (proceeding/journal on book)
Reception
Listeners' registration includes:
Technical Sessions
Coffee breaks on May 7, 2017
Lunch & Dinner on May 7, 2017
Conference bag and/or conference accessories
Reception

For more details please visit..http://www.ichss.org/index.html..

Asian Conference on Literature 2017

Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan

Thursday, March 30 - Sunday, April 2, 2017

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2017

Registration Deadline for Presenters: February 15, 2017

Conference Theme: “History, Story, Narrative”

Historians are far from the only interested party in writing history. In a sense it is an interest we all share – whether we are talking politics, region, family birthright, or even personal experience. We are both spectators to the process of history while being intimately situated within its impact and formations.

How, then, best to write it? Is it always the victor’s version? Have we not begun increasingly to write “history from below”, that lived by those who are not at the top of the power hierarchy? Are accounts of history always gender-inflected, hitherto at least men rather than women? Who gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism or class? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or narrative within the larger frame of events?

This conference addresses issues of writing history from literary and other discursive perspectives. That is to say: novels, plays, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, travel logs, and a variety of styles of essay. One thinks of Shakespeare’s history plays, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Shi Nai’an’s The Water Margin, Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine. It also addresses oral history, the spoken account or witness, Hiroshima survivor to modern Syrian migrant.

Which also connects to the nexus of media and history. The great “historical” films continue to hold us, be it Eisenstein’s October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1925) or Gone with the Wind (1940). We live in an age of documentaries, whether film or TV. There is a view that we also inhabit “instant” history, the download to laptop, the app, the all-purpose mobile. How has this technology changed our perception, our lived experience, of history? What is the role of commemoration, parade, holiday, festival or statuary in the writing of history?

The different modes by which we see and understand history, flow and counter-flow, nevertheless come back to certain basics.

One asks whether we deceive ourselves in always asking for some grand narrative. Can there only be one narrator or is history by necessity a colloquium, contested ground? Is national history a myth? And history-writing itself: is it actually a form of fiction, an artifice which flatters to deceive? What, exactly, is a historical fact?

This conference, we hope, will address these perspectives and others which connect and arise.

The Asian Conference on Literature 2017 (LibrAsia2017) will be held alongside The Asian Conference on the Arts & Humanities 2017 (ACAH2017). Registration for either conference will allow attendees to attend sessions in the other.

Conference Theme and Streams

Conference Theme: ""History, Story, Narrative""

The conference theme for LibrAsia2017 is ""History, Story, Narrative"", and the organisers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

Literature - African Literature

Literature - Ancient & Classical Literature

Literature - Anglo-American Literature

Literature - Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature

Literature - Asian Literature

Literature - Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Literature - Comparative Literature

Literature - European Literature

Literature - Folktales, Myths and Legends

Literature - Historical and Political Literature

Literature - Indigenous People’s/Ethnic Literatures & Minority Discourses

Literature - Latin American Literature

Literature - Literary Criticism and Theory

Literature - Literary Practice

Literature - Literary Translation and Translatology

Literature - Literature and Film

Literature - Literature, Language and Identity

Literature - Literature and Religion

Literature - Poetry

Literature - Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism

Literature - Memoir and Autobiography

Literature - Teaching Literature

Literature - Travel Writing

Literature - Theatre and Drama

Conference Proceedings

Once you have registered, you can submit your final paper via the online submission system anytime until May 2, 2017.

Final papers are only accepted in a Microsoft Word format. Please download our Final Paper Template and read the Final Paper Submission Guidelines.

The Official Conference Proceedings will be published online in a PDF format under an ISSN issued by the National Diet Library of Japan on June 2, 2017.

Abstract Submission Process

In order to present at the conference, your abstract must first pass a double blind peer review. Upon payment of registration fees, your presentation will be confirmed. Learn more about conference streams.

Deadlines

Abstracts submission: Extended to January 15, 2017

Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: Usually within two weeks of submission

Full conference registration payment for all presenters: February 15, 2017

Full paper submission: May 2, 2017

How to Submit

Register with our online submission system.

Create your account. Your email address will be used as your username and you will be asked to submit a password.

Submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, choosing from the presentation formats listed below (Individual, Poster or Virtual).

Submit well before the submission deadline in order to benefit from Early Bird rates.

Your proposal will normally be reviewed within two to three weeks after undergoing a double blind peer review. Those who submit near the extended deadline will usually receive results by January 29, 2017.

If your proposal is accepted you will be invited to register for the conference. Upon payment of the registration fee, you will be sent a confirmation email receipt.

Status of Submission

The status of your abstract can be checked by logging in to the online submission system. The status will be displayed in the "Your Submissions" area. If your paper is accepted, a notification email will be sent to the registered email address. If you do not receive this email, please contact us at librasia@iafor.org.

You can return to the system at any time using your username and password to edit your personal information. If you wish your paper to be published in the conference proceedings, please ensure that a paper is uploaded through the online system by May 2, 2017.

Ways to Present

Oral Presentation (25 minutes)

This is the standard format for presentation and involves the presenter delivering their research to their audience, often accompanied by a PowerPoint slideshow. Oral Presentations are generally organised by stream into parallel sessions comprising three or four presentations.

Poster Presentation (90 minutes)

A poster presentation provides a relaxed presentation atmosphere in which the presenter uses a poster pinned to a poster board (1800mm high by 900mm wide) to illustrate their research. Presenters will often engage with interested participants on a one-to-one basis, which is great for networking, discussion and relationship building.

Virtual Presentation

Virtual presentations afford authors the opportunity to present their research to IAFOR’s far-reaching and international online audience, without time restrictions, distractions or the need to travel. Presenters are invited to create a video of their presentation which will be uploaded to the official IAFOR Vimeo channel, and will remain online indefinitely. This is a valuable and impactful way of presenting in its own right, but also an alternative means for those delegates who may be unable to travel to the conference due to financial or political restrictions. The same publishing opportunities apply to virtual presenters, with final papers being included in Conference Proceedings.

Following the conference, virtual presenters will be mailed a conference pack, including receipt of payment, certificate of participation and a printed copy of the Conference Programme.

The Vimeo channel will be referenced on all conference materials.

There is no limit to length or style but certain restrictions apply to files size and music selection. Guidelines and further information on creating the video will be sent following registration.

Please note that video presentations are to be created by the author. IAFOR does not permit live video conferencing.

We do not allow presentations by video-conferencing but presenters have the opportunity to submit a video of their presentation, which will be placed on the official Vimeo channel. Information on how to do this will be sent following registration.

Workshop Presentation (60 to 90 minutes)

A workshop is a brief, intensive course, lasting 60 to 90 minutes, which is led by an experienced practitioner, usually with a Ph.D. It facilitates group interaction and the exchange of information amongst a smaller number of participants than is usual at a plenary session.

Often a workshop involves problem solving, skills training, or the dissemination of new content or disciplinary approaches. Conference workshops are typically more instructional and interactive in nature than oral presentations and involve participants working with the workshop leader on a particular topical issue.

Symposium Presentation (90 minutes)

Symposia sessions are conceived and organized by individuals who recruit speakers to present papers or participate in panel discussions organized around a special topic. A symposium is a 90-minute session. A symposium presentation includes:

An introduction

 3 or 4 oral presentations based on submitted abstracts

A discussion

As the organiser of a proposed panel, submit a proposal for the symposium through the online system.

Symposiums presenters can either submit a joint paper or separate papers to the conference proceedings.

We look forward to meeting you in Kobe, Japan!

The Organising Committee..

• Dr A. Robert Lee, Nihon University (retd.), Japan
• Professor Myles Chilton, Nihon University, Japan
• Dr Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan
• Dr Brian Daizen Victoria – Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK
• Tan Tarn How – National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Dr Joseph Haldane – The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)

For more details visit us at http://iafor.org/conferences/librasia2017/

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARABIC STUDIES & ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

 2017

Call for Papers

The conference focuses on research related to the study of Arabic and Islamic Civilization. It covers all scientific disciplines and issues related to it. The conference brings together scholars, academicians and professionals who are involved directly or indirectly with the discipline of Arabic linguistics and study of Islamic knowledge from all over the world to present their research results. The Conference is organized by Worldconferences.net.

The objectives of this conference is to establish the Arabic and Islamic knowledge in the eyes of the global community . The conference will also discuss on issues related to the field of Arabic linguistics and Islamic knowledge in theory and practical .

The language medium: We accept articles in Malay , English and Arabic .

Download iCaisic2017_Sample_Paper_Format 

– Send your fullpaper to icasic.wcr@gmail.com

Sub- theme of the conference:

Arabic Sociolinguistics

Arabic Psycholinguistics

Modern Linguistics ( Arabic )

Arabic Education

Arabic language skills

Teaching Arabic language skills

semantic knowledge

Lexicography and Arabic Terminology

Knowledge on Balaghah

Translation

Islamic Education

Syariah Islamiyyah

Dakwah Islamiyyah

Knowledge of Tasawuf

The Islamic Faith

Islamic Economics

integration of knowledge

Hadith Nabawi and ulum al – Hadith

Quran and Tafseer

Islamic Civilization

General issues related to the study of Arabic and Islamic Sciences

Noted: Notification of acceptance will email within one week of Submission of Abstract / Full Paper..S

Submit Your Abstracts

http://worldconferences.net/icasic/submit-abstract/

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission

15th January 2017

Acceptance of Abstract

30th January 2017

Full paper Submission Deadline

15th February 2017

Full paper Acceptance Notification

20th February 2017

Early-bird Fee until

31st December 2016

Conference Dates

27th & 28th March 2017

Venue

Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A selection of the good and quality of ICASIC 2017 proceeding papers will be considered for inclusion for publication in the internationally reviewed ICASIC official e-journal; The 4th Int. Conf. On Arabic Studies & Islamic Civilization.

Enquiries: icasic.wcr@gmail.com

Web address: http://worldconferences.net/icasic/

The Conference is organized by Worldconferences.net.

Mobile/WhatsApp: +60136777360 (Redzaudin Ghazali)

Call For Abstracts

3rd Conference on Translation in Transition

 {13-14 JULY-2017}

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University,Belgium.

After successful editions in Copenhagen in 2014 and Germersheim in 2015, we are pleased to announce that the third Translation in Transition Conference will be held on July 13-14, 2017 at the department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University (Belgium).

The ongoing digitalisation of our world has caused translation to transition from a mostly manual task to a semi- or even fully automated task. Translation research has gone through a comparable transition, with advanced research methods and statistics allowing researchers to study the translation process and product more thoroughly than ever, thereby bridging the gap between related fields as corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and bilingualism studies. Within this rapidly evolving field, the traditional dividing line between translation as written text production and interpreting as oral text production has been blurred and there are now numerous areas of research and methodological frameworks that are common to both Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS). For instance, Translation Studies in recent years has taken an interest in the cognitive processes underlying translation, a field that was previously mainly occupied by interpreting scholars. On the other hand, Interpreting Studies, inspired by developments in translation research, has recently undergone an empirical turn with the compilation of interpreting corpora and a renewed focus on interpreting as a product. Despite these obvious advances in the field, many empirical and theoretical challenges remain: how, for instance, do written translation and interpreting relate to each other, taken both from a product and a process point of view? What are similarities and differences between translation and interpreting, what do these reveal about the nature of these translation modes and how do they inform translation theories? Which theories are available to interpret empirical findings consistently and coherently? How would an empirical theory of translation and interpreting look like? And what about other translation modes, such as audiovisual translation and localisation: how do these relate empirically to written translation and interpreting? Finally, how do technological advances (such as CAT or post-editing) shape the translational product and process? By acknowledging the recent changes in both translation and interpreting research, TT3 takes a step to overcome these challenges.

TT3 wants to offer a forum to researchers involved with the theory-informed empirical study of translation, interpreting and hybrid forms (audio-visual translation, live-subtitling, sight translation, sign language interpreting...). We are particularly interested to hear how methods and technologies that are typically associated with product research (corpus-based methods, statistical data analysis) or process research (EEG, keystroke logging, eye-tracking) can be successfully combined in both translation and interpreting research. We welcome papers from the following fields of research:

• Translation and interpreting process research
• Corpus-based translation and interpreting research
• Multivariate statistical analysis of translational and interpreting data
• Corpus- and process-based research of audio-visual translation, sign language interpreting etc.
• Reading, writing and post-editing processes in translation and interpreting
• Translation and interpreting cognition
• Speech recognition and translation
• Intelligent machine translation

Important dates:

• 10.11.2016: First CFP
• 07.02.2017: Deadline for submissions
• 01.04.2017:  Registration opens
• 13-14.07.2017:  Symposium

Abstract Information

You can submit your abstract until 7 February 2017 via the Easychair platform. There, you can either copy-paste your abstract in the Abstracts field or you can choose to upload your abstract in PDF format. If you choose to do the latter, please use our MS Word template and convert it into PDF format for uploading. In addition, you should write "see uploaded pdf file" in the Abstracts field since it is a mandatory field.

Contact:The organizers can be reached via tt3@ugent.be

Manly Matters

Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice

Call for Papers

Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (www.tasveerghar.net) is proud to launch our new project titled “Manly Matters: Iconographies of the Masculine in South Asian Visual Culture.”

We invite proposals from scholars and researchers who wish to write a 5000-word “image essay” on a topic connected with this theme. We provide below our own vision statement but are also open to other ideas and topics. Preference will be given in the selection of the final essays to those that pertain especially to the under-represented regions of South Asia in the study of visual culture (Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), and to early career scholars and researchers. These image essays will be featured on the website for Tasveer Ghar, and our in-house designer Yousuf Saeed will work with each author to create the final product.

The deadline for submission of a 250-word abstract is January 15, 2017. We also request a sample portfolio of 5-10 images, and a timeline for submission. Authors of successful proposals will receive an honorarium of USD $250 (to be paid on the submission of the completed image essay), and access to Tasveerghar’s database of digitized images from the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi.

For samples of image essays, please visit our website at www.tasveerghar.net. Typically an online visual essay on Tasveer Ghar is spread over several pages with thumbnails of images at appropriate places/paragraphs. By clicking on thumbnails you can visit the larger-sized pictures with detailed captions that are arranged in the accompanying “image gallery.” Thus, your final essay could be divided into sections or pages for web design purposes. We would ideally need thick captions about each image, besides information about its source/credit. We expect each contributor to secure permission for the use of images for this project/publication. Tasveer Ghar shall not be responsible for any copyright violation.

Our Vision Statement:

Manly Matters seeks to move the focus of pictorial analysis to representations of maleness—both spectacular and mundane—as it proliferates in South Asian popular visual practice, especially in printed images produced for the mass market. At first blush, it may seem regressive to attend to men, given that they have been the very stuff of our scholarship for many decades as feminist critiques have so valuably demonstrated. It is however the case that in the scholarship on South Asian visual culture over the past two decades, with the possible exception of cinema studies, little or no attention has been paid to masculinity as problematic or presence, the category of “gender” frequently being read entirely as “female” and as “woman.”1 Consequently, the male qua male has been taken as a given, glossed over as gendered subject, and hence paradoxically rendered invisible, even while being everywhere and across various media. There is indeed “a curious timidity when it comes to male images” that is widespread in the study of South Asian visual culture.2 As Todd Reeser writes in a recent assessment of the state of masculinity studies more generally, “One of the recurring features of masculinity—as opposed to femininity—is that men go to great pain to hide it and, by extension to hide the way that it functions and operates. Hiding can allow masculinity to function without challenge or question.”3 This project pushes back against such attempts at “hiding.” Overcoming our customary “timidity,” we call to place men on full display and at the center of our visual analysis, as we consider a range of activities with which men are typically associated—like farming or soldiering— but also those that might surprise us and that challenge our normative assumptions, such as picnicking or child-rearing. In so doing, we denaturalize assumptions about how men display themselves and are displayed in pictorial regimes, and destabilize prevailing stereotypes about manliness and masculinity more generally. We also push back against an easy, even universal, binary which associates the man with mind and the woman with her body, especially so in studies of visual culture and practices of the region. In contrast, we seek to bring the male body back in as a primary object of pictorial concern, and our visual attention.

There is no single—or singular—way in which men “look” in modern South Asia. All the same, we are keen to consider if certain somatic markers—such as the moustache, to invoke one instance—or activities or livelihoods are paradigmatically distinctive within the range of masculinities that circulate, including the feminized masculine, in the South Asian modern. Masculinity is intuitively associated with muscular power and virile strength, but are there are also contexts in which men appear vulnerable and fragile? Beauty has generally been associated with the female figure, but have artists across the region also attempted to produce the beautiful male form, and if so, what is the male beau ideal and how does it change over time and across ideologies? Not least, we ask which sectors of society are invested in producing a particular masculine ideal, and who is looking at men as they put themselves on display or are displayed, sartorially and somatically? How indeed have men engaged with images about themselves, as Kajri Jain asks to consider?4

Even while we wish to attend to a range of masculine types from the spiritual and the religious to the sportsman and the soldier, the farmer and the “five year plan hero,”5 to name the obvious, a particular concern of the project is with the male political leader, especially men widely regarded as the founding father of the nation, be they Gandhi or Nehru of India, Iqbal and Jinnah in Pakistan, or Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh. Rivaling father figures such as Ambedkar and Prabhakaran are also of interest. How have these flesh-and-blood men been transformed through the work of images and image-events into globally recognizable “bio-icons”? We borrow the concept of bio-icon from literary theorist Bishnupriya Ghosh for whom bio-icons are lives that have become the focus of visual and media saturation as social demands are placed on them. Ghosh’s analysis takes on female “bio-icons” such as Phoolan Devi, Mother Teresa, and Arundhati Roy.6 We wish to extend her analysis to iconic male bodies in order to demonstrate that the visual appearance and look of these men is critical to both nation building as well as their exercise of power and the cultivation of charisma. In pivoting thus from text to image, from words to pictures, how do things and matters hitherto hidden become visible and apparent? This too is one of our critical questions.

About us:

The project will be carried out under the joint leadership of Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy, and Yousuf Saeed, the co-founders and coordinators of Tasveer Ghar. It is funded by the Anneliese Maier Research Award granted in 2016 to Sumathi Ramaswamy by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

For further inquiries, please write to us at manlymatters@tasveergharindia.net

1 Thus, in a pioneering anthology which focused on the human body in Indian art, only one essay reflected on representations of male sexuality—and very perceptively (Visakha Desai. “Reflections on the History and Historiography of Male Sexuality in Early Indian Art.” In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 42-55. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997). For some scholarship that takes on the masculine in Indian visual culture, see Anuradha Kapur, “Deity to Crusader: The Changing Iconography of Ram.” In Hindus and Others: The Quest of Identity in India Today, edited by Gyanendra Pandey, 74-109. New Delhi: Viking, 1993; Kajri Jain. “Muscularity and Its Ramifications: Mimetic Male Bodies in Indian Mass Culture.” In Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, edited by Sanjay Srivastava, 300-41. New Delhi: Sage, 2005; Christopher Pinney. “The Body and the Bomb: Technologies of Modernity in Colonial India.” In Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India, edited by Richard Davis, 51-65. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006; Christiane Brosius. “‘I Am a National Artist’: Popular Art in the Sphere of Hindutva.” In Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India, edited by Richard Davis, 171-205. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006. Sumathi Ramaswamy. “Maps, Mother/Goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India.” Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 3 (2008): 819-53); and Deepa Sreenivas. Sculpting a Middle Class: History, Masculinity, and the Amar Chitra Katha in India. Delhi: Routledge, 2010.

2 Dehejia, Vidya. “Issues of Spectatorship and Representation.” In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 1-21. New Delhi: Kali for Women in association with The Book Review Literary Trust, 1997, quote on p.17.

3 Reeser, Todd W. Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

4 Jain, “Muscularity and its Ramifications,” 7.

5 Srivastava, Sanjay, “Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a ‘Happy Married Life’: Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis” In Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, edited by Sanjay Srivastava, 342-390 New Delhi: Sage, 2005, p. 370.

6 Bishnupriya Ghosh. Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

2017 CEBU International Conference on Studies in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities 

Ebu (Philippines) Jan. 26-27, 2017

Deadline of New Full Paper/Poster/Abstract Submissions: Nov. 25, 2016

2017 CEBU International Conference on Studies in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (SASSH-17) scheduled on Jan. 26-27, 2017 Cebu (Philippines) is for the scientists, scholars, profesionals and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. This is the part of Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Conference Organized by Dr. Michel Plaisent of the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada – Jan. 26-27, 2017. 

The Conference is organized by the UQAM for the academic and by Universal Researchers (UAE) for the logistics. The conference is Approved by Commission of Higher education (CHED) endorsement is be seen at http://api.ched.ph/api/v1/download/2639. 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. The conference is sponsored by Universal Researchers (UAE). All the submitted conference papers will be peer reviewed by the program/technical committees of the Conference. All accepted papers of the conference will be published in the printed conference proceedings with valid International ISBN number that will be registered at: London, UK. 

The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by UR-CPS (Conference Publishing Services) and will be will be archived in UR's Management & Technology Digital Library. Each Paper will be assigned Digital Object Identifier(DOI) from CROSSREF. In addition the proceedings will be indexed at Google and Google Scholar google.com and 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

One Best Session Paper will be selected from each oral session. The Certificate for Session Best Papers will be awarded after each session of the conference

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

REGISTRATION FEE 

Delegates from Philippines can pay in the Philippine BANK Account" that will be provided with the Registration form at the time of acceptance

Category Early Conference Registration Fees Conference Registration Fees

Filipino Author (Faculty/Academic) 3000 PHP** 4000 PHP**

Filipino Author (Student/Listeners/Co-Author) 2500 PHP** 3000 PHP**

Filipino Author Extra Paper 2500 PHP** 2500 PHP**

Filipino Author Additional Page USD 20 per page USD 20 per page

Foreigner Author (Faculty/Academic) *USD 225 USD 250

Foreigner Author (Student/Listeners/Co-Author) USD 175 USD 200

Foreigner Author (Industry) USD 275 USD 300

Foreigner Additional Paper USD 150 USD 150

Additional Page USD 40 per page USD 40 per page

Extra Proceeding USD 50 USD 50

One regular registration can cover a paper within 6 pages, including all figures, tables, and references

**PHP - Philippine Peso

*USD - US Dollars

**Filipino Registration Fee Includes the following for the Registered authors:-

Printed Name Card

Official receipt Universal Researcher (UAE Section)

Participation in the technical program

Printed Participation Certificate ONLY with name of the Registered Author

Attendance certificate with name of the Registered Author

CD of Proceedings (NOT HARD COPY)

Coffee break(s) on Presentation day

Lunch on Presentation day

Please note that as we are already providing the Philippine Bank account number so if anybody who need the Hard copy of proceeding should deposit the EXTRA CHARGES USD 50 (PHP 2423) well before the conference ONLY then the copy of the proceeding will be provided at the time of the conference. 

*Foreigners Registration Fee Includes the following for the Registered authors:-

​Printed Name Card

Official receipt Universal Researcher (UAE Section)

Conference Folder

Participation in the technical program

Conference Schedule/program

Printed Participation Certificate ONLY with name of the Registered Author

Attendance certificate with name of the Registered Author

Printed ISBN Proceedings 

CD of Proceedings

Coffee breaks on Presentation day

Lunch on Presentation day

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Please note that one full author registration fee is must for the publication of a paper and above fee are the fee of Single delegate. Only the registered delegate is allowed to attend the conference. In case, coauthor like to attend then the co-author has to pay the co-author fee and that needs to be informed in advance.

This is applicable when the same author registers for Multiple papers and the single conference kit will be provided in that case. 

Please note that the Proof of payment of fees must accompany all registration forms through email. Your registration WILL NOT be confirmed until payment is credited/received. The participant has to bear all bank charges (Local/Foreign/Intermediate) associated with the transfer of money. In case of any query, please ask the conference secretary-- cs@hssmr.org before making the payment 

IMPORTANT DATES

Early Round Late Round

Deadline of Full Paper /Abstract/Poster Submission Nov. 25, 2016 Dec. 10, 2016

Notification of Acceptance Dec. 2, 2016 Dec. 17, 2016

Author's Registration Deadline Dec. 9, 2016 Dec. 24, 2016

Final Paper Submission Deadline Dec. 9, 2016 Dec. 24, 2016

Conference Dates Jan. 26-27, 2017

SUBMISSION METHODS

1. Electronic Submission System; ( .doc/.docx/.pdf formats) 

2. Email: cs@hssmr.org 

The template can be downloaded using the link:Conference Paper Template DOWNLOAD (.doc)

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: cs@hssmr.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.

Payment Method

1. ONLINE payment

Please contact Conference Secretary through email cs@hssmr.org for link of ONLINE payment using Credit Card/debit Card/Travel Card.

2. Pay by Bank Transfer

* The link for Credit Card payment and the Bank Information can be found in the registration form that will be provided by conference secretary through email

CONTACT US

Ms. Emily Robert

Email: cs@hssmr.org Phone: +44 7452 131713, +971 52 829 9493 (Can use LINE, Whatsapp, Viber)

CONFERENCE VENUE (Confirmed)

Hotel Summit Circle, Cebu

Address: Fuente Osmeña Cir, Cebu City, 6000 Cebu, Philippines

Phone:+63 32 239 3000

In case of any further details please contact:

Prof. Dr. Michel Plaisent

Conference chair 

Full Professor, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

Testimonial Message for HSSMR!!!

"This conference brings together people from many countries that have a wide variety of expertize in a large spectrum of disciplines. Participants come from industries, business, and academia. It is a platform that provides ample opportunity for creating bridges across disciplines and cultures."

Prof. Dr. Godfried T. Toussaint,

Head of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi,

United Arab Emirates

"International Conference on Arts, Education and Interdisciplinary Studies conducted by HSSMR, UAE is fruitful for societies around the world."

Asst. Prof. Dr. Teg Alam,

Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, 

Al Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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"First of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank the officers and organizers of this event. I believe that conferences such as this are very timely and significant because this will be instrumental in addressing one of the grayest problems of our universities and colleges; as mentioned by local and international accreditors, among the 3 main functions of academic institutions the area of research is the weakest. I’m confident that your association is a very potent force to improve the research component of university. I look forward to joining your organization in the near future. More power, and keep up the good work."

"The international conference was very successful. Every conference the participants and presenters are increasing. Everyone learned a lot from the presentations. I hope I could be part or member of your organization. Thank you and more power."

Prof. Alberto J. Valenzuela,

Bulacan State University, City of Malolos, 

Bulacan, Philippines

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Conference Speaker(s) / Conference Chair(s) / Session Chair(s)

Prof. Alberto J. Valenzuela

Bulacan State University, City of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines

Prof. Dr. Michel Plaisent

Full Professor, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

(SASSH-17)

Enquiries: cs@hssmr.org

Text uisng LINE, Whatsapp, Viber: +971 52 829 9493
Web address: http://hssmr.org/conference.php?slug=SASSH-17&sid=4&catDid=142
Sponsored by: International Association of Humanities, Social Sciences & Management Researchers

International Conference on Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences (LHSS-17)Jan. 23-24, 2017 Manila (Philippines)

Click here to download the Call for Papers/leaflet for this conference
New Submissions/Posters/Abstracts are Open and Last Date of Submission of Paper is Nov. 15, 2016

GENERAL INFORMATION
International Conference on Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences (LHSS-17) on Jan. 23-24, 2017 Manila (Philippines) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Studies in Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences and share/discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The Conference is organized by the UQAM for the academic and by ICEHM for the logistics. The conference is approved by Commission of Higher education (CHED)  and the link of the endorsement is:  http://api.ched.ph/api/v1/download/2428

ONLINE PAPER SUBMISSION

Full-length Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Abstracts are invited that address the themes and topics for the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research material. Please click here to submit your  full-length papers and posters  for the conference.

OR

PAPER SUBMISSION THROUGH EMAIL
Email the formatted paper according to the .doc template paper (in .doc or .docx format) at email id----info@icehm.org  and mention  the conference title/name as well as city of the conference in that email 

CONFERENCE TEMPLATE/COPYRIGHT FORM
Please download the Conference Template/Copyright form using following links:

• ICEHM Copyright Form

• ICEHM Conference Template (.doc format)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The International Refereed Conference Proceedings will be blind peer reviewed by two competent reviewers. The conference proceedings book with ISBN Number; CD and certificate participation/presentation will be distributed to the conference participants at the conference registration desk.

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

The Certificate for Best Papers will be awarded after end of each session.

REGISTRATION FEE   

"Delegates from Philippines can pay in the Philippine BANK Account" that will be provided with the Registration form at the time of acceptance .

Category	Early Conference Registration Fees (on or Before Nov. 28, 2016)		Late Conference Registration Fees, After Nov. 28, 2016 to  (Before Jan. 6, 2017)
Filipinos Author (Faculty/Academic)**	3000 PHP**		4000 PHP**
Filipinos other (Student*/Listeners/Co-Author/Additional Paper)**	2500 PHP**		3000PHP**
Foreigner Author (Faculty/Academic)*	USD 225		USD 250
Foreigner Author (Student/Listeners/Co-Author)*	USD 175		USD 200
Foreigner Author (Industry)*	USD 275		USD 300
Foreigner Additional Paper*	USD 150		USD 150
Foreigner Additional Page*	USD 40 per page		USD 40 per page
Filipinos Addiotional Page**	USD 20 per page		USD 20 per page
Foreigner Extra Proceeding*	USD 50		USD 50

*PHP - Philippine Peso 
*USD - US Dollars
One regular registration can cover a paper within 5 pages, including all figures, tables, and references

**Filipinos Registration Fee Includes the following for the Registered authors:- Printed Name Card Official receipt Universal Researcher (UAE Section) Conference Folder Participation in the technical program Conference Schedule/program Printed Participation Certificate ONLY with name of the Registered Author Attendance certificate with name of the Registered Author Printed ISBN Proceedings CD of Proceedings Coffee breaks on Presentation day Lunch on Presentation day Please note that as we are already providing the Philippine Bank account number so if anybody who need the Hard copy of proceeding should deposit the EXTRA CHARGES USD 50 (PHP 2423) well before the conference ONLY then the copy of the proceeding will be provided at the time of the conference.

*Foreigners Registration Fee Includes the following for the Registered authors:- Printed Name Card Official receipt Universal Researcher (UAE Section) Participation in the technical program Printed Participation Certificate ONLY with name of the Registered Author Attendance certificate with name of the Registered Author CD of Proceedings (NOT HARD COPY) Coffee break(s) on Presentation day Lunch on Presentation day

There is a discount of 10% for ICEHM Members. The membership is FREE of Charge but the membership will be granted ONLY after approval by ICEHM. Please fill the Membership form and email at: info@icehm.org for approval.  

IMPORTANT DATES  

TASK	Dates
	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Last Date of Full Paper /Abstract/Poster/Review submission	Nov. 15, 2016	Dec. 01, 2016	Dec. 25, 2016
Notification of Acceptance	Nov. 20, 2016	Dec. 09, 2016	Dec.30, 2016
Last Date for Camera ready and authors' registration	Nov. 28, 2016	Dec. 20, 2016	Jan. 6, 2017
Conference Dates	Jan. 23-24, 2017

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION 

Please pay ONLINE using the credit card/debit card using the link below 

OR Transfer the Money through Bank Wire Transfer (as mentioned in the Registration form)

ONLINE PAYMENT :-

Please contact Conference Secretary through email at info@icehm.org for link of ONLINE payment using Credit Card/debit Card/Travel Card

In case of any further details please contact: info@icehm.org

Michel Plaisent, PhD
Conference chair
Full Professor, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

Enquiries: info@icehm.org Web address: http://icehm.org/2017/01/23/99 Sponsored by: Universal Researchers (UAE) and ICEHM CONFERENCE VENUE (BOOKED)           Hotel Benilde Maison De La Salle Address: Malate, Manila, Philippines Phone: +63 2 230 5230