4th International Conference on Media and Popular Culture

13-14 January 2018

Leeds, United Kingdom

Conference venue: Queens hotel, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ

RATIONALE

It is an unobjectionable fact that media participate in formation of our daily lives by creating identities, images, and by generally influencing our views. This applies not only to politics (i.e. political campaigns), but also to the formation on how we see ourselves and others, e.g. women, ethnic groups, religious groups, etc. Agenda setting research has established decades ago that media set public agendas, and tell us both what to think about (agenda setting) and how to think about a certain issue (media framing). Popular culture, on the other hand, also affects our daily lives by fostering images and ideologies, and by selling a way of life that is presented as acceptable or non-acceptable. All these influences form our daily lives and views of others, and while the media and popular culture do not influence all people, on all issues and at all times, they do have a significant influence on our views and actions. These and other issues are the subject of the conference.

Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following panels:

Media and identity

Media and political campaigns

Media and discrimination

Women in the media

Media Bias

Media and democracy

Media and human rights

Popular culture

Media and memory

Media and history

History of media and popular culture

Media and diplomacy

Audience studies

Media and religion

Media and Business

Agenda setting and media framing theories

Prospective participants are also welcome to submit proposals for their own panels. Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit paper/panel proposals.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martina@socialsciencesandhumanities.com) by 15 December 2017

Conference fee is GBP180, and it includes

The registration fee

Conference bag and folder with materials

Access to the newsletter, and electronic editions of the Centre

Opportunity for participating in future activities of the Centre (research & co-editing volumes)

Discount towards participation fee for future conferences

Meals and drinks

WLAN during the conference

Certificate of attendance

Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is a private institution originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia (EU). Since July 2016 the Centre is registered as a private institution in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Information for non-EU participants

The Centre will issue Visa letters to participants who need entry clearance to attend the conference in the UK. We will also issue earlier decisions to allow Visa applications. The British Home Office has a straight forward procedure for the Visa applications that are not excessively lengthy, and the Centre will assist where and when necessary.

Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

Event Website: http://www.socialsciencesandhumanities.com/4th-international-conference-on-media-and-popular-culture/

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International Conference

When the Music Takes Over.

Musical Numbers in Film and Television

University of Salzburg, 8 – 10 March 2018

Keynote Speakers:

Richard Dyer (King’s College, London)

Amy Herzog (Queens College, New York)

Call for papers

Musical numbers have served as constitutive elements of cinema since its early days in the so-called silent period. From the musical moments in silent films emerged the film musical as a specific genre. Musical numbers remain central components beyond generic categories and have succeeded from early sound film musicals to recent TV shows.

In this conference we want to focus on “musical moments” in fictional film and television. Musical numbers in fictional films have been analyzed according to their functions and their relation to the narration. Expanding these issues from numbers in (mostly) film musicals, Amy Herzog (2009, 7) defines “musical moments” as scenes or sequences that occur “when music, typically a popular song, inverts the image-sound hierarchy to occupy a dominant position in a filmic work. The movements of the image, and hence the structuring of space and time, are dictated by song.” If musical moments are not subjugated to the filmic narrative, the focus of their scholarly analysis is able to shift from narrative functions and motivations towards issues such as affect, performance, musical and filmic style and structure, visual musicality, configurations of cinematic time and space, gender construction, modes of audience address, reception, fan culture and more broader philosophical questions about the ontology of cinema. Examining “musical moments” can sharpen our view on cinema in general and can stimulate new theoretical and methodological approaches in the field.

This international conference strives to establish a dialogue between researchers from various disciplines in order to develop new directions for the analysis and interpretation of one of the most crucial elements in filmmaking and one of the pivotal issues of film music research.

We invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels and poster presentations that explore the manifold research potentials of musical moments on screen(s).

We invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels and poster presentations that explore the manifold research potentials of musical moments on screen(s).

Themes

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Musical numbers in silent cinema
• Singing in silent cinema
• Dancing in silent cinema
• Performing gender in musical numbers
• Performing bodies
• (De)constructing star images with music numbers
• Inter- and transmedial aspects of performances in film
• Musical numbers in European cinema
• Non-western traditions (Bollywood, Brazilian musicals etc.)
• Ideological aspects: the utopian potential of musical numbers
• Negotiating different semantic systems: filmic representation of musical form (in musical moments)
• Repetition and difference: musical numbers between affirmation and subversion
• Methodological and theoretical questions (musicological, philosophical, psychological approaches etc.)
• Reception of musical numbers
• Musical numbers and fan culture

Submissions and inquiries should be made to aniela.buzatu@sbg.ac.at.

Deadline for abstracts is April 30th 2017.

Individual abstracts should be no more than 300 words and a short biography (max. 250 words). Panel proposals must include four individual abstracts or three abstracts and one respondent as well as an additional paragraph describing the focus of the panel, including a title. The chair should not be one of the panel presenters and if a panel does not include a chair, the conference committee will appoint one.

Submissions and formal inquiries should be made to aniela.buzatu@sbg.ac.at.

Notice of acceptance: June 2017

A proceedings publication with a reputable academic publisher in an international, peer-reviewed series is envisaged.

Please note that we accept only in-person, original presentations. Video or Skype presentations are not possible. The conference language is English. We will collect a moderate conference fee to be paid at arrival in order to cover coffee breaks and conference material.

Contact

The conference is organized by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) project “The Austrian Music Film, 1912-1933” and the Department for Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg, in collaboration with the Kiel Society for Film Music Research.

Conference Committee

Claus Tieber, Conference Director & Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg, University of Vienna

Email: claus.tieber@univie.ac.at

Phone: +43 664 23 08 522

Nils Grosch, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: nils.grosch@sbg.ac.at

Anna K. Windisch, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: anna.windisch@gmail.com

Phone: +43 660 5796708

Franziska Kollinger, Co-Organizer

University of Salzburg

Email: franziska.kollinger@sbg.ac.at

The European Conference on Arts and Humanities 2017 (ECAH2017)

The Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront, Brighton, United Kingdom

uesday, July 11 - Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2017

Registration Deadline for Presenters: June 1, 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, autobiography, memoir, diary, travel log, 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 of 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.

For the fourth consecutive year, The European Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held alongside The European Conference on Media, Communication & Film. Registration for either of these conferences will allow participants to attend sessions in the other.

In conjunction with our global partners, we look forward to extending a warm welcome to you in Brighton.

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

The conference theme for ECAH2017 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:

• Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts
• Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
• Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
• Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
• Arts - Visual Arts Practices
• Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
• Arts - Literary Arts Practices
• Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
• Arts - Other Arts
• Humanities - Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
• Humanities - Aesthetics, Design
• Humanities - Language, Linguistics
• Humanities - Knowledge
• Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
• Humanities - History, Historiography
• Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies
• Humanities - Political Science, Politics
• Humanities - Teaching and Learning
• Humanities - Globalisation
• Humanities - Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
• Humanities - Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
• Humanities - First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
• Humanities - Sexuality, Gender, Families
• Humanities - Religion, Spirituality
• Humanities - Cyberspace, Technology
• Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities
• Humanities - Other Humanities

Conference Proceedings

Once you have registered, you can submit your final paper via the online submission system anytime until August 12, 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 September 12, 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 April 30, 2017

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

Full conference registration payment for all presenters: June 1, 2017

Full paper submission: August 12, 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 May 14, 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 ecah@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 August 12, 2017.

– The ECAH2017 Organising Committee (iafor.org/ECAH2017-committee)

International Conference on "Social Sciences, Humanities and Education" (SSHE-2017) 

Paris, France

PARIS International Conference on "Social Sciences, Humanities and Education" (SSHE-2017) scheduled on April 27-28, 2017 at Paris (France) 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. The conference is organized under the patronage of La Rochelle Business School, France and University of Quebec , Montreal (Canada). In addition to the English as official Language in this conference we do have the FRENCH language as official language under Prof. Michel Plaisent, Full professor, University of Quebec, Montreal (Canada). So, the papers written in FRENCH language can also be submitted and will be published in conference proceedings.

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
If anybody like to avail the Paris Open Bus Tour on April 28, 2017 Morning then please add Tour Ticket USD 40 with the fee and mention that in the registration form/email at: cs@hssmr.org.

The conference is organized under the patronage of La Rochelle Business School, France and University of Quebec, Montreal (Canada).
In addition to the English as official Language in this conference we do have the FRENCH language as official language under Prof. Michel Plaisent, Full professor, University of Quebec, Montreal (Canada). So, the papers written in FRENCH language can also be submitted and will be published in conference proceedings.
If you are interested to get your paper published in "Emerging Sources Citation Index (THOMSON REUTERS)" and "SCOPUS" Indexed journal then please specify at the time of paper submission, so that, the paper will be reviewed accordingly and additional fee will be charged for publication in SCOPUS Journal.
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.

EDUCATION - Distance Education- E-learning- Higher Education- Lifelong Learning- Teaching and Learning.

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

SUBMISSION using Email: cs@hssmr.org

REGISTRATION FEE Categories
Early Bird Conference Fee /Late Conference Fee

 Authors (Student)* 200 USD/ 250 USD
Authors (UR-UAE Member)* 200 USD /250 USD
Authors (Non Student)* 250 USD /275 USD
Coauthor 200 USD 250 USD
Listeners 200 USD 250 USD
Additional Paper(s)** 150 USD 150 USD
Extra Proceeding 50 USD 50 USD
Extra Page (s) 30 USD 
Per additional Page 30 USD per additional Page

One regular registration can cover a paper within 6 pages, including all figures, tables, and references
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 Fees/ Late Fees
Deadline of Full Paper /Abstract/Poster Submission  March 13, 2017 /March 28, 2017
Notification of Acceptance                                                 March 20, 2017 /April 4, 2017
Author's Registration Deadline                                         March 27, 2017 /April 11, 2017
Final Paper Submission Deadline                                    March 27, 2017 /April 11, 2017
Conference Dates April 27-28, 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)
Local Chair:
Dr. Lili ZHENG
La Rochelle Business School, France
CONFERENCE VENUE
Wilson Room
Canadian House of City universitaire de Paris
(Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
31 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 40 78 67 00

CFP: International Conference on English Literature and Linguistics
 November 27 - 28, 2017,Dubai

Call for Papers

The ICELL 2017 : 19th International Conference on English Literature and Linguistics is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of English Literature and Linguistics. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: 

English Language and Literature:

Language acquisition and learning

Language Education

Intercultural Education

Language Program Evaluation

Innovation in language teaching and learning

Language Teacher Education (collaborations and practices)

Language Teaching Methodology

Language Curriculum Development

Language Testing and Assessment

Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education

The role of language and communication in human cognition

Translation and Interpreting

Poetry and Prose (fictional and non-fictional)

Contemporary Literature

Comparative Literature

Media (television, drama, film and others)

Classic

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Literature and Other Arts

Literature and History

Linguistics:

Applied Linguistics

Theoretical Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

Comparative Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Contrastive Linguistics

Interlinguistics

Corpus Linguistics

Dialectology

Etymology

Forensic Linguistics

Historical Linguistics

Lexicology

Linguistic statistics

Linguistic typology

Morphology

Neurolinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Phonetics

Phonology

Text Linguistics

Orthography, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Stylistics and Semantics

Conference Aims and Objectives

The ICELL 2017: 19th International Conference on English Literature and Linguistics aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of English Literature and Linguistics. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of English Literature and Linguistics.

Call for Contributions

All honorable authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of English Literature and Linguistics are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.WASET

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The post conference proceedings will be abstracted and indexed in the International Science Index , and submitted to be indexed in the Google Scholar, Scopus and Thomson Reuters. The conference abstracts and proceedings book, CD and certificate of presentation will be distributed to participants at the conference registration desk. 

Special Journal Issues

ICELL 2017 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on English Literature and Linguistics. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge. 

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor. To participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, please download and complete the Conference Sponsorship Request Form.

Important Dates

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline February 24, 2017

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 24, 2017

Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline July 24, 2017

Conference Dates November 27 - 28, 2017

Important NotesPlease ensure your submission meets WASET's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers. 

Please refer to the Paper Submission GUIDE before submitting your paper. 

Visit us :https://www.waset.org/apply/2017/11/dubai/ICELL?step=1

International Conference on “Beyond the Ruin: Investigating the Fragment in English Studies”

Organised by the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE)

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Department of English Language and Literature

23-25 November 2017

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Apostolos Lampropoulos, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne

Carl Lavery, University of Glasgow.

Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University.

Julian Wolfreys, University of Portsmouth.

Call for Papers

The ruin and the fragment have enduring, interconnected, yet also distinct legacies, as historical realities, material and/or aesthetic objects, and as categories of thought. The ruin predominantly recalls a classical or distant past, and is valued as a silent yet privileged ground for the reconstruction of the past. On the other hand, the fragment is primarily a conceptual category and a stylistic form, a metonymy of nostalgic wholeness, and a metaphor of and for a modernity that contemplates wholeness as irreversibly lost. In response to historical vicissitudes, the literary and the artistic imagination turned to the fragment in all its forms, as an expression of dislocation, fragmentation, and fragmentariness in modernity. In the wake of the ruin of representation in postmodernism, ruins and fragments may operate as tropes of relatedness and separation, discontinuity and destruction, uniqueness and multiplicity, open-endedness and incompleteness. Whether literal or metaphorical, ruins and fragments bear dualities that are continually recuperated and revisited as they speak of creation and destruction, recovery and silence, memory and forgetting, war and catastrophe, classicism and avant-gardism.

As divisions and conflicting notions about our past and our present are now tokens of our own despair; as quests to restore an illusory wholeness persist; as the tension between the timeless and the crumbling is becoming all the more manifest; as violence and uncertainty are all around us; as ruins make invisible vulnerability visible, this conference invites reflection on the histories, theorisations, and representations of fragments and ruins in Anglophone literatures and cultures.

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Reception, representations, and the significance of ruins through the ages
• The dialectic between the ruin and the monument
• Fragments and ruins in travel writing
• The ruin as metaphor/metonymy
• Fragments, ruins and incompleteness
• The (un)timeliness of the ruin: silence, erasure, and memory
• Ruins and melancholia
• Fragmented states of consciousness
• Colonial and postcolonial ruins and fragments
• Cultural appropriation, recovery, and/or destruction of ruins
• Narratives of destruction and catastrophe
• Fragments, ruins as palimpsests
• The ruin and/or fragment as spectacle
• Morality, ethics, responsibility, solidarity vis-à-vis the ruin
• The (un)ethics and the politics of material and cultural devastation
• Terrorism as/and the creation of ruins
• Textual fragmentation and contemporary literature
• The fragment in new technologies and the media

The conference will be held at the Main Building of the University of Athens.

Deadlines

The deadline for the submission of proposals for individual 20-minute papers (200-250 words) and of proposals for panel sessions (no longer than 500 words) is March 31st, 2017.

Please send a short biographical note (circa 150 words) together with your proposal.

Prospective panel organisers should also send the panelists’ names, paper titles, and short bio notes for each panelist and their contact details.

Confirmation of acceptance: 30 April 2017.

Proposals should be sent to: haseconference2017@gmail.com

Conference Organisers:

Emmanouil Aretoulakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), emmareto@enl.uoa.gr

Anna Despotopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), adespoto@enl.uoa.gr

Stamatina Dimakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens),sdimakop@enl.uoa.gr

Efterpi Mitsi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), emitsi@enl.uoa.gr

Conference Website: http://www.beyondtheruin.net.