International Conference on Business, Education, Law and Interdisciplinary Studies (BELIS-17)

Call for Papers/leaflet

New Full Paper/Poster/Abstract Submissions Deadline: April 27, 2017

The idea of 4th International Conference on Business, Education, Law and Interdisciplinary Studies (BELIS-17) scheduled on June 29-30, 2017 at London (UK) is for the researchers, scientists, scholars, engineers and parctitioners from all around the world to present and share ongoing research activities. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

BELIS-17 is sponsored by Dignified Researchers Publication (DiRPUB).

All full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. One Best Presentation Award from each session will also be distributed at the time of the conference

All accepted papers of BELIS-17 will be published in the printed conference proceedings with valid International ISBN number. Each Paper will be assigned unique Digital Object Identifier(DOI) from CROSSREF and the Proceedings of the Conference will be archived in DiRPUB's Digital Library. The papers can be submitted to Emerging Sources Citation Index [THOMSON REUTERS] OR SCOPUS Indexed journals for review and possible indexing with additional charges (the conference fee is compulsory to be paid).Kindly email if interested.

ALL selected Papers will be Published ONLINE in the following Journal (without any additional cost). If interested email:

• International Journal of Humanities and Management Sciences (IJHMS) ISSN 2320 –4036 (Printed Version) ISSN 2320 –4044 (Online Version)

English is the official language of the conference. We welcome paper submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full (and original research) papers (which is NOT submitted or published or under consideration anywhere in other conferences/journal) in electronic (DOC or PDF) format alongwith the contact information.







SUBMISSION METHODS
1. Email:editor@drhss.org
OR
2. Electronic Submission System ( .doc/.docx/.pdf formats)

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.docx, .doc, .pdf) will be accepted  by Electronic Submission System. Any question,  please contact: editor@drhss.org

DOWNLOADS
The following are the links to the DiRPUB copyright form as well as the DiRPUB conference's/Journal's template for the Camera ready Paper/Final paper:

• DiRPUB Copyright Form
• DiRPUB Conference .doc/.docx Template
• DiRPUB Conference .doc/.docx Template ONLY Abstract

There are NO specific instructions for poster preparation. Just prepare and print the poster in Portrait style of size A1 or below and make sure to put more Pictures/Diagrams/Graphs to depict the results so that poster should look vivid and gets everybody’s attention.

Just prepare the one-page electronic format just as that of the conference template attached and print that on the any size in A1

Contact Email:
For any inquiry about the submission and conference, please feel free to contact us at: editor@drhss.org
All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the Conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the Conference and are subject to both review and editing.

Conference: WOMEN AND POLITICS IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY: THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION 

Organized by

Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, IbnZohr University (Morocco)

In collaboration with

University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Proposals due: April 20, 2017

Venue: Kenzy, Farah Azghor. Ouarzazate

It is our privilege and honor to invite proposals for panels or individual papers for our upcoming International Conference on Gender and Politics on the theme of “Women and Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: The Road to Sustainable Democracy and Democratization” to be held in October 24-26, 2017. The Conference is hosted and organized by the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The conference venue, which is Kenzy, Farah Azghor in the city of Ouarzazate Morocco, is located in a charming town in southeastern Morocco, 205 kilometers from Marrakech and at the edge of the Sahara. Referred to as the “door of the Desert,” Ouarzazate is known internationally for its historic kasbah fortresses and its studios, where many Hollywood films were made.

This conference is unique in three ways. First, its cutting-edge content deals with the prospects of sustaining women’s rights and empowerment in an age of uncertainty, where more nations in many parts of the world seem to be rolling back hard fought democratic freedoms. It provokes many new challenging research questions which clearly show that the old boundaries of concepts dissolve and that new approaches and fresh thinking are needed. Second, its international scope aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform and a stimulating international academic forum including all sorts of stakeholders, create many opportunities for networking and socializing with the participants. Third, it is being held in a charming location called Ouarzazate; a city in southeastern Morocco, known internationally for its historic kasbah fortresses and its studios, where many Hollywood films have been made.

Additionally, the conference affords spaces and times for less formal discussions, which are an important factor supporting the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of experiences so needed in one’s academic life. Our esteemed keynote speakers are well-known for their dynamic, informative and thought provoking speeches. ICGP’17proudly presents the following keynote speakers: Professor Fatima Sadiqi from the University of Fez in Morocco, Professor Dahlerup Drude from University of Stockholm in Sweden; Professor miriam cooke from the Duke University in USA and Professor Aili Mari Tripp from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in USA. ICGP’17 welcomes young researchers, the next generation of experts in our field, and invites them to contribute and meet with the seniors.

Please examine our call for papers and consider joining us in Ouarzazate October 24-26, 2017. ICGP’17 is a very promising international meeting place and a stimulating venue for presenting research on the future of women’s rights.    

Papers may address, but are not restricted to any of the following themes:

• Gender and citizenship;
• The role of women and women’s movements in sustaining democracy;
• Gender quotas and women’s political representation/participation;
• Women’s rights and gender(ed) policies in established democracies;
• Political economy/capitalism, democracy and gender;
• Eco-feminist perspectives on environmental governance;
• The implications of the retreat of democracy for women in politics and society;
• Gender rights and democratic transition;
• Women’s rights and gender policies before and after the Arab Spring protests;
• The role of women in countering terrorism;
• Gender, Politics and masculinity;
• Gender, conflict and militarization;
• Gender and peacemaking/peace building/conflict resolution/mediation;
• The relation between gender, democracy and violence;
• Women’s leadership and democracy/democratization;
• The role of international institutions in fostering gender equality in relation to democracy.

We seek a broad range of contributions on (but not limited to) politics, philosophy, psychology, gender studies, history, economics, law, organizational studies, and sociology as well as interdisciplinary proposals. We welcome a variety of presentation formats, such as individual paper presentations, panel sessions and roundtable discussions. We especially welcome an intersectional approach to any of the topics. 







The working language of the conference will be English with no translation provided.

Deadline for Proposals: April, 20 2017
Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit their work for potential publication in a special issue in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS).

Contact Info: 

Hanane Darhour
Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate (Morocco)

Contact Email: 

icgp.fpo@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.icgp.fpo.ma

AHM Conference 2017

Materialities of Postcolonial Memory

7 -9 December 2017

University of Amsterdam

Call for Papers

 As questions of racism are prominent in public debate, the colonial and slavery pasts represent more than ever key sites of both social encounter and contestation. The fields of heritage and memory studies, however, have been slow to respond to these urgent issues. This conference engages with these debates through the lens of materiality, broadly understood. Our understanding of materiality encompasses, on the one hand, the enduring, ruinous effects of colonialism around the globe, its often unarticulated material traces in former metropoles and colonies, as well as the mostly unacknowledged role of migration and displacement. On the other hand, we wish to address the range of interventions, from protest movements to artistic initiatives and museum spaces, which act upon the manifold legacies of past injustices in the present.

Reflecting on the materiality of bodies, objects, sites, ruins, traces and interventions, this international conference examines the awkward, aphasiac and contested memories of colonial and slavery pasts by bringing together scholars from heritage and memory studies, postcolonial and performative studies, critical race studies, archaeology and material culture, art history, archival studies and digital humanities, conflict and identity studies and other areas. We invite scholars to present papers which critically analyse these issues, and especially consider the role of materiality in their case studies. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Decolonizing heritage and memory studies.
• Contemporary nation-states and transnationalism. 
• Postcolonial ruination: migration and displacement, prisons, poison, borders.
• Museums as sites of contestation and issues of repatriation. Materialities of cultural racism and strategies of resistance.
• Memory interventions and narratives in public spaces.
• Postcolonial landscapes and cityscapes. 
• Colonial object biographies and postcolonial agency.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ann Stoler (Columbia University); Prof. Lynn Meskell (Stanford University); Prof. Nikita Dhawan (Innsbruck

University); Prof. Wayne Modest (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Abstracts for papers or panels (250 words max) including a short biographical statement (150 words max) should be sent to ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com before 1 June 2017. The conference fee is €40 for employed academics and €15 for students. Speakers are expected to arrange accommodation and transport on their own; we will offer suggestions for hotels and other practical information. For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.ahmpostcolonialmemory.humanities.uva.nl.

Organization: Dr. Paul Bijl, Dr. David Duindam, Dr. Ihab Saloul, Dr. Chiara de Cesari

Conference Assistants: Sanne Letschert, Maria Dijkgraaf

This conference is organised with the support of: AHM, ASCA, KITLV, NICA and NwO

Contact Info: 

For questions, registration and submission, please contact the student assistent of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture of the University of Amsterdam: Sanne Letschert. She is in the conference organisation and has more detailed information on the objectives of the school and the conference. 

Please contact her through ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com.

Contact Email: ahmpostcolonialmemory@gmail.com

URL: http://www.ahmpostcolonialmemory.humanities.uva.nl 

International Conference on
Cultures of Occupation Conference
 - January 2018

University of Nottingham (UK)

 Call for Abstracts

The aim of this three-day conference (January 12-14, 2018), organised through the ERC-funded 'Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia' (COTCA) project, is to bring scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and countries together to explore the fundamental question which drives the COTCA project itself: how does 'foreign occupation' (broadly defined) shape cultural expression? Although the focus of COTCA is Asia, we welcome submissions from scholars working on occupation in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific, the Americas, etc. The organisers are particularly interested in comparative or theoretical papers which will help speak to a wider audience beyond specific cases of 'occupation'.

Possible themes for papers might include (but are not limited to):

1. The development of visual and/or auditory cultures under foreign occupation

2. Comparative studies of cultural expression or cultural production under occupation

3. Artistic, musical, literary, or architectural responses to -- or everyday forms of cultural expression under -- occupation

4. Challenging the 'collaboration'/'resistance' dichotomy when examining culture under occupation

5. The gendering of cultural expression and cultural production under occupation

6. Cultural expression and historical memory of wartime or other forms of occupation.

Proposals for individual 20-minute papers, or for panels of three papers (no discussants required), are welcome from scholars at all stages of their careers (including early career researchers and doctoral students). Abstracts of 300 words, along with a short biographical note of no more than 100 words (indicating institutional affiliation, position and contact details), should be sent to COTCA2018@nottingham.ac.uk by the deadline of 4pm (GMT) on Wednesday, May 31, 2017.

Presenters selected for the conference will be eligible for reimbursement of economy class travel costs, and will be provided with 3 nights of hotel accommodation in Nottingham.

Contact Info: 

Dr Jeremy Taylor, Department of History, University of Nottingham

Contact Email: COTCA2018@nottingham.ac.uk

URL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/history/cotca-conference-2018/cotca-conference-2018.aspx

Funded Scholarships - 5th International Congress

on Social Sciences

July 12-14, 2017 | Madrid, Spain | 

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

The Scientific Committee is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the International Congress on Social Sciences is now open. We invite all those wishing to participate to submit a proposal to present their work, which can be a lecture, a workshop, a poster exhibition, or talking circle, addressing the social sciences through one of the official themes.

Cultural Studies

Role of social, political, and cultural interactions in the development of identity.

Personal identity as a function of an individual’s culture, time, place, geography, interaction with groups, influences from institutions, and lived experiences.

Role of diversity within and among cultures.

Aspects of culture such as belief systems, religious faith, or political ideals as influences on other parts of a culture such as its institutions or literature, music, and art.

Cultural diffusion and change over time as facilitating different ideas and beliefs.

History, Geography, Humans and the Environment

History as a formal study that applies research methods.

Reading, reconstructing, and interpreting events.

Analyzing causes and consequences of events and developments.

Considering competing interpretations of events.

Relationship between human populations and the physical world (people, places, and environments).

Impact of human activities on the environment.

Interactions between regions, locations, places, people, and environments.

Spatial patterns of place and location.

Development and Transformation of Social Structures

The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies.

Role of social class, systems of stratification, social groups, and institutions.

Role of gender, race, ethnicity, education, class, age, and religion in defining social structures within a culture.

Social and political inequalities.

Expansion and access of rights through concepts of justice and human rights.

The influence of education.

The role of the media.

Power, Authority, and Governance

Power, Authority, and Governance.

Purposes, characteristics, and functions of various governance systems as they are practiced.

Individual rights and responsibilities as protected and challenged within the context of majority rule.

Fundamental principles and values of constitutional democracy.

Origins, uses, and abuses of power.

Conflict, diplomacy, and war.

The role of mass media and the Internet.

Civic Ideals and Practices

Basic freedoms, rights and responsibilities of citizens in democracies.

Role of the citizen in the community and nation, and as a member of the global community.

Civic participation and engagement.

Respect for diversity.

Civic ideals and practices in countries other than democracies.

Struggle for rights, access to citizenship rights, and universal human rights.

Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

Production, distribution, and consumption.

Scarcity of resources and the challenges of meeting wants and needs.

Supply/demand and the coordination of individual choices.

Economic systems. Economic policies.

Trade, interdependence, and globalization.

Role of government in the economy.

Personal finance.

Science, Technology, and Innovation

Scientific and intellectual theories, findings, discoveries, and philosophies.

Applications of science and innovations in transportation, communication, military technology, navigation, agriculture, and industrialization.

Relationship between science, technology, and innovation and social, cultural, and economic change.

Social construction of science and technology.

Global Connections and Exchange

Past, current, and likely future global connections and interactions.

Cultural diffusion; the spread of ideas, beliefs, technology, and goods.

Role of technology.

Benefits/consequences of global interdependence (social, political, economic).

Causes and patterns of migration.

Tension between national interests and global priorities.

SUBMIT PROPOSAL

Next deadline: May 28th, 2017

For more information.. please click here.

CALL FOR PAPERS : The Politics of Distribution: Migrant Labour, Development and Religious Aid in Asia     

16 Nov 2017 - 17 Nov 2017

           Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore 

                               

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 2 JUNE 2017

Migrant labour has been viewed as an important factor in growth, productivity and poverty reduction in Asia where rapid economic development has raised many to middle income countries. However, parallel to the growth of these economies has arisen new challenges and tensions as well as continuing underdevelopment (Rigg 2015). This includes what some scholars have identified as the formation of a labour surplus population in many parts of the world, where a decline in small agriculture and new industries generating less employment has resulted in a labour over supply that has made many “redundant” in the global production system (Ferguson 2015, Li 2010). Instead, distributive practices and “relations of dependence” (Ferguson 2015) have increased in the context of not only diminishing employment opportunities but also in uncertain and precarious employment, as is in the case of migrant labour which has often been linked to abuses over working conditions and wages.

In this sense, religious aid is one significant and diverse form of distributive practice. This is particularly the case where the rise in global civil society and non-state actors make up for many of the “structural holes” (Faist 2009) in social services neglected by the State. The absence of the State in this area, particularly in the global South, has led to an opening up of a space for alternative actors to ‘fill in the gap’, including faith-based actors where religious spaces have become simultaneously humanitarian and development spaces. This is particularly the case for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, who as ‘non-citizens’ are often marginalised in their access to formal work and social services.

The workshop will engage with Ferguson’s concept of distributive practices (Ferguson 2015) to interrogate whether it is applicable to religious aid in the Asian context as a significant form of contemporary labour. This is in recognition of the fact that cultivating the social relationships which make distributive flows possible is not a passive condition, but rather the outcome of a particular type of labour (Ferguson 2015, 97). Although having always existed in the form of remittances, kin-based sharing, patronage, “corruption” and relations of dependence on others such as NGOs and corporations, distributive practices have taken on a new amplitude with the decrease in the availability and increasing precariousness of waged labour.

The workshop will examine forms of contemporary distributive practices in Asia as they are enacted by religious actors, whether through religious aid organisations, religious networks or informal religious giving, within the context of migrant labour and how these interrelate with wider development processes in the region. Migrant labour is taken to encompass those who engage in rural-urban migration as well as what are usually assumed to be binary categories of legal and illegal, temporary and permanent, economic migrant and refugee/asylum seeker; in the recognition that these categories are often not fixed but fluid and permeable.

This workshop aims to bring together scholars and practitioners who are not only critically engaged with the politics of distributive practices, but who are specifically interested in exploring a politics of distribution that is grounded in and emerges out of practices in Asia. We therefore invite papers embedded in empirical case studies which explore one or more of the following lines of inquiry:

• What are the multiple ways in which religious actors intervene in, facilitate, and mitigate the domain in which migrant labour and development processes meet in order to deliver ‘aid’ or engage in distributive practices of religious giving in Asia? What is the significance of these on our understanding of contemporary distributive practices in Asia and how they relate to economic development and livelihoods?
• In what ways do religious understandings of development, livelihood, and human fulfilment permeate religious actors’ aid and distributive practices; are these conceptions given a distinct form and meaning? How does religious actors’ engagement in migrant labour with its own ‘development truths’ challenge or uphold prevailing ideas of development? How are these experienced, produced and negotiated by local, as well as transnational actors?
• How are relations of dependence and belonging cultivated in religious distributive practices? How do both distributive practices and religious theologies challenge the assumptions of an emancipatory, self-sufficient liberal conception of the individual? What languages of religious belonging are used in distributive labour practices by faith-based actors and the recipients of their aid, particularly for migrants who are often marginalised by the State? What are the implications of this on conceptions of citizenship and belonging?
• Asocial inequality is the lack of relations in a morally binding membership group, where networks of affect have been replaced by atomized individuals with little or no social attachments (Ferguson 2013). In what ways do religious actors address asocial inequality in their aid?
• What does labour and livelihoods, understood as distributive practices, look like in Asia? What can an understanding of religious distributive practices within the context of migrant labour tell us about how social inequality and precarity in Asia might be addressed?

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission by 2 June 2017. Please submit your proposal, using the provided proposal template to Ms Tay Minghua at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg. Successful applicants will be notified by early July 2017 and will be required to send in a draft paper by 20 October 2017.

CONTACT DETAILS

Workshop Convenors

Dr May Ngo
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
E | arinmy@nus.edu.sg

Dr Bernardo Brown
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
E | aribeb@nus.edu.sg

Secretariat

Ms TAY Minghua
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
E | minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg

Contact Person(s)

Minghua TAY

For More Details  Visit:https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/f3f0722f-8b9f-4bd6-9414-57662eb74901

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Residential Workshop: Summer School on Marxism-2017

Module- II: “Doing Marxism Today”

Dates: (09 days) 3rd to 12th June, 2017

Venue: NCR(Tentative)

Closing date for applications: 10th April 2017 (midnight IST)

Who can apply: Anybody can apply!!

Application Requirement: The only condition is to answer atleast two questions out of the given questions. [The language will be mainly English and Hindi due to logistical constraints.]

Course Content

1. On Epistemology & Praxis

i) Marxist Epistemologies

ii) Different schools of Marxism

iii) Praxis

2. On Cultural Question

iv) Identity – On Subjectivity

v) Gender – Reproduction, affectivity & Gender

vi) Religion – Marxism & Religion

vii) Caste – Caste in Capitalism

3. On Political Theory

viii) Class & Organization

ix) Theorizations on Power

x) State & Capital

xi) Hegemony & Politics

xii) Justice, Rights & Law

xiii) On Social Movements

4. On Economic theory

xiv) Neoliberalism

xv) Advanced Capitalism under Globalization

xvi) On Capitalist Development 

Methodology

The course will employ multiple methods of teaching over and above the regular classroom pedagogy. Methods such as classroom teaching, group discussions, multimedia, theater etc. will be used.

Answer any two of the following questions

1. Using the distinction between mode of appropriation and exploitation, assess critically the nature of ‘socialism’ that evolved in the Soviet Union?

2. Take the following four paragraphs from Communist Manifesto and assess critically whether and how far the analysis of Marx and Engels have been borne out by the evolution of capitalism.

i.) Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.

ii.) We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part……….

iii.) The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

iv.) The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

3. How does the Indian experience help us think about the relation between democracy and capitalism from a Marxian standpoint?

4. How would you understand the organization of production process and capital accumulation keeping in mind the ideas of relative and absolute surplus value production in India?

5. Is there is a decline of revolutionary working class politics in South Asia or the working class politics needs to be rephrased to organize a struggle that would transcend the capitalist system? In what way would you suggest modification of the constituents of the revolutionary block? Do you think that this requires any modification of the concept of the party, its internal constitution and its relation with the ‘revolutionary’ masses?

Logistics

Accommodation will be on twin sharing basis. Simple food will be provided. Boarding and lodging as well as course materials will be taken care of by the host organizations. Participants coming from outside Delhi will be reimbursed part of their travel expenses, their travel from their respective locations to Delhi and back. Travel from Delhi to the venue and back will be arranged by the organizers.

PLEASE NOTE: The course is strictly residential. Participants are expected to stay at the venue even if they are from nearby. All participants are expected to stay through the entire course and not leave halfway unless there are compelling reasons like a sudden family emergency. Applicants must remember that leaving midway without sufficiently valid reason is likely to affect the prospects of others from their university/organization that might apply for other courses at SAU in the future. These restrictions are designed to ensure equity and inclusiveness across all participants.

How to Apply

Application with your name, institutional affiliation, address, education qualification and answer to the questions may be sent to the following email id: marxistschool2014@gmail.com such that it reaches us before midnight IST latest by 10th April 2017. In case if you have queries you can mail or write it down to:

Atul Chandra, Project Assistant/Senior Researcher, Room No: 337 ‘A’, Third Floor, Akbar Bhawan, South Asian University, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi-21