International Research Conference on Women's and Gender Studies and for Women in Research 

10th to 11th October 2017 

Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

THIS CONFERENCE OFFERS A PLATFORM FOR:

• Discussion relating to the current status of women, with a special focus on the following categories that constitute potential challenges to gender equality and women’s rights: the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the refugee crisis, rising levels of (and political legitimisation of) sexual violence and misogyny, cuts in child-care and services for disabled people, lack of access to paid parental leave, tax and welfare reforms, the gender pay gap, sexual harassment and the rise of zero-contract hours.
• International researchers and scientists from academia, industry and government to present their studies to a multi-disciplinary audience, exchange experiences, discuss proposals, and disseminate results on women’s and gender studies.
• Raising awareness and encouraging dialogue on the proposed topics, with the aim of creating lasting productive partnerships between the participants.

All submitted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, edited under the Creative Commons Licence (Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International/CC BY-ND 4.0), which will also contain a report and catalogue of activities. This book will be available on the WomenBeing webpage to download for free, and it will also be freely distributed to schools, institutions, research centres and individuals who request it.

The aim of this conference is to create an international forum for debate and exchange on the main challenges facing women in today’s society, and to reflect on the ways in which we can, individually and collectively, propose solutions to these problems.

The conference begins on the 10th of October – Ada Lovelace day – which celebrates women of the present and the past, whose achievements have contributed so much to humanity. Like Ada Lovelace, there are many women fighting for equality, for their rights, and for peace. In the last year, there has been a growing awareness of the need to address the problems that women are experiencing, to speak and to take action.

WomenBeing builds upon this momentum by providing a ‘loudspeaker’ for academics, civil servants, researchers, social activists, journalists and private individuals to make their voices heard on the main challenges that women are facing in 2017.

Deadline:

Submission of abstracts: 1st of August 2017

Acceptance notification: 20th of August 2017

Submission of full papers: 20th of August 2017

Early bird registration: 10th of September 2017

Submit Your Abstract:

1. PREPARE YOUR ABSTRACT

2. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT USING THE FOLLOWING FORM

(In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.)

If you have any question, please send us an e-mail to info@womenbeing.co.uk.

Please Do Visit our Website for more details:http://www.womenbeing.co.uk/

Join us on the 10th and 11th of October in Edinburgh to enrich our discussions.

International Conference on Performing and Visual Arts 9th to 11th January 2018,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Call for Papers

The 2018 International Conference on Performing and Visual Arts is investigating the importance and relevance of regionalism in culture and the arts.

Although not new, the concept of regionalism has been eclipsed in recent decades by research on localism and globalism. However, protectionist nationalism has recently re-emerged in international political and popular narratives. In these, yet again, changing political and cultural relations, is there a place for regionalism or studies from a regional perspective in academia? If so, what are some productive approaches one can take (comparative studies, identifying shared cultural features, pinpointing idiosyncratic affiliations, questioning boundaries, trans-cultural analysis, etc.)? How helpful is the concept of Asia as a region, when it comes to the study of culture and the arts today?

Topics:

We welcome topics on the Visual Arts, Music, Theatre, Dance, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies (including Southeast Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies), Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies, Fine Arts, and any other area of study related to culture or the arts.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstract.

You first need to register to the UM conference system, by clicking on 'Registration online' and filling out the form. Only after registering to our Conference Management System and selecting a login ID, will you be able to submit your abstract. Registering to the Conference Management System and sending an abstract does not automatically mean that your paper will be accepted.

Once your abstract has been accepted (usually within 2-3 weeks), you need to confirm your attendance via email and make the appropriate payment (no later than December 1st) on our website. Only after payment will your registration be fully processed.

If you are a student and would like to avail yourself of the student registration rates, you also need to send us a copy of your student status via email. You can prove your status with a letter from your Registrar's Office, or an image of a valid student ID card. You will also be asked to present the appropriate document when arriving at the conference as well.

Deadlines for Submission

Deadline for submitting abstract: September 30th, 2017

Deadline for early bird registration: October 31st, 2017*

Deadline for regular registration: December 1st, 2017

Conference: January 9-10-11, 2018.

Details for submission

Abstracts should be between 200-300 words and be submitted in clear English of a quality suitable for publication. Your abstract should include the following:

1. Name(s) of authors, including affiliation. If there are multiple authors, the presenter is the first author

2. Email and complete mailing address of all authors. However the first author/presenter will be responsible for all communication with the ICPVA committee.

3. Title of paper

4. Abstract (maximum 300 words)

5. All documents should be sent using Microsoft word (.doc or .docx)

All abstracts should be uploaded to our website; we will not accept proposals sent via email.

Guidelines for presentations

Time allocated for each presentation is 20 min with an additional 5 min for Q&A. It is the responsibility of the panel Chair to keep track of time. Each room will be equipped with data projectors and sound systems. Panelists are encouraged to upload their presentations (if applicable) during tea breaks to facilitate smooth transition between panelists.

How to contact us

ICPVA

Cultural Centre, University of Malaya

1st Floor, Old Chancellery Building

University of Malaya

50603 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

You can also contact us via email ICPVA@um.edu.my

http://umconference.um.edu.my/ICPVA2018=3958

1st International Conference on New Trends in English Language Teaching and Testing

Dubai, 24 August 2017

Professors, lecturers, teachers, MA Students, PhD Candidates, researchers, practitioners, and experts in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT), TEFL, and Applied Linguistics are cordially invited to submit papers to the International Conference on New Trends in English Language Teaching and Testing that will take place in Dubai, UAE, on 24 August 2017.

Main Topics:

The Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes relating to the ELT. The main topics of the conference are:

• New trends in English language teaching and testing
• Teaching language skills
• Language testing and assessment
• Innovations in ELT
•  ESP and EAP
•  Individual differences
•  TBLT
•  Literature in ELT
•  Syllabus design and materials development
•  Language teacher education
•  CALL & MALL
• Discourse analysis
• Pragmatics

Keynote Speakers:

-       Professor Jack C. Richards

-       Professor Roy Lyster

-       Professor Hossein Farhady       

Submission

You should download the abstract template here and put your abstract into the template and send it to NTELTSubmissions@gmail.com

Abstract Submission will be expired on ​​27 ​​June 2017

Deadline for Full Paper Submission of Accepted Abstracts for Journal Publication: ​​​1​0 September 2017
The accepted papers’ authors should register and send the proof of payment to NTELTSubmissions@gmail.com

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission: ​​​27 ​​June 2017

Early Bird Registration: 06 June 2017

Standard Registration: 05 July 2017

Full Paper Submission of Accepted Abstracts for Journal Publication: 1​0 September 2017

Conference Venue

Flora Grand Hotel, Dubai

Email:NTELTSubmissions@gmail.com
Website:http://ntelt.com 

CFP  NeMLA 2018: "Globalizing English: Translation and the Production of World Literature"

New York, United States

Call For Papers

Primary Area / Secondary Area: World Literatures (non-European Languages) / Comparative Literature.

Abstract :

Translation makes contemporary global spaces possible. As J.W. Goethe says: “Whatever one may say of the inadequacy of translation, this activity nonetheless remains one of the most essential tasks and one of the worthiest of esteem in the universal market of world trade [emphasis added].” But how does translation create global literary spaces? What is the role of translation in world literature courses? Goethe tells us to admire the translator--do we?

Scholars like Pascale Casanova and Gayatri Spivak have engaged forcefully with translation, arguing for recognition of the “untranslatable” and warning against replicating Anglo worldviews. Partially as a result of this intense conversation, translation has become more important in the typically “parochial” United States. More than ever, texts are translated into English, thereby bringing the world to us while encouraging the extreme proliferation of world literature, both as academic discipline and pedagogical endeavor. And yet, translation has also diminished--consider the fact that many world literature scholars and/or instructors cannot tell you the names or qualifications of the translators involved in creating world literature texts, let alone explain how translation affects readers’ perceptions of what they read and, consequently, their understanding of the world.

Participants are encouraged to review their experience in translating texts and/or teaching translated texts, in discussing translation with students, or to share findings in translation studies, particularly as related to works routinely found in world literature classrooms. Participants may focus on texts from any genre--poetry, prose, and drama, fictional or nonfictional, in order to best represent the variety of texts found in common anthologies like the Norton Anthology of World Literature or the Longman Anthology of World Literature. 

This is a CFP for a roundtable panel on translation and the production of world literature, which will be held at the 2018 NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Translators, world literature professors and instructors, translation scholars, and comparative literature scholars, etc. are invited to participate in this roundtable panel. Please contact genewaite@gmail.com for further information or to submit an abstract proposal by September 15, 2017. Here is the official CFP link on the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743.

Contact Info: 

Genevieve Waite, Ph.D. Candidate in French Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Contact Email:  genewaite@gmail.com

URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743

Annual Conference- NEPCA World Literature

 October 27-28, 2017

University of Massachusetts

Call For Papers

The World Literature area for the 2017 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference is accepting paper proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2017 annual conference will be held from October 27-28, 2017 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

The NEPCA World Literature area welcomes papers that explore both individual works of world literature as well as contemporary issues in the field of World Literature.  Questions under consideration could include how to understand what world literature is, how best to teach works of world literature as well as the exploration of current trends in postcolonial, world and comparative literatures.  Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Intersections of popular culture and World Literature
• Publication, reception and audience of World Literature
• Retellings of works of world literature in popular culture media
• World Literature and the American classroom
• Trends in World Literature
• Translation
• The Future of World Literature
• World Literature and Genre

Please submit paper proposals of 250-400 words to the World Literature area chair Susan Gorman (susan.gorman@mcphs.edu) by June 1, 2017 via the paper proposal form available on the NEPCA website.  Please ensure that your proposal is jargon-free and understandable to a broad audience.  Your submission should also include a current CV.

For more information, and to access a copy of the 2017 paper proposal form, please visit the NEPCA website: https://nepca.blog/2017-conference/

Susan Gorman, Area Chair

World Literature

Contact Info: 

Susan Gorman, Area Chair

World Literature

MCPHS University

179 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Contact Email: 

susan.gorman@mcphs.edu

URL: 

https://networks.h-net.org/nepca.blog/2017-conference/

EURIAS Fellowships For Humanities and Social Sciences 2018-19

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 19 participating Institutes: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Warsaw, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 19 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. In order to match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues. The EURIAS Consortium welcomes applications from scholars at risk.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, EURIAS offers 54 fellowships (26 junior and 28 senior positions). Please check Available fellowship positions.

All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of € 26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.

APPLICATION AND DEADLINE

– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, etc.

– Applications period May 5th → June 7th, 2017 (4 pm GMT)

– The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017 (4 pm GMT). Late applications will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers

– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee

– Final selection by the IAS academic boards

– Publication of results (January 2018)

CALENDAR OF ACTIONS

Launch of the call for applications → May 5th, 2017

Application deadline → June 7th, 2017, 4 pm GMT -Greenwich Mean Time-  (6 pm Paris/Brussels Time)

Results of the preselection by EURIAS Scientific Committee → Mid-November, 2017

Publication of IAS final selections → Mid-January, 2018

Arrival of fellows → September/October 2018

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Please check on the following pages :

- http://www.eurias-fp.eu/eligibility-requirements

- http://www.eurias-fp.eu/types-fellowships

EURIAS Programme Officers:

Ms Raquel Sanz Barrio

at the RFIEA Foundation

54 bd Raspail

75006 Paris - FRANCE

For any question related to the application procedure or eligibility: programme.officer@eurias-fp.eu

To contact the participating IAS, please refer to this list.

EURIAS is coordinated by the RFIEA Foundation (Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study).

For More Details, Please Do Visit our Website:http://www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu/application-materials

 International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages

Pazoheshgaran Andishmand Institute (Ahwaz, Iran)

1-2 February, 2018

Call For Papers

The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages is organized by Pazoheshgaran Andishmand Institute (Ahwaz, Iran) in association with different universities such as Shahid Chemran University of Ahvaz.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of literature, translation and teaching and learning of different languages and dialects.

Academics and university lecturers are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of literature, translation and teaching and learning of different languages and dialects in English, Arabic or Persian. Such an approach suggests that a study is no longer limited within a certain field; knowledge from different fields cultivates diversity in a study. Recognizing this trend, the conference organizing committee aims to provide a platform for researchers and scholars from various fields to exchange ideas.

 The selective papers of the conference will be published in journals such as Journal of English Language Teaching and will be indexed in CIVILICA (All the services regarding publication and index of the articles are free of charge).

  Conference Themes

The conference will bring together multi-disciplinary expertise from all relevant fields. We invite submissions for an abstract of a research-based paper in any of the relevant fields, including but not limited to:

Literature (Any literary issue related to different languages and dialects)
 Translation (Any translation and interpreting issue related to different languages and dialects)
 Conceptual and operational framework for entrepreneurship in different languages
Teaching languages to non-native speakers

Education (Issues such as teaching, program evaluation, curriculum development of different languages)

Languages and dialects (Any linguistic issue related to different languages and dialects, either theoretical or applied linguistics)

Morphology and syntax
Phonetics and phonology
Corpus linguistics
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Contact linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Comparative linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Interlinguistics
Computational linguistics
Linguistic statistics
Orthography
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
Stylistics
Semantics
Linguistic typology
Bilingualism
Social Networks
Contemporary literature
Comparative literature






Last date of call for papers :(for submission of abstracts & registration forms)                 31^th October 2017

Contact Details

The Organizer Secretariat of Conference, Pazhoheshgaran Andishmand Institute, Ahwaz, Iran P.O.Box: 61335-4619 Tel: (+98) 61-3293- 1199 / Tel/Fax (+98) 61-3293-1198 Mobile :( +98) 916-508-8772 Email: info@pahi.ir

For More Information Visit our Website http://ltlt.ir/index.php/en/