International Conference Buddhism & Australia

1-3 February, 2018

Perth, Western Australia 

Call For Papers

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 7th International Conference Buddhism & Australia will be held on 1-3 February, 2018 in Perth, Western Australia. All Buddhists, scholars and members of the general public interested in Buddhism are invited to present their papers in this coming conference. Researchers across a broad range of disciplines are welcomed as well the submission of pre-formed panel proposals

The main themes 2018

• Rituals
• Rituals and the Image of Buddha
• Silk Road Buddhism
• Death of the Buddha

The organizers are open to proposals for contributions on Buddhist history, philosophy, texts as well for proposals on any related theme.

Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission : 25 October, 2017 

Deadline for Full Paper Submission : 25 November, 2017

! Early Bird registration : 1 August, 2017

What to Send

Proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information:

• author(s);
• title of proposal,
• body of proposal; no more than 250 words,
• up to 10 keywords.
• CV max 2 pages

Proposals should be submitted to the following email: info@buddhismandaustralia.com

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. Please use another email (estoniannyingma@gmail.com) if you have not received confirmation from us in 5 days.

Call for Essays on Buddhism

Those who have prepared for certain big task and who are able to put some sort of idea on certain topics, we have a proposal to compose an essay which needs to create a bridge back to the Buddha. Anyone, from any country, is free to apply. Selected essays will be published on the conference website.

Topics

• Buddha for every home
• Buddha versus Jesus
• Who reads the teachings of the dead Buddha
• Buddhism is in the way of economy
• Buddhist monks - people with weak vitality and mentality
• Buddhist cosmology and contemporary astronomy and astrophysics are not brothers
• Virtual reality as the modern day Nirvana
• Could Buddha turn on a computer?
• Is virtual reality beyond our reality or not?

Criteria

1. The essay should be at least 800 words and not over 2300 words.
2. All essays must be absolutely original and in your own words.
3. Images are encouraged. You are free to use images but they must be copyright-free.
4. Submissions are accepted only in Microsoft Word documents (doc or docx).
5. The cover page of your essay must contain your complete details such as your full name, phone number and email.
6. The essay must be written in English.

Conference Registration

Payment of the conference fee of 540 AUD should be made by December 1, 2017

Registration fee will include -participation in all sessions for 3 days and lunches & coffee breaks during the conference.

• Early Bird registration fee of 460 AUD is possible until 1 August, 2017

To participate in the Buddhism & Australia 2016 please contact Marju Broder by the following email: info@buddhismandaustralia.com

All of the accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

The time for paper presentation is 30 min including questions and answer time.

Papers to be presented in the conference will be published on conference website.

Papers must not have previously been published and, if accepted, cannot be published through other media.

Copyright owner for published papers will be Buddhism & Australia Inc.

Contact:

Organizing Chair Marju Broder:

info@buddhismandaustralia.com

tel. +61 0 405549923

www.buddhismandaustralia.com

Conference International Federation for Research in Women's History 2018

Call For Papers: 

Date: July 1, 2017

Location: British Columbia, Canada

Theme:  “Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations” 

The 12th Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes (IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 9-12, 2018 at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Unceded Coast Salish Territory-Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations.

The theme, “Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations: Conversations and Controversies,” probes the meanings of boundaries and frameworks, narratives and epistemologies, analytic terms and foundational categories, global, national and local understandings, interactions and power relations across time and space. We are open to proposals for complete panels (chair, commentator, three papers) as well as individual papers, roundtables, conversations, workshops, and non-traditional forms of presentation.

Transnationalisms

This sub-theme reflects the international turn in this era of globalization and the commitment of IFRWH/FIRHF to international histories and comparative panels in such areas as women’s and gendered movements, transnational organizations and global governance, state socialist and third world /global South manifestations, settler societies and Empires, imperialisms and colonialisms, anti-imperialism and anti-imperial uprisings, global labor, individual life trajectories, the traveling across space (and time) of ideas and objects, labor and sex trafficking, mobilities and immigration/migration, and related areas.

Transgressions

This sub-theme considers the ways various peoples over time and space define the transgressive from dominant and accepted norms of being, identity and behavior as well as the self-conscious transgressions against hegemonic gender in relation to other social factors. Papers might consider outlaws and criminalization, deviancy, rebelliousness, genderqueer and trans*gender identities and practices, witches, “bad” mothers, gender bending dress or labor, crossing race/ethnic or class/caste lines, revolutions and social movements.

Translations

How do terms of analysis travel across languages, disciplines, and time and space? What is lost in translation and how can we forge a transnational praxis when we cannot always speak well to each other? We are especially interested in the place of orality and how national historiographies and cultures of intellectual life (including the place of women’s and gender history and feminist and gender studies/theory) address concepts like gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexualities, agency, identity, power, (post)colonialism, globalization, feminisms, and development.

About the Organization:

Founded in 1987, IFRWH is affiliated with the International Congress of Historical Sciences/Comité Internationale des Sciences Historiques and consists of national affiliates from across the globe, which link scholars together in a transnational network. Beginning in 2020, it will award the Ida Bloom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History (named after two of the most active founders of the organization.) Though the language of the conference is English, and the languages of the organization are French and English, we will seek to have plenaries with translation into Spanish and from French and Spanish into English. But we want to problematize this issue and invite suggestions on how to make this component of the conference accessible. In addition, as funding permits, we will plan on having modest subventions for graduate students, and scholars from areas of the world or institutions without resources.

Submission:

Our submission link is live. Originally, we accepted proposals until March 15, 2017. Due to the fact that we are relocating the conference to Vancouver, we are accepting another round of submissions.  Please submit using our form by July 1. Send inquiries to: ifrwh18@gmail.com

Contact Info: 

Sasha Coles, Conference Planning Assistant

Contact Email: ifrwh18@gmail.com

URL: http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/ifrwh/call

International Middle East Congress (Language, History and Literature)

Conference 

International Middle East Congress (Language, History and Literature) 

30th to 31st October 2017 

Ankara, Turkey 

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30th June 2017 

Call For Papers

The conference titled “International Middle East Congress: Language, History and Literature” will be held in Ankara between October 30-31, 2017 by the Eastern Languages and Literatures Department under the auspices of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. The aim of this congress is to tackle the Middle East region, which has been a location of interest and life for several states and peoples throughout history, in the context of language, history and literature. Numerous civilizations, faiths and languages at different times established control over Middle East, which is a strategic region that connects the three continents of Africa, Asia and Europe. In addition to its geostrategic importance, the presence of rich natural resources has turned the region into a zone of conflict between various elements.

Enduring one of the most chaotic periods in its history with intertwined ethnic, religious, cultural and sectarian wars and conflicts, Middle East is a region that needs to be scrutinized concerning its languages, history and literature. For this reason, we regard that it is an important contribution to the academic literature to bring together academics of these issues and to tackle and discuss the historical, literary, cultural, sociological and philological aspects of the topics that include Language and National Culture; Effects of War and Invasion on Language; Imperialism, Religion, Politics and Society; War and Literature; Women in Literature; Gender and Identity; Literary Genres in Modern Middle East; Arab Spring. All those interested in these issues and the Middle East are invited to contribute to the congress.

Topics:

Language

• Language and national culture in the Middle East.
• Language, structure, dialects, and interactions with other languages.
• Imperialism, the effects of wars and occupations on language.

History

•  Religion, politics and society.
•  The Arab spring in the Middle East and its regional effects.
•  Imperialism and cultural reform.
•  Turkish – Middle East relations in the historical and cultural context.

Literature

• Migrant literature
• War and literature.
• Women, gender and identity in literature.
• Modern Middle East and literary movements.
• Arab spring in the middle eastern literature.
• Prominent literary personalities in the modern Middle East.

Key Dates

16 May 2017 :Aplications for the congress begins.

30 June 2017 :Last date to apply.

15 July 2017 :Accepted abstracts are declared.

15 Sept 2017 :Last date to send in full papers.

30-31 Oct 2017 :Congress Days

Contact for further inquiries concerning the congress:

e-mail address: aybueast@gmail.com

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University - Eastern Languages and Literatures Department Landline: +90 312 906 1445

Research Assistant Abdulmuttalip Işıdan GSM: +90 505 694 9585

Research Assistant Güneş Muhip Özyurt GSM: +90 531 245 2624

Website: http://ybu.edu.tr/easterncongress/en/custom_page-318-congress.html

CALL FOR PAPERS: FRANKENSTEIN: FRIEND OR FOE?(FANTASY, HORROR, AND SCIENCE FICTION)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

27 and 28 October 2017

Proposals by 1 June 2017

Michael A. Torregrossa

Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Chair

cfp.NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com

Formed in 2008, the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2017, and we seek proposals from scholars of all levels for papers that explore any aspect of the intermedia traditions of the fantastic (including, but not limited to, elements of fairy tale, fantasy, gothic, horror, legend, mythology, and science fiction) and how creative artists have altered our preconceptions of these subtraditions by producing innovative works in diverse countries, media, and time periods and for audiences at all levels.

In anticipation of the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 2018, we are especially hoping for proposals that address aspects of the Frankenstein tradition and the fantastic. Our focus for this year is "Frankenstein: Friend or Foe?". We seek papers that will explore the reception of the creature (and its surrogates) in Shelley's novel and in related texts.

Please see our website NEPCA Fantastic (https://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com) for further details and ideas. Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length (depending on final panel size).

If you are interested in proposing a paper, please address inquiries and send your biography and paper abstract (each of 250 words) to the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Chair at cfp.nepcafantastic@gmail.com, noting “Frankenstein Proposal 2017” in your subject line. Do also submit your information into NEPCA’s official Paper Proposal Form accessible from https://nepca.blog/2017-conference/. Be sure to select "The Fantastic" as your designated area.

Please submit inquiries and/or proposals for complete panels directly to the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Chair at cfp.nepcafantastic@gmail.com.

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public. NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency. NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.

Membership in NEPCA is required for participation and annual dues are included in conference registration fees. Further details are available at https://nepca.blog/membership-information/.

Contact Info: 

Michael A Torregrossa

Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction) Area Chair

Contact Email: cfp.NEPCAFantastic@gmail.com

URL: https://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com

Memory and the Making of Knowledge in the Early Modern World, September 18-22, 2017--Germany

Call for Papers

Memory and the Making of Knowledge in the Early Modern World, September 18-22, 2017--Germany

Memory is now established as a dynamic and vital field of study in the humanities and social sciences. It is no longer disputed that how, why, and what individuals, communities, and societies remember is essential to under-standing their pasts and presents. A good deal of this work has understandably concentrated on contemporary history: the emergence of social history in the middle decades of the twentieth century shifted the spotlight to focus on ordinary people, and developments in medicine, psychology, and sociology produced a more sophisticated understanding of the functioning of individual and social memory. This has led to new techniques of oral history opening up a wide vista of perspectives on the recent past. But people living before the twentieth century also remembered, and this summer school aims to explore memory in the early modern period, one from which there are obviously no living witnesses, but which nevertheless left numerous traces of the politics and poetics of memory in its art, literature, and history.

Between 1500 and 1800, remembrance of the past was crucial for creating knowledge in a wide range of personal, social, and political projects, and vital contributions were made to the theory and practice of memory. Actors from across the social spectrum used both old and new media to encode, manipulate, transmit, and deploy memories. The development of the Renaissance ars memoria played an important role in new ideas about memory in early modern elite culture; at the same time, the traumas and crises of the period produced what may be termed an ars oblivia, in which legally prescribed ‘forgetting’ played a vital role in social and cultural reconstruction.

Memory and the Making of Knowledge in the Early Modern World will bring together senior scholars and junior researchers whose work addresses memory in early modern literature and history. It aims to consolidate recent advances in these fields and develop new avenues of inquiry through an intensive programme of skills training, collections-oriented excursions, and – above all – productive intellectual exchange on research topics and techniques. The Summer School will also explore how studies of memory and early modernity might shape one another in the future.

Junior (postgraduate and postdoctoral) scholars whose research touches on any aspect of memory in the early modern world are invited to participate in the Summer School. Participants will be expected to give a short (no longer than 20 mins) presentation on their research. Particular topics of interest might include (the following list is by no means exhaustive):

• Collective, individual, communicative, and cultural memory
• Memory in art, sculpture, architecture
• Memory in literature, drama, poetry
• Alternative sources of memory: material culture and cheap print
• Early modern oral history: memoirs, testi-mony, legal sources
• Mnemonic techniques and institutions: ars memoria, museums, libraries
• Places of memory/lieux de mémoire
• Memory and identity formation/elaboration: class/rank, nation, empire, religion, sex/gender, race/ethnicity
• Memory and its function for the formation of knowledge
• Relation of memory, historical knowledge and historiography
• Memory and politics: Reformation, the ‘general crisis’ of the seventeenth century, Enlightenment, war, local/regional/urban politics, imperial expansion and trade
• Memory and (early) modernity: print media, early industrialisation
• Mediating and remediating memory: recycling and reusing memories
• Space/place and memory: town, country, nation, empire, private/public spaces.

The Summer School will be conducted in English. With generous support from the VolkswagenStiftung, we can provide return transport to Göttingen, accommodation, and breakfast/lunches for participants. Child care is available for up to four children and is provided on a first come, first served basis.

Prospective participants are requested to send the following to the organisers, Andrew Wells and Claudia Nickel, at memory2017@uni-goettingen.de by 31 May 2017:

• 1 Page CV
• Brief letter of motivation
• 250-word abstract of your research

We particularly welcome applications from all individuals from under-represented groups or who may have special requirements (including, but not limited to, physical or mental disability). Such applicants are encouraged to specify any such requirements in their letter of motivation.

Further information will be available shortly at the website of the Göttingen Graduate School of the Humanities (Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen): https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/summer-school-memory/562570.html

Contact Info: 

Organization:

Dr. Claudia Nickel, Dr. Andrew Wells

Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen (GSGG), Universität Göttingen, Friedländer Weg 2, 37085 Göttingen, Germany

Contact Email: 

memory2017@uni-goettingen.de

URL: 

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/summer-school-memory/562570.html

Conference on Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018 - 7-9 March 2018, New Jersey, United States

Call for Papers

Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018 

7-9 March 2018, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey USA)

Co-sponsors: Stevens Institute of Technology and IEEE History Center

The 200th anniversary year of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus has drawn worldwide interest in revisiting the novel’s themes. What were those themes and what is their value to us in the early twenty-first century? Mary Shelley was rather vague as to how Victor, a young medical student, managed to reanimate a person cobbled together from parts of corpses. The imagination of the novel’s readership outfitted Victor’s laboratory with the chemical and electrical technologies that brought the creature to life. Subsequent theatrical and cinematic versions of Frankenstein have been, like the creature, patched together from the novel and from contemporary popular press as well as public demonstrations of medical, chemical, and electrical research. Mary Shelley’s contemporaries arguably exploited her novel to their own purposes, including George Canning (leader of the British House of Commons in 1824) who drew an analogy between the prospect of freeing West Indian slaves and Victor’s “monster” who is left in the world with no master to curtail his criminal instincts. Some of Mary Shelley’s biographers characterize the story of Victor Frankenstein’s reanimation experiment as a cautionary tale against techno-science run amok while others emphasize Victor’s irresponsible behavior toward his subject. In what ways might our tools of science and communication serve as an “elixir of life” since the age of Frankenstein? Topic areas include and are not limited to items on the list below. For more information about the conference and to register please visit http://frankenstein2018.org.

Themes 

• Branding “Frankenstein” (Food, Comics, Gaming, Music, Theater, Film)
• Computational and Naval Technology (Mapping, Navigation, The Idea of the Journey)
• Digital Humanities and GeoHumanities (Applications, Pedagogy, Library/Information Technology)
• Engineering Technologies: Past/Present/Future (Chemical, Electrical, Biomedical)
• Future Technologies and Labor Concerns
• How might industrialized nations develop low-cost solutions to provide maternal and pediatric care in regions with limited medical facilities?
• How are our ideas of the “Monstrous” or “Other” changing since the publication of Frankenstein?
• Is the pharmaceutical industry using human consumers as experiments for profit?
• What ethical and legal issues will emerge in the age of advanced or “aware” artificial intelligence?
• What does it mean to be human?
• What is the responsibility of government in world-wide health care?
• Who is responsible for the outcomes of techno-science?
• Who should have access to advanced human enhancement technologies and why?

Deadline: 

Submit inquires and/or abstracts of 300 words with brief cv by 15 October 2017 to Michael Geselowitz (m.geselowitz@ieee.org) and Robin Hammerman (rhammerm@stevens.edu).

We are dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone.

Contact Info: 

Michael Geselowitz (IEEE History Center) and Robin Hammerman (Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters)

Contact Email: 

rhammerm@stevens.edu

URL: http://frankenstein2018.org

ADVANCED ACADEMIA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2018-19 FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS (SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 

2018/2019 ADVANCED ACADEMIA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 

FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS (SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES)

With the support of a donor within the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2018/2019 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships for fundamental research in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. 

OBJECTIVE

CAS Sofia is an independent Institute with international and multidisciplinary profile. Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, it promotes high-level scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities. In addition to supporting focus-group research, CAS Sofia invites outstanding scholars to pursue their individual research projects during in-residence periods of up to five months. The invited Fellows participate in the intellectual life and the scholarly community of the Centre (Bulgarian and foreign fellows) while working on projects of their own choice. Fellows receive adequate material and intellectual support and can profit from the Centre's wide international networks, international seminar- and guest-lecturer programme. CAS Sofia assists Fellows in all practical matters concerning travel, residence and research in Sofia.

FORMAT

CAS Sofia provides in-residence fellowships of two- to five- month duration to post-doctoral non-Bulgarian researchers. Junior as well as Senior scholars are invited to apply. 

    The selected Fellows are entitled to: 

    A monthly stipend of 700 euro* (liable to 10% income tax) to cover living expenses related to the stay in Sofia. 

    Accommodation in Sofia, comprising living quarters and working space. The Fellows will also have free access to the CAS library and electronic resources/databases. 

    Travel allowance (up to 400 euro);

    Research expenses (up to 250 Euro).

DURATION AND CONDITIONS

Candidates may apply for two periods: 

    1 March 2018 - 31 July 2018 (Summer semester)

    1 October 2018 - 28 February 2019 (Winter semester)

N.B. The final invitation for fellowship depends on the ranking of the application and the preferred period. Availability for both periods is an advantage for the applicant. Please, indicate in the application form whether you prefer one or either period.

The selected Fellows shall take part in the regular Fellow seminars and the other scientific events organized by the Centre (workshops, conferences, lectures, etc.) and present their project in lectures or seminars. The results of their work shall be summarized in a paper (in English), to be published in the electronic CAS Working Paper Series. 

ELIGIBILITY

Candidates must:

    Be non-Bulgarian citizens; 

    Have completed a PhD in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences; 

    International research experience (participation in projects and refereed conferences) and publications in peer-reviewed academic editions are strong advantages. 

WORKING LANGUAGE

As an international academic institution CAS conducts most of its work in English, which is also the language of the fellow seminars. Therefore, a good command of English is required.

APPLICATION

Please carefully consider the former two documents when preparing your application. They can be downloaded also from www.cas.bg. 

For Junior scholars (up to 8 years after PhD defense**) only: two letters of recommendation by scholars familiar with the applicant’s academic work should be emailed to CAS by the referees. 

All application documents should be presented in English and sent by e-mail to dimov@cas.bg with a subject entry “Advanced Academia Fellowships.” 

Deadline for applications: May 31, 2017

SELECTION CRITERIA

High quality of the candidate's academic portfolio and publications, participation in international research; 

Innovative fundamental research proposal with significant contribution; 

Interdisciplinary and/or comparative approaches are an advantage.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

The selection will be carried out by the international Academic Council of CAS based on evaluation of the potential of the candidate relative to his/her career stage and the quality of the proposed project. Short-listed candidates will be invited for an on-line interview. The results will be announced in November 2017 by e-mail and at the website of the institute: http://www.cas.bg/. Members of the CAS Academic Council do not disclose to candidates their assessment reports.

The Academic Council reserves the right, in cases of candidatures with equal assessment, to give preferentiality to candidates who have not been CAS Fellows during the preceding 5 years or have already been granted two CAS fellowships. 

CONTACT PERSON AND MAILING ADDRESS

Mr. Dimiter Dimov, e-mail: dimov@cas.bg 

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia; Sofia 1000, 7-B, Stefan Karadja Str, 

tel.: + 359 2 9803704 / fax: + 359 2 9803662 

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* The amount is consistent with the prices in Bulgaria and is sufficient to cover the living costs of the fellows. 

**  Extensions to this period may be allowed in case of eligible career breaks which must be properly documented (maternity leave, long-term illness leave, national service, etc.).

Contact Info: 

Dimiter Dimov

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia; Sofia 1000, 7-B, Stefan Karadja Str, 

tel.: + 359 2 9803704 / fax: + 359 2 9803662

Contact Email: 

dimov@cas.bg

URL: 

http://cas.bg/