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Tuesday, December 6, 2016


Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Graduate Conference 2017



Guilty Pleasures and Confessional Spaces: Storytelling and the Digital Dionysus

March 31 - April 1, 2017

Ninth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Call for Papers

Although cultural conceptions of shame, punishment, and voyeuristic pursuits have reconfigured themselves across different eras and cultures, the inherent and hidden pleasures of transgression remain—linking desires, actions, and modes of thought. Individual pleasures stand in stark contrast to socially defined constructions of guilt and shame—particularly in the generation of postmemory. Palimpsestic experiences of trauma, pain, and the past continue to shape our memories, expectations, and how we communicate. These recurring themes and the strictures that legislate how pleasure is performed in public and private spaces can shape the pleasures we derive from transgressing them.

This conference seeks to interrogate the implicit and explicit relationships between the crimes we commit, the structures we violate, and the stories we tell. Specifically, we intend to investigate the notion of space—both imaginary and concretely defined—and the role it plays in shaping contemporary discourses of pleasure and punishment. Additionally, this conference will engage with these discourses in the age of information. How does this liminal space—an online bacchanalia of obscured identities, open transgression of social and cultural norms, and hidden impulses writ large—function as a construct that facilitates unique and revolutionary means of seeing and communicating on a global level?

Possible session topics include but are not limited to:

    Confessional acts as sites of pleasure
    Pleasure and transgression as a form of escapism
    Palimpsest, postmemory and collective trauma
    Post-colonialism & memory/ narrative
    Memory construction and storytelling in guilty societies
    Biopolitics: state-controlled bodies and narratives
    Cultural displacement and legislation of hybrid identities
    Violating  and transgressing notions of space
    Transgressive, anonymous and public identities in the digital world
    Cultural memory and digital humanities
    Voyeurism, Orientalism and the exoticized Other

Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be comprised of the keynote address and panels on Friday, followed by additional panels on Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues presented and discussed in more detail and depth. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel so that they can participate in the entire event, including the workshop.  There will also be a closing reception Saturday evening, which is open to all participants and audience members.

Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by January 27, 2017.  Selected participants will be notified by February 3, 2017.

You can also visit our webpage for additional information about the conference: http://fll.unm.edu/clcs-graduate-conference/call-for-papers.php  

Note: Housing available with graduate students and limited travel funding may be also available, please inquire!



Sunday, December 4, 2016

The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2017
Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
Thursday, June 1 - Sunday, June 4, 2017

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 12, 2017

Registration Deadline for Presenters: April 14, 2017


Conference Theme: “Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging”


The theme for the Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 in Osaka was “Borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing”. In his presentation, Conference Co-Chair Professor Baden Offord wrote “Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways.”

Now we revisit that territory under the title “Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging”. While retaining the ideas expressed by Prof. Offord in 2014, this conference will turn its focus on to the precariousness of life across the world, life being understood in all its amplitude. Since 2014 we have witnessed the horror of the refugee crisis in Europe and how borders which should have been crossed have been blocked off by barbed wire fences. The whole context of borders, belonging and survival has shifted resulting in an increase in racism, radical nationalisms, terrorism, infringements of human rights, and rising poverty levels, to mention only a few of the globalised problems confronting our world. The result of such precarity, even of the planet itself, has led to a generalised sense of communal and individual vulnerability.

Raimond Gaita recently noted, “It is striking how often people now speak of ‘a common humanity’ in ethically inflected registers, or ethically resonant tones that express a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth, or sometimes the hope for such a fellowship.” Hopefully, this conference will discuss the ways and means by which a “common humanity” may be aspired to by future generations.

The organisers encourage submissions that approach the conference theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme.

Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

Conference Theme and Streams

Conference Theme: "Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging"
The conference theme for ACCS2017 is "Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging", 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:

Black Feminism
Critical Legal Studies
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Geography
Cultural History
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies Pedagogy
Education
Gender studies / Feminist Theory
Justice Studies
Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies
Media Studies
Orientalism
Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Queer Theory
Social Criticism
Sociology
Visual Culture


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: January 12, 2017
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: Usually within two weeks of submission
Full conference registration payment for all presenters: April 14, 2017
Full paper submission: July 4, 2017

How to Submit
Register with our online submission system.
Create your account. Your email address will be used as your username and you will be asked to submit a password.
Submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, choosing from the presentation formats listed below (Individual, Poster or Virtual).
Submit well before the submission deadline in order to benefit from Early Bird rates.
Your proposal will normally be reviewed within two to three weeks after undergoing a double blind peer review. Those who submit near the extended deadline will usually receive results by January 26, 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 accs@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 July 4, 2017.



Ways to Present

Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
This is the standard format for presentation and involves the presenter delivering their research to their audience, often accompanied by a PowerPoint slideshow. Oral Presentations are generally organised by stream into parallel sessions comprising three or four presentations.

Poster Presentation (90 minutes)
A poster presentation provides a relaxed presentation atmosphere in which the presenter uses a poster pinned to a poster board (1800mm high by 900mm wide) to illustrate their research. Presenters will often engage with interested participants on a one-to-one basis, which is great for networking, discussion and relationship building.

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

Following the conference, virtual presenters will be mailed a conference pack, including receipt of payment, certificate of participation and a printed copy of the Conference Programme.
The Vimeo channel will be referenced on all conference materials.
There is no limit to length or style but certain restrictions apply to files size and music selection. Guidelines and further information on creating the video will be sent following registration.
Please note that video presentations are to be created by the author. IAFOR does not permit live video conferencing.
We do not allow presentations by video-conferencing but presenters have the opportunity to submit a video of their presentation, which will be placed on the official Vimeo channel. Information on how to do this will be sent following registration.
Workshop Presentation (60 to 90 minutes)
A workshop is a brief, intensive course, lasting 60 to 90 minutes, which is led by an experienced practitioner, usually with a Ph.D. It facilitates group interaction and the exchange of information amongst a smaller number of participants than is usual at a plenary session.

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

Symposium Presentation (90 minutes)

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

An introduction
3 or 4 oral presentations based on submitted abstracts
A discussion
As the organiser of a proposed panel, submit a proposal for the symposium through the online system.
Symposiums presenters can either submit a joint paper or separate papers to the conference proceedings.



Review System and Scheduling Requests

Authors as Reviewers: A Reciprocal System
Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment to ensuring adherence to international norms of abstract peer review. IAFOR relies on a large number of international scholars from around the world to contribute to a shared vision of promoting and engaging in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, and if you are taking part in an IAFOR event, then that means you. Authors may be asked to review up to five abstracts for the conference. You are under no obligation to participate in this reciprocal system, but if you are selected to review, and undertake this task of grading abstracts for the the conference you will be credited in the conference programme.

Scheduling Requests
Requests for specific times and days for presentations are not usually allowed due to the large number of participants. We ask that you reserve requests for religious reasons or other exceptional and unavoidable circumstances.

We hope that participants attend each day in order to have a rewarding conference experience. If you must put in a scheduling request, you may only request one black-out day -- one day to not present at the conference. Requests for specific days or times will not be accepted.

Scheduling requests will not be accepted after the registration deadline.


Conference Proceedings
Once you have registered, you can submit your final paper via the online submission system anytime until July 4, 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 August 4, 2017.



Publication and Licensing Issues
Abstracts, research papers, articles, video footage, images, and other forms of print and digital media will be made available by IAFOR to the general public on an open access, online basis.

By submitting to an open access agreement under Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Non Commercial International an author or creator is hereby granting IAFOR an exclusive license for the full period of copyright throughout the world, including the exclusive right to publish, distribute, or communicate, their original submitted work in any IAFOR publication, whether in an online, electronic or print format, be that in whole, partial or modified form.

Authors retain originating copyright of their own work but through the act of agreeing to transfer the license to IAFOR under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Attribution Non Commercial International conditions allow IAFOR to take measures on behalf of authors against infringement, inappropriate use of an article, libel or plagiarism of any work, materials or content attributed under this license by other parties and allows IAFOR to monitor, uphold and maintain the integrity of an abstract, paper or article and its author once refereed and accepted for publication or public exhibition.

All publications and digital media produced for the conference will be openly archived on the IAFOR research archive.
 More details at visit us  http://iafor.org/


Wednesday, November 30, 2016


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

May 6-8, 2017
Place: Macau, China


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


Call for Papers

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

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




Submission

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

Formatting Template (DOC) (IJSSH)

Submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the Conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the Conference and are subject to both review and editing.
Note: For a few authors who don't expect any publication of your papers, you're welcome to submit the abstracts to ichss@iedrc.net.

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


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

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



Registration

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


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

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


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

Monday, November 28, 2016

Asian Conference on Literature 2017

Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan

Thursday, March 30 - Sunday, April 2, 2017

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2017

Registration Deadline for Presenters: February 15, 2017


Conference Theme: “History, Story, Narrative”

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Conference Theme and Streams


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

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


Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:


Literature - African Literature

Literature - Ancient & Classical Literature

Literature - Anglo-American Literature

Literature - Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature

Literature - Asian Literature

Literature - Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Literature - Comparative Literature

Literature - European Literature

Literature - Folktales, Myths and Legends

Literature - Historical and Political Literature

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

Literature - Latin American Literature

Literature - Literary Criticism and Theory

Literature - Literary Practice

Literature - Literary Translation and Translatology

Literature - Literature and Film

Literature - Literature, Language and Identity

Literature - Literature and Religion

Literature - Poetry

Literature - Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism

Literature - Memoir and Autobiography

Literature - Teaching Literature

Literature - Travel Writing

Literature - Theatre and Drama


Conference Proceedings

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

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

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



Abstract Submission Process

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


Deadlines

Abstracts submission: Extended to January 15, 2017

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

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

Full paper submission: May 2, 2017

How to Submit

Register with our online submission system.

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

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

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

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

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

Status of Submission

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

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

Ways to Present

Oral Presentation (25 minutes)

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


Poster Presentation (90 minutes)

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


Virtual Presentation

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


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

The Vimeo channel will be referenced on all conference materials.

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

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

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

Workshop Presentation (60 to 90 minutes)

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

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


Symposium Presentation (90 minutes)

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

An introduction

 3 or 4 oral presentations based on submitted abstracts

A discussion

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

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

We look forward to meeting you in Kobe, Japan!

The Organising Committee..

  • Dr A. Robert Lee, Nihon University (retd.), Japan
  • Professor Myles Chilton, Nihon University, Japan
  • Dr Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan
  • Dr Brian Daizen Victoria – Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK
  • Tan Tarn How – National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Dr Joseph Haldane – The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
For more details visit us at http://iafor.org/conferences/librasia2017/

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARABIC STUDIES & ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
 2017

Call for Papers
The conference focuses on research related to the study of Arabic and Islamic Civilization. It covers all scientific disciplines and issues related to it. The conference brings together scholars, academicians and professionals who are involved directly or indirectly with the discipline of Arabic linguistics and study of Islamic knowledge from all over the world to present their research results. The Conference is organized by Worldconferences.net.
The objectives of this conference is to establish the Arabic and Islamic knowledge in the eyes of the global community . The conference will also discuss on issues related to the field of Arabic linguistics and Islamic knowledge in theory and practical .
The language medium: We accept articles in Malay , English and Arabic .
Download iCaisic2017_Sample_Paper_Format 
– Send your fullpaper to icasic.wcr@gmail.com



Sub- theme of the conference:
Arabic Sociolinguistics
Arabic Psycholinguistics
Modern Linguistics ( Arabic )
Arabic Education
Arabic language skills
Teaching Arabic language skills
semantic knowledge
Lexicography and Arabic Terminology
Knowledge on Balaghah
Translation
Islamic Education
Syariah Islamiyyah
Dakwah Islamiyyah
Knowledge of Tasawuf
The Islamic Faith
Islamic Economics
integration of knowledge
Hadith Nabawi and ulum al – Hadith
Quran and Tafseer
Islamic Civilization
General issues related to the study of Arabic and Islamic Sciences
Noted: Notification of acceptance will email within one week of Submission of Abstract / Full Paper..S
Submit Your Abstracts
http://worldconferences.net/icasic/submit-abstract/


IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission
15th January 2017

Acceptance of Abstract
30th January 2017

Full paper Submission Deadline
15th February 2017

Full paper Acceptance Notification
20th February 2017

Early-bird Fee until
31st December 2016

Conference Dates
27th & 28th March 2017

Venue
Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


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

Enquiries: icasic.wcr@gmail.com
Web address: http://worldconferences.net/icasic/
The Conference is organized by Worldconferences.net.
Mobile/WhatsApp: +60136777360 (Redzaudin Ghazali)

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Call For Abstracts

3rd Conference on Translation in Transition

 {13-14 JULY-2017}

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


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

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

  • Translation and interpreting process research
  • Corpus-based translation and interpreting research
  • Multivariate statistical analysis of translational and interpreting data
  • Corpus- and process-based research of audio-visual translation, sign language interpreting etc.
  • Reading, writing and post-editing processes in translation and interpreting
  • Translation and interpreting cognition
  • Speech recognition and translation
  • Intelligent machine translation
Important dates:
  • 10.11.2016: First CFP
  • 07.02.2017: Deadline for submissions
  • 01.04.2017:  Registration opens
  • 13-14.07.2017:  Symposium

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

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

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Manly Matters

Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice


Call for Papers

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

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

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

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


Our Vision Statement:

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


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

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

About us:

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


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

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



2 Dehejia, Vidya. “Issues of Spectatorship and Representation.” In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 1-21. New Delhi: Kali for Women in association with The Book Review Literary Trust, 1997, quote on p.17.
3 Reeser, Todd W. Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
4 Jain, “Muscularity and its Ramifications,” 7.
5 Srivastava, Sanjay, “Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a ‘Happy Married Life’: Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis” In Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia, edited by Sanjay Srivastava, 342-390 New Delhi: Sage, 2005, p. 370.


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