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Saturday, December 17, 2016




Call for Papers
"India, the self and the other: Conflict, Dialogue and Synthesis"


9th Annual Debrupa Bal Memorial National Students’ Seminar.
Date: 3-4 February, 2017
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University



Concept Note:
India, like any other cartographical domain, is not just a geographical space but a historical and ideological construction in itself. A myriad cultural(social, religious, political and economic) presences exert cardinal influences in the congregation of India or the ‘Indian self’. These diversified presences also make it difficult to claim a pure, unadulterated, homogenous 'Indian' identity. The colonial onslaught also had a profound impact on the said identity.
This seminar will address both the exclusionary as well as the inclusionary dialectics with respect to the construction of Indian identity/identities. It will be an enquiry into the processes, material and ideological, that construct the notion of the self, and how they create the ‘other’ addressing the dialogic of exclusion as well as assimilation. In addition to the enquiry into what is the ‘other’ as opposed to or emanated from the 'self' – the imagination of 'India' by the ‘other’ and the ‘other’ by that of 'India' is significant, since the imagining apparatus is often moulded by perspectives emerging from living imbrications in different locations. The multi-ethnic fabric of India has the self-other dynamics playing within its geographic boundary as well populated by differentially discerned nexuses of ‘otherization’. Keeping in mind a wide gamut of literary/artistic/cultural productions that articulate the conflict, dialogue, and synthesis of the self-other dynamics in pertinence to India, this conference invites papers addressing, but not necessarily restricting, themselves to the following sub-themes:
• India as envisaged by the West and vice versa
• Orientalism and response
• Diasporic texts
• Travel writing in, about, and beyond, India
• The multi-ethnic Indian fabric
• Urban-rural interface
• Classic , canon and transgression
• Gender, class and race
• Popular media
• Indigenous productions




Abstracts clearly mentioning the the title of the paper, name, designation and contact details of the author(s) and not exceeding 300 words are to be submitted by 21st December, 2016 to dbms.ju17@gmail.com
Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 10th January, 2017.
Full papers need to be submitted by 26th January, 2017.

For further enquiry, contact:
Parthasarathi Bhaumik (bhaumikps@gmail.com)
Krishnendu Pal (krishnendupopopal@gmail.com)

Thursday, December 15, 2016

The 2017 International Education Social Sciences & Humanities Research Conference In London

DATES: 5 - 7 April 2017

VENUE: The  Imperial London Russell Square London UK


Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 (Miss a deadline please Contact us via email)

OVERVIEW
The ICBTS Conference Center, four years ago for organized conference, hosts the International Conference Education Social Sciences and Humanities in London to promote all academic research in the field.

Please join us for the ICBTS 2017 International Academic Conference Education Social Sciences and Humanities. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their ideas, proposals, or completed research in all areas of education. Since 20 to 30 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with a different perspective. An extensive list of acceptable topics is available on our website. 

We will be held at Imperial London Hotel Russell Square London that is best all every thing.

The Topic of Research:

Education
-Distance Education
-E-learning
-Higher Education
-Lifelong learning
-Teaching and learning
-Primary Education

Social Sciences Humanities
-Arts
-Anthropology
-Art History
-Humanities
-History
-English
-Information Sciences
-Islamic Studies
-Language
-Linguistics
-Literature
-Local Govrnment
-Law
-Music
-Museums and heritage
-Occupational Sciences
-Philosophy
-Poetry
-Politics
-Popular Culture
-Psychology
-Religious studies
-Social Sciences
-Sociology
-Woman's history

International Business
-Advertising
-Banking and finance
-Business
-Business Ethics
-E-commerce
-Economics
-Human Resources
-Management
-Marketing

Tourism Hospitality
-Tourism
-Hospitality
-Hotel management
-Transport

INQUIRIES
Inquiries: conferenceteam@icbtsconference.com
Web address:
http://www.icbtsconference.com/15663526/london-education-social-sciences-humanities
Sponsored by: The ICBTS 2017


Full-length papers, topics of paper, reviews, research-in-progress papers, case studies and /or abstracts,  relating to all areas of Social Sciences, Humanities,Language, Linguistics, Literature, Arts, English, Art History, Islamic Studies, Local government, Museums, Heritage, Music, Poetry, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Religious Studies are invited for the above international conference. An author can present up to two papers. This Conference supported by International Journal of Business Tourism and Applied Sciences (index list in Paris, France) Vol. 3 No.2

This conference several academic please choose submitted  :

* International Education Social Sciences and Humanities Research Conference

Submission, Review Process and Announcement of Acceptance

Please submit full papers and/or abstracts not over 20 November 2016 (please note you can submitted papers anytime before this deadline). To submit paper, please click on “Paper Submitted” Link in the website and fill in the form, attach your paper and click submitted. You can submit full paper or abstract which will be blind reviewed. The notice relating to acceptance of abstract and/or full paper will be provided within 2 weeks after we receive them. Please see the submission guidelines.

Written Feedback and Publications Opportunity

Quality papers will be considered for publication in the following international peer reviewed by IJBTS journals with ISSN: 2286-9700, IJBTS international Journal of Business Tourism and Applied Sciences. World Journal of Global Business Management Economy Finance Banking Tourism and Sciences Technology However the best quality papers will be considered for IJBTS Journal, subject to compliance to review report, editorial comments, conference feedback and payment of applicable submission fees.

Awards and Conference Proceedings and other Benefits

Best paper award will be announced in each track and will be published in any of the above journals and a certificate will be issued to the events. All accepted abstract and full papers  (for those who register for the conference) will be published in the refereed conference proceedings with ISBN and will be published electronically via a separate website, namely, www.ijbts-journal.com which also contains proceedings of previous conferences and efforts will be made to publish via google scholar. There is an option that the participant can serve as session chair and/or discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest and certificate will be issued to such participant.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please click on the links provided on www.icbtsconference.com for more information.

For other enquiries please email Dr.Chayanan Kerdpitak via email address: Conferenceteam@icbtsconference.com

Academic Advisory Program Chairs:

Professor Dr. Kai Heuer, Wismar University, Germany

Professor Dr. Ebrahim Soltani, Hamdunbin Smart University, Dubai UAE

Program Chair:

Dr. Chayanan Kerdpitak, CK Research Thailand

Dr. Vipin Naddaa, Universissty of Sunderland, London UK

Tuesday, December 13, 2016


Call For Papers


Two Day National Seminar on 


Trans (gendered) Lives: Praxis of Silence and Exclusion

UGC SPONSORED , organised by Department of English, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, University of Delhi



7-8 February, 2017
Themes
Broad areas to be covered by the seminar:
• discursive and non-discursive strategies used by trans writers
• Review of Trangender literature
• Discourse on transgender bodies and identities
• Transgender narratives and counter narratives
• Understanding transgender identities and it's overlapping categories of transexual, transvestite, androgyne, cross-dresser, etc.
• Indian and western perspectives on transgender
• Art, literature and films as modes of transgender expressions and resistance




Abstract Submission
Please mail the abstract of the paper in about 300 words to Harpreet Bahri at harpreetbahri@gmail.com by 31 December 2016. And a soft copy of the paper by 10 January 2017.
Kindly keep to the following format:
Font size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman

Contact Details
Harpreet Bahri ( Convenor of the Seminar)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi
Email: harpreetbahri@gmail.com
9811208178
01125573610

Tuesday, December 6, 2016


Call For Papers
International Conference:
“Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies”

Co-sponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program
October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA



The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017 International Conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” that will be cosponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program. 

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research (http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr) is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides. One of the Center’s primary research themes is Digital Genocide Studies. 

Digital technologies have begun to significantly influence contemporary scholarship, theories, and methods in the social sciences and humanities. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites scholars from all disciplines to examine the relationships between digital methodologies, practices, ethics and contemporary Holocaust and genocide studies. How can digital humanities shape, challenge, or complement contemporary genocide studies and vice versa?

The two-day international conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” will be held on October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. The conference will investigate the ways in which digital tools and methods, new media, and information technologies can help us to challenge conventional wisdom regarding Holocaust and Genocide Studies by raising new questions, improving our understanding, deepening our analysis, widening our field of view, or pioneering new approaches. Especially of interest would be how digital humanists from a range of disciplines and methodologies can broaden our methodological approaches to the study of the causes, consequences, and prevention of genocide. We encourage diverse approaches to the conference theme that draw from a wide variety of critical lenses and approaches, as well as focus on any time period, case study, or medium.

Submissions on the following themes are particularly encouraged:

Digital methodologies and their applicability to genocide studies

Quantitative genocide research

Big data methodologies and comparative genocide studies

cagr.usc.edu

Digital technologies (such as wearable devices, 3D printing, and others) and their

applicability to genocide studies

Creation, curation, promotion and analysis of digital genocide resources and collections

Audio and visual genocide testimonies and their digitization, preservation, and

accessibility

Social, institutional, global/regional, multicultural, and multilingual aspects of digital

genocide research

Ethics of digital genocide studies

Tools and methods of genocide studies that could fruitfully contribute to or influence the

digital sphere and the field of digital humanities

Founded in 2014, the Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the USC Shoah Foundation. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides, focusing on the origins of genocide and how to intervene in the cycle that leads to mass violence. The Center organizes annual international workshops and conferences, hosts a speaker series on genocide and mass violence, and offers a competitive international research fellowship program. For further information please consult: http://cagr.usc.edu.


The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive holds over 54,000 digitized and fully searchable video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan,Guatemalan and Armenian genocides, and the Nanjing Massacre in China. The interviews were conducted in 41 languages and in 62 countries. They encompass the experiences not only of survivors in these contexts, but also of witnesses, liberators, aid providers, and war crimes trials participants.

The USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program enables postdoctoral and graduate student fellows to gain training in emerging digital technologies while advancing research in the humanities. A partnership between the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC Libraries, the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program possesses a unique set of attributes that positions our fellows to emerge from USC with extensive understanding of compelling problems, deep connections to scholars working in their areas of expertise, and enhanced digital skills developed through multi-disciplinary training in state-of-the-art techniques and technologies.

We welcome proposals for single paper presentations and for theme-specific panels comprising no more than three presenters. 

Please send a CV and a one-page abstract of the proposed paper or an abstract of the proposed panel plus an abstract of each paper of the proposed panel before January 15, 2016 to cagr@usc.edu.

Travel support will be available. Please include your travel request with your abstract.  


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/