MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE
International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, In
The next issue of Diffractions explores immateriality in artistic and cultural practices as a form of both expression and resistance. For centuries, the histories of artistic practices (as well as historiographies and historicities) have been anchored to materiality and the production of objects. As Michel Claura argues, “[t]he history of art is the history of the technique of art (1969, 83). Indeed, curatorship as we know it today initially developed around objects and their nee
Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a conference to foster critical thinking
and meaningful discussion on the discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark
discussion on the importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is
fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction. In this case, the
more we know, the more we grow, and this year’s conference intends to high
Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a conference to foster critical thinking
and meaningful discussion on the discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark
discussion on the importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is
fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction. In this case, the
more we know, the more we grow, and this year’s conference intends to high
Call for Papers
Steinbeck, Race, and Ethnicity
A Special Issue of Steinbeck Review
Like many American authors who rose to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century, John Steinbeck came from an economically privileged Protestant family of European descent and grew up in a socially and religiously conservative environment. Like many of his contemporaries, he distanced himself from his upbringing in his fiction, rejecting the authority of government, of
Every city possesses a unique and valuable identity that is expressed through its physical and visual form. This identity is perceived by its residents and users, shaping their collective memories. The city's identity comprises its physical spaces and the images formed through memory cues, which in turn affect tourism, education, culture, and economic prosperity. Arts and architecture play a significant role in shaping the history of civilizations and fostering the growth of ancient and moder
The Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism at Western University 2024 Annual Theory Conference
Reapproaching Walter Benjamin: The Task of Theory Today
CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: January 15th, 2024
We are pleased to announce the in-person 2024 Annual Theory Conference, hosted by The Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism at Western University from Friday, 19 April — Saturday, 20 April 2024.
The historian capable o
It is our pleasure to invite all scientists, academicians, young researchers, business delegates and students from all over the world to attend the International Meet on Women Health and Breast Cancer will be held in Rome, Italy during November 07-09, 2024.
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals for the collected work, Moving in with Trauma, edited by Michelle Zheng. This edited volume aims to broach the topic of living with Trauma to ask the question - We have always lived with Trauma, but how do we embrace Trauma into our lives? What does it mean to foster an understanding, or what place does it have in the world we live in?
In recent years, critical considerations of aesthetics or beauty have been de-emphasised in literary c
Special Issue of Sociological Problems / Summer 2024
The year 1985 seems to be memorable in the movement to better understand the relationship between science and its public. The Royal Society issued a report, a.k.a Bodmer Report that claimed a new paradigm in the field the so-called Public Understanding of Science. The analysis set a critical tone in the attitude towards science communication. It draws significant attention to the need to develop key competencies
We are delighted to welcome you to the University of Birmingham!
The theme of the 2024 symposium will be “Dickens, Context and Co-occurrence. We invite you to think of the various contexts that Dickens’s works are set in, connect to, and imagine. Contexts are where things co-occur — with various effects.
Topics of papers can cover Dickens and the context of theatre, the world of fashion, or the natural environment; Dickens and changing contexts through
Introduction
The interaction between objects like wearable electronics, augmented reality devices, home appliances, transportation means, energy grids, manufacturing machinery and healthcare facilities is becoming a reality. This model is known as the Internet of Things (IoT), in which things refer to intelligent objects with some processing power and storage capacity, and has unique identifiers which connect them to the Internet. IoT represents a new generation of ub
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
26-30 August, 2024
Convenors of Seminar 38:
Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de
Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva, Spain) villegas@uhu.es
Online Seminar proposal:
38. TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES: EUROPEAN WOMEN’
International Seminar
Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction
University of Huelva, Spain
17-18 October, 2024
Traditional approaches to the ‘origins of the novel’ question in the English context have often overlooked the role played by women’s contribution to the development of the genre. Minor works, anonymous texts, ficti
Over the last number of years, Indian classical dance traditions have seen major shifts in terms of practice, pedagogy, and performance, both ‘at home’ in India and in diaspora contexts. These changes have been intensified most recently by two primary and co-related phenomena; the global adoption of specific algorithmic social media and streaming platforms, and lockdown restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. What happens to the embodied physical presence on vir
Conference online: 18-19 January 2024
CFP:
In our increasingly fast-paced societies, where information is abundant and its reception is superficial, human memory appears to be an endangered phenomenon. This is why we would like to take a closer look at the complex processes of memory. These include forgetting, neglecting, negation, and detachment, along with creating, recollecting, remembering, regaining memories, and reconstructing one’s relationship with the past
Call For Papers:
Special issue of the Journal AI & Society (https://www.springer.com/journal/146):
The Impact of Generative AI on Human Creativity.
The rapid rise of generative AI technologies in applications of human creative practice — including visual art, illustration, cinema, writing, performance and music — has raised both opportunities and questions regarding the future of human and machine creativity, and more broadly around human cu
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Book: **"Augmenting Retail Reality: Blockchain, AR, VR, and Beyond"**
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We are excited to invite you and your esteemed research team to contribute chapter(s)/articles for our upcoming book, "Augmenting Retail Reality: Blockchain, AR, VR, and Beyond," under the prestigious Emerald Publishers, United Kingdom.
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Conference online (via Zoom)
18-19 January 2024
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
In our increasingly fast-paced societies, where information is abundant and its reception is superficial, human memory appears to be an endangered phenomenon. This is why we would like to take a closer look at the complex processes of memory. These include forgetting, neglecting, negation, and detachment, along with creating, recollecting, remembering, regaining memories, and recon
The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique
World Literature is a field that can be situated nowadays somewhere between tautology and paradox since literature has always aspired to acquire a universal meaning which could be shared by any nation or individual, but at the same time, literature has always rejected uniformity and cannot be made subject to global, common standards.
It is clear that “world literature has become a fashionable discipline over the last few decades. It tried, sometimes combatively, to disrupt
Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries), Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Saturday, 28 September 2024
Congress organizer: Lehrstuhl für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Prof. Dr. Michele C. Ferrari), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Kochstr. 4/3, D-91054 Erlangen (www.mittellatein.phil.fau.de)
Epic, beyond other genres, has been both a guarantor of cultural continuity for millennia and a site of fundamental
We have the great pleasure of inviting you to WOW PHYSIO — The First International Women Physiotherapy Congress & Awards in 2023 taking place in the amazing city of Dubai from December 9—10, 2023. [Theme: Celebrating and Elevating Womanhood in Physiotherapy]
The congress will focus on the latest in business, education, leadership, and practice in physiotherapy. let us recognize, support, and promote the development of womanhood across professional bounda
MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture | postcollapse.art
OPEN CALL - Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989
We are pleased to invite artists, writers, and scholars to submit work for publication in Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989, a book anthology that seeks to explore contemporary art and visual culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.
Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989 is an art and theory book t
Dear all,
We would like to share with you the call for contributions to be published in the Special Section and in the General Section of the 35th issue (Sept 2024) of RSAJournal, the Journal of the Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA).
The General Section accepts full contributions on any topic pertaining to American Studies, to be submitted through our website by February 8, 2024.
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