CKS 2019 — “CHALLENGES OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
17th -18th MAY 2019, BUCHAREST
The main purpose of this International Scientific Conference — organized by “Nicolae Titulescu University and "Nicolae Titulescu" Foundation for Law and International Relations, Complutense University of Madrid and Deusto University of Bilbao — is to provide an
International Conference "Migrating World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration"
23 March, 2019 — University of Greenwich, London
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington
Migration has been a constant feature of human history — &ldq
“Parties, Festivals and Celebrations International Conference
20 July 2019 — London, UK
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Traditional celebrations are a key part of any culture: whether it is a wedding, a harvest festival, a religious holiday, or a national observance, celebrations are woven tightly into cultural identity. Whether it is the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice’s Adventures in Won
International Conference on European Studies: “Brexit — Europe without the UK
30 March 2019 — London, UK
organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
On 23 June 2016 51.9% of the British population voted the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. The referendum came as a shock not only to the Continent but to the whole world, and has divided the country and the nation. The Brexiteers argue in favour of autonomous economy, in
Call for Papers: New Directions in Italian Fiction
La Fusta, the digital Italian Studies journal edited by the Italian Graduate Society at Rutgers University, is now welcoming submissions in English or Italian. Issue 27 (Spring 2019) will concentrate on the theme “New Generations of Italian Writers. Articles, book reviews, and creative writing are being considered for publication.
Premio Strega, Premio Campiello, and other
IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Neurohumanities
Promises & Threats
Lisbon, July 1-6, 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2019
When the US government declared the 1990s “The decade of the brain, it aimed at raising public awareness toward the use of neuroscience for the enhance
The study seeks to critically deconstruct and assess American foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Exploring U.S foreign policy in Africa presents an opportunity to better conceptualize not only the general increased interest in Africa; it allows for a better understanding of the role of the United States in propagating this interest, and further serves to identify the opportunities and challenges that are present within this context. This topic additionally offers an interesting opportunity
The study seeks to critically deconstruct and assess American foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Exploring U.S foreign policy in Africa presents an opportunity to better conceptualize not only the general increased interest in Africa; it allows for a better understanding of the role of the United States in propagating this interest, and further serves to identify the opportunities and challenges that are present within this context. This topic additionally offers an interesting opportunity
The University of Rhode Island
13th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
April 13, 2019
Knowledge Across Borders: Conversations Among Disciplines
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Solomon Friedberg
Department of Mathematics, Boston College
We would like to encourage graduate students from all disciplines to submit projects they are currently working on, or have completed in th
Taking Shakespeare and his theatrical world as a temporal and locative point of departure, this seminar brings together papers engaging with depictions of gender in different nations of people and across political borders from the 16th century to the present. With numerous studies over the last four decades that address gender in Shakespeare’s works and on stage, we aim to explore how gender is theorised, staged, and depicted across national and cultural boundaries.
We welcome p
Call for Papers
E-REI
E-Revista de Estudos Interculturais / E-Journal of Intercultural Studies
Nº 7 — 2019
O Centro de Estudos Interculturais (CEI) do ISCAP-P.PORTO iniciou a preparação do 7º
número da E-REI — E-Revista de Estudos Interculturais (ISSN 2182-6439), de
periodicidade anual, a publicar on-line em Maio de 2019, acessível a partir do website do
Torture: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
15th to 16th July 2019
Verona, Italy
As terrorism has seen a new rise in past decades, organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram and similar others are thriving on the fear that is increasingly gripping the world. Their way of spreading horror and gaining the obedience of controlled populations is largely based on mass torture and killing. However, they are far from alone in this practice. Throughout history, torture has been u
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2019
Project name: Is it Okay to Be Gay? How Mainstream Media Culture Influences Gender & Sexuality
Full name / name of organization: Christiane Rinck and Heidi Tilney Kramer, University of South Florida
Contact email: Crinck@usf.edu
IS IT OKAY TO BE GAY? HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA CULTURE INFLUENCES GENDER & SEXUALITY
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The Media Ecology Association invites paper and panel proposals for presentation at its 20th Annual Convention, taking place on 27-30 June 2019 in Toronto.
We welcome submissions that encompass the broad array of disciplines focusing on the study of media as environments, technology and techniques, modes of information, and symbolic codes of communication that constitute media ecology.
We also invite submissions exploring this year’s theme: “Media
The Street and the City — Encounters is the third in a series of multidisciplinary conferences devoted to the study of cities and the ways of living that have evolved in them over time. Although English Studies play a central role in this conference series, both from cultural and geographical points of view, all contributions related to the topic will be considered, in line with the previous conferences: The Street and the City — Awakenings and The Street and The City — Thre
The Lessons of Rome aim at providing a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design expériences, theories as well as practices, legacies, mutations and prospects. It means building knowledge and culture, but also learning and developing tools to conceive the present and enrich contemporary practices.
The L
Acta Informatica Pragensia (ISSN 1805-4951) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the Open Access model of sharing scientific knowledge. The journal covers a broad range of topics dealing with the social and business aspects of informatics. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts via the journal system https://aip.vse.cz/?l=en
+ OPEN ACCESS content
+ UNIVERSITY JOURNAL (published by University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
Inflection is the annual student-run journal from the Melbourne School of Design. Internationally distributed, Inflection explores themes relevant to contemporary architectural discourse through the contributions of students, scholars and practitioners.
Inflection vol. 6 examines the theme of Originals within the discipline of architecture.
??Architects are expected to create original ideas resulting in a unique, bespoke
About MAKE A MOVE
An Art Incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised or independent theatre
/ MaM
The goal of the Make a Move project is to develop and pilot an innovative incubating environment in which small independent cultural operators primarily from the field of contemporary movement-based theatre will have the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional skills and grow their production proposals from the stage of creati
Elie Wiesel believes that “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. With these words in mind, this panel invites abstracts for papers that consider themes of protest in literature, film, and music. Prospective panelists may consider, but are not limited to, texts from authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and James Baldwin, the impact of larger movements such as the Beats,
Anti-Communism in the Twentieth Century: An
International Historical Perspective
Conference Call for Papers, 30-31 May 2019
Queen’s University Belfast
The aim of this conference is to examine the various facets of anti-communism throughout the twentieth century irrespective of focusing on any particular geographical region or limited to a specific sub-field in the study of history. By opening this discussion to scholars re
The paper submission deadline for SCSECS 2019 has been extended to Friday, December 14. A full list of panels can be found at scsecs.net. Please submit abstracts directly to the panel chair. If you don't see a panel that fits your paper idea, you can submit a proposal to conference co-organizer Ashley Bender at abender@twu.edu.
The 2019 annual meeting will be held in Dallas, Texas from 21-23 February. This year’s theme is “The Eighteenth Century i
Portraits/autoportraits in the artistic practices of the Mediterranean region: an overlooked site?
The portrait and the autoportrait hold a prominent position in Art History. Painting and Literature, as well as Theater, Cinema and the Visual Arts, have all been trying to grasp, with their own artistic devices, the features of an individual, known or unknown, whereas various writers and artists have focused, at a particular moment, on the representation of the self.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Marah Gubar — Associate Professor, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Paul Ramchandani — LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Metamorphosis and multiplicity have increasingly come to characterise the media landscape of the twenty-first century. Emerging technologies of production, distribution, and consumption not
11th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
March 22-23, 2019
Negotiating the Borderlands: Identities and Encounters in the Liminal
Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University
Mobility and displacement are elemental realities of our rapidly changing world, forcing populations to migrate, leading to potentially shifting