After some years living in a religious congregation and carrying out pious works in Rome, St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), usually identified as the Third Apostle of Rome, saw the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri formally recognised by a papal bull in 1575. The members of the congregation - known as Oratorians - were secular priests living together under a Rule without having taken religious vows. From early on, the Oratorians were in close connection with parishes, serving as cle
Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Postgraduate Symposium Centre for Modern Studies, University of York
16 May 2020
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster University)
Since the ‘spatial turn’ in the 1970s, scholars, theorists, scientists, and intellectuals across the globe have been carving out new critical, theoretical,
Today, more than ever before, interconnections, flows, interdependencies, crises and/or re-articulations of models and identity challenge the firmness of boundaries and the idea of homogeneity of presupposed, imagined identity communities that are predicated on these boundaries. In this instance, the academia across various disciplines has been facing the challenge of turning from post-colonial approaches towards a global and transcultural vision of the world.
Call for Chapters: Security and Privacy Frameworks in Fog Computing
Introduction
Fog computing, which spread out fog computing to the edge of the network to arrange for computation, networking, and storage services between end devices (e.g., smart sensors, meters) and data centers, has drawn a great deal of attention in recent years. In a fog computing environment, much of the processing will take place locally in smart devices rather than having to be transmitted.. The fog co
In an increasingly precarious and complicated political, social, and cultural landscape—in academia, in activist spaces, and in everyday life—feminist scholars often find themselves at a crossroad between their professional obligations and their desire to make both their teaching and writing continually relevant to a larger public. Feminist scholars are uniquely positioned to advance public knowledge and help maintain a vibrant cultural awareness of issues affecting women and girl
Call for Papers: Media Theory, Media Fiction, and Infrastructures Beyond the Earth
Space exploration mediates how societies envision their future and space exploration would not be possible without media. More obviously, the history of space exploration is closely tied to Cold War military and economic imperatives. Today, established space agencies are struggling with national funding,
(French only as the ACFAS wants to promote Francophone research)
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS Colloque 603 - Subversions des désirs et des plaisirs : sexualités consenties? 88e congrès de l’ACFAS, Association francophone pour le savoir
7 et 8 mai 2020 à l’Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada)
Les dernières années se démarquent par une pluralité de discours et de
“Blood on the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection across Disciplines
18th June 2020: Pre-conference panel on getting published & networking event for postgraduate students and early career researchers and practitioners Supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
The fifth in a series of summer schools brings scholars together to explore the interdisciplinary nature of visual culture and exchange current ideas and approaches in the field. We welcome both scholarly and creative submissions from researchers working in a wide range of disciplines, including art, history, anthropology, philosophy, archaeology, linguistic
International Conference organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park Campus, 29th June 2020
Rising sea levels, droughts, bushfires, and other extreme weather events are exacerbating existing environmental stresses, and provoking unprecedented challenges to states and communities. These growing environmental challenges multiply the risk of social deprivation, po
CFP Issue 2: Media, Materiality and Emergency deadline: 30th June 2020
Guest editor: Dr. Timothy Barker (University of Glasgow)
In what ways do questions of materiality matter in a time of crisis? What does it mean to explore the matter of things at a time when we are threatened with the annihilation of that matter, its disappearance, or its disintegration
1. Creativity is a complex concept that requires a continuous redefinition and interpretation, considering its manifestation areas: individual, educational and social. It is necessary to realize some theoretical delimitations between creativity, innovation, invention and discovery.
2. Approaching the process of creativity from different theoretical perspectives: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanist theory, etc. Defin
In 2018 the international conference “History and Its Images, organized by the Department of Art History of the European University at St. Petersburg, was dedicated to Francis Haskell’s seminal book of the same title, which greatly influenced the study of the visualization of the past. In 2020 we will host a second conference on the representation of the past in the arts a
Chapter proposal submission deadline: 15 March 2020
Since the inception of #MeToo, conversations have largely centered on the movement’s development in the United States. This edited collection focuses on the reception, translation, and adaptation of #MeToo in non-Western, indigenous, and/or postcolonial contexts; it aims to explore how #MeToo, a popularly Western-centric feminist movement, trans
Are women really each other's worse enemy or is it just a myth and a stereotype. What does the research show about women's hostility to other women, sometimes called bullying, in the workplace. Bullying is a learned behavior that gets fine-tuned du
Please be informed that the book will have only one Chapter from Each South Asian country covering comprehensively on poverty, Inequality and Social protection. Hence we will not be giving a number of themes to write your chapter; rather you are requested to write your chapter as per the following guidelines.
Poverty — what poverty looks like in your country, who is the most effected population, what is your take on the international definition of poverty compared to the ground
Silence, unseen, unspeakable, inapreciable, faint, concealed, unheard, impalpable. These are terms that fall within the semantic realm of invisibility. How do we begin to speak about, create alongside, sit with, and/or reflect on what cannot -by definition- be reified?
Invisibility offers the opportunity to retrospectively observe and chronicle what goes
1. Creativity is a complex concept that requires a continuous redefinition and interpretation, considering its manifestation areas: individual, educational and social. It is necessary to realize some theoretical delimitations between creativity, innovation, invention and discovery.
2. Approaching the process of creativity from different theoretical perspectives: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanist theory, etc. Defin
This special session welcomes submissions that view either Sarah Scott’s 1762 Millenium Hall or Frances Burney’s 1796 Camilla (or both novels) through a disability studies lens. Abstracts addressing the SAMLA conference theme (Scandal! Literature & Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts) are especially welcome. By June 10th, please submit an abstract of 200 words, a brief bio, and any A/V requests to Dr. Chris Gabbard, University of North Florida, cgabbard
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA, formerly the American Italian Historical Association, AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic inquiry into all things Italian and Italian American. We welcome independent thinkers, scholars, and academics, past and present, to participate in its annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
The conference will focus on the intersections of local, glocal (characterized by both local and global considerations), and transnational settings,
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DATA SCIENCE FOR MOBILITY April 27 - May 1, 2020 Kastelli Resort, Kamari Village, Santorini, Greece http://master-school.isti.cnr.it
*** Call for Participation ***
MOTIVATION Massive amounts of Spatio-temporal data representing trajectories of moving objects are produced by an ever-increasing number of diverse, real-life applications, ranging from mobile to social media apps and surveillance systems, from vehicle
4th International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
September 24 to 25, 2020, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
For years, the literature on boredom has been crowded with complaints about the scarcity of research on the subject, even though there is a large amount of papers and books on this phenomenon, since philosophers, theologians, sociologists, and writers have reflected on boredom for centuries. The
