EuroFilm 2014 - The Inaugural European Conference on Film and Documentary

EuroFilm 2014 - The Inaugural European Conference on Film and Documentary 17th to 20th July 2014 Brighton, United Kingdom Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014 2014 Conference Theme: "Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy" Enquiries: eurofilm@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/the-european-conference-on-film-2014/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Film and Documentary, to be held from July 17-20, 2014, at the Thistle Hotel Brighton, in the United Kingdom. [Join us in Brighton this July for our European Conferences] Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton, London and the South-East of England, join a global academic community... The European Conference on Film and Documentary, or EuroFilm is the sister conference to the established Asian Conference on Film and Documentary (FilmAsia), and will build on the conversations and partnerships that have developed over the past few years, with this inaugural event in the UK. This event is a remarkable exercise in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion, which encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging lively but respectful dialogue. swansonEuroFilm is an international conference will bring together a number of university scholars working throughout the globe, and will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. We look forward to seeing you at EuroFilm2014! Professor Gary Swanson Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism The University of Northern Colorado, USA Conference Chair 2014 Conference Theme: "Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy" Conflict from earliest times has been a characteristic of the human condition. The struggle between our individual selves and our social selves arises from what makes us unique on the one hand, being challenged by our being part of an interdependent structure of relationships on the other. The specific blend of experiences, abilities, attitudes, and aspirations, that helps to define us, can sit sometimes uncomfortably alongside our commitments to those closest to us, our communities and our cultures. This can lead to conflict at different levels. Conflict within communities and societies is inevitable given that these groups are based on commonality of geography, values, attitudes, and beliefs that help to differentiate one from another. The dialectic engendered by diversity, however, although it may lead to conflict, can play an important role in the expansion of ideas in communities and societies. One major challenge of modern society is to harness the synergy that emerges from the interactive dialectic generated by these differences. All forms of media professionals, including film and documentary-makers, have long recognized these differences and frictions when they try to explain conflict through various narratives, as well as the systematic exploration of ideas, words, and artistic expression. By proposing such a wide-ranging 2014 conference theme, the organizers hope to encourage exciting new avenues of research, inspire the creation of new explanatory concepts, and provide a context for academic and personal encounters. The resultant exchanges it is hoped will stimulate synergies that cross national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides, a bridging idea central to the global vision of IAFOR. IAFOR Global University and Institutional Alliance - Working Together IAFOR works with our university partners to nurture and encourage the best in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary research. We work with senior administrators and professors in our partner institutions to develop programs which are timely, thought-provoking and academically rigorous. The global partnership alliance means that our interdisciplinary conferences are backed by some of the world's foremost institutions of learning. Journals Publishing Opportunities: Authors of Accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed IAFOR journals associated with the conference. For more information about the IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film and other journals, please see the journal page found under the "Research" tab on the website. www.iafor.org International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary The European Conference on Film and Documentary is organized as part of a month long series of academic events in the UK organized by IAFOR. Those attending EuroFilm will have the opportunity of attending several other conferences held in parallel for no extra charge: EuroMedia2014 â€" The Inaugural European Conference on Media and Mass Communication ECAH2014 â€" The Second European Conference on Arts and Humanities LibEuro2014 â€" The Inaugural European Conference on Literature and Librarianship Conference Streams The conference theme is "Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives, and is designed to elicit a wide variety of interpretations as avenues of research. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to film and documentary, including: The European Conference on Film and Documentary encourages sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Film and Documentary, including: Film Direction and Production Film Criticism and Theory Film and Literature: Artistic Correspondence Biography Film History Documentary History Archive-Based Studies Films and Digital Distribution (Use of the Internet and video sharing) Anime and Digital Film Production Films, Festivals, and Fans (Audience/Fan responses to film) NOTE: Successful presentations in these streams may be scheduled alongside relevant papers submitted as a part of the EuroFilm sister conference, EuroMedia.

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5th Global Conference: Space and Place

5th Global Conference: Space and Place Wednesday 3rd September - Friday 5th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other" constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate. We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance - recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following: 1.Theorising Space and Place -Philosophies and space and place -Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life -Space and place as realms of becoming -Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold: 2008) -The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005) -The language and semiotics of space and place 2.The situation and location of Identities -Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres -Work spaces and hierarchies of power -Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism -Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space -Disabled spaces/places -Queer places and spaces -Alterity and its relationship to the production of space and place -Spatialities in Rural areas of nature -Queer Ruralities -Dangerous Nature vs. Civilisation 3.The Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places -Contemporary local and global political insurgencies and the politics of occupation in urban spaces and places, including the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the London Riots and the incursion by M23 into the DRC. -The economic, political, social and cultural contestation of urban space and its effect upon the production of place -The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism, class politics, or ethnic and cultural heterogeneity. -The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space -Territorial wars, both real and imagined. -The relationship between the global and the local and their relationship to space and place ~Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces -Space and place from colonisation to globalisation -Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place -Transnational and translocal spaces and places 4.Representations of place and space -Embodied/disembodied spaces -Lived spaces and the places of the architecture of identity -Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces -Set design the construction of space and the representation of place in film, television and theatre -Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts -Technology and developments in the representation of space and place including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing -Future cities/futurology and the future of urban space and place -Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts -The spaces and places of and within digital gaming and digital games 5.Networks of Mobility and the Relationship to Movement and Space -The spaces of flows ~Mobility, movement, and their effects upon the production and ontology of space and place -Non-spaces and their relationship to mobility and movement -The space of Immobile mobiles (Urry, Castells) and their effects upon the nature of place -The places of mobility Presentations on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Space and Place, The Graphic Novel and Augmentation. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats, following this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: SP5 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Matt Melia and Harris Breslow: mattandharris@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: sp5@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium

Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium 24-26 May 2014 Toronto, Canada This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others. Enquiries: acc@alternative-academia.net Web address: http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/TORONTO2014/SSS-1-1/schedConf/cfp Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia

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5th Global Conference: Digital Memories

5th Global Conference: Digital Memories Wednesday 24th September - Friday 26th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation. Presentations, papers, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes: 1. Digital Personal and Community Memory Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues. Inventing and Re-inventing Historical Knowledge. 2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Digital Media in the Process of Creating the Social Memory. Representational Principles for Memory Recording. 3. Digital Museology and Cultural Heritage Trends in Exhibition Design. Collection Building. Multimodal Interfaces. Navigation. Visualization. Augmented Reality. Spatial representation. Image and Sound. 4. Memory and Cultural Software Cultural Visualizations and Mapping. The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The Recording Device and the User Response. Strategies for Performing Digital Memory. Mobile Systems. 5. Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data The Future of Digital Libraries and Archives. Media Library. Principles of Digital Data Recording and Cataloguing. Memory Restoring and Preservation Strategies. Big Data Retrieval, Usage and Preservation. Data Ownership. Open Data. 6. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge History of Society Memory. National Identity and Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical Revisionism. Digital Memory and Communities of Place. 7. Memory in Cybercultures and Arts Digital Art Preservation. Fan Cultures and Social Networking. The Spatialization of Memories in Interactive Media, Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Gender and Love and Suicide, Self Harm and assisted Dying and Digital Memory. What to Send 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: Digital Memories 5 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Daniel Riha: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: digmem5@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'Cyber' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, 1st International Symposium

Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, 1st International Symposium Toronto, Canada This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lessons we can derive from the creative process and identify how productive it is beyond the boundaries of the work and creation itself. Enquiries: acc@alternative-academia.net Web address: http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/TORONTO2014/CCIL-1-1/schedConf/cfp Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia

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Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposium

Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposium Toronto, Canada This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. Enquiries: acc@alternative-academia.net Web address: http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/TORONTO2014/HBT-1-1/schedConf/cfp Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia

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Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposium

Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposium Toronto, Canada This trans-disciplinary project seeks to identify central problems of the experience of being a citizen today and evaluate to what degree is citizenship a good vehicle for democratic agency in contemporary societies and democracies the world over. Enquiries: acc@alternative-academia.net Web address: http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/TORONTO2014/RC-7-1/schedConf/cfp Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia

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ACAH2014 - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities

ACAH2014 - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 3rd to 6th April 2014 Osaka, Japan Enquiries: acah@iafor.org Web address: http://acah.iafor.org Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 1 2014 The International Academic Forum in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR), Virginia Tech (USA), Auburn University (USA), and its global partners is proud to announce the Fifth Annual Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, to be held from April 3-6 2014, at the Rihga Royal Hotel, and The Osaka International Conference Center, Osaka, Japan. Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience Japan, explore Osaka and Kyoto, join a global academic community... Join us as we celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, and explore new avenues of interdisciplinary study in the wonderfully rich physical and cultural environment of Japan. This international conference will again bring together university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas and forge working relationships with each other over a stimulating, challenging, and fun long weekend. Conference Theme 2014: Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy Conflict from earliest times has been a characteristic of the human condition. The struggle between our individual selves and our social selves arises from what makes us unique on the one hand, being challenged by our being part of an interdependent structure of relationships on the other. The specific blend of experiences, abilities, attitudes, and aspirations, that helps to define us, can sit sometimes uncomfortably alongside our commitments to those closest to us, our communities and our cultures. This can lead to conflict at different levels. Conflict within communities and societies is inevitable given that these groups are based on commonality of geography, values, attitudes, and beliefs that help to differentiate one from another. The dialectic engendered by diversity, however, although it may lead to conflict, can play an important role in the expansion of ideas in communities and societies. One major challenge of modern society is to harness the synergy that emerges from the interactive dialectic generated by these differences. The Arts and Humanities have long recognized these differences and frictions when they try to explain conflict through the systematic exploration of ideas, words, and artistic expression. By proposing such a wide-ranging 2014 conference theme, the organizers hope to encourage exciting new avenues of research, inspire the creation of new explanatory concepts, and provide a context for academic and personal encounters. The resultant exchanges it is hoped will stimulate synergies that cross national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. This is central to the global vision of iafor. We look forward to seeing you (again) in Osaka in 2014! Professor Stuart D.B. Picken Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A., B.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland and Chairman IAFOR IAB Conference Chair, The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2014 Abstract Submissions Deadline Extended: February 1 2014 Publishing Opportunities: Authors of Accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally peer-reviewed IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities. For more information about the journal and to see our latest issue, please visit www.iafor.org The International Academic Forum - A Global Academic Partnership IAFOR works with our university partners to nurture and encourage the best in international, intercultural and interdisciplinary research. We work with senior administrators and professors in our partner institutions to develop programs which are timely, thought-provoking and academically rigorous. The global partnership alliance means that our interdisciplinary conferences are backed by some of the world's foremost institutions of learning. For more information about IAFOR, please visit our website at www.iafor.org LibrAsia2014 ACAH 2014 will be held alongside the fourth Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship - LibrAsia 2014, and registrants for either conference will be given the opportunity to attend sessions in the parallel event at no extra charge. Please click on the banner to go to the LibrAsia 2014 sister site. DAMIN2014 The Fifth Conference on the Arts and Humanities is happy to host the 2014 DAMIN Round Table (When Orient and Occident Meet) as part of the conference. DAMIN is an international research partnership studying Silver Monentary Depreciation and International Relations. The International Academic Forum is a partner organization, and others include the National Center for Scientific Research - CNRS (France), The Ecole Normale Superieure (France), The National Museum of Denmark, The Financial University (Russia), The Far Eastern Federal University (Russia), Tokyo University (Japan), and Keio University (Japan). ACAH/LibrAsia Conference Chair - Stuart D. B. Picken Stuart D. B. Picken is the founding chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining and Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through his work with IAFOR. A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. DAMIN Conference Chair - Georges Depeyrot Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the French National Center for Scientific Research, (CNRS) in Paris. He began his scientific career in the 1970's studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Center for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and is now a professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure. After his habilitation (1992), he specialized in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history in a global approach. He has directed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, including those situated at the continent’s outer borders (Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco). Professor Depeyrot is the author or coauthor of more than one hundred volumes, and is the founding director of the Moneta publishing house, the most important collection of books on the topic of money (www.moneta.be). Aside from the continuation of the studies in the field of Ancient coin finds, his current program of study is concentrated on the history of the 19th century monetary unification and crises, in cooperation with European countries, Russia and Japan as part of the DAMIN research group on silver monetary depreciation and international relations (ANR 2011 BSH3 008 01). For more information on DAMIN, please see the website at www.anr-damin.net. Professor Depeyrot is a member of the board of trustees of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. ACAH2014 - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 3rd to 6th April 2014 Osaka, Japan Enquiries: acah@iafor.org Web address: http://acah.iafor.org

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3rd Global Conference: Time, Space and Body

3rd Global Conference: Time, Space and Body Sunday 7th September - Tuesday 10th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford,United Kingdom. Call for Presentations: This conference seeks to explore the multifaceted nature of space, time and the body in order to question the ways in which we construct, experience and understand our world. We encourage an examination of time, space and/or the body as either independent or interconnecting areas 'suspended in webs of significance' (Geertz, 1973). Exploring our existence and interaction within these 'webs', it becomes apparent that societies consist of embodied people who constantly participate in specific tasks, at particular times and in constructed spaces. For example, Turner (2004:38) has suggested 'every society is confronted by four tasks: the reproduction of populations in time, the regulation of bodies in space, the restraint of the interior body through disciplines and the representation of the exterior body in social space.' Taking these four tasks as our starting point, this conference project invites proposals from a range of disciplines such as architecture, social geography, the visual and creative arts, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, law and religious studies, archaeology, media and audience studies, the classics and philosophy, social and natural sciences, business studies, information science, popular culture and politics. We also welcome case studies or other approaches from practitioners such as artists, health professionals, psychologists, writers, law makers and policy analysts. Recognising that different disciplines and practitioners express themselves in different mediums, we welcome traditional papers, panels, workshop proposals and other forms of performance (as can be accommodated in the space provided). Accordingly topics are sought on different aspects and/or relationships between any combination of space, time or the body or on how these categories are understood, mythologised and constructed in order to affect, effect, order and/or control each other. Invited topics can include any of the following themes and related areas: 1) Understanding Space, Time and the Body - Academic theories - Narratives, definitions and perceptions - Interdisciplinary studies, cross cultural comparisons - Institutions, organisations, constructions, and deconstructions - How access to information on space, time and the body is controlled, distorted and facilitated 2) Contexts for Space, Time and the Body - Architecture: the construction and constraints of space - Art, sculpture and installation practices - Work and power as a temporal-spatial event - Time and the spatiality of movement - City planning and change over time or terrain - History and public/social policy changes towards crime and punishment - Age and the impact of space and time - Boundaries and controls 3) Representations of Time, Space and the Body - Language and embodied/disembodied characters in literature, film, theatre, TV, graphic novels, games: narrative, music and mis-en-scene - Different genres over time: changes in interpretation, popularity and relevancy - Novels, plays, poems, short stories and time (eg: short time span, the inter-generational epic â€" how does this work, what are the impacts?) - The voice, dance and music - Time as the 'enemy' 4) Relationships within Time, Space and the Body - The body as a place and space for storytelling (eg: the body as victim/survivor, tattoos) - Non-human or post-human bodies in space and time - The 'body politic' or the political body: Who 'owns' the body? - patient or practitioner or...? - Monetising/economics of production between time, space and body - Accounting: the consequences of periodic reporting and impact on the valuation of space - Legislative/legal constructions as related to time, space, body - Changing attitudes toward: pain, death, suffering, religion, family, gender, sexuality, disability or fashion 5) Experiencing Time, Space and the Body - Time, 'performativity' and identity - Religion, spirituality, forms of altered consciousness and ritual - Indigenous cultures and cosmologies in space and time - Cyclical, spiral, dreamtime, memory or linear time - Doing Time: space and punishment - Body modification and body horror - Emotions or rationality: reactions to space, particularly public spaces (eg: how do we 'feel' when... can that reaction be replicated, can it impact or trigger other reactions?) - Monstrosity, technology and futurology At the end of the conference, the aim will be to further develop the discussions and dialogues presented at this conference into new and continued interdisciplinary research that will help us make sense of the contested categories of time, space and the body. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Time, Space and Body and Madness. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: TSB3 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Shona Hill and Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: tsb3@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/time-space-and-the-body/call-for-presentations/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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EdMedia 2014 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

EdMedia 2014 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology June 23-27, 2014 Tampere, Finland Call for Participation: April 18, 2014 http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm Early Registration: May 2, 2014 http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm About Tampere, Finland: http://aace.org/conf/cities/tampere EdMedia 2014 is an annual international conference, organized by the non-profit organization, AACE (http://aace.org) and co-sponsored by the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (http://aace.org/pubs/jemh). It serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of info on the research, development, and applications focused on Educational Media and Technology. This conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. EdMedia, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and annually attracts more than 1,500 leaders in the field from over 70 countries. For a list, see: http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/countries.htm We invite you to attend EdMedia and submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, tutorials, workshops, posters/demonstrations, corporate showcases/demos, and SIG discussions. The Conference Review Policy requires that each proposal will be peer-reviewed by for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and online proceedings available on EdITLib - Education and Information Technology Digital Library. Enquiries: conf@aace.org Web address: http://aace.org/conf/edmedia Sponsored by: AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

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International Symposium on Digital Life and Mobile Services

International Symposium on Digital Life and Mobile Services 6-8 August 2014, Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan Call for Papers International Symposium on Digital Life and Mobile Services (ISDM) is one of important academic events jointed with ICBIC, and will be held in Taipei at the Grand Hotel on 6-8 August 2014. The details can be browsed via the conference website: http://icbic2014.conf.tw/ISDM2014 Topics ISDM 2014 welcomes all related topics in Human-Computer Interaction, Infotainment and Education, Digital Media, Cultural Probe, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Future Life, Mobile Commerce and Services, digital learning, Social Networking Site, online and digital marketing, social media, Blog Platform, cloud computing application, Mobile Apps, Smart Living Space, Web-based services, LBS + APP, and many more. Submission We cordially invite you to submit your abstract, academic paper, industry report or survey to the symposium. Proposals for panel sessions are also welcome. All submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. Best paper awards will be presented during the conference. Selected papers will be recommended for fast track reviews by the sponsored Journals. Enquiries: csyu@g2.usc.edu.tw Web address: http://icbic2014.conf.tw/ISDM2014 Sponsored by: International Consortium of Academic Scholars, National Taipei University of Technology, Shih Chien University

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8th Global Conference: Fear4, Horror and Terror: Rituals, Myths and Symbolism

8th Global Conference: Fear4, Horror and Terror: Rituals, Myths and Symbolism Thursday 11th September - Saturday 13th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations Concepts of fear, horror and terror (FHT) increasingly pervade public discourse and popular culture. Countless urban myths and 'morality tales' told to us by friends, relatives and the mass media provide the foundations for how we understand and react to concepts of FHT. Central to these foundations are the myths, rituals, and symbols we use to communicate, activate, constrain and help overcome the effects and consequences of experiencing fear, horror and/or terror. Accordingly this year's inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary FHT conference seeks to examine and explore the role and consequences of feelings, attitudes and emotions related to FHT. We aim to draw out understandings and sense making in terms of our various myths, rituals and symbols in diverse cultural, organizational and behavioural forms. We invite proposals on any area related to the conference purpose. We encourage creative and challenging presentations. That is, in addition to academic analysis, we welcome practitioner case studies or other approaches, such as people in religious environments, therapists, and victims/survivors of events that have been provoked by FHT. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research that crosses divides such as law enforcement, medical, teaching, artistic environments and/or fiction writers whose work aims to evoke these reactions. Presentations, papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, panels and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes and related areas: 1) Myths, Ritual, Symbolism and Fear, Horror and Terror: - the relationship between myth, culture and literature - mythologies/ideologies - myth and ritual paradigms (e.g creation, fertility, deliverance, hero or chaos) - sacred v profane, or individual v. collective or inclusion v. exclusion or stabilizing v. innovative rituals - practice and the transformative role of rituals - symbols, motifs and semiotics - organisational, behavioural and cultural symbolism 2) About Fear, Horror and Terror: - narratives, definitions, interdisciplinary studies, cross cultural comparisons - comparison with other emotions/experiences - institutions, constructions, and deconstructions - academic theories 3) Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror: - case studies - professionals and the public dealing with the fear, horror and/terror, e.g. therapists, clergy, lawyers, law enforcement, policy makers, government policy, accounting , human resources, technology, etc. - the properties, language, meaning or significance - crime, and punishment 4) At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror: - the role of fear, horror and terror - emotional releases (pleasant or negative) achieved by fear, horror and terror - techniques, marketing, consumption and management - recreational or aesthetic - the temperature, sound, smell, sight or feel of fear, horror and terror - silence as a strategic subversion - fear, horror and terror and the visible/invisible 5) Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror: - the imagination, the gothic and science fiction - images, cinema, television, theatre, the fourth estate and the creative arts - survival horror video games - literature (including children's stories, and graphic novels) - the other and purity - hope and despair - trauma, anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing, danger - hope and the future - awe, terror and the sublime or uncanny 6) Relationships with Fear, Horror and Terror: - use of space, place, architecture and tools in outer space or rural/urban settings - ceremonies, performances in everyday life, fiction, art - war, militarisation, weapons, engineering and technology Proposals will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. In order to support and encourage inter-disciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fear, Horror and Terror and Multiculturalism. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: FHT8 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Shona Hill and Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: fht8@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'At the Interface' series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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3rd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel

3rd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel Wednesday 3rd September - Friday 5th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof." (Alan Moore, V for Vendetta) This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues in and around the production, creation and reading of all forms of comics and graphic novels. Taken as a form of pictographic narrative it has been with us since the first cave paintings and even in the 21st century remains a hugely popular, vibrant and culturally relevant means of communication whether expressed as sequential art, graphic literature, bandes dessinees, tebeos, fumetti, manga, manhwa, komiks, strips, historietas, quadrinhos, beeldverhalen, or just plain old comics. (as noted by Paul Gravett) Whilst the form itself became established in the 19th Century it is perhaps not until the 20th century that comic book heroes like Superman (who has been around since 1938) became, not just beloved characters, but national icons. With the globalisation of publishing brands such as Marvel and DC it is no accident that there has been an increase in graphic novel adaptations and their associated merchandising. Movies such as X-men, Iron man, Watchmen and the recent Thor have grossed millions of dollars across the world and many television series have been continued off-screen in the graphic form, Buffy, Firefly and Farscape to name a few. Of course America and Europe is not the only base of this art form and the Far East and Japan have their own traditions as well as a huge influence on graphic representations across the globe. In particular Japanese manga has influenced comics in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, France and the United States, and have created an amazing array of reflexive appropriations and re-appropriations, in not just in comics but in anime as well. Of equal importance in this growth and relevance of the graphic novel are the smaller and independent publishers that have produced influential works such as Maus by Art Spiegleman, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Palestine by Joe Sacco, Epileptic by David B and even Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware that explore, often on a personal level, contemporary concerns such as gender, diaspora, post-colonialism, sexuality, globalisation and approaches to health, terror and identity. Further to this the techniques and styles of the graphic novel have taken further form online creating entirely web-comics and hypertexts, as in John Cei Douglas' Lost and Found and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, as well as forming part of larger trans-media narratives and submersive worlds, as in the True Blood franchise that invites fans to enter and participate in constructing a narrative in many varied formats and locations. This projects invites papers that consider the place of the comic or graphic novel in both history and location and the ways that it appropriates and is appropriated by other media in the enactment of individual, social and cultural identity. Presentations, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes: 1)Just what makes a Graphic Novel so Graphic and so Novel?: -Sources, early representations and historical contexts of the form. -Landmarks in development, format and narratology. -Cartoons, comics, graphic novels and artists books. -Words, images, texture and colour and what makes a GN -Format, layout, speech bubbles and "where the *@#% do we go from here?" 2)The Inner and Outer Worlds of the Graphic Novel: -Outer and Inner spaces; Thoughts, cities, and galaxies and other representations of graphic place and space. -Differing temporalities, Chronotopes and "time flies": Intertextuality, editing and the nature of Graphic and/or Deleuzian time. -Graphic Superstars and Words versus Pictures: Alan Moore v Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) Neil Gaiman v Jack Kirby (Sandman). -Performance and performativity of, in and around graphic representations. -Transcriptions and translations: literature into pictures, films into novels and high/low graphic arts. 3)Identity, Meanings and Otherness: -GN as autobiography, witnessing, diary and narrative -Representations of disability, illness, coping and normality -Cultural appropriations, east to west and globalisation -National identity, cultural icons and stereo-typical villains -Immigration, postcolonial and stories of exile -Representing gender, sexualities and non-normative identities. -Politics, prejudices and polemics: banned, censored and comix that are just plain "wrong" -Other cultures, other voices, other words 4)To Infinity and Beyond: The Graphic Novel in the 21st Century: -Fanzines and Slash-mags: individual identity through appropriation. -Creator and Created: Interactions and interpolations between authors and audience. -Hypertext, Multiple formats and inter-active narratives. -Cross media appropriation, GN into film, gaming and merchandisng and vice versa -Graphic Myths and visions of the future: Sandman, Hellboy, Ghost in the Shell. -Restarting the Canon: what are the implication of the restart in universes such as Marcel and DC and do they represent the opportunity to reopen ongoing conversations? Presentations will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between The Graphic Novel and Augmentation. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: GN3 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Nadine Farghaly: Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net Rob Fisher:gn3@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Education Hub series of research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/the-graphic-novel/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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16th Annual MLL Graduate Student Conference, Western University [EXTENDED DEADLINE] London, Canada 6th Recombinant Creativity: Temporal Intersections, (de)Historicizing Strategies, and Contemporary Cultural Products Toronto, Canada 7th Gender and Transgression in 20th-Century Britain Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 10th 2014 3rd International Conference on Information and Industrial Electronics (ICIIE 2014) Penang, Malaysia 14th 2nd Global Conference: (Re)Production: Origins, Transitions, Futures Prague, Czech Republic 14th 9th Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship Prague, Czech Republic 14th 9th Global Conference: Creative Engagements: Thinking With Children Prague, Czech Republic 16th The 2nd Biennial Conference on Anthropology and Sustainability in Asia Hiroshima, Japan 17th 2014 International Conference on Communication Engineering (ICCE 2014) Chennai, India 17th Belgium Testing Days Bruges, Belgium 17th 2014 International Conference on Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ICEEE 2014) Chennai, India 17th 2014 International Conference on Information Engineering (ICIE 2014) Chennai, India 17th The 2nd Biennial Conference on Sustainable Business, Energy and Development in Asia (COSA 2014) Hiroshima, Japan 18th 1st Global Conference: Letters and Letter Writing Prague, Czech Republic 18th ad:tech Australia 2014 Hilton Sydney, 488 George Street, Sydney, 2000, Australia 18th 7th Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity Prague, Czech Republic 19th 41st Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning Meeting Lake Buena Vista, United States of America 19th What Images Do Copenhagen, Denmark 20th 2014 3rd International Conference on Network and Computer Science (ICNCS 2014) Manila, Philippines 20th 2014 International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ICOCS 2014) Manila, Philippines 20th Customer Experience Evolution London, United Kingdom 20th 2nd International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance â€" ICMLG Wellesley, United States of America 22nd 2014 International Conference on Robotics, Mechanics and Mechatronics (ICRMM 2014) Bali, Indonesia 22nd 4th Global Conference: Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds Prague, Czech Republic 24th 9th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security ICCWS-2014 West Lafayette, United States of America 24th National Seminar on "Building Bridges:Contemporary Research in Gender Studies" Hyderabad, India 27th 2014 The 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Science (ICITS 2014) Shanghai, China 27th 2014 3rd International Conference on Informatics, Environment, Energy and Applications (IEEA 2014) Shanghai, China 28th Interdisciplinary Conference on Religion in Everyday lives Vienna, Austria 29th The Supernatural in Literature and Film: Ghosts, Fairies, Aliens, Vampires, Monsters, and Demons Lerwick, United Kingdom April 2014 1st 4th Sports & Performance Nutrition Platform 2014 Cologne, Germany 2nd Social Media in the Utilities Sector London, United Kingdom 2nd 2014 2nd International Conference on Electronics Engineering and Technology (ICEET 2014) Dubai, United Arab Emirates 3rd International Conference (New) Audience Practices Lisbon, Portugal 3rd ACAH2014 - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities Osaka, Japan 5th 2014 6th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2014) Athens, Greece 6th 4th Global Conference: Living Responsibly Lisbon, Portugal 6th International Conference for Academic Disciplines (Vienna) Vienna, Austria 9th The Low-Cost Digital Conference – Fundraise, Campaign, Communicate London, United Kingdom 10th Fantasy and Film in the Long 1980s Manchester, United Kingdom 10th Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference 2014 Brighton, United Kingdom 11th 2014 3rd International Conference on Telecom Technology and Applications (ICTTA 2014) Jeju Island, Korea (south) 11th 2014 3rd International Conference on Network and Computing Technology(ICNCT 2014) Jeju Island, Korea (south) 11th 2014 International Conference on Information and Network Security (ICINS 2014) Jeju Island, Korea (south) 12th 2014 3rd International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture - ICLMC 2014 Seoul, Korea (south) 15th III.International Conference on Conflict, Terrorism and Society - New Media Politics: Conflict, Activism and Security Istanbul, Turkey 17th ACTC2014 - The Third Annual Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom Osaka, Japan 21st 2014 International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2014) Antalya, Turkey 22nd Analogue Photography in the New Media Age Leicester, United Kingdom 24th International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design Istanbul, Turkey 24th Globalization: Texts · Performances · Practices Madrid, Spain 24th 6th International Conference: Building Cultural Bridges Almaty, Kazakhstan 24th International Conference on Culture and Cultural policies Vienna, Austria 29th PR Summit London, United Kingdom May 2014 2nd 2nd International Graduate Conference in English and American Studies - "Interventions: Private Voices and Public Spaces" Coimbra, Portugal 2nd 6th Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine Lisbon, Portugal 2nd 4th Global Conference: Femininities and Masculinites Lisbon, Portugal 2nd 12th Global Conference: Violence Lisbon, Portugal 6th 1st Global Conference: Sexuality and Disability Lisbon, Portugal 7th ReClaiming Participation Zurich, Switzerland 8th ARCHDESIGN '14 / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CONFERENCE ON DESIGN METHODOLOGIES Istanbul, Turkey 10th 5th Global Conference: Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative Lisbon, Portugal 10th 2nd Global Conference: Teenagers and Contemporary Visual Culture Lisbon, Portugal 12th Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposium Toronto, Canada 12th University of Oxford: Human Factors, Teamwork and Communication Oxford, United Kingdom 13th 360º Degrees of Connection Sydney, Australia 13th The Social Media Results Conference – Engage, Excite, Convert London, United Kingdom 14th 2nd Global Conference:Transmedia: Storytelling and Beyond Lisbon, Portugal 14th 9th Global Conference: Cybercultures Lisbon, Portugal 15th I International Asian Congress Torun, Poland 16th Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposium Toronto, Canada 20th Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, 1st International Symposium Toronto, Canada 20th International Conference on Publishing and Editors Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 24th Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium Toronto, Canada 27th Language in the Online and Offline World 4: The Latitude Surabaya, Indonesia 29th ACCS 2014 - The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies - Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing Osaka, Japan 30th International Conference on Media and Popular culture Vienna, Austria 31st Innovative Learning-Scapes Anchorage, United States of America June 2014 5th International Conference on Translation Studies ICTS Bangkok, Thailand 11th Media and the Arab Spring â€" The Road Ahead Ifrane, Morocco 11th Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Madrid, Spain 12th ACSS2014 - The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences Osaka, Japan 15th 12th International Symposium: Communication in the Millennium Eski?ehir, Turkey 16th POLICOM '14 / Political Communication Conference on Political Science, Media Studies, Public Relations and Daily Life Technologies Istanbul, Turkey 16th The Corporate Social Media Summit New York New York, United States of America 19th Visual Methodologies: A Postdiscipline of Inclusions Neuchatel , Switzerland 20th The 23rd Social Marketing Conference IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS Clearwater Beach, United States of America 20th International Conference “Gender in focus: (new) trends in media” Braga, Portugal 20th Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) 2014 Liverpool, United Kingdom 23rd DIGIMARCON 2014 - Digital Marketing Conference Miami, United States of America 25th Ninth International Conference on the Arts in Society Rome, Italy 26th FILM AND MEDIA 2014: The Fourth Annual London Film and Media Conference - Visions of Identity: Global Film and Media London, United Kingdom 28th Interdisciplinary Conference on Music studies Vienna, Austria July 2014 1st Appearance Matters Bristol, United Kingdom 1st 4th International CDSS Conference: Differences, Solidarities and Digital Technologies Morphu, Cyprus 2nd 2nd International Conference ComSymbol on Public Sphere and Communicating Faith Béziers, France 9th ANZCA Annual Conference Melbourne, Australia 9th Fourteenth International Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference Vienna, Austria, Austria 10th European Conference on Social Media Brighton, United Kingdom 14th Twenty-First International Conference on Learning New York, United States of America 16th Motherhood, feminisms and the future Melbourne, Australia 16th Fifth International Conference on Sport and Society Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 17th 1st Global Conference: Deception Oxford, United Kingdom 17th 4th Global Conference: Childhood Oxford, United Kingdom 21st 4th Global Conference: Images of Whiteness Oxford, United Kingdom 21st 3rd Global Conference: Celebrity and Fandom Oxford, United Kingdom 26th International Conference on Identity studies Vienna, Austria 29th 1st Global Conference: Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century:,The European Context Oxford, United Kingdom 30th 1st Global Conference: Sexuality, Oppression and Human Rights Oxford, United Kingdom August 2014 4th Seventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum Los Angeles, United States of America 6th AFRICA MEDIA & DEMOCRACY CONFERENCE 2014 ACCRA- GHANA, Ghana 6th International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Sciences Taipei, Taiwan 20th Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity Helsinki, Finland September 2014 3rd 3rd Global Conference: The Graphic Novel Oxford, United Kingdom 4th TEN YEARS OF FACEBOOK: THE THIRD ARGUMENTOR CONFERENCE Oradea, Romania 7th 3rd Global Conference: Time, Space & the Body Oxford, United Kingdom 9th 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research - ICCPR2014 Hildesheim/Berlin, Germany 10th Media and Mass Communication 2014, 3rd International Conference Elenite Holiday Village, Bulgaria 11th 8th Global Conference: Fear, Horror and Terror Oxford, United Kingdom 11th Fantastic Games: Ludic imaginary spaces and their socio-cultural impact Klagenfurt, Austria 11th 8th Global Conference: Fear4, Horror and Terror: Rituals, Myths and Symbolism Oxford, United Kingdom 25th 1st Global Mass Communication and Journalism Conference (MCJC2014) Singapore, Singapore 27th International Conference on Women’s Studies Vienna, Austria 29th The 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research Sydney, Australia October 2014 3rd Seventh International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies Portland, United States of America 9th European Conference on Games Based Learning Berlin, Germany 16th III International Conference "Reading culture of the young generation" Lodz, Poland 18th The International Conference on Communication and Media 2014 (i-COME'14) Langkawi, Malaysia 29th Fifth International Conference on the Image Berlin, Germany November 2014 7th Aging and Society: Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference Manchester, United Kingdom 7th Spaces and Flows: Fifth International Conference on Urban and Extraurban Studies Bangkok, Thailand 8th Twelfth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries Boston, United States of America 13th 2014 ASIAN CONGRESS FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION HONG KONG Hong Kong, China December 2014 3rd European Conference for Academic Disciplines (Freiburg 2014) Freiburg, Germany April 2015 10th 7th International Conference on CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES Vancouver, Canada 2014 2nd International Conference on Electronics Engineering and Technology (ICEET 2014) 2nd April 2014 Dubai, United Arab Emirates All ICEET 2014 papers will be published in Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering (IJCEE, ISSN: 1793-8163), and will be indexed by Google Scholar, EBSCO, Crossref, ProQuest, EI (INSPEC, IET), DOAJ, and Electronic Journals Library. ACAH2014 - The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 3rd April 2014 Osaka, Japan This international, intercultural and interdisciplinary academic conference on the arts and humanities is organised by IAFOR in conjunction with our global partners, including Waseda University (Japan), London University (UK) & Virginia Tech (USA). 2014 6th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2014) 5th April 2014 Athens, Greece All accepted papers for the ICDIP 2014 will be published in the conference proceeding by SPIE, which will be included in SPIE Digital Library and indexed by Ei Compendex and ISI proceeding. International Conference for Academic Disciplines (Vienna) 6th April 2014 Vienna, Austria Send us abstract for 5-day conference open to various academic disciplines. Free bus tours to Kahlenberg Mountain, the Danube river, the Seegrotte underground lake, and Slovakia. An edu-cultural & international event. Various disciplines welcome. 2014 3rd International Conference on Telecom Technology and Applications (ICTTA 2014) 11th April 2014 Jeju Island, Korea (south) The selected papers will be published in the indexed Journals as following:IJSNet (ISSN: 1748-1287, Indexed by SCI)IJSN (1747-8413, Scopus and EI Compendex)JCM (1796-2021, Scopus and EI Compendex)IJFCC (ISSN: 2010-3751, DOAJ, EBSCO and etc) 2014 3rd International Conference on Network and Computing Technology(ICNCT 2014) 11th April 2014 Jeju Island, Korea (south) The selected papers will be published in the indexed Journals as following:IJSNet (ISSN: 1748-1287, SCI)IJSN (ISSN: 1747-8413, Scopus and EI Compendex)JCM (1796-2021, Scopus and EI Compendex)IJFCC (ISSN: 2010-3751, DOAJ, EBSCO and etc) 2014 International Conference on Information and Network Security (ICINS 2014) 11th April 2014 Jeju Island, Korea (south) The selected papers will be published in the indexed Journals as following:IJSNet (ISSN: 1748-1287, Indexed by SCI)IJSN (1747-8413, Scopus and EI Compendex)JCM (1796-2021, Scopus and EI Compendex)IJFCC (ISSN: 2010-3751, DOAJ, EBSCO and etc) 2014 3rd International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture - ICLMC 2014 12th April 2014 Seoul, Korea (south) ICLMC 2014 will be published in the IPEDR (ISSN: 2010-4626), and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Ulrich's, Cross Ref and sent to be reviewed by ISI Proceedings. ACTC2014 - The Third Annual Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 17th April 2014 Osaka, Japan Hear the latest research, present in a supportive environment, publish before a global audience, network, engage in new relationships, join a global academic community... 2014 Theme: "Individual, Community, Society: Connecting, Learning and Growing 2014 International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2014) 21st April 2014 Antalya, Turkey All accepted papers will also be published in the indexed Journals after being selected.Applied Mechanics and Materials (ISSN: 1660-9336) IJCEE(ISSN: 1793-8163)IJEEE(ISSN: 2301-380X)JOACE(ISSN: 2301-3702)IJOEE(ISSN: 2301-3656) ACCS 2014 - The Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies - Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing 29th May 2014 Osaka, Japan International, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Conference on Cultural Studies organized by IAFOR. Conference Co-Chairs: Prof Baden Offord & Koichi Iwabuchi. Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing ACSS2014 - The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 12th June 2014 Osaka, Japan This international, intercultural and interdisciplinary academic conference on the social sciences is organised by IAFOR in conjunction with our global partners, including Waseda University (Japan), London University (UK) & Virginia Tech (USA). International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Sciences 6th August 2014 Taipei, Taiwan International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Sciences (ICEPS 2014) aims to share new ideas and present latest developments in the theoretical and practical areas of Education, Psychology, and Social sciences. Media and Mass Communication 2014, 3rd International Conference 10th September 2014 Elenite Holiday Village, Bulgaria We are pleased to invite you to take part in the 3rd international conference Media and Mass Communication, which will be held in a luxury five-star hotel in Elenite Holiday Village, Bulgaria. Standard registration fee 240 Euro. www.sciencebg.net

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