Evil Spaces, Wicked Places: Geographies and Architectures of Evil: Special Focus - London.

Evil Spaces, Wicked Places The Geographies and Architectures of Evil Call for Presentations 2016 Special Focus: London Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January 2016 London, United Kingdom This inclusive interdisciplinary project explores the relationship between evil, spaces and places. From the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno to the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda, from crumbling sanatoria to gothic haunted houses and basements of imprisonment and sexual oppression, evil has many geographies and inhabits a wide array of accidental or designed architectures. Places become defined as evil; spaces are made evil by the actions of people or acquire the atmosphere and presence of evil. Whether real or imagined, these spaces and places speak to us of unease, fear, menace, dread, horror, the supernatural and something beyond what is human. Evil. This project seeks to map and explore the relationship between persons, evils, spaces and places. For 2016 the project will focus specifically on London as a locus of evil spaces and places. Described in The Guardian newspaper as “the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely powerful, equally unaccountable”, London is the home of Jack the Ripper, Sweeney Todd, and Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. The city has cringed before the Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt; it has seen kings and queens crowned and beheaded; it has gawked at Shakespeare’s Wyrd Sisters, the Great Fire, cholera, and the Great Stink that led to the creation of one of the first modern sewer systems. It is full of hauntings and ghosts and things that go bump in the night. London is all these and more, which prompts the question of how its history, geography and architecture reflect all these aspects of the city’s identity, even as they interact and continue to create the monstrosity that is the city known as “London?” Topics for possible presentation include, but are not limited to: Evil and London Landmarks Tower of London in history and fiction Westminster Palace and London in fiction as a centre of black magic and plots for world domination St. Paul’s Cathedral hovering over London rising from its own ashes The London Underground The Marble Arch, Newgate Prison, The Clink, and other sites of execution or punishment The Old Bailey and legal aspects of evil Real and imagined evils in the British Museum Art and evil in the collections of the National Gallery, Tate Gallery, Tate Modern Madame Tussauds Houses of Parliament as source of evil, target of evil acts, and defence against evil Monuments and evil: war memorials, the Marble Arch/Tyburn, etc. Architecture and evil Evil in the Boroughs Whitechapel and the East End Representations of evil in Greater London (ex. Southwark, Westminster) in fiction and folklore City traders as perpetrators of social evils Soho and the sexual underground as a playground of Evil OR as escape from evil, mundane world London’s Real-life Evil Figures Jack the Ripper and other famous serial killers: “Vampire of London” (John George Haigh), “Camden Ripper” (Anthony Hardy), “Lambeth Poisoner” (Thomas Neill Cream) Celebrity evil-doers (real and imaginary killers, “mad” scientists, political revolutionaries) Mobs and gangs of the past and present Royal figures that either keep evil at bay or that invite evil in Press coverage of evil acts and their perpetrators London’s Evil Spaces in Fiction, Theatre, Television, Film, Music, Graphic Novels Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty Doctor Who, James Bond and others as the nemesis of Evil Peter Pan and Captain Hook: British children, childhood, and Evil or Wickedness Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street London and the Other-worldly Evils Monsters, human and non-human, in the shadows of London London’s role in the occult revival Haunted locations Witches in London London and Worldly Evils War in London: ancient, medieval, modern Plagues, both metaphors and illnesses, in London London as exploitation/human trafficking capital Evil and immigrant communities: scapegoating, victimisation, etc. Economics of Evil: London as Dark Tourism Destination Submissions and contributions are invited which deal with evil spaces and places both generally as well as in relation to the specific focus of London. We hope to be able to make time to visit the new crime museum and possibly visit other places of interest. What to Send 300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 14th August 2015. All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed. You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 28th August 2015. If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 11th December 2015. Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad 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: Evil Space/Place Abstract Submission Where to Send Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs: Organising Chairs: Stephen Morris: smmorris58@yahoo.com Rob Fisher: evilspaces@inter-disciplinary.net This event is part of the Evil inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting of Evil Spaces, Wicked Places stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting itself. Ethos 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. 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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IICSS2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences - Dubai 2016 and enjoy the amazing city of Dubai, UAE. Held along with the IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities, at the Crowne Plaza Festival City Dubai from February 27-29, join us as we discuss this year’s conference theme, “Justice and Sustainability” along with conference chair Prof. Stuart D.B. Picken, IAFOR President Dr. Joseph Haldane, IICSS 2016 featured presenters, and more. To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/iicssdubai2016/ Enquiries: iicssdubai@iafor.org ***Conference Theme: "Justice and Sustainability" The conference theme for IICSS-Dubai2016 is "Justice and Sustainability", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: -Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Humanities -Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences -Computational Social Science -Cultural and Media Studies -Economics and Management -Education and Social Welfare -Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies -Ethnicity, Difference, Identity -Globalization and Internationalization -Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation -Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender -International Relations & Human Rights -Journalism and Communications -Linguistics -Natural, Environmental and Health Sciences -Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness -Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology -Psychology & Social Psychology -Research Methodologies, Quantitative and Qualitative -Social History -Social Work -Sociology -Sustainability -Teaching and Learning -Technology and Applied Sciences -Urban Studies -Other Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/iicssdubai2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams IICSS2016 will be held concurrently with the IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Keynote and featured speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds on the conference theme of “Justice”. Participants in either conference are encouraged to attend sessions in both events. ***About IAFOR and its events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization’s platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world’s leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR’s credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ***IICSS-Dubai2016 Conference Chairs and Keynote Speakers Professor Stuart D. B. Picken Dubai2016 Conference Chair Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S. IAFOR International Advisory Board Chair Professor Stuart D. B. Picken is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board, and in this role is Chairman of the Organization. As Chairman of IAFOR, Professor Picken helps guide the academic and political strategy of the organization, and assists in the forging of global institutional partnerships. He is also responsible for the development of the IAFOR Research Institutes. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Professor Picken 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 of Philosophy 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 & 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. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham. He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. Dr. A. Robert Lee Dubai2016 Program Adviser Formerly of the University of Kent, UK and Nihon University, Japan A. Robert Lee, a Britisher who helped establish American Studies in the UK, was Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, having previously long taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He now lives in Murcia, Spain. His academic books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); Postindian Conversations (1999), with Gerald Vizenor; Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004; Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009); Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010), and collections like Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995); Beat Generation Writers (1996); China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (2008); The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes (2010); Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (2010); and Herman Melville, 4 Vols (2001): Native American Writing, 4 Vols (2011), African American Writing, 5 Vols (2013), and U.S.Latino/a Writing, 4 Vols (2013). He edited the Special Japan edition of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2006. His creative work is reflected in Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007), with Mark Gresham; Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line (2011); and the poetry collections Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), and Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013).

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#hashtag Global Conference: A Social Media Project

#hashtag Global Conference: A Social Media Project 15th to 17th January 2016 London, United Kingdom #hashtag: A Global Conference Call for Participation 2016 Friday 15th January – Sunday 17th January 2016 London, United Kingdom hashtag n. (on social media web sites and applications) a word or phrase preceded by a hash and used to identify messages relating to a specific topic; (also) the hash symbol itself, when used in this way. Hashtags originated on, and are chiefly associated with, the social networking service Twitter. (Oxford English Dictionary) In an age where social media reigns supreme, the hashtag has emerged as a powerful catalyst for human interaction. Hashtags drive activism (#Occupy, #HeForShe, #BringBackOurGirls), mourning (#63NotOut, #PhilipSeymourHoffman), celebrity-watching (#WhatJayZSaidToSolange, #RoyalBaby) and product promotion (Taylor Swift’s #ShakeItOff campaign, Toyota’s #WishGranted campaign). Hashtags foster dialogue by providing a system of language with its own particular conventions and etiquette. Naming ‘hashtag’ the Word of the Year in 2012, the American Dialectic Society described it as a ‘ubiquitous phenomenon in online talk’. Indeed, the ubiquitous nature of the hashtag was confirmed when the term was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2014. In practical terms, the hashtag – an octothorp (#) accompanied by text – is simply a tool that supports communication on social platforms by allowing users to start conversations, participate in discussions, search for and organise tweets on a particular topic, follow what’s trending and identify other users they wish to follow. Though the hashtag originated on Twitter, its omnipresence as well as the evolution of its usage have invested this cultural phenomenon with social, political, cultural, ideological, aesthetic, linguistic, technological and economic implications that warrant closer examination. The #globalhashtagconference offers a platform for such examination through a series of conferences, workshops, seminars and publications aimed at exploring what the prominence and usage of the hashtag says about society in the 21st century. As the inaugural event of Inter-Disciplinary.Net’s Social Media Project, the #hashtagglobalconference offers opportunities for participants with an interest in the topic to join in discussions of the issues and debates that have emerged around the meaning and significance of the hashtag within and beyond the context of social media. The organisers therefore invite proposals for presentations, workshops, roundtable discussions, performances, installations, panels, screenings and readings that explore: # Why cataloguing and organising information matters and what is at stake when hashtags assist in these activities Ideological implications around the creation of a hashtag (or the failure for an event to generate a hashtag) Implications of ‘framing’ issues through hashtags Lifespan of hashtags and the consequences that result when hashtags cease to trend Issues of authenticity, reliability, truthfulness of hashtags Archiving and assembling with hashtags # Tangible meaning and significance of ‘trending’ Methodologies for measuring, analysing and visualising data, hashtag datamining Case studies of innovative approaches to generating trends Hashtags and monetisation (converting hashtags to action/sales) Analysis of unsuccessful hashtag campaigns Hashtags in advertising, marketing and public relations, evergreen/forever hashtags # How the hashtag has influenced the way we engage and communicate with each other Hashtags and trolls, cyber-bullying and harassment, smear campaigns (e.g. #GamerGate) Irony, wit and humour in hashtags, Hashtag games (e.g. #FiveWordsToRuinADate) Hashtag rap (e.g. Big Sean) Poetry and art with hashtags Impact of hashtags on altruistic and narcissistic impulses Hashtags as catalysts for groupthink and ‘hive mind’ Rules, conventions and etiquette around hashtags Hashtag journalism, Breaking News Hashtag overuse and abuse, hashtag in spoken language (hashtag royal wedding) Intercultural comparisons, how do Germans, British, Americans etc. use hashtags (frequency, context, application, content) Hashtag wars (e.g. #OpCharlieHebdo, #OpFrance) # How the hashtag informs the ways in which we experience and understand emotions Hashtags as paralanguage Hashtags and ritualised mourning for public figures Issues of authenticity regarding feelings expressed in hashtags # How the hashtag affects our relationship with technology Hashtags and virtual citizenship Hashtags and virtual communities Hashtags as tools for negotiating social media # How the hashtag (dis)empowers us as consumers and producers User generated content and its value Hashtags and the promotion/rejection of consumption From hashtag to bashtag (e.g. #SochiProblems) # How the hashtag impacts our relationship with institutional power (e.g. media, government, corporate interests) Relationship between hashtag activism and offline activism Click activism: opportunities and limitations Hashtags in institutional politics (Get Out the Vote initiatives, coverage of issues, reactions to political events and speeches) Effective strategies for hashtag activism (especially in the context of grass roots movements, charities and NGOs) Hashtag hijacking, bashtag (i.e. using promotional hashtag to critique the product rather than praise it) (e.g. #McDStories) Representation of hashtags in media and popular culture Hashtags and the formation of participatory communities Please see http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/social-media/research-streams/hashtag/call-for-participation/ for further details and information. What to Send 300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 14th August 2015. All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed. You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 28th August 2015. If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 11th December 2015. Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad 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: #hashtag1 Abstract Submission Where to Send Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs: Organising Chairs: Petra Rehling: petrarehling@gmx.de Rob Fisher: hashtag@inter-disciplinary.net This event marks the launch of the Social Media inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/social-media/ It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting of #hashtag stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting itself. Ethos 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. 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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IICAH2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on Arts and Humanities

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the IAFOR International Conference on Arts and Humanities - Dubai 2016 and enjoy the amazing city of Dubai, UAE. Held along with the IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences, at the Crowne Plaza Festival City Dubai from February 27-29, join us as we discuss this year’s conference theme, “Justice” along with conference chair Prof. Stuart D.B. Picken, IAFOR President Dr. Joseph Haldane, IIACH 2016 featured presenters, and more To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/iicahdubai2016/ Enquiries: iicahdubai@iafor.org ***Conference Theme: "Justice" The conference theme for IICAH-Dubai2016 is "Justice", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: -Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts -Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy -Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism -Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts -Arts - Visual Arts Practices -Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music -Arts - Literary Arts Practices -Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media -Arts - Other Arts -Humanities - Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication -Humanities - Aesthetics, Design -Humanities - Language, Linguistics -Humanities - Knowledge -Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness -Humanities - History, Historiography -Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies -Humanities - Political Science, Politics -Humanities - Teaching and Learning -Humanities - Globalisation -Humanities - Ethnicity, Difference, Identity -Humanities - Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation -Humanities - First Nations and Indigenous Peoples -Humanities - Sexuality, Gender, Families -Humanities - Religion, Spirituality -Humanities - Cyberspace, Technology -Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities -Humanities - Other Humanities Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/iicahdubai2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams ***About IAFOR and its events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization’s platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world’s leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR’s credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ***IICSS-Dubai2016 Conference Chairs and Keynote Speakers Professor Stuart D. B. Picken IICAH-Dubai2016 Conference Chair Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S. IAFOR International Advisory Board Chair Professor Stuart D. B. Picken is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board, and in this role is Chairman of the Organization. As Chairman of IAFOR, Professor Picken helps guide the academic and political strategy of the organization, and assists in the forging of global institutional partnerships. He is also responsible for the development of the IAFOR Research Institutes. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Professor Picken 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 of Philosophy 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 & 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. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham. He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. Dr. A. Robert Lee IICAH-Dubai2016 Program Adviser Formerly of the University of Kent, UK and Nihon University, Japan A. Robert Lee, a Britisher who helped establish American Studies in the UK, was Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, having previously long taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He now lives in Murcia, Spain. His academic books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); Postindian Conversations (1999), with Gerald Vizenor; Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004; Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009); Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010), and collections like Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995); Beat Generation Writers (1996); China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (2008); The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes (2010); Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (2010); and Herman Melville, 4 Vols (2001): Native American Writing, 4 Vols (2011), African American Writing, 5 Vols (2013), and U.S.Latino/a Writing, 4 Vols (2013). He edited the Special Japan edition of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2006. His creative work is reflected in Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007), with Mark Gresham; Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line (2011); and the poetry collections Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), and Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013).

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FilmAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the Fourth Asian Conference on Film & Documentary (FilmAsia2015) and enjoy the beautiful seaside city of Kobe, Japan. Held along with the Sixth Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2015 (MediAsia2015), at the Art Center of Kobe from November 12-15, join us as we discuss this year’s conference themes, “Power” along with keynote speakers Professors Bradley Hamm, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Brent E. Huffman, conference chairs Gary E. Swanson, James Rowlins, and other featured presentations! To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/filmasia2015/ Enquiries: filmasia@iafor.org ***Join IAFOR at FilmAsia2015 to: -Deliver your own research findings to a global audience -Have your work published in the conference proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, open access IAFOR Journals -Benefit from IAFOR’s interdisciplinary focus by hearing the latest research in Film, Documentary, Media & Mass Communication -Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event -Participate in interactive audience sessions -Access international networking opportunities -Discounts on registration fees are available for those able to pay registration fees early. Please see the registration page for details: http://iafor.org/filmasia2015-registration -If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer a 10 percent discount in appreciation of your support. -See the full schedule of our conferences in Japan, Dubai, Hawaii and the UK at http://iafor.org/events ***FilmAsia2015 Conference Chair & Co-chair Professor Gary Swanson FilmAsia2015 Conference Chair and Featured Speaker Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism The University of Northern Colorado, USA Gary E. Swanson is an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed photojournalist, documentary and news producer, director, editor, educator, speaker and consultant. He has also been an educator for 22 years. Prior to his work in academe, Swanson compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years at NBC News – producing award-winning documentaries, prime-time news magazine stories, and covering “breaking news” in 26 states and Canada for the network – including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Swanson has earned more than 80 awards for broadcast excellence and photojournalism including three national Emmys. Dr. James Rowlins FilmAsia2015 Conference Co-Chair Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore James Rowlins left his native England for Paris, France, where he studied for a BA (Hons) and MA specializing in French cinema. His passion for visual culture subsequently took him to Los Angeles, where he earned a doctorate at the University of Southern California, USA. In addition to exploring literature and film through a theoretical lens, as well as dabbling in filmmaking, his dissertation focused on the crossover between post-war American film noir and the French New Wave, arguing that the subversive manipulation of the Hollywood genre formula by the auteurs constitutes a political aesthetic. He has published articles on contemporary French fiction, film and existentialism, cinematic phenomenology and new perspectives on the New Wave. He has held teaching positions in Europe, America and Japan, and is currently a Lecturer in the Humanities and the Arts Department at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. ***Conference Theme and Streams Conference Theme: "Power" The conference theme for FilmAsia2015 is "Power", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: 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) Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/filmasia2015-call-for-papers/#conference-streams

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The Asian Symposium on the Arts and Humanities for Peace - SHAPE 2015

Final Call for the Hiroshima Asian Symposium on the Arts and Humanities for Peace 2015 marks the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial. We welcome submissions for the Asian Symposium on the Arts and Humanities for Peace - SHAPE. The event will be held August 2-4, 2015 at the Mitsui Garden Hotel in Hiroshima, Japan. Registered participants will be treated to a free, guided tour of Peace Park and also a day trip to the famous floating shrine of Miyajima -- both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Web address: http://esdfocus.org/humanities-arts-peace-symposium/ This is an international, peer-reviewed symposium. The Final Deadline for Proposals is Friday, July 10, 2015. Themes include the following areas, Archaeology Architecture Art and Art History Asian Studies Classics Conflict Resolution Cross-Disciplinary Areas Cultural Studies Dance Digital Humanities Disarmament English Ethnic Studies Family Film, Radio, Television Folklore Gender and Sexuality Geography Globalization Graphic Design History Human Rights Inequality and Justice Knowledge Language and Linguistics Literature of the World Literary Theory and Criticism Music Performing and Visual Arts Philosophy and Ethics Poetry Product Design Popular Culture Peace Studies Philosophy and War Religion Rhetoric Second Language Studies Sociolinguistics Speech / Communication Technology Theatre Urban Studies War and Peace Other Areas

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MediAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the Sixth Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2015 (MediAsia2015) and enjoy the beautiful seaside city of Kobe, Japan. Held along with the Fifth Asian Conference on Film & Documentary (FilmAsia2015), at the Art Center of Kobe from November 12-15, join us as we discuss this year’s conference themes, “Power” and “Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture” along with keynote speakers Professors Bradley Hamm, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Brent E. Huffman, conference chairs Gary E. Swanson, James Rowlins, and other featured presentations! To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/mediasia2015/ Enquiries: mediasia@iafor.org ***MediAsia2015 Conference Chair Gary E. Swanson CEO D’image Studios Former Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence University of Northern Colorado Gary E. Swanson is an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed photojournalist, documentary and news producer, director, editor, educator, speaker and consultant. He has also been an educator for 22 years. Prior to his work in academe, Swanson compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years at NBC News – producing award-winning documentaries, prime-time news magazine stories, and covering “breaking news” in 26 states and Canada for the network – including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Swanson has earned more than 80 awards for broadcast excellence and photojournalism including three national Emmys. ***Conference Theme and Streams Conference Theme 1: "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" Conference Theme 2: "Power" The conference themes for MediAsia2015 are "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" and "Power", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach these themes from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: -Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations -Digital Media and Use of New Technology in Newsgathering -Communication Theory and Methodology -Critical and Cultural Studies, Gender and Communication -Media Disaster Coverage -Media History -International Communication -Law, Policy & Media Ethics -Newspapers & Magazines as Print/Digital Media -Mass Communication -Broadcast Media & Globalization -Journalism -Education & Scholastic Journalism -Sports, Media & Globalization -Media Management and Economics -Political Communication and Satire -Visual Communication -Media & Education: Training journalists -Social Media & Communication Technology -Documentary Production -Film Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/mediasia2015-call-for-papers/#conference-streams

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Dublin, Ireland 17th 2015 Humanities Conference: From Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital - A Common Ground Conference Vancouver, Canada 18th Moving Pictures and Photoplays: New Perspectives in Silent Cinema York, United Kingdom 22nd 2nd Tourism Postdisciplinarity Conference: Freedom, Art, Power Copenhagen, Denmark 22nd EdMedia 2015 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology Montréal, Canada 23rd BOPP Film 2015 Berlin, Germany 23rd Next-Level Customer Experiences & Insights Financial Services Conference. London, United Kingdom 23rd The Future of Digital Banking Radisson Blu Portman, 22 Portman Square, London, W1H 7BG, United Kingdom 26th 25th Annual Screen Studies Conference Glasgow, United Kingdom 27th Second International Conference on Identity Studies Vienna, Austria 29th 27th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies Oakland, United States of America 30th Theorising the Popular Liverpool, United Kingdom 30th Euro-American Conference for Academic Disciplines (Brussels 2015) Brussels, Belgium 30th Internal Communications Europe 2015 Amsterdam, Netherlands July 2015 5th 2015 InstSIS/IAABR -BANGKOK International Multidisciplinary Academic Conferences: Promoting Global Progress and Excellence in Academia BANGKOK, Thailand 7th Digital Freedoms: Challenges The Cybercultures Project Oxford, United Kingdom 9th ECSS 2015 - The European Conference on the Social Sciences Brighton, United Kingdom 10th Creativity in a Digital World City of London, United Kingdom 12th Contemporary Perspective in Tourism and Hospitality Research: Policy, Practice and Performance Eastbourne, United Kingdom 12th IAMCR 2015 - Hegemony or Resistance? The Ambiguous Power of Communication Montreal, Canada 13th EuroMedia 2015 - The European Conference on Media, Communication and Film Brighton, United Kingdom 13th KISMIF Summer School Gettin’ Underground Together! Porto, Portugal 13th 5th Global Innovation Knowledge Academy Valencia, Spain 13th INSEP2015 – Violence, Representations and Sexuality Ghent, Belgium 15th Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century / The Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century Projec Oxford, United Kingdom 16th The 1st International Conference on Innovative Communication and Sustainable Development in ASEAN Bangkok, Thailand 18th International Conference on Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences (ICHLSS) Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20th 2nd Annual International Conference on Art and Humanities - ICOAH 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka 20th Film-Philosophy Conference 2015: The Evaluation of Form Oxford, United Kingdom 22nd 2015 Arts Conference: The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society - A Common Ground Conference London, United Kingdom 23rd Performing Africa in the Motherland and in the Americas Los Angeles, United States of America 24th The Weaponising of Cinema: Hollywood, Propaganda and Portrayals of Enemies of the State/s The Hollywood and the World Project: 3rd Global Meeting Oxford, United Kingdom 28th Living Life in Public:Exploring the Private Lives of Celebrities The Celebrity Project Oxford, United Kingdom 29th eLearning 2.0: “The Paradigm Shift: Refocusing on the Student” London, United Kingdom August 2015 2nd The Asian Symposium on the Arts and Humanities for Peace - SHAPE 2015 Hiroshima, Japan 5th Sci-Fi / The Sci-Fi Project Oxford, United Kingdom 10th ClickZ Live San Francisco Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco, 94102, United States of America 15th Cambridge Institute Workshop in Research Publishing Berkeley, United States of America 17th Migrations and Memories / Migração e Memória: an interdisciplinary conference in arts, humanities and social sciences Londrina, Brazil 17th 2015 4th International Conference on Advancements in Information Technology - ICAIT 2015 Toronto, Canada 20th 2015 Academic OASIS â€" ORLANDO International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference: Promoting Research Advancements and Worldwide Progress ORLANDO, The Castle Hotel, United States of America 21st International Conference on Advances in English Studies & Women Empowerment – 2015 Guntur, India 23rd 2015 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automation Engineering (ICMEAE 2015) Bangkok, Thailand September 2015 2nd Bridging Gaps: Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism? New York, United States of America 3rd Fear, Horror and Terror: Experiences, Production and Dissemination The Fear, Horror and Terror Project Oxford, United Kingdom 4th Focus on Fathers. Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse. Wroclaw, Poland 7th The Superhero / The Superhero Project Oxford, United Kingdom 8th Digital Media Strategies USA Millennium Broadway Hotel, 145 West 44th Street, New York, 10036, United States, United States of America 12th Second International Conference on Women's Studies Vienna, Austria 15th The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project Oxford, United Kingdom 17th ASEAN Retail Congress 2015 Bangkok, Thailand 17th Electroacoustic Winds 2015 (EAW 2015) Aveiro, Portugal 19th 2015 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Communication Technologies (ICMCT2015) Hongkong, China 23rd Social Business & Digital Collaboration Stockholm, Sweden 23rd 2nd Annual Cell Culture & Bioprocessing Forum Berlin, Germany 24th Space, Place and Sport / The Sport Project: Probing the Boundaries Oxford, United Kingdom 24th 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference Colchester, United Kingdom 24th Bloomsbury C21 Conference - Writing and Insecurity: Writing the Twenty-first Century 24-25 Sept 15 (deadline: 28 June) Brighton, United Kingdom 25th Negotiating Space for (Dis)Ability in Drama, Theatre, Film, and Media Lodz, Poland 25th 6th International Digital Storytelling Conference Northampton, United States of America 25th International Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference Bucharest, Romania October 2015 1st Semiotic Society of America 40th Annual Meeting Pittsburgh, United States of America 5th 44th NSEE Annual Conference St. Pete Beach, United States of America 8th The 9th European Conference on Games Based Learning Steinkjer, Norway 8th Recording Nature in the Early Atlantic World, 1750-1830 Tampa Bay, United States of America 10th 2015 5th International Conference on Computer and Software Modeling - ICCSM 2015 Chengdu, China 11th 2015 International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC 2015) Chengdu, China 15th Tierra Tinta Conference Norman, United States of America 15th 2nd International Conference on Education, Culture and Identity (ICECI’15) Podgorica, Montenegro 17th 2015 2nd International Conference on Network Technologies (ICNT 2015) Dubai, United Arab Emirates 19th 2015 Book Conference: The Event of the Book - A Common Ground Conference Vancouver, Canada 22nd 4th International Conference of Applied and Creative Arts 2015 (ICACA) Kuching, Malaysia 22nd “Constructing” Middle East: Media, Ideology and Culture Ankara, Turkey 25th 2015 Academic OASIS â€" LAS VEGAS International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference: Promoting Research Advancements and Worldwide Progress LAS VEGAS, The Stratosphere Hotel & Tower, United States of America 25th 2015 2nd International Conference on Advances in Image Processing (ICAIP 2015) Beijing, China 25th 2015 The 5th International Conference on Information and Electronics Engineering (ICIEE 2015) Beijing, China 26th 2015 3rd International Conference on Media and Film Studies - ICMFS 2015 Beijing, China 26th Multilayer Packaging Films 2015 Cologne, Germany 27th Old Masters in New Interpretations Olsztyn, Poland 29th 2nd ICMCAM Bangkok, Thailand November 2015 1st The Second Asian Conference on the Social Sciences and Sustainability - ACSUS 2015 Fukuoka, Japan 2nd Polymer Foam 2015 Cologne, Germany 2nd 2015 e-Learning Conference: The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiquitous Learning, and the Knowledge Economy - A Common Ground Conference Santa Cruz, United States of America 2nd 2015 International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2015) Kanyakumari, India 5th 2015 International Conference on Photonics, Optoelectronic and Applications (ICPOA 2015) Tokyo, Japan 6th 2nd International Conference on Stress Management Professional (ICSMP 2015) Hyderabad, India 7th 13th Asia Pacific Conference (APC2015) Beppu, Japan 12th FilmAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary Kobe, Japan 12th MediAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication Kobe, Japan 12th 2015 International Conference on Information and Computer Technology (ICICT 2015) Dubai, United Arab Emirates 16th 2nd International Conference on MANAGEMENT and MUAMALAH 2015 ( 2nd ICoMM 2015 ) Bangi, Malaysia 19th 2015 The 8th International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2015) Barcelona, Spain 20th Popular Culture and World Politics 8 (Worlding Popular Culture) London, United Kingdom 21st 2015 International Conference on Systems,Control and Communications (ICSCC 2015) Singapore, Singapore 23rd 2015 2nd Intl. Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2015) Hong Kong, China 24th Third International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science Dubai, United Arab Emirates 25th 3rd International Conference on New Media - CONMEDIA 2015 Tangerang, Indonesia December 2015 3rd “Converging Cultures: Collaborations in Learning, Research and Study” Rome, Italy 10th 2015 International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICIW 2015) Bali, Indonesia 10th 2015 International Conference on Web Engineering and Technologies (ICWET 2015) Bali, Indonesia 16th International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM) 2015 Jaipur, India 17th Conference on Digital Humanities 2015: Digitization of the Humanities: Technologizing Interconnections in Art, History and Literature (in conjunction with ‘Conference on Digital Culture 2015') Hong Kong, Hong Kong 17th Conference on Digital Culture 2015: Animation Techniques and the Digital Art (in conjunction with ‘Conference on Digitization of the Humanities 2015) Hong Kong, Hong Kong 18th International Conference on Media and Mass Communication (ICMMC 2015) Jakarta, Indonesia January 2016 5th 8th International Conference on Innovative Digital Applications for Sustainable Development Bangalore, India 21st Shakespeare after Shakespeare Paris, France February 2016 17th International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology (ICDAMT) Chiangrai, Thailand 25th 2016 International Conference on Design Principles and Practices - A Common Ground Conference Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 27th IICAH2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities Dubai, United Arab Emirates 27th IICSS2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences Dubai, United Arab Emirates April 2016 17th International Conference for Academic Disciplines (Vienna 2016) Vienna, Austria July 2016 5th 6th ICTVC Thessaloniki, Greece 22nd EuroScience Open Forum Manchester, United Kingdom August 2016 2nd 2016 Social Sciences Conference: An Age and its Ends: Social Science in the Era of the Anthropocene - A Common Ground Conference London, United Kingdom September 2016 15th 2016 Communications and Media Conference: Communication and Media Studies: After the Internet? - A Common Ground Conference Chicago, United States of America November 2016 8th Multidisciplinary Conference (Univ. of London) London, United Kingdom 2nd Annual International Conference on Art and Humanities - ICOAH 2015 20th July 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka 2nd Annual International Conference on Art and Humanities- ICOAH 2015 to be held during 20-22 July 2015 in Colombo, Sri Lanka under the theme of "Transformation and Adaptation". 2015 Academic OASIS â€" ORLANDO International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference: Promoting Research Advancements and Worldwide Progress 20th August 2015 ORLANDO, The Castle Hotel, United States of America Our Orlando conference allows blending research presentations, networking, and entertainment. Get published and have fun! Tracks: Business, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities, IT, Law, Politics, Psychology, Medical, Media & Social Studies. 2015 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Communication Technologies (ICMCT2015) 19th September 2015 Hongkong, China All accepted papers that are registered of ICMCT 2015 will be published in one of the following journals: * Journal of Media & Mass Communication * Journal of Computers(JCP, ISSN: 1796-203X) International Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference 25th September 2015 Bucharest, Romania Join us at IIDC 2015 - an international conference open to post-docs and PhD./MA students for an opportunity to present and publish the results of your research in a friendly, youthful environment. Publication and certificate of attendance! 2015 5th International Conference on Computer and Software Modeling - ICCSM 2015 10th October 2015 Chengdu, China International Journal of Modeling and Optimization (IJMO, ISSN:2010-3697; 10.7763/IJMO) Engineering & Technology Digital Library, ProQuest, Crossref, Electronic Journals Library,DOAJ, Google Scholar, EI (INSPEC, IET). 2015 International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC 2015) 11th October 2015 Chengdu, China All accepted papers after proper registration and presentation, will be published in the conference Proceedings by Conference Publishing Services, and reviewed by the IEEE Conference Publication Program for IEEE Xplore and Ei Compendex. 2015 2nd International Conference on Network Technologies (ICNT 2015) 17th October 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Journal of Communications (JCM), ISSN: 1796-2021 (Online); 2374-4367 (Print), (open Access), indexed by EI Compendex; SCOPUS; ULRICH's Periodicals Directory; INSPEC; etc. 2015 Academic OASIS â€" LAS VEGAS International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference: Promoting Research Advancements and Worldwide Progress 25th October 2015 LAS VEGAS, The Stratosphere Hotel & Tower, United States of America Our Las Vegas conference allows blending research presentations, networking and entertainment. Get published and have fun! Tracks: Business, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities, IT, Law, Politics, Psychology, Medical, Media & Social Studies 2015 2nd International Conference on Advances in Image Processing (ICAIP 2015) 25th October 2015 Beijing, China Conference papers will be published in the proceeding, which will be indexed by Ei and Scopus, or be selected to be published in Journal of Image and Graphics (JOIG,Indexing: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Google Scholar, EBSCO,etc.). 2015 The 5th International Conference on Information and Electronics Engineering (ICIEE 2015) 25th October 2015 Beijing, China Authors can choose one journal from JAIT, JCP and JSW to submit and publish your paper. 2015 3rd International Conference on Media and Film Studies - ICMFS 2015 26th October 2015 Beijing, China Journal of Media & Mass Communication--JMMC Abstracting/Indexing: Google Scholar; Engineering & Technology Digital Library; etc. 2015 International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2015) 2nd November 2015 Kanyakumari, India Journal of Advances in Information Technology ISSN: 1798-2340 | DOI: 10.12720/jait Abstracting/Indexing: INSPEC; EBSCO; ULRICH's Periodicals Directory; WorldCat; CrossRef; Genamics JournalSeek; Google Scholar; Ovid LinkSolver; etc 2015 International Conference on Photonics, Optoelectronic and Applications (ICPOA 2015) 5th November 2015 Tokyo, Japan Journal of Communications (JCM) ISSN: 1796-2021; Indexed by EI Compendex; SCOPUS; ULRICH's Periodicals Directory; Google Scholar; INSPEC; etc. 2015 International Conference on Information and Computer Technology (ICICT 2015) 12th November 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Journal of Software (JSW, ISSN 1796-217X) Abstracting/ Indexing: DBLP, EBSCO, DOAJ, ProQuest, INSPEC, ULRICH's Periodicals Directory, WorldCat, CNKI,etc. 2015 The 8th International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2015) 19th November 2015 Barcelona, Spain ICMV 2015 conference papers will be published by SPIE, which will be included in SPIE Digital Library and provided to the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science, Scopus, Ei Compendex, ISI, Inspec, Google Scholar ... 2015 International Conference on Systems,Control and Communications (ICSCC 2015) 21st November 2015 Singapore, Singapore All accepted papers of ICSCC 2015 will be published into conference proceedings by Conference Publishing Services, and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL, and submitted to the indexing companies for possible indexing. 2015 2nd Intl. Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2015) 23rd November 2015 Hong Kong, China All the accepted papers will be published in the ISCMI 2015 conference Proceedings by Conference Publishing Services, and will be submitted to be reviewed by the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology (ICDAMT) 17th February 2016 Chiangrai, Thailand The objective is to create an opportunity for researchers, developers, designers, engineers and technologists to exchange ideas and discuss development in digital arts, media and technology for strengthening the growth of creative industries IICAH2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities 27th February 2016 Dubai, United Arab Emirates IAFOR and its international partners invite you to participate in the Inaugural IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities, held at the Crowne Plaza Festival City, Dubai. Join us and discuss year's theme, “Justice”. IICSS2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences 27th February 2016 Dubai, United Arab Emirates IAFOR and its international partners invite you to participate in the Inaugural International Conference on the Social Sciences, held at the Crowne Plaza Festival City, Dubai. Join us and discuss year's theme, “Justice and Sustainability”.

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