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Tennessee Williams- International Colloquium
15 December 2011
Bucharest Romania

The international colloquium is organized within aspecific sub-section dedicated to TennesseeWilliams (100 years after birth).

Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy
01 February 2012
Pune India

Authors are invited to submit original researchpapers, case studies, reviews, work in progressreports, abstracts, students' papers or researchproposals within the broad scope of theconference. All submitted paper will be double blind r

Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Annual Meeting
08 February 2012
Albuquerque New Mexico

Join us in sunny Albuquerque, New Mexico for our33rd annual meeting celebrating “Food & Culture(s)in a Global Context. Papers and panel proposalsare now being accepted for this exciting event.

2012 International Conference on Intelligent Information and Networks(ICIIN 2012)
17 February 2012
Hong Kong China

ICIIN 2012 will be published in the IPCSIT (ISSN: 2010-460X) as one volume, and will be included in the E&T Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, CNKI, WorldCat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings.

2012 International Conference on Electronics and Opto-electronics Science (ICEOS 2012)
18 February 2012
Coimbatore India

ICEOS 2012 will bring together top researchers from Asian Pacific areas, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of Electronics and Opto-electronics Science.

2012 International Conference on Network and Computer Science (ICNCS 2012)
10 March 2012
Hong Kong China

All selected papers of ICNCS 2012 will be published by ASME Press together with ICCMS, and will be included in the ASME Digital Library, and indexed by the Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI (ISTP).

2012 International Congress on Informatics, Environment, Energy and Applications (IEEA 2012)
17 March 2012
Singapore Singapore

Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Congress. IEEA 2012 will be published in the Congress proceedings.

ACAH 2012 - The Third Annual Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2012
06 April 2012
Osaka Japan

3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Academic Conferenceheld in Osaka Japan organized by IAFOR and itsglobal partners. Conference theme: 'Exchanges andEncounters. CFP Deadline February 1 2012

2012 2nd International Conference on Management and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2012)
07 April 2012
Bangkok Thailand

ICMAI 2012 will be published in one Volume of IPEDR (ISSN: 2010-4626), and all papers will be included in Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by Thomson ISI (Web of Knowledge).

2012 4th International Conference on Digital Image Processing(ICDIP 2012)
07 April 2012
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding by SPIE, which will be indexed by Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI.

2012 International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Systems - CNCS 2012
07 April 2012
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

All accepted papers of CNCS 2012 will be published into proceedings, which will be sent to be indexed by EI Compendex.

2012 4th International Conference on Computer Research and Development (ICCRD 2012)
21 April 2012
Kunming China

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding by IEEE, which will be included in the IEEE Xplore, and indexed by INSPEC and Ei Compendex.

The Second Annual Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom
26 April 2012
Osaka Japan

International Conference on Technology and its usein the Classroom, and in the virtual environmentsrelated to teaching: Conference Theme: Learning,Culture and Society: What role can technology play?

G. B .Shaw: Back in Town
29 May 2012
Dublin Ireland

abstracts & Travel Grant applications: January 27, 2012. G.B.Shaw: Back in Town is focused on Shaw's return to Dublin to revisit his Irish identity, interrelationships with other Irish, contributions to Ireland,and other subjects.

FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - The End of Representation?
22 June 2012
London United Kingdom

FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the the screen-based traditions of film, TV, and digital media.

7th Global Conference:Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction (July 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom)
15 July 2012
oxford United Kingdom

This project aims to explore what it is to behuman and the nature of human community incyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction.

2nd Global Conference,Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
30 August 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryproject aims to explore the processes by which weattempt to create meaning in chronic illness.

5th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Madness (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
30 August 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary research conference seeksto explore issues of madness across historicalperiods and within cultural, political and socialcontexts

3rd Global Conference: Space and Place (Exploring Critical Issues)
03 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

The study of space and place is aninterdisciplinary field of research crossing overmany and varied academic, artistic and practicalfields.

6th Global Conference,Fear, Horror and Terror (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
07 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryconference seeks to examine and explore issueswhich lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror

10th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil)
10 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryproject seeks to investigate and explore theenduring influence and imagery of monsters

7th Global Conference: The Erotic (Exploring Critical Issues)
11 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This project aims to instigate inter-disciplinarydialogues which will enable a clearer awareness ofthe historical and cultural developments of the'erotic'.

4th Global Conference: Fashion (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
16 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinaryconference seeks to explore the historical,social, economic, political, psychological andartistic phenomenon of fashion.

6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
16 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This project seeks to explore the new andprominent place that the idea of culture has forthe construction of identity and the implicationsof this for social membership in contemporarysocieties

4th Global Conference: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
21 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explorethe crucial place that strangers, aliens andforeigners have for the constitution of self,communities and societies

1st Global Conference: 'Skins' and Contemporary Culture (Exploring Critical Issues)
25 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

The richness of Skins as a televisual textsupports wide-ranging explorations of the show'saesthetic, thematic, ideological, social andtechnological implications.

2nd Global Conference: Gender and Love (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
25 September 2012
Oxford United Kingdom

This project aims at an interdisciplinary exchangeof ideas and perspectives in order to understandthe interaction and the interconnection betweenthe concepts of love and gender.


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December 2011

15 NEW Tennessee Williams- International Colloquium Bucharest Romania
The international colloquium is organized within aspecific sub-section dedicated to TennesseeWilliams (100 years after birth).

15 2011 TERA International Conference on Education (TICE 2011) Kaohsiung Taiwan
16 Rethinking Resistance Macau Macau
17 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Civil Engineering (ICEECE'2011) Pattaya Thailand
17 International Conference on Advancements in Information Technology 2011¨CICAIT 2011 Chennai India
All papers for the ICAIT 2011 will be published in the Volume of IPCSIT (ISSN:2010-460X),which will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and reviewed and indexed by Thomson ISI(ISTP).

17 2011 International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Applications (ICSIA 2011) Chennai India
27 Diversity and Plurality in Media - Reflections of Society Bhopal India
28 2011 3rd International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology (ICIMT 2011) Dubai United Arab Emirates
ICIMT 2011 will be published in the conference proceeding. All papers of the conference will be indexed by Thomson ISI Proceeding (CPCI) and Ei Compendex.

28 2011 International Conference on Communication and Network Security (ICCNS 2011) Dubai United Arab Emirates
ICCNS 2011 conference papers will be included in the ICACTE 2011 proceedings, which is published by ASME Press, and will be included in the ASME Digital Library, and indexed by the Ei Compendex, ISI Proceeding.


January 2012

02 Inside Washington 2012: In Pursuit of the Presidency/Politics and the Media Washington DC
Academic program for faculty and college students that focuses on the 2012 presidential election campaign from a political and media perspective. Faculty may enroll as faculty fellows or be hired to assist as faculty leaders

07 2012 International Conference on Innovation and Information Management(ICIIM 2012) Chengdu China
Selected papers of ICIIM 2012 will be published in ICAMR, which will be in the Advanced Materials Research Journal, which will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISI Proceedings.

12 International Conference on Digital Religion Boulder Colorado
13 Collaboration, Authorship and the Renaissance: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives Belfast United Kingdom
13 NEW Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway near Atlantic City New Jersey
14 2012 International Conference on Communication and Electronics Information - ICCEI 2012 Mumbai India
The ICCEI 2012 proceedings will be published by ASME Press together with ICCAE, which will be included in the ASME Digital Library, and indexed by the Ei Compendex, Thomson ISI and other indexing services.

17 2nd Global Islamic Marketing Conference Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
Join Islamic Marketing scholars, researchers and experts from more than 30 countries, meet many ambassadors and commercial counselors, listen to UAE business gurus, win major awards, and publish in three international journals, and more!

18 Following Forkhead Paths: Discussions on the Narrative Kolkata India
21 C PRACSIS International Conference on VISUAL SPACES Chennai [Madras] India
21 The End Of ...? Canterbury United Kingdom
25 International Conference on Diaspora Studies UKM Bangi Malaysia
30 5th Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East Dubai United Arab Emirates
Last Call for Papers: We invite all those engagedin triggering & managing educational changes,innovation,& excellence in e-learning to share theirexperiences & practices by submitting researchpapers, case studies, & poster presentations

31 ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES Toronto Canada

February 2012

01 Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy Pune India
Authors are invited to submit original researchpapers, case studies, reviews, work in progressreports, abstracts, students' papers or researchproposals within the broad scope of theconference. All submitted paper will be double blind r

01 NEW 3rd Working with Ministers and Parliament on Legislation Ottawa Canada
06 Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship Milton Keynes United Kingdom
08 Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Annual Meeting Albuquerque New Mexico
Join us in sunny Albuquerque, New Mexico for our33rd annual meeting celebrating “Food & Culture(s)in a Global Context. Papers and panel proposalsare now being accepted for this exciting event.

08 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association--Myth and Fairy Tale Area *Deadline Extended* Albuquerque New Mexico
08 NEW Indigenous Cinemas Area - SWTX Popular/American Culture Association Albuquerque New Mexico
09 NEW 8th Annual International Conference of Indian Society for Theatre Research Pune India
09 The 3rd PhD Experience Conference: The Balanced and Employable Researcher Hull United Kingdom
10 Children and Childhood in the English Renaissance Siegen Germany
13 Online Marketing Summit 2012 Sydney Australia
16 Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference Richmond Kentucky
16 Society for Phenomenology and Media: 14th Annual International Conference San Diego California
17 Considering Vietnam London United Kingdom
17 2012 International Conference on Information and Computer Applications(ICICA 2012) Hong Kong China
ICICA 2012 is sponsored by IACSIT, and supported by many Institutes and Universities around the world. Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Conference.

17 2012 International Conference on Intelligent Information and Networks(ICIIN 2012) Hong Kong China
ICIIN 2012 will be published in the IPCSIT (ISSN: 2010-460X) as one volume, and will be included in the E&T Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, CNKI, WorldCat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings.

18 2012 International Conference on Electronics and Opto-electronics Science (ICEOS 2012) Coimbatore India
ICEOS 2012 will bring together top researchers from Asian Pacific areas, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of Electronics and Opto-electronics Science.

22 NEW Integrating Governance Frameworks Canberra Australia
22 NEW Measuring and Optimising Social Media Marketing in Tertiary Education Melbourne Australia
Gather with industry thought leaders, hear casestudies from tertiary institutions and commercialcompanies and participate in a host of interactivesessions to discuss how to drive studentrecruitment through your social media strategy.

22 5th Annual Social Media Marketing Toronto Canada
24 In Analysis: The Work of Hanif Kureishi London United Kingdom
25 NEW International Conference on Civic Challenges,Democracy and Media Aligarh India
25 ICT and Languages Conference ililc12 Southampton United Kingdom
26 2012 International Conference on Information and Computer Networks, ICICN 2012 Singapore Singapore
ICICN 2012 will be published in the Volume of IPCSIT, which will be included in Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by Thomson ISI (Web of Knowledge), and sent to be reviewed and indexed by Ei Compendex.

28 NEW DECISION WRITING & RUNNING A FAIR HEARING. Two-day course. Ottawa Canada
29 AWP Association of Writers and Writing Programs Chicago IL
29 NEW It All Ended: Harry Potter and Popular Culture Leicester UK United Kingdom

March 2012

01 THE BORDER, AN UNAVOIDABLE CONCEPT. International Conference on the Border and its Relationship to the Performing Arts in Europe Barcelona Spain
01 100th ACSA Annual Meeting: 0_100: Digital Aptitudes Boston MA
01 EDGE2012 Edinburgh United Kingdom
02 AFTER COMMUNISM. EAST AND WEST UNDER SCRUTINY Craiova Romania
02 The Seventh Annual Conference The Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK) Hong Kong China
07 International Congress on Visual Culture 2012: Digitalization Istanbul Turkey
VISUALIST 2012 will bring together academics andprofessionals oming from different fields todiscuss their differing point of views on thesequestions related to "Visual Culture" whilereferring to "digitalization".

07 Gender and Women's Studies in the Arab Region Sharjah United Arab Emirates
08 Press Freedom in Canada: A status report on the 30th Anniversary on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Toronto Canada
09 6th International Folk Festival 2012 Kathmandu Nepal
09 Migrations and Diaspora from New Perspectives Tempe AZ
09 The 2nd Biannual Irish Sexuality Studies Conference Dublin Ireland
09 2012 Global Conference on Visual Literacy St. Louis Missouri
09 2nd Global Conference: Urban Popcultures Prague Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aimsto examine, explore and critically engage withissues related to urban life.

10 Sport, Gender and Media York United Kingdom
10 2012 International Conference on Network and Computer Science (ICNCS 2012) Hong Kong China
All selected papers of ICNCS 2012 will be published by ASME Press together with ICCMS, and will be included in the ASME Digital Library, and indexed by the Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI (ISTP).

10 NEW 2012 1st Journal Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology (JCIMT 2012 1st) Chennai India
12 NEW Nations & Regions Media Conference 2012 Salford United Kingdom
14 2012 Information Fluency Conference Orlando Florida
The Information Fluency Conference will feature akeynote address, plenary sessions, and concurrentsessions with presentations on the various aspectsof Information Fluency. This year's theme is"Information Fluency & the Digital Divides."

15 Italian Narratives on the Net: Between Private, Public and Social Communication (Roundtable) Rochester, NY NY
15 Evaluation in the Media Paris France
17 PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc Nottingham United Kingdom
17 2012 International Congress on Informatics, Environment, Energy and Applications (IEEA 2012) Singapore Singapore
Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Congress. IEEA 2012 will be published in the Congress proceedings.

20 Program Logic for NRM Capacity Building Workshop 2012 Sydney Australia
21 NEW Travel Zoom 2012 - 2nd conference on strategic and creative marketing in tourism Bled Slovenia
21 Discourse - Communication - Conversation Loughborough United Kingdom
21 NEW The 5th Annual National Blended Learning Conference 2012 Sydney Australia
22 The 4th Language in the Realm of Social Dynamics International Conference: The Multi-dimensions in an Era of Language and Teaching bangkok Thailand
26 PAEWN 2012 : Workshop on the Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks 2012 Fukuota Japan
27 NEW CoDE - Cultures of the Digital Economy 1st Annual Conference Cambridge United Kingdom
27 NEW The 4th Annual National Communications Officers' Conference 2012 Canberra Australia
27 NEW Asian Conference Summit & Awards Singapore Singapore
29 Representing the Holocaust: Present & Future (ACLA) Providence RI
29 Out of Time Milton Keynes United Kingdom
29 Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission Cambridge United Kingdom

April 2012

02 NEW Crises, Globalization and Governance: How to Draw Lessons?" Beirut Lebanon
03 4th Architecture, Culture & Spirituality Symposium Chichen Itza Mexico
06 ACAH 2012 - The Third Annual Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2012 Osaka Japan
3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Academic Conferenceheld in Osaka Japan organized by IAFOR and itsglobal partners. Conference theme: 'Exchanges andEncounters. CFP Deadline February 1 2012

07 4th Annual International DIversity in Place Honolulu HI
07 NEW 2012 2nd International Conference on Management and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2012) Bangkok Thailand
ICMAI 2012 will be published in one Volume of IPEDR (ISSN: 2010-4626), and all papers will be included in Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by Thomson ISI (Web of Knowledge).

07 NEW 2012 4th International Conference on Digital Image Processing(ICDIP 2012) Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding by SPIE, which will be indexed by Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI.

07 NEW 2012 International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Systems - CNCS 2012 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
All accepted papers of CNCS 2012 will be published into proceedings, which will be sent to be indexed by EI Compendex.

11 Annual National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference--Stephen King Area Boston MA
11 NEW Horror Area-Popular Culture/American Culture Associations-11-14 April 2012 Boston Massachusetts
11 Third International Conference in Communication and Media Studies:(Re)Making and Undoing of Peace/Conflict Famagusta Cyprus
11 BSA Annual Conference: Sociology in an Age of Austerity Leeds United Kingdom
Sociological theory and innovative methods will be brought to bear in placing recent events in their wider historical, cultural and social context. Sociology is uniquely placed to provide insights into the social environment.

12 Monsters: Subject, Object, Abject Manchester United Kingdom
16 iMedia Brand Summit 2012 Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
17 NEW Marxism Matters Sunderland United Kingdom
18 NEW Art & Design International Conference Shah Alam Malaysia
20 Innovation and Integration in English Language Teaching: Rethinking Praxis in a Connected World Shantou China
20 National Association of Communication Centers Conference Richmond Kentucky
21 NEW NYIT-Nanjing International Film Festival and Symposium Nanjing China
21 NEW 2012 4th International Conference on Computer Research and Development (ICCRD 2012) Kunming China
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding by IEEE, which will be included in the IEEE Xplore, and indexed by INSPEC and Ei Compendex.

26 Neurodynamics and the Neuromatrix Adelaide Australia
26 NEW The Second Annual Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom Osaka Japan
International Conference on Technology and its usein the Classroom, and in the virtual environmentsrelated to teaching: Conference Theme: Learning,Culture and Society: What role can technology play?

26 1st International Communication Students' Symposium izmir Turkey
26 NEW Modes of Activism and Engagement in the Chinese Public Sphere Singapore Singapore

May 2012

02 NEW New Communication Technologies and Social Transformation Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
03 7th Global Conference: Cybercultures Prague Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the growing adoption of information technologies for inter-human communication.

03 Re-presenting Memory Istanbul Turkey
07 5th Annual International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology (CGAT 2012) Bali Indonesia
08 NEXT12 Berlin Berlin Germany
10 II AIM Annual Meeting Lisbon Portugal
11 NEW I. International Conference on Humanities, The Spiritual Quest in Humanties Tirana Albania
14 NEW 10th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media Athens Greece
16 Living and Writing Bydgoszcz Poland
17 NEW BETWEEN. PAGE / STAGE. JOHN BERGER. COMPLICITE. Sopot Poland
17 Literary Journalism: The Power and Promise of Story Toronto Canada
21 American Canadian Conference for Academic Disciplines Toronto Canada
23 World Media Economics & Management Conference 2012 thessaloniki Greece
24 Beyond Representation; Photography, Humans, Computers London United Kingdom
26 Arab Women, Media and Sexuality York United Kingdom
27 Third International Conference for Academic Disciplines at Harvard Boston
28 NEW 25th Canadian conference on Artificial Intellience ( AI-2012 ) Toronto Canada
29 NEW G. B .Shaw: Back in Town Dublin Ireland
abstracts & Travel Grant applications: January 27, 2012. G.B.Shaw: Back in Town is focused on Shaw's return to Dublin to revisit his Irish identity, interrelationships with other Irish, contributions to Ireland,and other subjects.

31 PUBLISHING AND TRANSLATION Tomsk Russian Federation

June 2012

04 NEW 3rd Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts Athens Greece
05 Framing the Cinematic Calendar: Grids and Timelines of the Moving Image (Tel Aviv, Israel, 5-7 June 2012) Tel Aviv Israel
11 Tridentcom 2012 Thessaloniki Greece
13 ad:tech Singapore 2012 Singapore Singapore
15 Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment Edinburgh United Kingdom
15 Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928) Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom
22 NEW FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - The End of Representation? London United Kingdom
FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the the screen-based traditions of film, TV, and digital media.

23 NEW 2012 IPI World Congress Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
26 Euro-American Conference for Academic Disciplines Prague Czech Republic
28 Rethinking Humanism St Andrews United Kingdom

July 2012

04 Queer People VI: Art & Lives, Studies in the History and Representation of Sexualities Cambridge United Kingdom
06 A Sort of Wisdom: Exploring the Legacy of Primo Levi Ormskirk United Kingdom
An international conference commemorating the 25thanniversary of Primo Levi's death.We welcomeanalyses of Levi's legacy from the disciplines ofSociology, History, Literature, Politics, Ethics,and Education Studies.

10 NEW Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Knowledge Industries Valencia Spain
10 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2012 London United Kingdom
11 Jelinek in the Arena: Sport, Cultural Understanding and Translation to Page and Stage Lancaster United Kingdom
11 PMA 2012: From Stratety to Operations Cambridge United Kingdom
11 3rd DERRIDA TODAY conference Irvine California
The conference will be broadly interdisciplinaryand invites contributions from a range ofacademic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. Wewill accept papers and panel proposals on anyaspect of Derrida's work or deconstruction in relation

12 RevCon Perth Australia
15 NEW 7th Global Conference:Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction (July 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom) oxford United Kingdom
This project aims to explore what it is to behuman and the nature of human community incyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction.

16 2nd International Cyberpsychology & Computing Psychology Conference 2012 (CyComP 2012) Bolton United Kingdom
19 2012 Global Marketing Conference at Seoul Seoul Korea (South)
23 'Magic is Might' 2012 Limerick Ireland
27 NEW 9th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium Niagara-on-the-Lake Canada

August 2012

01 NEW The 1st Kenyatta University International Conference on Gender Based Violence Nairobi Kenya
09 7th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference Indianapolis Indiana
13 International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture Eskisir Turkey
17 Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images. 400 years after the Lancashire Witches. Lancaster United Kingdom
18 Campaign 2012: The Republican National Convention Tampa Florida
Speical academic program for college students and faculty on site at the Republican National Convention. Faculty may participate as attendees (faculty fellows)or hired to be in charge of students (faculty leaders).See www.twc.edu/c2012docs

25 Campaign 2012: The Democratic National Convention Charlotte North Carolina
Special academic program for college students and faculty on site at the Democratic National Convention. Faculty may participate as attendees (faculty fellows)or hired to be in charge of students (faculty leaders).See www.twc.edu/c2012docs

30 NEW 2nd Global Conference,Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryproject aims to explore the processes by which weattempt to create meaning in chronic illness.

30 NEW 5th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Madness (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary research conference seeksto explore issues of madness across historicalperiods and within cultural, political and socialcontexts


September 2012

03 NEW 3rd Global Conference: Space and Place (Exploring Critical Issues) Oxford United Kingdom
The study of space and place is aninterdisciplinary field of research crossing overmany and varied academic, artistic and practicalfields.

06 2012 IDEA Symposium - Interior: A State of Becoming Perth Australia
06 A Grimm Legacy: The Impact of Grimms' Tales in the English-Speaking World London United Kingdom
06 Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture Edmonton Canada
07 NEW 6th Global Conference,Fear, Horror and Terror (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryconference seeks to examine and explore issueswhich lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror

10 NEW 10th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil) Oxford United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryproject seeks to investigate and explore theenduring influence and imagery of monsters

11 NEW 7th Global Conference: The Erotic (Exploring Critical Issues) Oxford United Kingdom
This project aims to instigate inter-disciplinarydialogues which will enable a clearer awareness ofthe historical and cultural developments of the'erotic'.

14 NEW Words and Images: Screenwriting Research Sydney Australia
16 NEW 4th Global Conference: Fashion (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinaryconference seeks to explore the historical,social, economic, political, psychological andartistic phenomenon of fashion.

16 NEW 6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This project seeks to explore the new andprominent place that the idea of culture has forthe construction of identity and the implicationsof this for social membership in contemporarysocieties

20 Solidarity, Memory and Identity Gdañsk Poland
21 NEW 4th Global Conference: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explorethe crucial place that strangers, aliens andforeigners have for the constitution of self,communities and societies

25 NEW 1st Global Conference: 'Skins' and Contemporary Culture (Exploring Critical Issues) Oxford United Kingdom
The richness of Skins as a televisual textsupports wide-ranging explorations of the show'saesthetic, thematic, ideological, social andtechnological implications.

25 NEW 2nd Global Conference: Gender and Love (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom) Oxford United Kingdom
This project aims at an interdisciplinary exchangeof ideas and perspectives in order to understandthe interaction and the interconnection betweenthe concepts of love and gender.


October 2012

04 Performing the World 2012 Can Performance Save the World? new york New York
19 NEW CHARLES DICKENS: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS Thessaloniki Greece
25 2012 Asian Congress for Media and Communication Thailand Bangkok Thailand

November 2012

07 NEW Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen Lisbon Portugal
09 Memory, Peace and Security Athens Greece
19 Performing Island Identities: Music, Dance, Folk Theatre, Storytelling, and Performance Traditions Gazimaðusa Cyprus
23 NEW The Conference for Conference Professionals London United Kingdom



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Friday, 9 December 2011

6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)

6th Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging

Sunday 16th September 2012 – Wednesday 19th
September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore
the new and prominent place that the idea of
culture has for the construction of identity and
the implications of this for social membership in
contemporary societies. In particular, the project
will assess the context of major world
transformations, for example, new forms of
migration and the massive movements of people
across the globe, as well as the impact of
globalisation on tensions, conflicts and on the
sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to
encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues,
we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines,
professions and vocations which struggle to
understand what it means for people, the world
over, to forge identities in rapidly changing
national, social and cultural contexts.

Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on
any of the following themes:

1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
~ Who is Self and who is Other?
~ The new value of social diversity and cultural
multiplicity; breaking with homogeneity and sameness
~ What is the place of difference and alterity, of
normality and normalisation in defining identity
and membership
~ How to account for social membership and
cultural identity?
~ Making sense of transformations and their
effects over culture, identity and membership
~ Othering, excluding, stygmatising

2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
~ What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
~ New migrants, new migratory flows and massive
movements from peripheral to central countries
~ Resurgence of the local and the diminishing
importance of the national
~ Are we living post-national realities?
~ What is the place of cultural claims in today's
forms of social membership?
~ Models of multiculturalism and the contemporary
experience of multiculturalism(s)
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other
forms of placing the responsibility of change on
the Other

3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
~ Evaluating the promises and institutions of
post-national governing
~ Institutions and organisations that do more for
money than for people
~ Political battles over globalization
~ Social movements, new rebellion and alternative
globalizations
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape
institutional and political intentions or control
~ New forms of global exclusion

4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
~ De-centering individuals and the making of
persons; thinking and acting with others in mind
and interpersonally
~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of
identity formation and social membership
~ New sources and forms of belonging; new
tribalism, localism, parochialism and communitarianism
~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality
and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics
and power, nations and geography
~ Who am I if not the relation with others?
~ Non-recognition as cultural violence

5. Media and Artistic Representations
~ The role of new and old media in the
construction of cultures and identities, of
nations and place
~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing
and stereotyping
~ The contested space of representing culture,
identity and belonging
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and
impenetrable constructions of culture
~ Living, being and belonging through art
~ Life imitating art and fiction

6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of
Contemporary Life
~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures
shared? Who has access to the sharing of cultures?
~ Cultural claims and human rights
~ Exploring multiculturalism as a plural
experience: Shouldn't we be talking about
multiculturalisms?
~ Living in a context with the cultural markers of
a different context: Is that transculturalism?
~ Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of
wanting to bridge the 'invisible' divide of cultures
~ Symbols and significations that connect people
to places other than 'their own'
~ Culture, identity and belonging by choice

7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
~ Recognition and respect without exclusion
~ An ethics for social relations in a new millennium
~ What to do with historically old concepts like
tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
~ Should not we all be strangers? Should not we
all be foreigners?
~ Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
~ Loving the other within the self; building fluid
boundaries of belonging and being

The 2012 meeting of Multiculturalism, Conflict and
Belonging will run alongside the forth meeting of
our project on Fashion – Exploring Critical Issues
and we anticipate holding sessions in common
between the two projects. We welcome any papers
considering the problems or addressing issues of
Fashion, Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging.

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Multiculturalism
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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. 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

Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business, Faculty of Law,
Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909, Australia
Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au

Rob Fisher
Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: mcb6@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Diversity and
Recognition 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 papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-
recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-
recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/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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Tuesday, 6 December 2011

2012 International Conference on Computer Networks and Communication Systems - CNCS 2012

2012 International Conference on Computer
Networks and Communication Systems - CNCS 2012
7 to 8 April 2012
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

All accepted papers of CNCS 2012 will be
published into proceedings, which will be sent
to be indexed by EI Compendex.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 January 2012.

Enquiries: cncs@sie-edu.sg
Web address: http://www.sie-edu.sg/cncs/index.htm
Sponsored by: SIE
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Monday, 5 December 2011

2nd Global Conference,Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)

2nd Global Conference
Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and
Disease Project

Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
project aims to explore the processes by which we
attempt to create meaning in chronic illness. The
apparent increase in and diversity of chronic
conditions calls for better understandings of the
spaces between health and illness that chronic
patients occupy, often for most of their lives.
How can we articulate the tension between the
biomedical model of chronicity and its embodied
experience? What language and other forms of
representation can we use to map, chart and begin
to explore the meanings possible within such
spaces? What insights can these provide to inform
better chronic care management? What is the
relationship between chronicity and wellbeing? How
do individuals, societies and cultures make sense
of chronicity?

We particularly welcome papers/ workshops/ short
performances on topics which might include, but
are not restricted to:

1. The Borderlands:
- well but ill; degrees of wellness; degrees of
illness.
- chronic illness; terminal illness
- chronic pain/ acute pain
- metaphors for and of the journey

2. Understanding CI
- clinical trials/ Big Pharma and CI
- identity and sense of self
- shame, stigma and guilt
- medicine, the clinical gaze, and CI
- the relationship with our body

3. Living with CI
- CI and family
- CI and work
- CI and disability
- CI and ethnicity
- CI and gender

4. Giving CI Voices
- the language of CI
- narrating CI
- representing CI
- performing CI

5. Coping with CI
- chronic pain
- managing chronic illness/self-managing chronic
illness
- life, time and reinventing meaning
- healthcare and CI
- living well

Papers will be accepted which deal with related
areas and themes.

The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Chronicity
will run alongside the fifth of our projects on
Making Sense Of: Madness and we anticipate holding
sessions in common between the two projects. We
welcome any papers or panels considering the
problems or addressing issues that cross both
projects. Papers will be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted to the Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: CHR2 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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. 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 Chair .

Maria Vaccarella
Hub Leader, Making Sense Of: and Marie Curie
Research Fellow, King's College, London
E-mail: maria.vaccarella@inter-disciplinary.net
.
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: chronicity2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:'
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 papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-
of/chronicity/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-
of/chronicity/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
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Friday, 2 December 2011

5th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Madness (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)

5th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Madness

Thursday 30th August 2012 – Saturday 1st September
2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:

This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks
to explore issues of madness across historical
periods and within cultural, political and social
contexts. We are also interested in exploring the
place of madness in persons and interpersonal
relationships and across a range of critical
perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative
inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we
warmly welcome papers from all disciplines,
professions and vocations which struggle to
understand the place of madness in the
constitution of persons, relationships and the
complex interlacing of self and other. In the 4
previous conferences we had the participation of
friends and colleagues who have experienced forms
of madness in their personal lives, and they have
always been not only welcome, but also moving and
illuminating for all: Such contributions based on
the actual experience of madness from within are
always welcome to our annual events.

In particular papers, workshops, presentations and
pre-formed panel proposals are invited on any of
the following themes:

1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need
Madness?
~ Critical explorations: beyond
madness/sanity/insanity
~ Continuity and difference: always with us yet
never quite the same
~ Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence
and re-emergence of madness
~ Profound attraction and desire; fear of the
abyss and the radical unknown
~ Naming, defining and understanding the elusive

2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions
~ Love as madness; uncontrollable passion;
unrestrainable love
~ Passion and love as a remaking of life and self
~ Gender and madness; the feminine and the masculine
~ Anger, resentment, revenge, hate, evil
~ I would rather vomit, thank you; revulsion,
badness and refusing to comply

3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality
~ Madness, sanity and the insane
~ Being out of your mind, crazy, deranged … yet,
perfectly sane
~ Deviating from the normal; defining the self
against the normal
~ Control, self-control and the pull of the abyss
~ When the insane becomes normal; when evil reins
social life

4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the
Politics of Madness
~ The social allure and fear of madness; the
institutions of confining mad people
~ Servicing normality by castigating the insane
and marginalizing lunatics
~ Medicine, psychiatry, psychology, law and the
constructions of madness; madness as illness
~ Contributions of the social sciences to the
making and the critique of the making of madness
~ Representations, explanations and the critique
of madness from the humanities and the arts

5. Creativity, Critique and Cutting Edge
~ Madness as genius, outstanding, out of the
ordinary, spectacularly brilliant
~ The art of madness; the science of madness
~ Music, painting, dance, theater: it is crazy to
think of art without madness
~ The language and communication of madness: who
can translate?
~ Creation as an unfolding of madness

6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating
Promise of Madness
~ Metaphors of feeling free, unrestrained,
capable, lifted from reality
~ Madness as clear-sightedness, as opening up
possibilities, as re-visioning of the world
~ The future, the prophetic, the unknown; the
epic, the heroic and the tragic
~ The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness
~ The insanity of not loving madness

7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life
about and from Madness
~ Cultural and social constructions of madness;
images of the mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, abnormal
~ What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from
madness how to cope with reality
~ Recognising madness in oneself; relativising
madness in others
~ Love, intimacy, care and the small spaces of madness
~ Critical and ethical implosions of normality and
normalness; sane in insane places and insane in
sane places

Papers will be accepted which deal with related
areas and themes.

The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Madness will
run alongside the second of our projects on
Chronicity and we anticipate holding sessions in
common between the two projects. We welcome any
papers or panels considering the problems or
addressing issues that cross both projects. Papers
will be considered on any related theme. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26th March
2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted to the Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up tp
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Madness 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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. 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

Gonzalo Araoz
Project Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and
University of Cumbria, Cumbria, United Kingdom
E-mail: gon@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: mad5@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:'
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 papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-
of/madness/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-
of/madness/call-for-papers/

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Thursday, 1 December 2011

10th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil)

10th Global Conference
Monsters and the Monstrous

Monday 10th September – Thursday 13th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers:

For this 10th Anniversary of the Monsters and the
Monstrous Project we are looking forward to the
future, and so are starting from Franco Moretti's
comment that "the monster expresses the anxiety
that the future will be monstrous." Our focus then
will be on Monsters of the Future, no matter from
which time or place that future is viewed. So
whether the present is Medieval, Renaissance,
Enlightenment, Romantic, Modernist or Post
Modernist it is the ways that, as further noted by
Moretti, a "new order of beings" makes manifest
the terror of an unknown and uncontrollable
tomorrow and the forms these creatures take.

As such the monster becomes not the return of the
repressed but an immanent Imaginary that
constantly harasses and harangues the borders of
the Real. Just as Grendel, Caliban, Frankenstein's
Monster, Dr. Moreau's creatures and the clones
from Blade Runner can be seen to manifest a hybrid
future that blurs the borders between
human/non-human, the humane and the in-humane, the
converse is equally true where the tomorrow they
envision is as much degenerative as it is
evolutionary. Here, as in Wells' the Time Machine,
or Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness, the future is
in fact a portal to the past and that the true
anxiety we feel is not for inevitable change but
for a monstrous stasis that, like the vampire,
will lock us forever in a never-ending present
(not unlike Wittgenstein's immortality of the
never-ending moment). This then is a call for
monstrous visions of the future, whether it is a
new and alien land or one that is only too
familiar; for the Post-Human, the Non-Human and
the Anti-Human, the Robot, the Golem and the
Cyborg, the Pure-bred, the Hybrid and the
Mudblood, the Unborn, the Unliving and the Undead.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and
pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to
any of the following themes:

Monstrous Places/Spaces of the Future:
~The city, the town, the home of the future.
~Environmental disasters, global warming, nuclear
meltdowns, plagues and terra incognito.
~Dystopias/utopias
~New Worlds, forgotten worlds, undiscovered
worlds: Atlantis, Shangri-la. Eldorado

Human Monsters:
~Medical experimentation, cloning, reproduction.
~Cyborgs, robots and inanimate bodies made real
~Hybrids, both real and supernatural, post-human
and beyond human.
~Evolution and degeneration
~Actual bodies and supernatural bodies.
~Monsterisation of the human body: fragmentation,
surgical modification and bodies without organs

Monstrous Aliens & Alien Invaders:
~Invasions of unknown beings, conquistadors,
Martians, heavenly or alien life forms.
~Humans as invaders, Starship Troopers, Iain M.
Banks' The Culture
~Parasites, diseases, flora and influences

Monstrous Generations:
~The glorification of Youth, Logan's Run and In Time.
~Monstrous adolescents.
~Demonic children and alien babies.
~Middle-aged zombies and serial killers, possessed
grandparents
~Romantacising the Monster: Paranormal Romance,
dark lovers and heroes, Twilight, Vampire Diaries
and Dexter.

Monstrous Politics:
~Protest, revolt and revolution
~Zombie Capitalism and undead labour
~Class, status and the aristocracy
~Post colonialism, diasporas and migration.
~Ageism, sexism, health-ism and separatism e.g,
District 9, Metropolis, Matrix, Daybreakers.

Papers can be accepted which deal solely with
specific monsters. This project will run
concurrently with our project on The Erotic– we
welcome any papers considering the problems or
addressing issues on Monsters and The Erotic for a
cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed
panels on any aspect of the monstrous or in
relation to crossover panel(s).
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. Abstracts
should be submitted to the Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Monsters 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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication.We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
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cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
E-mail: m10@inter-disciplinary.net

Simon Bacon
Poznan,Poland
Email: baconetti@googlemail.com

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 papers accepted for
and presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume. Some papers may also
be invited for inclusion in the Journal of
Monsters and the Monstrous.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-
monstrous/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-
monstrous/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
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