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

2nd Global Conference
Gender and Love

Tuesday 25th September – Thursday 27th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:

The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field
intertwined with feminism, queer studies,
sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and
cultural studies (to name just some relevant fields).

This project calls for the consideration of gender
in relation to various kinds of love (with regard,
for example, to self, spirit, religion, family,
friendship, ethics, nation, globalisation,
environment, and so on). How do the interactions
of gender and love promote particular performances
of gender; conceptions of individual and
collective identity; formations of community;
notions of the human; understandings of good and
evil? These are just some of the questions that
occupy this project.

This conference welcomes research papers which
seek to understand the interaction and
interconnection between the concepts of love and
gender; and whether, when, how and in what ways
the two concepts conceive and construct each other.

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

1. Love as a Disciplinary Force: Productions of Gender
* Love, Gender, Essentialism and Ontology
* Love, Gender and Narrative
* Love, Gender and the Law
* Love, Gender and Religion

2. Norms, Normativity, Intimacy
* Rituals and Rites
* Conventions, Commitments and Obligations
* Choices and Respect; Loyalty and Trust
* Transgressions and Taboos

3. Gendered Yearnings
* Personhood and Identity
* Body Politics and Belonging
* Love and Gender Performativity
* Transgender Desires
* Queer Kinship Formations
* Queer Conceptualisations of the State

4. Global Perspectives on Gender and Love
* Transformations of Intimacy in a Global World
* Sex and Choice
* Reproductive Rights
* Sexual Citizenship
* Gender, Love and Trans/Nationalism

5. Representations of Gender and Love
* Aesthetics and Intelligibility
* Gendered Narrations of Love
* Media, Gender and Love

For 2012, the Gender and Love project will meet
alongside our project on Skins and Contemporary
Culture. It is our intention to create cross-over
sessions between the two groups – and we welcome
proposals which deal with the relationship between
gender and love and Skins and contemporary
culture. The Steering Group particularly welcomes
the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.
Papers will also 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. Abstracts
should be submitted simultaneously to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information and in 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: GL2 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). 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:

Dikmen Yakalı Çamoğlu
Department of Communication Sciences
Dogus University, Istanbul,
Turkey
Email: dyakali@yahoo.com

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road,
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: gl2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go
forward for development into 20-25 page chapters
for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard
copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-
and-love/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-
and-love/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
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6th Global Conference,Fear, Horror and Terror (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)

6th Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Friday 7th September 2012 – Sunday 9th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
which lie at the interface of fear, horror and
terror. In particular the project is interested in
investigating the various contexts of fear, horror
and terror, and assessing issues surrounding the
artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
(geo) political, philosophical, psychological and
religious significance of them, both individually
and together.

In addition to academic analysis, we welcome the
submission from practitioners, such as people in
religious orders, therapists, or victims of events
which have been provoked by experiences of fear,
horror and terror – for example, social workers,
those involved with the legal system, medical
practitioners, or fiction authors whose work aims
to evoke these reactions.

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

1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror
- case studies
- professions dealing with the Fear, Horror and
Terror (Therapists, Clergy, etc.)
- creating and experiencing fear, horror and terror
- the properties of fear, horror and terror
- contexts of fear, horror and terror
- the language, meaning and significance of fear,
horror and terror

2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror
- the role of fear, horror and terror
- emotional releases (pleasant or negative)
achieved by Fear, Horror and Terror
- techniques of fear, horror and terror
- marketing fear, horror and terror
- recreational fear, horror and terror
- aesthetic fear, horror and terror
- the body, temperature, touch, taste or sound and
fear, horror and terror
-silence as a strategic subversion of the
operation of fear, horror and terror
-fear, horror and terror and the visible/invisible

3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror and:
- the imagination or the sublime
- pleasure, hope, despair, anxiety, disgust,
dread, loathing
- art, cinema, theatre, media and the creative arts
-survival horror video games
- literature (including children's stories)
- the other
- technology
- the future

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

Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith
Conference Leaders
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
New Zealand
E-mail: shs@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: fht6@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects. The aim of the
conference is to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative
and exciting. All 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/evil/fear-horror-terror/

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

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
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Tomorrow's Ideas, Now

Tomorrow's Ideas, Now
16 August 2012 to 18 August 2012
Edmonton, Canada

For all undergraduate students working in the
social sciences, humanities, and fine arts,
working in one or more of the KIAS Research
Themes: Stewardship of the Planet, Place,
Belonging, Otherness, and Culture, Media,
Technology.

The deadline for 300-word abstracts/proposals is
19 March 2012.

Enquiries: kiasconference@gmail.com
Web address:
http://www.kias.ualberta.ca/en/KiasConferences.aspx
Sponsored by: Kule Institute for Advanced Study
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2012 International Conference on Management and Education Innovation - ICMEI 2012

2012 International Conference on Management and
Education Innovation - ICMEI 2012
5 to 6 May 2012
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The ICMEI 2012 papers will be published as
proceedings. All the papers will be indexed by
both EBSCO and Thomson ISI Proceedings. About 10
papers selected from registered ones will be
published in IJIMT, ISSN: 2010-0248 free of
charge.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 5 February 2012.

Enquiries: icmei@iedrc.org
Web address: http://www.icmei.org/cfp.htm
Sponsored by: IEDRC
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2012 4th International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT 2012)

2012 4th International Conference on Electronics
Computer Technology (ICECT 2012)
6 to 8 April 2012
Kanyakumari, India

The ICECT 2012 proceedings will be published by
IEEE and all the papers will be archived in the
IEEE Xplore and indexed by Ei Compendex.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 5 February 2012.

Enquiries: conf@iacsit.org
Web address: http://www.icect.org/index.htm
Sponsored by: Vi Institute of Technology
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2012 2nd International Conference on Information and Network Technology (ICINT 2012)

2012 2nd International Conference on Information
and Network Technology (ICINT 2012)
28 to 29 April 2012
Chennai, India

All papers of ICINT 2012 will be published as
a Volume of IPCSIT Journal (ISSN: 2010-460X),
and will be included in the Engineering &
Technology Digital Library, Google Scholar,
WorldCat, also sent to be indexed by Thomson ISI
Proceedings

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 25
January 2012.

Enquiries: iacsitconferences@gmail.com
Web address: http://www.icint.org/
Sponsored by: IACSIT
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3rd Global Conference: Space and Place (Exploring Critical Issues)

3rd Global Conference
Space and Place

Monday 3rd September – Thursday 6th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
Questions of space and place affect the very way
in which we experience and recreate the world.
Wars are fought over both real and imagined
spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other"
constructed in a lived landscape of division and
disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a
national identity based upon the dialectics of
inclusion and exclusion. The construction of
space and place is also a fundamental aspect of
the creative arts either through the art of
reconstruction of a known space or in establishing
a relationship between the audience and the
performance. Politics, power and knowledge are
also fundamental components of space as is the
relationship between visibility and invisibility.
This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference
project seeks to explore these and other topics
and open up a dialogue about the politics and
practices of space and place. We seek submissions
from a range of disciplines including archaeology,
architecture, urban geography, the visual and
creative arts, philosophy and politics and also
actively encourage practioners and non-academics
with an interest in the topic to participate.

We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of
papers, workshop proposals and other forms of
performance – recognising that different
disciplines express themselves in different
mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of
space and place, including the following:

1. Theorising Space and Place
~Philosophies and space and place
~Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures
and spaces of contemporary life
~Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of
space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold: 2008)
~The relationship between spatiality and
temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event
(Massey: 2005)
~The language and semiotics of space and place

2. Situated Identities
~Gendered spaces including the tension between
domestic and public spheres
~Work spaces and hierarchies of power
~Geographies and archaeologies of space including
Orientalism and Occidentalism
~Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space
~Disabled spaces/places
~Queer places and spaces

3. Contested spaces
~The politics and ideology of constructions and
discourses of space and place including the
construction of gated communities as a response to
real/imagined terrorism.
~The relationship between power, knowledge and the
construction of place and space
~Territorial wars, both real and imagined.
~The relationship between the global and the local
~Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in
the construction of lived spaces
~Space and place from colonisation to globalisation
~Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place
~Transnational and translocal places

4. Representations of place and space
~Embodied/disembodied spaces
~Lived spaces and the architecture of identity
~Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces
~Set design and the construction of space in film,
television and theatre
~Authenticity and the reproduction/representation
of place in the creative arts
~Technology and developments in the representation
of space including new media technologies and 3D
technologies of viewing
~Future cities/futurology and space
~Representations of the urban and the city in the
media and creative arts
~Space in computer games

Papers on any other topic related to the theme
will also be considered.

This project will run concurrently with our
project on Reframing Punishment – we welcome any
papers considering the problems or addressing
issues on Reframing Punishment and Space and Place
for a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed
panels on any aspect of Space or Place 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. 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: SP Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). 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 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
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Organising Chairs:

Matt Melia
Conference Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Kingston University, United Kingdom
E-mail: mjmelia2002@gmail.com

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
E-mail: sp3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of
research projects, which in turn belong to the
Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to
bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be published in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be invited to go forward for
development into 20-25 page chapters for
publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy
volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-
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