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Saturday, 10 November 2012
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Monday, 5 November 2012
3rd Global Conference: Images of Whiteness
| 3rd Global Conference Images of Whiteness Monday 22nd July - Wednesday 24th July 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Presentations In recent years academics from a range of positions have increasingly turned their critical attention to the subject of racial whiteness. Publications include historical accounts detailing the emergence of whiteness as a racial category, cultural studies exploring the meaning of whiteness across a variety of locations, film and television scholars examining narratives about white people, reflecting white themes, white obsessions, and white anxieties. Consistent with the shift in critical studies away from minority identity formations to consider 'normative' identities, the study of whiteness is increasingly understood as central to understanding the operation of 'race' as a form of social categorisation. Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to the study of whiteness including media and film studies, performance and creative writing, cultural theory, sociology, psychology and medical. Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes: - Appropriation of racial 'otherness' within white culture - Images of whiteness in serial television - Nationally-specific formations of white identity - Whiteness and multiculturalism - Constructions of whiteness in painting, photography and the visual arts - Performances of/performing 'whiteness' - Writing whiteness in fiction/non-fiction - The politics and ethics of White Studies - Racial whiteness, fashion and cosmetics industries - Whiteness and absence, emptiness and death - Teaching whiteness - Intersections between whiteness, gender and sexuality - Conceptions of whiteness in non-white cultures - Images of whiteness in non-white cultures - Whiteness and consumer culture - Music and music videos and whiteness Presentations will also be considered on any related theme. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 8th February 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th May 2013. 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: Whiteness3 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Ewan Kirkland: ekirklanduk@yahoo.co.uk Colette Balmain: cb@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: white3@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 conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/whiteness/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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Thursday, 1 November 2012
Creative Innovation 2012 - Asia Pacific
| Creative Innovation 2012 - Asia Pacific Melbourne, Australia 28 - 30 November 2012 Theme: WICKED PROBLEMS! Leadership and Courage in Volatile Environments. The event will feature TED style talks, Master Classes, Deep Conversations and a Gala Dinner. Enquiries: Contact@Ci2012.com.au Website: http://www.Ci2012.com.au |
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Thursday, 25 October 2012
6th Global Conference: Diasporas
| 6th Global Conference Diasporas Saturday 6th July - Monday 8th July 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Presentations This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas - communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of their 'home lands.' Diaspora is a concept which is far from being definitional. Despite problems and limitations in terminology, this notion may be defined with issues attached to it for a more complete understanding. Such a term which may have its roots in Greek, is used customarily to apply to a historical phenomenon that has now passed to a period that usually supposes that diasporans are those who are settled forever in a country other than the one in which they were born and thus this term loses its dimension of irreversibility and of exile. In order to increase our understanding of Diasporas and their impact on both the receiving countries and their respective homes left behind, key issues will be addressed related to Diaspora cultural expression and interests. In addition, the conference will address the questions: Do Diasporas continue to exist? How do they evolve? What is the footprint or limit of Diaspora? Is the global economy, media and policies sending different messages about diaspora to future generations? Presentatiosn, papers, performances, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes: Queering Diaspora Diasporic identities and practices invariably position heterosexuality as central to the past (the imagined homeland) and the future survival of the diasporic community through implicit and explicit norms, traditions, and expectations. How do members of diasporic communities who identify with subordinated forms of sexuality such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or other queer identities negotiate hetero-normativity in their communities? Do questions of diasporic cultural and social survival heighten homophobia? Or conversely, are diasporic spaces more easily queered? We welcome papers that address how LGBTQ members negotiate sexuality and diasporic identities, and consider the implications for intersectional theories of diaspora. Diaspora, Sex, and Gender If heteronormativity can shape diasporic identities, so too can historical norms of patriarchal power and the practices and social infrastructure associated with them. How, for instance, are diasporas and diasporic communities complicit in the general social practices that buttress inequalities or abuses? Do differences between sexes produce different perspectives on what constitutes diasporic identity? Does this disparity result in the co-existence of competing diasporic identities or 'imaginaries' that are tied to sex and gender identity? Or, on the other hand, does diaspora offer opportunities for change or for alternate social performances of sex and gender to arise? Does the distance between the home/land left behind and the new home offer an opportunity to break with the past and with tradition? To what extent can we speak of 'gendered' diasporas? Visible Diasporas Cinema, television, youtube and other mass media, and the visual arts are instrumental in representing diaspora or making diaspora visible both to itself and to others beyond the diasporic community. In the case of cinema, the presence and impact of displaced / globalised populations of audiences, spectators and producers of new mainstream /Hollywood /Bollywood cinema are crucial to the emergence of this post-diasporic cinema, as these narratives from texts to screen constitute a fundamental challenge for the negotiation of complex diasporic issues. How does the visual language of these various media shape or define diaspora? Those presenting on this topic and whose papers focus on cinema and other visual narratives/media are encouraged to show short excerpts or clips from their primary texts or to provide handouts rather than simply to describe the visual media. Long, descriptive summaries of film, for instance, are discouraged. Invisible Diasporas While there are multiple ways in which diaspora is made visible, what are the ways in which diasporas are made invisible? How do diasporas escape the attention of, or are actively made invisible by, the global media the collective institutional consciousness of such bodies as state governments and organisations such as the United Nations, etc.? Are these diasporas invisible because of their relatively small size or because they exist within other diasporas or in the shadow of other, larger visible diasporas? Is their invisibilty the result of a lack of awareness or documentation? Ignorance and apathy? Or are they forced into silence and invisibility due to the exigencies of power? That is to say, is their visibility actively repressed? Or do these diasporas engage in making themselves strategically invisible as a kind of self-defensive cloaking or masking mechanism necessary to survival? Do discrimination, assimilationist ideology or other forces ensure that this takes place either actively or passively over the course of time? e-Diasporas and Technology Technology has changed the way we think about diaspora. The internet, youtube, email, skype, social media, etc. have produced what has become known as the virtual diaspora and has had a profound effect on the way that diasporic communities interact with 'home/land' and each other. When communication can take place in such an immediate way, distances are shrunk and the boundaries between 'here' and 'there' are problematised or made more porous if not actually erased. Such connectivity only intensifies the interstitiality or cross-border mobility of diasporans who are able to engage virtually in more than one social environment. In a discussion of so-called e-diasporas, questions of access, mobility, connectivity ultimately lead to questions of privilege. Who is able to connect and who is not? And how does technology and the connections it provides allow the diaspora to reshape 'home' from a distance and vice versa? The Limits of Diaspora - Problematising 'Diaspora' What are the 'limits' of diaspora? What is its 'footprint'? What are the inter-generational issues that cause diasporas to evolve over time, to move toward or away from assimilation in then mainstream culture of the present home? How and why do diasporas redefine themselves? In what ways does 'diaporic identity' perform a gate-keeping function that includes but also excludes? How are diasporic identities contested? What are some of the ways to identity and define the subject in changing political boundaries where cultural interactions are amplified? What are the processes of social formation and reformation of diasporas in an age of increasing globalisation? What are the circumstances that give diasporas a window of opportunity to redefine their social position in both the place of origin and the current place of residence? How do we 'problematise' or critique diaspora? The Evolution of the Critical Language of Diaspora This topic is related to the previous one but focuses more specifically on the discipline of diaspora studies itself. What new cross-'ethnoscapes' and cross-'ideoscapes' are emerging and what new methods can be used to theorise the web of forces that influences Diasporas? Rogers Brubaker posits the current phenomenon of a diaspora 'diaspora' or an increasing dispersal of the concept and the ways that diaspora is represented, understood, and theorised. Stephane Dufoix discusses the need to "go beyond 'diaspora' in the same way that Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper have shown it is useful to go beyond 'identity'" (Diaspora. Berkeley: U of California P, 2008. 108). What is the current state of diaspora studies and what is the trajectory of its evolution? How does globalisation affect the ways in which we understand diaspora? In what ways are the realities of contemporary diasporas posing challenges to the critical language of the discipline? What's next? The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 8th February 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th May 2013. 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: DIAS6 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. 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 Ram Vemuri and Rob Fisher: dias6@inter-disciplinary.net Jonathan Rollins: jrollins@arts.ryerson.ca The conference is part of the 'Diversity and Recognition' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of ID.Net. 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 conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/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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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
A Successful New Model For Developmental Writing: An Introduction To The Accelerated Learning Program
| A Successful New Model For Developmental Writing: An Introduction To The Accelerated Learning Program Tuesday, November 13, 3:00-4:30pm EDT Online webinar Host: Innovative Educators http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/247.htm NOTE: Payment is not required prior to event date. The recording is included and is accessible for one full year. OVERVIEW Across the country, states and individual schools are struggling to improve the success rate of students placed in developmental writing courses. The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), a co-requisite model that places developmental writers directly into credit English and then provides the developmental course concurrently, is doubling the percentage of students who succeed in passing their developmental writing and credit-level writing courses. In addition, ALP triples the percentage of students who complete the second semester of credit English and has significant positive impact on retention in the following years. This webinar will introduce participants to the basics of ALP, providing a thorough understanding of the model and how its inception fits into the history of developmental education. Participants will also examine data on the outcomes of ALP at the Community College of Baltimore County, discuss why it works, and have a chance to ask questions about the model. OBJECTIVES - Gain an understanding of why developmental education is under so much pressure to innovate - Understand what ALP is and examine data on the success of the program - Explore why ALP produces spectacular results - Analyze the costs of the program - Discover the issues involved in adopting ALP WHO SHOULD ATTEND? - 2 year institutions and 4 year institutions - Vice President of Academic Affairs/Instruction - Dean of Instruction - Faculty (full and part-time) - Advising - Developmental Educators - Registrar WHO IS THE SPEAKER? Peter Adams was educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Adams has taught at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) for more than 30 years. Over the years, his responsibilities at CCBC have included coordination of the writing program, chairing the college's committee on general education, and chairing the English Department. His publications include the 1994 HarperCollins Concise Handbook for Writers and Connections: A Guide to the Basics of Writing, a Little, Brown text on grammar and punctuation for developmental writers. His article "Basic Writing Revisited," appearing in the Journal of Basic Writing in 1993, has had a major influence on the movement toward mainstreaming basic writers. His "The Accelerated Learning Program: Throwing Open the Gates" appears in the fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Basic Writing. He currently serves on the Executive Boards of the Council on Basic Writing and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. For the past five years, he has directed the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) at CCBC, which he designed to attempt to improve success rates for students placed in developmental writing courses. ALP has been named Innovative Basic Writing Program of the year by the Council on Basic Writing in 2009 and received the 2010 Diana Hacker TYCA Award for Outstanding Programs in English for Two-Year Colleges. In addition, ALP was the focus of a major study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia, a study that reported, "results suggest that ALP students are more likely than similar non-ALP students to pass English 101 and to take and pass English 102." Enquiries: pam@ieinfo.org Web address: http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/247.htm Sponsored by: Innovative Educators |
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
4th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Pain
| 4th Global Conference Making Sense of: Pain Thursday 9th May - Saturday 11th May 2013 Prague, Czech Republic Call for Presentations: What is pain? What is the meaning of pain? How can we attempt to make sense of it - and should we? Pain is a complex multi-layered, multi-levelled phenomenon. Standard definitions of pain view it primarily in physical terms as being a life-preserving response to negative stimuli in sentient beings. It is something that happens to and/or in parts of the body. It is described in terms of physical qualities, as an object to be observed, assessed, analysed, managed, overcome and/or eliminated. At the same time, pain is something we experience, endure, live through and, at times, die from. It is something which intrudes into our sense of who we are, our sense of embodiment, our desires and our fears. It becomes the basis of stories, narratives, reports and observations we tell to others. The telling is addressed and attuned to the context of the other - the clinical, the professional, the social. Pain also sits as a nexus at the centre of innumerable intersecting relationships. In cultures for whom self-inflicted pain is a means of experiencing vitality, pain, body and self are critically linked. This principle recognizably appears in aspects of ritual, of consumption, of sexuality, of psychological pain, of dissociation and body dismorphia. In so many ways, in sickness and in health, pain is the means by which we navigate the vulnerable, permeable boundary between ourselves and others - the inside and outside of our bodies and minds. What tools can we bring when grappling with and trying to make sense of, pain? This inter- and transdisciplinary conference provides a forum for inquiry into the vicissitudes of pain: its nature and significance biologically, anthropologically, historically, culturally and socially. More specifically, as a means of probing the boundaries, this conference aims to create a dialogue between disparate as well as overlapping fields of study: the boundaries of disciplines as well as the boundaries of sensation - our suffering, our pleasure, ourselves. We particularly welcome the perspectives of medical anthropologists, medical humanists, medical historians, professionals, physicians, care-givers, patients, and those exploring the boundaries between creative arts and healing, narrative and medicine. The following themes are suggested as guides to the formulation of topics for presentations, papers and workshops: - Pain of the physical body - Pain and the animal body-sentience and the experiences of pain in animals - Pain and ability/disability-chronicity; disability. Associated perspectives - social policy, architecture, law - Pain of the psychological and psychosocial self - Pain as action/reaction-pain as a weapon. Torture, sadism, self-harm, neglect, abuse and disregard - Pain in/as dissociation - Pain as a pleasure principle - Pain and sexuality studies-sexual identity, transgender and LGBTA, as well as sexual practices - Pain as Communication - expressing pain, understanding pain, describing pain, pain as metaphor, silences about pain - Representations and expressions of pain-in art, music, cinema, theatre - Illness Narratives/Perspectives on pain - patients' and professionals' - The nexus of pain-creative and destructive relationships: suffering and affliction; anguish, torment; illness and disease - Practices, philosophies and dilemmas of overcoming pain - should it be overcome? Personal, professional, cultural, economic and political (macro and micro) perspectives The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th January 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 8th March 2013. 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: PAIN4 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 Brandy Schillace: bschillace@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: pain4@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: Hub series of ongoing research and publications projects conferences, run within the Probing the Boundaries domain which aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/pain/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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