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Sunday, 10 February 2013
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
4th Global Conference: Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice
| 4th Global Conference Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice Tuesday 17th September â€" Thursday 19th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations Theatre and the many varied expressions of performance practice are by their nature inter-disciplinary forms of art. They draw ideas and symbolisms from diverse theoretical and creative fields of humanities, making historical references and links, presenting social relations, putting forward great ideas and dilemmas of the mind, highlighting aspects of the human personality and employing all existing art-forms in order to create a performance as a whole. Performance practice, whether in a theatrical space, site-specific space, or as a street or public performance of any nature, can be examined from the artistic point of view, but also from a cultural, a sociological, a historical, a psychological, a semiological, an anthropological, as well as from an educational perspective. The term "performance practice" refers to the interface within which the work of the director, performer, movement director and choreographer, scenographer (set and costume designer), musical director, composer, lighting designer and sound designer meet. It also includes all aspects and issues involving the creative process, from the initial concept to the final realization and presentation to an audience. The aim of this conference is to develop discussion with a focus on the visual aspects of performance brought up by visual and spatial artists and researchers in various performance disciplines and practices. Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes: 1. Narrative and Meaning -Visual interpretation of text / of narrative -Visual literacy and perception within performance -The relationship between narrative, visuality and textuality -Challenging of established aesthetics, the relationship of old and new traditions -Visual expression and symbolism in theatre and performance -The notion of the visual metaphor -The role of imagination today (before, during and after a performance) 2. Design Processes -The birth of a visual concept -Design as theatrical action -Visual resources, and interpretation in performance -Scenographic materials, form, texture, composition and light -From design to realization â€" the process for the creation of a visual/spatial environment -Collaboration and practice in the visual aspect of performance making -Aesthetics and visual principles in performance -Media and new technology as performance visual elements -Challenging traditions: New approaches in performance design and practice 3. Set and Costume, discourse and practice -Scenographer: The author of space? -History of scenography -Leading figures in the world tradition of scenography -Costume and the body, embodiment and expression -Actor-character: Dressing the performer, dressing the character -Body and space: The spatial dynamics of costume -The performativity of costume / The narrative of dress in performance -Costume sociology 4. Perception -The gaze of the spectator / Aspects of spectatorship -Experience and perceptions of the performer -Experience and perceptions of the audience -Cross-cultural appropriation, Inter-disciplinarity and Interactivity in performance -The impact of new media on performance -Liveness / humanness and the contemporary technological context -Intersections of art and performance -The visual and the other senses in performance (e.g. the haptic, the aural, the olfactory) 5. Pedagogy & Policy -Designing theatre for diverse settings and audiences (e.g. children, elders, communities, people with disability) -Performance, ethics, poetics, and politics â€" visual approaches -Researching methods and interdisciplinary methodologies of performance making -Teaching the visual aspects of performance practice, context and approaches We welcome submissions from within specific disciplinary boundaries, but we are also particularly interested in interdisciplinary contributions that balance the scope of insight that disciplines bring with the limitations that disciplinary boundaries create in failing to recognise cross-disciplinary connections, which neglect important historical and cultural perspectives on the development of the 'erotic' as a locus of attention. Consequently, we are particularly keen to encourage submissions that are not subsumed within disciplines, but cut across and between disciplinary vocabularies to provide new synergies, domains and inter-disciplinary possibilities. We warmly welcome proposals which go beyond traditional paper presentations and encompass also panels, performances and workshops. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 5th April 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 21st June 2013. 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: Performance4 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs:. Sofia Pantouvaki: sofsceno@gmail.com Rob Fisher: perform4@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All 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(s). For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/performance/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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Friday, 25 January 2013
Global Research Project on Fan Communities and Fandom
| Global Research Project on Fan Communities and Fandom 22nd to 23rd March 2013 Oxford, United Kingdom The words 'fan' and 'fandom' often conjure up images that range from screaming groupies, supporters adorned in the colours of their favourite sports team and die-hard messageboard participants to stalkers and perpetrators of actual violence against the object of their fannish desires. Whether viewed as a positive or negative cultural force, fandom is so thoroughly inscribed in the social fabric and so central to the way many individuals understand their identity that it warrants closer study. Inter-Disciplinary.Net is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Research Project on Fandom. Over the course of an ongoing series of events, the project will facilitate deeper engagements involving participants from across disciplinary and professional backgrounds in explorations of the nature, meaning and implications of fandom as it impacts individuals, fan communities and the societies in which they operate. For our inaugural event, we welcome the submission of proposals for research papers, short position papers, workshops and performances/installations dealing with any aspect of fans and fandom. Submissions may address any aspect of fandom, including but not limited to: - Case studies of specific fans/fandoms - Historical studies of fans/fandoms - Multi-cultural/cross-cultural studies of fandom - High culture vs. popular culture and alternative conceptualisations of fandom (theory fans, politics fans, etc.) - Technologies of fandom - Psychologies of fandom: pleasures, needs and harms - Communal dynamics: use of language, ethnographies, behavioural analysis - First-hand accounts of individual experiences within fandoms - Pleasures and uses of anti-fandom - Impact and social value of fandom - Textual poaches/(un)authorized uses of texts - Taxonomies of fandom - Intersections between fandom and issues of gender/sexuality/race/nationality and other markers of identity - Policing fans and fandoms - Interfaces between fandom and celebrity/stardom - Aca-fans - Perceptions and representations of fandom in the media and creative arts - Migrating fan communities - The value of fandom studies - Innovative methodologies for researching fandom - Innovative pedagogies for teaching fan studies/using fandom as a teaching tool - Entrepreneurial expressions of fandom - Creative expressions of fandom (studies of fanfics, fanvids, fanart, etc.) - Fan conventions and their significance - Economics of fandom (monetisation, commodification, (dis)empowerment) - Issues of gender, sexuality and class within fandom(s) - Critiques of fans/fandom? Proposals of 300 words or less should be emailed jointly to the Organising Chairs with "fan1 Proposal" as the subject. Deadline for submissions is 20 February 2013; late submissions may be considered subject to space available. Please include a) name of author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of presentation (e) body of proposal. We acknowledge receipt of all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should resend. Organising Chairs Dr Ann-Marie Cook: ann-mariecook@inter-disciplinary.net Dr Rob Fisher: fan1@inter-disciplinary.net This event is part of the Global Transmedia Research Initiative, whose aim is to bring together people from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds in an ongoing series of events dedicated to generating dialogue and research around the many facets of fandom. In light of the project's emphasis on open engagement and discussion, there is an expectation that delegates attend all sessions and participate fully. A range of publishing opportunities are attached to this project and further details will be discussed during the Development Meeting at the end of the event. Cost Participants may choose from two registration options: Non-Residential: £255 covers registration, morning/afternoon tea, lunches and wine reception Residential: £300 covers registration, morning/afternoon tea, lunches, wine reception and 2 nights of accommodation at the college We regret that as a not-for-profit network, Inter-Disciplinary.Net is not in a position to assist with conference travel or subsistence. For further details see: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/research/research-nexus/culture-and-community-nexus/global-project-on-fan-communities-and-fandom/ This event is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net Enquiries: fan1@inter-disciplinary.net Web address: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/research/research-nexus/culture-and-community-nexus/global-project-on-fan-communities-and-fandom/ Sponsored by: Inter-Disciplinary.Net |
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Monday, 21 January 2013
CONTEMPHOTO '13: Conference on Contemporary Photography
| CONTEMPHOTO '13: Conference on Contemporary Photography 12th to 14th June 2013 Istanbul, Turkey CONTEMPHOTO '13 is going to be organised with an aim to reach an interdisciplinary view on photography that will focus on urban issues, documentation and recent creative approaches. Enquiries: info@contemphotoconference.org Web address: http://www.contemphotoconference.org Sponsored by: DAKAM |
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education
| Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education. Ghent University 22nd to 25th May 2013 Ghent, Belgium Enquiries: kbconference@ugent.be Web address: http://www.cultureeducation.ugent.be/kennethburke Extended deadline (!) for proposal submissions: February 1st 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers Barry Brummett (University of Texas at Austin - USA) Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University, Irvine - USA) Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University - UK) Theme The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed a number of different but related turns in the humanities and social sciences: linguistic, cultural, anthropological/ ethnographic, interpretive, semiotic, narrative... All these turns recognise the importance of signs and symbols in our interpretations of reality and more specifically the cultural construction of meaning through both language and narrative. The aim of this conference is to introduce rhetoric as a major term for synthesizing all the above-mentioned turns by exploring how rhetoric can make us self-aware about language and culture. We will specifically focus on 'new rhetoric', a body of work that sets rhetoric free from its confinement within the traditional fields of education, politics and literature, not by abandoning these fields but by refiguring them. Guiding source of inspiration in all this will be the international legacy of Kenneth Burke, one of the founders of this new rhetoric tradition together with scholars such as Wayne Booth, Richard McKeon, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. As a rhetorician and literary critic interested in how we use symbols, Burke described the human being as the symbol-making, symbol-using and symbol-misusing animal. He argued that our interpretations, perceptions, judgements and attitudes are all influenced and 'deflected' by the symbols that we make, use and misuse, and that we are at the same time used by these symbols. This implies that we can approach the world either symbol-wise or symbol-foolish. This conference wants to explore how rhetorical concepts can be used as tools - equipment - to make students, teachers, scholars and citizens symbol-wise: to understand the way linguistic, cultural, narrative... symbols work, and to develop critical engagement with, as well as on behalf of, those symbols. It furthermore wants to explore if and how rhetoric can still be relevant in a world that is becoming ever more complex and paradoxical by political, economic and cultural differences on a global scale. In what will be the first major conference devoted to Kenneth Burke outside the United States, we aspire to introduce the ideas of this seminal thinker to disciplines that might benefit from them. We therefore welcome both paper abstracts as panel proposals that broadly explore the topic of Rhetoric as Equipment for Living from the perspective of education, citizenship, literature, literacy, technology, games, (new) media... and from the perspective of disciplines such as pedagogy, social work, psychology, cultural studies, management and communication. The committee especially welcomes contributions that examine the possible use of rhetoric for education or educators, as well as contributions that explore affinities between Burke and European scholars or scholarship, or that apply new rhetoric to political, economic or social issues. Kenneth Burke Society The conference is organized in close cooperation with the Kenneth Burke Society who will delegate a number of prominent US Burke scholars and rhetoricians: David Blakesley (Clemson University); Michael Feehan (Arkansas Legislative Council); Ann George (Texas Christian University); Mark Huglen (University of Minnesota); Clarke Rountree (University of Alabama in Huntsville); Herbert W. Simons (Temple University); Richard Thames (Duquesne University); Elizabeth Weiser (The Ohio State University); Robert Wess (Oregon State University); David Cratis Williams (Florida Atlantic University); James P. Zappen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). From the International Rhetoric Culture Project participation is confirmed by Ivo Strecker (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz). Details: Conference dates: May 22-25th 2013 Deadline for submissions - February 1st 2013 Decision about submissions: by February 15th 2013 Registration starts: February 15th 2013 |
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Monday, 14 January 2013
EDULEARN13 (5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies)
| EDULEARN13 (5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies), Barcelona, Spain July 1st-3rd, 2013 Website: www.edulearn13.org You are invited to participate in EDULEARN13 (5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies) that will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July 2013. It will be the best opportunity to present and share your experiences in the fields of Education and New Learning Technologies in a multicultural and enriching atmosphere. EDULEARN is an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists. The attendance of 700 participants from more than 75 countries is expected. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: There will be 3 presentation modalities: Oral, Poster or Virtual. You can submit your abstracts proposal until March 27th, 2013. Abstracts should be submitted online at http://www.edulearn13.org/online_submission OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the conference are to: - Present and disseminate projects about education and the emerging technologies developed in more than 75 different countries. - Create an international forum to discuss and exchange ideas about the latest innovations in education and research, applied to all fields and disciplines. PUBLICATIONS: Two ISBN publications (EDULEARN13 Abstracts CD and EDULEARN13 Proceedings CD) will be produced with all the accepted abstracts and papers. They will serve as a database of innovation projects in Education and Technology. Also, contributions will be indexed in our digital library at: http://library.iated.org/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES - Abstract Submission Deadline: 27th of March 2013 - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 22th, 2013 - Final Paper Submission Deadline: May 16th, 2013 (included) - Registration deadline for authors: May 16th, 2013 (included) - Conference Dates: Barcelona (Spain), July 1st-2nd-3rd, 2013 VENUE: Being one of the most visited cities in Europe, Barcelona is a dynamic Mediterranean city. It is the perfect place to enjoy and relax in. Barcelona has a fascinating history. The most famous attractions include some Gaudi's buildings such as the Sagrada FamÃlia, (UNESCO World Heritage Site Church), Casa Mila the Casa Batllo and the city's Gothic Quarter among others. Also, you will be able to relax in any of Barcelona's golden sandy beaches. Some of them are only 10 minutes from the city centre. Additionally, you will experience its most pleasant weather in June and July, making these months particularly attractive to visit this city. Finally, you should not miss its traditional gastronomy, which is well known worldwide. Barcelona's location, between the sea and the mountain provides the best combination for the best gastronomic experience. Come and experience it for yourself! We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona. Enquiries: edulearn13@iated.org |
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