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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
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Monday, 8 April 2013
10th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Dying and Death
| 10th Global Conference Making Sense of:Dying and Death Thursday 7th November 2013 â€" Saturday 9th November 2013 Athens, Greece Call for Presentations This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and how the dead are remembered. Over the past four decades, scholarship in thanatology has increased dramatically. This particular conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore, analyze, and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about "a good death" and norms that seek to achieve it, culture also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence. Given the location of this year's conference, a central theme in our proceedings (augmenting those listed below) will involve tracing the on-going and profound shift in contemporary attitudes toward death. In ancient Greece, for example, citizens learned about death and dying through intimate, hands-on experiences. Indeed, the same was true for most people throughout the world until the mid-20th century. Today, many people around the world maintain an increasingly passive role in caring for the dying, and supporting those who grieve a loss. Given that death, serving the dying, and caring for the bereaved has always been such an essential and unavoidable feature of life in traditional societies, a key emphasis in this year's conference will involve an exploration of the connections between contemporary technologies, social media hubs, and modern health care delivery systems and the ways they impact current end-of-life issues and decisions, including the experience of bereavement and grief. This conference welcomes submissions that specifically assess how these factors are altering our contemporary attitudes toward death, and how patients, staff, and survivors intersect amidst newly emerging care settings and sites of memorialization. We also welcome submissions that produce conversations engaging historical, ethnographic, normative, literary, anthropological, philosophical, artistic, political or other terms that elaborate a relationship between death and culture. Submissions in the form of papers, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following additional core conference themes listed below: 1: Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions -Modern Health Care Delivery Systems and Care for the Dying -Palliative Care -Hospice -Elder Care/Ageing in Place Models -Trauma and Emergency Care -Nursing Homes/Skilled Facilities/Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs)/Assisted Living -Clinical Competencies in Pain Management and Symptom Control -Measurements, Incentives, Regulatory Statutes, and Recommendations -Continuity of Care Across Treatment Settings -Interdisciplinary Care 2: The Caregiver-Patient Relationship -Caregiver's (Physician's?) Obligations and Virtues -Medical Paternalism and Respect for the Patient, Autonomy -Truth-Telling -Informed Consent -Medicine in the West for a Multicultural Society -Contested Therapies Within the Physician-Patient Relationship -Conflicts of Interest; Problems of Conscience -Caregiver Stress/Caregiver Burnout/Compassion Fatigue -Being With Someone Who Is Dying -Assessment Challenges/Barriers 3: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions -Defining Death -Organ Transplantation and Organ Donation -The Interplay of Ethical Meta-Principles at the End of Life -Nonmaleficence -Beneficence -Autonomy -Death Anxiety -Choosing Death -Advance Directives/Advance Planning/Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST)/Do Not Resuscitate -Considering End-of-Life Issues and Decisions and Legislation 4: Relationships Between Death and Culture: -internet/social media -music -literature -film -broadcast media -religious broadcasting -journalism -athletics -comic books -novels / poetry / short story -television -radio -print media -technology -popular art / architecture -sacred vs. profane space -advertising -consumerism Papers, presentations and performances will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013. What to Send 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: DD10 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 Nate Hinerman: nphinerman@usfca.edu Rob Fisher: dd10@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries 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 conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/dying-and-death/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, 3 April 2013
2nd Global Conference: The Citizen in the 21st Century
| 2nd Global Conference The Citizen in the 21st Century Thursday 7th November 2013 - Saturday 9th November 2013 Athens, Greece Call for Presentations We often feel far removed from the decision-makers in our lives. The increasing disconnection between citizens and institutional political processes has been called a 'democratic deficit', yet this conceptualisation suggests that an entire population is subject to a single experience. The changing nature of citizenship means it can no longer be seen as linear, vertical relationships between an individual and a civic agency. Contemporary citizenship embodies multiple relationships that are a function of the way we relate to institutions and those around us. Different sections of the population experience 'citizenship surpluses' and 'citizenship deficits'. Some experience agency and feel empowered, others have disengaged. The First Global Citizen in the 21st Century Conference was attended by academics and activists, and discussed the 'heterogeneous citizen' across social, cultural, political, economic and environmental dimensions. The second conference aims to expand our understanding of today's complex, diverse and heterogeneous citizen. This citizen is increasingly asked to carry risk as an individual - as solidarity and welfare supports have been dismantled or lost credibility; as private sector interests, non-government organizations, religious bodies, informal networks, interest groups, political movements and supra-national bodies compete with government for loyalty and influence. Whether as a mechanism of resistance or control, citizenship crosses the political spectrum from democracies to dictatorships. Given our collective failure to end violent conflict, changing migration patterns and refugee movements mean even the 'non-citizen' is shaping the citizenship environment in destination countries. We also consider developments in dual citizenship, technologies, media, changing markers of adulthood, the rise of temporary and precarious workforces, the strength of neoliberal capitalism, and states that lack the power or desire to respond to their citizens' experiences. A new generation of theorists is adding new dimensions to established understandings of this fluid environment. Our starting point is that citizenship studies must take an interdisciplinary perspective, crossing and combining political, sociological, cultural, economic and trans-disciplinary understandings, to better gauge the developments of the contemporary citizen. Presentations, papers, performances and artworks are called for, but not limited to, the following topics: - Who is the 21st Century Citizen? - What negotiations do citizens undertake in relation to corporations, private service providers, non-government organizations, religious bodies, informal networks and supra national bodies? - What is the relationship between citizens and new media and technologies, to changing markers of adulthood, success and loyalty? - How does the citizen of the 21st Century maintain any sense of control over their life to influence the world around them? Maintain a sense of agency, if any? - How do 21st century citizens understand the various systems and bureaucracies in their lives? - How have democratic deficits and surpluses been transferred to the surpluses and deficits of citizenship? In this way, we need to look beyond the legal and political dimensions and also understand the social and cultural practices of citizenship: - How do we feel about our political and legal rights; are we engaged in formal politics? - Do we think we have the power (or have the 'agency') to change the things we do not like? - Can we make our voices heard? All these dimensions of citizenship are continuously changing: not only because of a changing legal environment, but also cultures changes, from young people experiencing changing transitions to adulthood, to the emergence of new technologies and structural economic adjustments, all influence the way we relate to citizenship. It is our hope that a number of these interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary dialogues will be ongoing and that ultimately a series of related cross context research projects will be developed. It is also anticipated that these will support and encourage the establishment of useful collaborative networks, and the development, presentation, and publication of research materials. The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013. What to Send: 300 word abstracts or presentation proposals 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. E-mails should be entitled: Citizen2 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 James Arvanitakis: J.Arvanitakis@uws.edu.au Rob Fisher: citizen2@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Persons 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. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/the-citizen-in-the-21st-century/call-for-presentations/ 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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Monday, 1 April 2013
1st Global Conference: Shapeshifters: Transformations, Hybridity and Identity
| 1st Global Conference Shapeshifters: Transformations, Hybridity and Identity Friday 1st November 2013 - Sunday 3rd November 2013 Athens, Greece Call for Presentations This conference seeks to explore the role of the shapeshifter in popular and literary culture. Chantal Bourgault du Coudray notes that 'an ever-growing body of scholarship utilizes the concept of hybrid or heterogeneous identity. The hybrid identity is theorized and celebrated as a response to the demands of a fragmented, multi-dimensional, postmodern world, one in which shifting boundaries and a multiplicity of subject positions make it impossible to assume a homogeneous or stable subjectivity.' Theorists such as Katherine Hayles and Donna Haraway discuss the implications of hybridity in the posthuman. Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle deal with the monstrosity of hybridity. Many critics discuss iterations of the werewolf in literature and film. However, relatively few scholars have addressed the figure of the shapeshifter other than the werewolf, despite the rising number of shapeshifters appearing in a variety of genres. This conference seeks to address that lack by examining the role of the shapeshifter in culture, including literature, film, television, graphic novels, fan cultures and video games. We are interested in essays dealing with any time period or genre. We welcome contributions from all disciplines. We invite perspectives that explore the shapeshifter as symbol of identity, hybridity, boundary, or sexuality. We likewise invite reflections on whether the nature of our tales of shapeshifters tells us anything about who and what we are and where we might be headed. What does it mean to change shape? What problems/issues could arise from such an ability? What concerns are raised about physicality historically, culturally, politically? What about non-human shifters? Ghosts that change form? Individuals that can change into non corporal forms like smoke? Humans that change into other humans? Note that we do not seek to limit the idea of "shapeshifters" to human-to-animal changes such as werewolves; we are interested in the idea of shifting shapes in a variety of contexts. We encourage scholarly contributions from inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary perspectives, from practitioners working in all contexts. We will entertain submissions drawn from literature, medicine, politics, social history, film, television, graphic novels and manga, from science to science fiction. Topics may include but are not limited to: - Historical medical discourses about shapeshifters - The monstrosity of shapeshifters - Freak(s) - of nature; of technology; accidents of birth - Queering form - Invading and possessing bodies - Science fiction: inter-species reproduction: non-human reproduction, hybrids - Issues of identity: does the shapeshifitng entity share one identity? Are multiple identities cohabitating in one body? - Issues of body image: to what degree does control of one's own body tie into the idea of "shapeshifting"? How does the issue of changing shape tie in to plastic surgery? What about eating disorders? To what degree are our identities anchored to our outward appearances; does a change in one affect the other? - What could be possible reasons for the rising occurrence of shapeshifitng bodies in popular culture during the last ten years? - Paranormal romance novels feature an abundance of shapeshifitng -Posthumanism: has the issue of "shape" become irrelevant in posthuman studies? How does shifting shape tie in to posthumanism? - Cyberspace issues: Have we indeed become the cyborg? - DNA gambles and gene manipulations: the meaning of the shapeshifter in science and culture - Alternate Worlds/realities - (Dis)Ability - representations of mental illness, psychotherapeutic techniques, (de)institutionalization in the changing of the body - Interpersonal Communication: body language - (Neuro)Science and Technology - ethics (e.g., human experimentations) - Teen shapeshifters - Role-playing, gaming and MMORPGs - Mythologies and folkloric belief - Magic, transformation and the body - Theoretical considerations of gender, female and non-normative sexuality - The female shapeshifter as/and the other - The male shapeshifter as/and the other - Post-9/11 shapeshifting and its implications - Cultural shapeshifting, mimcry, integration and post-colonial identity - Carnivalesque as a performance - Performance in relation to the shapeshifter: performing gender, performing identities, performing sexuality, performing cultural belonging/stereotypes - The way we dress as a shapeshifting act: cross-dressing, transvestism, drag - McDonald's is going green: The shapeshifting nature of corporations and institutions The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers and presentations will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper, if appropriate, should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013. What to Send 300 word abstracts or presentation proposals 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: SHAPE1 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: Margo Collins: margoc@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: shape1@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries 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. 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 conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/shapeshifters-transformationshybridity-and-identity/call-for-presentations/ 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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