Third International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science

Third International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Science 24th to 26th November 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Middlesex University Dubai takes great pleasure in announcing the Third International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Sciences (ERPBSS-2015). For the nearly 200 delegates representing about 100 international academic institutions the First (2011) and Second (2013) International Conference on ERPBSS provided a forum for inter-disciplinary dialogue and forms of scholastic communication that transcended disciplinary and subject-specific boundaries. In the Third International Conference ERPBSS 2015 we seek to explore "What's Next?". The world faces incredibly complex changes that shape our collective futures. We live in a time of increased mobility and connectedness, as forces of globalization and technological change are redefining the economic, social, political, and physical systems of the world. Inevitably, ideas and knowledge are transcending their traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries. While this transformation offers increasing opportunities for innovation, it also contributes to increasingly complex global and local challenges that must be met with increasing attention to a more sustainable future. The eight tracks of the ERPBSS 2015 Conference are: 1) Accounting, Finance and Economics 2) Contemporary Psychology 3) Education Training and Development 4) Information and Communication Technology 5) International Law and International Relations 6) Management and Marketing 7) Media, Journalism, and Communication 8) Tourism and Hospitality Through these tracks the conference intention is to bring together perspectives from multiple disciplinary and epistemological perspectives. The design of the conference will provide wider opportunities for dialogue than conferences with narrower scopes. Additionally, this year we are launching the "Research Matters" visual paper session, which offers delegates an opportunity to engage more in-depth with presenters. We also invite delegates to submit proposals for Organised Symposium around a specific topic. Please click here for more details and guidelines for submissions. Important Deadlines Extended Abstract Submission: June 1st, 2015 Early Bird Registration: July 21st, 2015 Normal Registration: July 22nd to 31st October 2015 Late Registration: 27th October to 24th November 2015 Student Registration: 31st October 2015 Full Paper Submission (Optional): 31st October 2015 Conference Email: erpbss2015@mdx.ac Conference Website: www.mdx.ac/conference

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The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project

The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project Tuesday 15th September - Thursday 17th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The digital arts are constantly developing with an ever growing number of new branches (i.e. hybrid art, digital musics, interactive art, animation/FX, game production, curating creative communities, urban gaming, application design, bioart, hacktivism, generic architecture, urban hacking, big data visualisation, etc.). Many of these enter and change the entertainment and media industry and often promote the exploration of various aspects of human life, philosophical issues, anthropological, social, political and judicial problems. Consequently they are strongly connected with the processes around the merging of boundaries between the humanities, sciences (biotechnology, genetics, physics, chemistry, product fabrication, engineering, robotics, neurosciences etc.) and technology. The influence of information and telecommunication technologies and computer mediated communication on various aspects of our everyday life and resulting problems are often presented in aesthetically appealing, shocking or hardly understandable form in digital artworks. Thus the digital arts can be seen as the field of particular interest and investigation for specific conditions and concerns of the 21st century. The project then stems from the idea of the inseparability of science, the arts and technology and lies in deep hope that the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions concerning the problems of the forms of individual perception, history of creative tools, social impact, political meaning and cultural contexts of art and technology as well as educational, institutional and economic aspects of digital arts and entertainment are essential for understanding the contemporary problems of humanity. This interdisciplinary project aims to explore various contexts of the digital arts and entertainment creation, production and reception. We invite participants with various areas of interest (media studies, game studies, literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, museology, pedagogics, economy, law to name just a few) and professional backgrounds: theoreticians, practitioners, artists, scientists, professionals working for the creative industry, cultural institutions or business. Our goal is to examine, explore and engage with the many issues created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication in respect to the arts, technology, media and history. Proposals, presentations, workshops, performances and reports are invited on any of the following themes: 1) Digital Arts Theory and History: - Digital arts history and histories: Theories, methodologies, concepts, aesthetics - Archeology of new media, development of key interfaces in digital arts - Artistic strategies vs. tactics of reception: Styles, trends, artists and movements - Virtual, digital, analogue and other crucial categories: Aesthetics, philosophies and strategies - Representation and remediation: Genres and their mutations - Archiving and preservation methods - Big data as real problem, challenge and ideology 2) Categories and Fields of Digital Arts - New Areas, Models, Examples: - Hybrid art-mixed media and its use, analogue and digital tools, city space as medium, etc. - Digital musics i.e. soundscapes, audiowalks as medium, digital musics and its visualisation, city/body as instrument, etc. - Interactive art i.e. objects vs. actors of interaction, body as interactive object, interactive spaces, virtual reality, interactive systems as AI, etc. - Animation/FX i.e. new techniques and ideas, trends in mass production, visual experiments, joining digital and analogue tools, visualisation problems, etc. - Curating creative communities (community as artistic project, cultural animation and new media competencies, creating community - problems and advantages, group creation - designing the process, how to create an interesting project with social interest, etc. - Bioart i.e. body as art work, experiments with genetics, experiments in implanting, body as communication tool, reinventing biology, technology and biology, human - cyborg - robot, human - hybrid - animal, what next?, etc. - Hacktivism i.e. means of hacktivism, creating social change, masters of hacktivism, consequences of art making, urban hacking - goals and concepts, etc. 3) Borders of Humanity - Borders of Art: - Idea of experimentation and its borders - Shock - better than indifference? - Morality and immorality of digital art, artists and creative industries - Transhumanism in art - artist in posthuman era - Digital art as ideology or new religion - Art - science - technology (genetics, robotics, medicine, programming, etc. as art form 4) Digital Artworks, Digital Arts Festivals and Cultural Institutions: - Ethnography of digital arts - Social impact of digital arts, art as means of social change - Digital arts as part of cultural politics and ideology - Digital arts and entertainment/creative industry - Gamification of aesthetic experience - Digital arts festivals and its public 5) Digital Arts as Education and/orBusiness: - Cultural animation and education vs. entertainment and new media business - Medialabs, fablabs, banks of knowledge, hackatons, and other new institutions - Digital arts at school, digital arts schools - Psychology of digital arts perception and creation - Economies of digital world - models, ideas, case studies - Establishing new law for digital arts and new media - Digital arts and judicial problems 6) Digital Arts as Digital Cultural Heritage: - Nextgen art databases and image collections - Media libraries and virtual museums today - Multimodal interfaces and emergent technologies in digital arts presentation - Collection-building, curatorial practices and preservation - Digitisation and dissemination of classical art - Recording and archiving of live events and performances - Collaborative creation, use and access to data - Data visualisation and mapping - Digital arts, digital memory and its deficits Subsequently we encourage submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, best practice showcases, how-to sessions, live demonstrations, performances, and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st May 2015. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th July 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: DA2 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: Anna Maj: annamaj@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: da2@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' series of research projects run by Inter-Disciplinary.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 must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-arts/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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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIOINT15 - 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIOINT15 - 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities 8th to 10th June 2015 Istanbul, Turkey Website: http://www.socioint15.org/ Enquiries: socioint15@hotmail.com Organized by: OCERINT - International Organization Center of Academic Research CALL FOR PAPERS: You are invited to participate in SOCIO-INT15 - 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES that will be held in ISTANBUL, Turkey on the 8th, 9th and 10 June 2015. SOCIO-INT15 is an multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary international conference that provides the ideal opportunity to bring together professors, researchers and high education students of different disciplines, discuss new issues, and discover the most recent researches in all fields of EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES in a multicultural atmosphere. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT ONLINE NOW: http://www.socioint15.org/index.php/abstract-submission AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT: You will be able to share all your experiences with other experts in a truly international atmosphere. This conference will be held at international level. Plenty of participants more than 70 different countries all over the world are expected to attend. THE CONFERENCE TOPICS: Include, but are not limited to: all areas of Education; communication, accounting, finance, economics, management, business, marketing, education, sociology, psychology, political science, law and all other areas of social sciences; also all areas of humanities including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, ethics, folklore studies, history, language studies, literature, methodological studies, music, philosophy, poetry, theater and others.. IMPORTANT DATES FOR PAPERS: - Abstract Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2015 - Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2015 - Registration deadline for Authors: April 25th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 8th, 9th and 10th of June, 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey PUBLICATION: 1. All the accepted full papers are going to be published in the Abstracts and Proceedings CD-ROM (e-book) with an ISBN number and will be given to the participants on the conference day. 2. Participants also will be able to reach and download the Abstracts and Proceedings E-book from OCERINT's online e-library (http://www.ocerint.org/index.php/digital-library) web site. 3. SOCIOINT15 Abstracts and Proceedings will also be included in Google Scholar and sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index. 4. NEW!!! The accepted papers (depending upon their author's wish) will also sent to be reviewed for publishing in one of our peer reviewed online International e-journals with an ISSN number which is also sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Citation Indexes. VENUE: Istanbul (Turkey) is one of the most impressive cities in the world: unique for its culture, historical and artistic richness, cultural and musical events of all kinds, lovely weather in winter and tasty gastronomy. Istanbul is one of the world's great cities famous for its historical monuments and magnificent scenic beauties. It is the only city in the world which spreads over two continents: it lies at a point where Asia and Europe are separated by a narrow strait - the Bosphorus. Istanbul has a history of over 2,500 years, and ever since its establishment on this strategic junction of lands and seas, the city has been a crucial trade center. We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul. Sincerely, SOCIO-INT15 Organizing Committee Conference website: http://www.socioint15.org/ Enquiries: socioint15@hotmail.com or intoffice@ocerint.org

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Fear, Horror and Terror: Experiences, Production and Dissemination The Fear, Horror and Terror Project

Fear, Horror and Terror: Experiences, Production and Dissemination The Fear, Horror and Terror Project Thursday 3rd September - Saturday 5th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The reality and representations of Fear, Horror and Terror (FHT) increasingly pervade public spaces, discourse and popular culture. No matter where we turn we are either confronted with, or consume, images of these experiences. This in turn both effect, and affect, how we understand, produce and disseminate the multi-dimensions of FHT in everyday life as well as overtime. Accordingly this year's inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary FHT conference will explore the role and consequences of experiences, production and dissemination of Fear, Horror and Terror. Specifically our aim is to critically examine questions such as: - How are aspects of FHT manifested, disseminated and experienced in everyday life, popular culture, fiction, society, communities or politics? - How do experiences or images produced by FHT affect the way we understand the world?~ What are the underlying power structures that determine how reality and its representations are produced and how are they are disseminated? - How do we communicate, activate, constrain and overcome the effects and consequences of experiencing, producing and disseminating FHT? In addition to academic analysis and case studies, we welcome practitioners, artists, performers, and other approaches, such as those from religious environments, NGO's, therapists, lawyers, and victims/survivors of terrifying events. We also encourage interdisciplinary research that crosses the divide between the social and natural sciences, architecture, law enforcement, medicine, pedagogy, visual arts, literature and popular culture. At the end of the conference, our aim is to further develop the discussions and dialogues presented at our 9th FHT Conference into new and continued interdisciplinary research, workshops and publications which will help us make sense of the topics discussed in relation to the contested aspects of FHT. To this end all proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a dialogic and/or themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors who will be selected from interested delegates attending the conference. Further to this workshops will be developed in line with delegate ideas and suggestions. Accordingly abstract proposals are invited and can include: a presentation paper, a performance, a report, a work-in-progress, or a panel presentation on issues related to any of the following themes and related areas: 1) The Production, Dissemination, Experience of Fear, Horror and Terror: - the thinking body in time and space - the relationship between images and experiences - mythologies/ideologies that are employed in the production of images - mythical and ritual paradigms (e.g. creation, fertility, deliverance, hero, villain or chaos) - practice and the transformative role of images 2) About Fear, Horror and Terror: - narratives, definitions, interdisciplinary studies, cross cultural comparisons - embodiment and comparison with different emotions/experiences - institutions, constructions, and deconstructions - theories, methods and philosophies 3) Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror: - case studies - professionals and the public dealing with the fear, horror and/terror, e.g. therapists, clergy, lawyers, law enforcement, policy makers, accountants, human resources representatives, users of technology, etc. - the properties, language, meaning or significance - crime and punishment 4) 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, marketing, consumption and management - recreational or aesthetic - the temperature, sound, smell, taste, appearance or feel of fear, horror and terror - silence as a strategic subversion - fear, horror and terror and the visible/invisible 5) Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror: - the imagination, the gothic and science fiction - images, cinema, television, theatre, the fourth estate and the creative arts - survival and/or horror video games - literature (including children’s stories, and graphic novels) - the other and purity - hope and despair - bullying, trauma, anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing, danger - hope and the future - awe, terror, the sublime or uncanny and the internet 6) Relationships with Fear, Horror and Terror: - use of space, place, architecture and tools in outer space or rural/urban settings - ceremonies, performances in everyday life, fiction, the arts - war, militarisation, weapons, engineering and technology The Steering Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. What to Send: 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 1st May 2015. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th July 2015.Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: FHT9 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: Shona Hill and Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: fht9@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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. 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 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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CINE CRI'15: On Cinema and Identity

CINE CRI '15: II. International Film Studies and Cinematic Arts Conference on Cinema and Identity http://www.cinecriconference.org/ CINE CRI '15: II. International Film Studies and Cinematic Arts Conference will be held in Istanbul on JUNE 10 - 11, 2015 and organized by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and hosted by Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center as a part of the Istanbul Art Studies Days Spring 2015. CINE CRI '15 on CINEMA and IDENTITY The CINE CRI '15 Conference aims to explore the representation of identities in cinema. Artistic and documentary works that make problematic the concept of identity within its political, ideological and historical correlations are in the scope of this year's conference. Besides, the lived experiences related to cinema and the industry, not necessarily represented in films, may be addressed. Identity has been one of the most scrutinized concepts in academic circles in recent years. It has been the topic of debates in a variety of fields and disciplines of social sciences, humanities and arts. Cinema has not been opted out of identity matters as film-makers have produced considerable number of works that are relevant to different dimensions of identity. Regarding the concept is constructed within discourse, difference and representation processes, film is a convenient space to be explored as a medium that both reflects and contributes to the construction and reconstruction of multiple identities that constitute an individual, i.e. the spectator. IASD '15: Istanbul Art Studies Days: Istanbul Art Studies Days (IASD '15) will also include CONTEMPART '15 / IV. Contemporary Arts Conference (June 8-9) and CONTEMPHOTO '15 / II. Contemporary Photography Conference (June 9-10) at the same place. Several keynote lectures, artist's talks and additional events will be organized during Istanbul Art Studies Days and a registration ticket for only one of the conferences will offer free entry to all of the sessions of the three conferences. Each conference focusing on different topics, identity issues has been decided as the common theme of the IASD '15. The full papers are going to be available online in DAKAM's digital library and to be published in the proceedings book with an ISBN number before the conference. The book will be sent to be reviewed for inclusion in the "Thomson and Reuters Web of Science's Conference" KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor David Martin-Jones from University of Glasgow and internationally recognised film director Yesim Ustaoglu (Identity and sense of belonging: Reflections on the cinema of Yesim Ustaoglu (from Journey to the Sun to Araf)) are going to be keynote speakers of the event. AGENDA: Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 27, 2015 Deadline for registration: May 1, 2015 Deadline for full papers submission: May 8, 2015 MAIN TRACK: CINEMA and IDENTITY - Nation, nation-state and diverse ethnicities - Migration, transnational and/or accented cinema - Religion and religious groups - Gender, women, LGBT identities - Family, familial bonds - Class and struggle - Isolated or neglected identities - Identity, culture and politics - Local and global Identity - Multiculturalism CINEMA and IDEOLOGY - Ideology of a Film - Public Life, society and cinema - Film, Public Memory and Daily Life - Art Movements - Technology and Materials - Communication Tools, Urban Space and Cinema - Cinema from Psychological, Sociological and Psychiatrical Perspective - Literature, screenplay and cinema - Film Musics ARTS and SOCIETY - Director, Actor, screenwriter, art director, costume designer, sound designer: Artist as a Subject - Characters, People and Identity - Politics of Body in Space - Social Stratification in Cinema as Gender, Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity and Age - Race and Affects of Racism - Women, Art and Society OTHER TRACKS: CINEMA and CITY CINEMA and POLITICS NATIONAL CINEMAS, HOLLYWOOD and ART-HOUSE CINEMA REPETITION, PROGRESS and REFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF FILM TECHNIQUE and PRODUCTION DOCUMENTARIES VENUE The conference will be held at Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center (NHKM - www.nazimhikmetkulturmerkezi.org) one of the most popular cultural centers in Istanbul. Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center hosts several art and academic events in different disciplines every month. NHKM, named after one of the legendary modern Turkish poets - Nazim Hikmet, has been established in 1996 and located in Kadikoy. Kadikoy is a large and cosmopolitan district of Istanbul, facing the historic city centre on the other side of the Bosporus. With its numerous bars, cinemas and bookshops, Kadikoy can be regarded as the cultural centre of the Anatolian side of Istanbul. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The scientific committee consists of significant scholars, Asst. Prof. Dr. Levent Yilmazok - Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Prof. Julian Reid - University of Lapland, Asst. Prof. Ahmet Gurata - Bilkent University, Asst.Prof. Gal Kirn - Berlin Humboldt University, Asst. Prof. Tumay Arslan - Ankara University, Senior Lect. Andreas Treske - Izmir University of Economics, Asst. Prof. Andrea Meuzelaar - University of Utrecht http://www.contemphotoconference.org/p/committees.html ABSTRACT SUBMISSION You can submit your abstract by entering the online registration system EASYCHAIR at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cinecri15 You will receive a reply to your proposal within three weeks following a double-blind review process.

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Space, Place and Sport / The Sport Project: Probing the Boundaries

Space, Place and Sport The Sport Project: Probing the Boundaries Thursday 24th September - Saturday 26th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Sport is a key space for controversies and issues over access and power. It is a key space for the construction of identity, belonging and community, a place for meaning-making. Every year sports events are hosted and won by communities and nation-states. Every year people do sports or watch sports in spaces: sports grounds, fields, back streets and parks. Every year, there is political struggle over funding that goes to the development of sports spaces, whether it is global events such as the World Cup, or informal spaces such as walking and cycling routes in national parks. For this conference, we invite academics, researchers, activists, theorists, policy-makers, journalists and practitioners to critically discuss and present interdisciplinary approaches to examining sport as a space in which tangible and intangible meanings, identities, development, engagement, and community are created. We are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to space, place and sport at the intersections of academic disciplines and subject fields, and invite contributions from academics who approach their work on space, place and sport through an inter-disciplinary lens. We especially welcome voices from beyond the academic boundaries, news from those involved in sport or writing about sport. We also include in that invitation those active in campaigns: for better access to spaces, for more spaces, as well as those fighting to save non-sports spaces from the hands of those who might want to turn them into sports facilities for mega-events. The aim of this conference is to develop an active network of academics, practitioners and campaigners with an interest in sports geographies. By sports geographies we mean the ways in which we might understand sport as something that creates spaces and places, as well as something that is shaped by spaces and places. An inter-disciplinary sports geography is one that uses the relationship between sport, place and space to tell a story about the meaning of sport, the history of sport and the socio-cultural importance of sport: for example, about the relationship between Le Tour de France, landscapes and French identity. Themes within the conference include: - Understanding the social and political potential of sport spaces - can sports spaces be places where social divisions are broken down? Who controls sports spaces? - How sport intersect other spaces - cultures, communities, societies and nation-states - Geographies of sporting bodies - the growth and development of sports organisations - The meaning and purpose of sport spaces - what do people use sports spaces for? - Conflicts over sports spaces - who gets access We invite abstracts that discuss things like the relationship between sports teams in the context of the local/global debate; stadium architecture (gentrification, class and gendered space within stadia); sport spaces and urban planning; virtual sports; sports clubs and their community outreach initiatives (or relationship to their communities generally); variations in sporting practices and game rules across space and place; sport-driven nationalism as a sense of space and place; and sport as uniting force that breaks down the barriers of space and place. We would also like to draw your attention to the Special Workshop on Sporting Mega-Events, International Sports Organisations and the Future of Sport which will be just before the conference this year. Details of which can be found here: Power and Corruption Wednesday 23rd September 2015, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st May 2015. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 10th July 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: SPORT4 Abstract Submission. Organising Chairs: Karl Spracklen: K.Spracklen@leedsmet.ac.uk Rob Fisher: sport4@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/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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MediAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication

Join IAFOR in Kobe, November 12-15, for the Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication. Explore the conference themes "Power" and "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" in an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary setting. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Enquiries: mediasia@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/mediasia2015/ MediAsia2015 Conference Themes Theme 1: "Power" Power as a commodity has challenged the minds of social scientists and philosophers while its exercise has always fascinated historians. From classical thinkers' works such as Aristotle's Politka or Machiavelli's Il Principe through modern figures who manipulate power in the media, like Silvio Berlusconi or Rupert Murdoch, to the vast networks that support major heads of state, power has been a necessity to some or like an aphrodisiac to others. The dynamics of power and its associations with wealth and status now shape the contemporary world more visibly than ever. It is a research challenge to all fields of the social sciences to offer some explanation of its magnetism and its mechanisms. In the context of the media and communication studies, considering the ambiguous concept of power encourages questions of rights, responsibilities, and trust, as well as hegemony, ownership, and resistance; control, transparency and censorship. Similarly, relationships of power between individuals and governments are tested by issues of privacy, surveillance, freedom of speech and information. New technologies have empowered individuals to communicate with others, and facilitated such resistance movements as in Hong Kong, but have also empowered governments to unparalleled levels of surveillance and breaches of privacy, such as in the ongoing NSA revelations. As a conference theme, power in its many aspects is a hub concept that researchers, analysts, and practitioners alike can reflect on and speak about both in the abstract and from experience. We hope and expect the 2015 conference themes to inspire a number of research avenues, and look forward to discussing ideas, findings and synergies, in this International Academic Forum. Theme 2: "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" Human rights praxis and ideas of justice are now core fields of investigation for media, film and cultural studies. One example of this is how cultural research into the convergence of new media with everyday life, has brought into relief the growing significance of how struggles for freedom and justice are enabled by flows of social media. Various communities and peoples are now enabled to make claims for social recognition within human rights frameworks and language like never before. Cultural studies as a discipline is specifically attuned to studying questions of human rights and justice. As a field, it is connected to human rights discourse and praxis through its ethical foundations and 'activating knowledge' as Stuart Hall once put it. One of the essential motivations of cultural studies scholars is to focus on the struggles evident in structures and institutions of power, representation, identity and subjectivity. This is undertaken with specific attention to power and its manifestation and negotiation in the cultural arena of everyday life. As a consequence, media and mass communication researchers investigate ideas of justice and agency in compelling and innovative ways. They see agency, for example, as being implicated in the formation of moral, legal, political and ethical frameworks that are experienced in everyday lives, and which can be seen explicitly in the media. A central aim of this conference is to examine ideas of 'justice' and 'human rights' in relation to media and cultural production. The hope is to enable useful exchange, connection and dialogue around the praxis of human rights and to clarify the implications of how cultural transformation and the media are closely connected to social and political change in the everyday life of individuals, communities and nations. We look forward to seeing you at MediAsia 2015! Professor Gary Swanson MediAsia2015 Conference Chair and Featured Speaker Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism The University of Northern Colorado, USA Conference Streams The conference themes for MediAsia2015 are "Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture" and "Power", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach these themes from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized into the following thematic streams: Advertising, marketing, and public relations Digital media and use of new technology in news-gathering Communication theory and methodology Critical and cultural studies, gender and communication Media disaster coverage Media history International communication Law, policy and media ethics Newspapers and magazines as print/digital media Mass communication Broadcast media and globalization Journalism Education and scholastic journalism Sports, media and globalization Media management and economics Political communication and satire Visual communication Media and education: training journalists Social media and communication technology Documentary production Film

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