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Friday, 10 April 2015
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FilmAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary
| FilmAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary Thu, November 12 - Sun, November 15 2015 Kobe, Japan IAFOR invites you to join us in the vibrant city of Kobe, Japan, from November 12-15, for the Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2015. Explore the conference theme of "Power" in an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary setting. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Enquiries: filmasia@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/filmasia2015/ FilmAsia2015 Conference Theme: "Power" Power remains one of the most contested, debated, omnipresent yet ungraspable of concepts. While the fact of power remains constant, changes in political, social, economic and cultural conditions require us as scholars to periodically take stock of, analyze, and trace the workings and origins of power. And while it has long been accepted that literature and literary activity have never been immune to the functions and effects of power, new alignments in public and private spheres require us to interrogate how film, production, reception and study construct and resist power. The power of film to inspire, coerce, or lead astray is subject to constant discussion within and outside the academy. Issues of censorship, responsibility, ownership and control are evergreens and cause conflicts from the individual level within families, to major diplomatic spats between country leaders, such as over the recent US film, "The Interview". While producing a film is an act of power, so is watching, as interpretation is an act of power over the film, while theories of interpretation hold power over the intellect and imagination of the viewer. Those who teach, research and curate films also exercise power, though how this power is wielded is colored by perceptions of those within and outside academia. For students, the film studies teacher is a figure of power who gets to select what, as well as how, it is viewed and studied. Power can also seem too large and unwieldy a concept to gain any purchase on, thus any analysis of power can create a sense of powerlessness, not to mention dissatisfaction at the necessarily arbitrary nature of academic analyses. But choosing which aspect of power to analyze is an act of power in itself, one that invites further interrogations of the moral and ethical dimensions of power. We expect this open and enduring theme to excite a number of stimulating research paths, and look forward to their outcomes. We look forward to seeing you at FilmAsia 2015! FilmAsia2015 Conference Chairs Professor Gary Swanson FilmAsia2015 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism The University of Northern Colorado, USA Gary E. Swanson is an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed photojournalist, documentary and news producer, director, editor, educator, speaker and consultant. He has also been an educator for 22 years. Prior to his work in academe, Swanson compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years at NBC News - producing award-winning documentaries, prime-time news magazine stories, and covering "breaking news" in 26 states and Canada for the network - including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Swanson has earned more than 80 awards for broadcast excellence and photojournalism including three national Emmys. Dr. James Rowlins FilmAsia2015 Conference Co-Chair Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore James Rowlins left his native England for Paris, France, where he studied for a BA (Hons) and MA specializing in French cinema. His passion for visual culture subsequently took him to Los Angeles, where he earned a doctorate at the University of Southern California, USA. In addition to exploring literature and film through a theoretical lens, as well as dabbling in filmmaking, his dissertation focused on the crossover between post-war American film noir and the French New Wave, arguing that the subversive manipulation of the Hollywood genre formula by the auteurs constitutes a political aesthetic. He has published articles on contemporary French fiction, film and existentialism, cinematic phenomenology and new perspectives on the New Wave. He has held teaching positions in Europe, America and Japan, and is currently a Lecturer in the Humanities and the Arts Department at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Conference Theme: "Power" The conference theme for FilmAsia2015 is "Power", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme 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: -Film Direction and Production -Film Criticism and Theory -Film and Literature: Artistic Correspondence -Biography -Film History -Documentary History -Archive-Based Studies -Films and Digital Distribution (Use of the Internet and video sharing) -Anime and Digital Film Production -Films, Festivals, and Fans (Audience/Fan responses to film) |
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Friday, 3 April 2015
Tenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
| THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 25-27 February 2016 Dear Delegate, Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters, or colloquia are invited for the Tenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices being held in partnership with the Department of Arts and Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 25-27 February 2016. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and perspectives that will contribute to the conference discourse. We also encourage faculty and research students to submit joint proposals for paper presentations or colloquia. The International Advisory Board is also pleased to announce the Call For Submissions to the peer-reviewed Design Collection of Journals. Proposals for the conference and journal collection are invited that address the meaning and purpose of 'design' through one of the following categories: Theme 1: Design Education Theme 2: Design in Society Theme 3: Designed Objects Theme 4: Visual Design Theme 5: Design Management and Professional Practice Theme 6: Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design Proposals for in-person conference presentations should be submitted by 18 DECEMBER 2015 (title and short abstract). Proposals submitted after this day will be accommodated in non-themed sessions at the conference or are eligible for community membership registrations (no attendance at conference required with community membership presentations). For more information and to submit a proposal visit: www.DesignPrinciplesAndPractices.com/Rio-2016. Enquiries: conferencedirector@commongroundpublishing.com Web address: http://DesignPrinciplesAndPractices.com/Rio-2016 Sponsored by: Design Conference/ Common Ground Publishing |
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The Weaponising of Cinema: Hollywood, Propaganda and Portrayals of Enemies of the State/s The Hollywood and the World Project: 3rd Global Meeting
| The Weaponising of Cinema: Hollywood, Propaganda and Portrayals of Enemies of the State/s The Hollywood and the World Project Friday 24th July - Sunday 26th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: With its controversial depiction of an assassination attempt on the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, The Interview (2014) triggered outrage in North Korea as well as retaliatory bomb threats against movie theatres that agree showed the film and the hacking of email accounts at Sony Pictures Entertainment, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, which made the film. While the backlash against The Interview was unprecedented, the film itself it part of a long-standing tradition in which Hollywood plays out the political and ideological conflicts that exist between the United States and other countries such as North Korea (Team America: World Police), Russia (Die Hard 5), China (World War Z), Vietnam (Apocalypse Now), and Somalia (Black Hawk Down) using negative stereotypes to demonise or ridicule anyone considered an enemy of the state. Regardless of whether this engagement is explicit or masked as seemingly harmless comedy, and regardless of any stated intention on the part of the filmmakers, the fact that these stories are being produced and consumed underscores cinema’s status as a powerful cultural and ideological weapon. Because Hollywood can tell a story in a multitude of ways, it matters when a story is set in a particular place and time, when the villain is coded as a particular nationality and when the resolution of the story affirms a particular set of values or codes of behaviour. It matters when the portrayal of so-called enemies, as in The Interview, gives voice to the view. "They hate us 'cause they ain't us!" But even where there is agreement that such content does matter, questions arise over the implications and meaning of such content, particularly over whether the presentation of a negative stereotype constitutes an endorsement or a critique of the stereotype. Questions also arise around not only what it means to be an enemy but how that status might be portrayed. Whilst actual conflict, such as World War II for example, may provide some justification for propaganda and the vilification of the enemy, the continued use of such ideologically focused media and stereotypes in peacetime is questionable at best, and even more so when enemies of the past are now the friends of the present; Germany and the continued use of Nazis within films such as Inglorious Bastards. The somewhat conflicted nature within this, where enemies are now friends, is continued in more recent representations of the War on Terror and the fight against fundamentalism and radicalisation. Here the enemy is not always situated "over there" but takes root inside the home nation itself. Of course, the influence of these stories is no longer limited to the cinema, thanks to the financial and cross-media entanglements that have given Hollywood’s key corporate players stakes in merchandising, gaming, smart phones, tablets, internet television, music and beyond. In this way, Hollywood plays an important role in the creation of a convergent digital reality that enables audiences to immerse themselves in cultural products. These developments implicitly and explicitly rely on advancing the ideologies of consumerism and consumption, which raises the stakes on telling stories with a different sort of propagandistic aim, where the "baddie" isn't an enemy of the state, but rather an opponent of consumerism. This meeting calls for submissions that deal with any aspect of Hollywood and propaganda that deals with the on screen depiction of "enemies of the state", whether real, imagined or "out-of-this-world", both external or internal to the "homeland"; the technical innovations used to facilitate this, in terms of cinemascope, sound, 3D and immersive cinema; publicity and support systems used to disseminate such material, such as global merchandising, social media, the Oscars etc.; backers and sources of funding utilised, such as governmental, CIA, religious groups, corporate entities etc.; forms of resisitance and oppositional cinema like self-funded film, world cinema, alternative forms visual narrative. Possible topics for submissions: 1) Depictions of the Enemy in Ongoing Conflicts (both during and after the conflict): Border War with Mexico, Occupation of Nicaragua, Haiti and the Domincan Republic, WWI, WWII, The Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Somali Civil War, Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, ISIL. 2) Depictions of Enemies in Historical Conflicts: American Revolution, Indian Wars, Mexican-American War, American Civil War, Philippine-American War, Boxer Rebellion. 3) Enemies at Home: 5th Columnists, Fellow Travellers, Double Agents, Religious and Political Extremists, Racial/Ethnic Groups, Homosexuals, Anarchists, Dark Web/Economy, Hacktavists, Returning Soldiers and Disaffected Citizens. 4) Modes, Dissemination and Immersion: The construction of stereotypes, advertising, publicity, social media, gaming, music, etc 5) Resistance: Efforts to regulate the way Hollywood presents enemies; activism/protests/boycotts aimed at particular portrayals of enemies; case studies of progressive portrayals of enemies The Steering Group welcomes the 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: Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2015. If a proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 10th July 2015. Proposals 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: HW3 Proposal 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 Chair: Rob Fisher: hw3@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition 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. 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/diversity-recognition/hollywood-and-the-world/call-for-presentations-3/ 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, 2 April 2015
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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