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Saturday, 10 October 2015
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Friday, 9 October 2015
IICSS2016 - Dubai: The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences
| The deadline to submit your abstract to The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences - Dubai 2016 is November 1, 2015. Submit, present and join us in the amazing city of Dubai, UAE. Held along with the IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities, at the InterContinental Festival City Dubai from February 27-29, join us as we discuss this year’s conference theme, “Justice and Sustainability” along with conference chair Prof. Stuart D.B. Picken, IAFOR President Dr. Joseph Haldane, IICSS 2016 featured presenters, and more. To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/iicssdubai2016/ Enquiries: iicssdubai@iafor.org ***Conference Theme: "Justice and Sustainability" The conference theme for IICSS-Dubai2016 is "Justice and Sustainability", 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 in to the following thematic streams: -Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Humanities -Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences -Computational Social Science -Cultural and Media Studies -Economics and Management -Education and Social Welfare -Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies -Ethnicity, Difference, Identity -Globalization and Internationalization -Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation -Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender -International Relations & Human Rights -Journalism and Communications -Linguistics -Natural, Environmental and Health Sciences -Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness -Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology -Psychology & Social Psychology -Research Methodologies, Quantitative and Qualitative -Social History -Social Work -Sociology -Sustainability -Teaching and Learning -Technology and Applied Sciences -Urban Studies -Other Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/iicssdubai2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams ***About IAFOR and its events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization’s platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world’s leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR’s credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ***IICSS-Dubai2016 Conference Chairs and Keynote Speakers Professor Stuart D. B. Picken IICSS-Dubai2016 Conference Chair Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S. IAFOR International Advisory Board Chair Professor Stuart D. B. Picken is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board, and in this role is Chairman of the Organization. As Chairman of IAFOR, Professor Picken helps guide the academic and political strategy of the organization, and assists in the forging of global institutional partnerships. He is also responsible for the development of the IAFOR Research Institutes. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Professor Picken is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham. He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. Professor Said M. Faiq IICSS-Dubai2016 Local Conference Chair American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Said Faiq, FRSA, is Professor of intercultural studies and translation at the American University of Sharjah (UAE), where he was chair/head of department (2003-07, 2009-10), and director of the graduate program in translation and interpreting (2002-11). He is a visiting professor at Exeter University (UK). Prior to his current position, he worked in Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom (Salford University, (1990-2003), where he was director of studies for undergraduate and graduate programs in Arabic/English translation and interpreting; and Leeds University, (1996-1998), where he was visiting lecturer in applied linguistics). He has served as consultant to private and public organizations for educational and related sectors and serves on a number of academic editorial and consultancy boards/agencies. He is an established figure in intercultural and translation studies and allied areas and has directed and examined graduate research (Cambridge, McGill). His publications include Agency and Patronage in Eastern Translatology (co-edited with Ahmed Ankit, forthcoming), Culguage in/of translation from Arabic (co-edited with Ovidi Carbonnel and Ali AlManaa, 2014), Beyond Denotation in Arabic Translation (co-edited with Allen Clark, 2010), Cultures in dialogue: A translational perspective (2010), Trans-lated: Translation and Cultural Manipulation (2007), Identity and Representation in Intercultural Communication (2006), Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic (2004). Dr. A. Robert Lee IICAH-Dubai2016 Program Adviser Formerly of the University of Kent, UK and Nihon University, Japan A. Robert Lee, a Britisher who helped establish American Studies in the UK, was Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, having previously long taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He now lives in Murcia, Spain. His academic books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); Postindian Conversations (1999), with Gerald Vizenor; Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004; Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009); Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010), and collections like Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995); Beat Generation Writers (1996); China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (2008); The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes (2010); Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (2010); and Herman Melville, 4 Vols (2001): Native American Writing, 4 Vols (2011), African American Writing, 5 Vols (2013), and U.S.Latino/a Writing, 4 Vols (2013). He edited the Special Japan edition of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2006. His creative work is reflected in Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007), with Mark Gresham; Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line (2011); and the poetry collections Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), and Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013). |
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Monday, 5 October 2015
2016 International Conference on Journalism, Advertising, and Media studies (ICJAM)
| 2016 International Conference on Journalism, Advertising, and Media studies (ICJAM) 20th to 22nd April 2016 Taipei, Taiwan The journalism, advertising, and media have been seen in nearly every facet of our daily lives, and the technology boom has constantly altered the way we communicate as well as the way we live. Therefore, please mark your calendar for ICJAM 2016. The ICJAM 2016 will cover a wide range of fields across journalism, advertising, and media studies, and offer participants ample opportunity for networking and collaborating with your peers. All submissions to the conference will go through anonymously review processes by at least two independent referees. Enquiries: icjam.ibac@gmail.com Web address: http://www.knowledgetaiwan.org/icjam Sponsored by: International Business Academics Consortium |
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Friday, 2 October 2015
The Supernatural
| The Supernatural FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2016 Friday 11th March – Sunday 13th March 2016 Budapest, Hungary From vengeful gods and goddesses and witches to poltergeists and hauntings, to demonic possession and the accompany exorcism rituals, the human imagination has been captivated for millennia by the power of forces that operate outside the laws of nature and the relationship between humans and the spirit world. Over time, the supernatural has served as a basis for titillating audiences and generating fear. The supernatural has served as a useful means of explaining complicated natural processes in terms humans understand. As history’s famous witch-hunts have demonstrated, the supernatural is also a potent weapon for exerting control over individuals whose behaviour or appearance fail to confirm to the ‘norms’ of the community. Conversely, the supernatural can also provide a means of expressing minority beliefs in a way that challenges the power of mainstream organized religions. The supernatural offers a source of personal comfort in the face of grief by providing assurance that a departed loved one is watching over us. However, as the long line of supernatural hoaxes reveal, however, this longing to believe in the afterlife can enable schemes designed to manipulate and swindle vulnerable people. But just what purpose does the supernatural serve in 21st century societies? Is it a throwback to the irrational, superstitious and archaic beliefs of a so-called primitive era, or is it a reminder that there is more to existence than the ‘truths’ revealed by the sciences? The Supernatural interdisciplinary research and publishing event aims to interrogate and investigate the supernatural from a variety of perspectives in order to understand the uses and meanings of the supernatural across time and cultures. Subjects for presentation include, but are not limited to, the following: The Supernatural in Theory and Practice Shifting perspectives of what is supernatural over time and across cultures Non-Western perspectives on the supernatural What attitudes toward the supernatural suggest about human perceptions of the boundaries between worlds Ancestor worship and the cultures in which this tradition is practiced Witchcraft, voodoo and the cultures where these traditions are practiced Satanism and cultural perceptions of this belief system Reasons behind the enduring fascination with supernatural evil, including philosophical, theological and anthropological perspectives on this question Relationship between the supernatural and magic Religious traditions and the supernatural (supernatural aspects of faith and belief, attitudes of faith traditions toward the supernatural, how clergy respond to individuals who report supernatural experiences, etc.) The Supernatural and Real Life Socially accepted forms of supernatural belief and the factors that make some beliefs more acceptable than others Harms and benefits of believing in the supernatural Relationship between the supernatural and cruelty Apocalyptic supernatural evil events or characters and the significance of millenarianism Characteristics of supernatural entities and the significance of their difference from/similarity to human traits Relationship between the supernatural and social power/ideologies (e.g. witchcraft as pretext for dealing with non-conforming women, using the supernatural to engage with physical enemies, etc.) Legal/legislative approaches to restricting or enabling supernatural belief (limits of religious freedom principles, state-sanctioned punishment of witches, etc.) Medical/clinical perspectives on belief in the supernatural: the neuroscience behind (dis)belief, clinical responses to individuals who report supernatural experiences Science and the supernatural: using science to (dis)prove supernatural occurrences Technologies that facilitate/measure/prove engagement with the paranormal/occult Future of the supernatural in a world increasingly driven by science and reason Supernatural Encounters Analyses of reports of supernatural encounters: common conventions of reports, style and mode of recounting experience, impact of titillation versus simple reporting of events in the reports of these encounters How the function and/or interpretation of a report of supernatural evil changes over time or across cultures Impact of oral traditions, artistic renderings and generic conventions on the telling and reception of accounts involving supernatural encounters How the reception of reports of the supernatural is influenced by the experience of listening versus reading or viewing Emotional and intellectual pleasures associated with the supernatural: pleasures of fear and titillation, etc. Comedic interpretations of supernatural evil: haunted houses in amusement parks, horror movie spoofs, etc Supernatural in film, television (including reality series like Most Haunted and Ghost Hunters), theatre, music, art and literature—and how they differ from more ‘traditional’ accounts Supernatural spaces: spaces associated with evil and the economic benefits/tourism implications of such connections Hoaxes, frauds and swindles Supernatural and live performance Curated film screenings Performances (dramatic staging, dance, music) Readings Art installations Call for Cross-Over Presentations The Supernatural project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Trauma and another project on Loss. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”. Further details and information can be found at the project web site: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/the-supernatural/call-for-participation/ What to Send 300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 16th October 2015. All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed. You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 30th October 2015. If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2016. Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad 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: The Supernatural Abstract Submission Where to Send Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs: Organising Chairs: Stephen Morris: smmorris58@yahoo.com Rob Fisher: supernatural@inter-disciplinary.net This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. There will be an eBook resulting from the conference meeting. It is also anticipated that a number of other publishing options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting of The Supernatural stream in particular. Other options, some of which might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting itself. Ethos 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. 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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