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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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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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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