The University of Rhode Island
13th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
April 13, 2019
Knowledge Across Borders: Conversations Among Disciplines
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Solomon Friedberg
Department of Mathematics, Boston College
We would like to encourage graduate students from all disciplines to submit projects they are currently working on, or have completed in th
Taking Shakespeare and his theatrical world as a temporal and locative point of departure, this seminar brings together papers engaging with depictions of gender in different nations of people and across political borders from the 16th century to the present. With numerous studies over the last four decades that address gender in Shakespeare’s works and on stage, we aim to explore how gender is theorised, staged, and depicted across national and cultural boundaries.
We welcome p
Call for Papers
E-REI
E-Revista de Estudos Interculturais / E-Journal of Intercultural Studies
Nº 7 — 2019
O Centro de Estudos Interculturais (CEI) do ISCAP-P.PORTO iniciou a preparação do 7º
número da E-REI — E-Revista de Estudos Interculturais (ISSN 2182-6439), de
periodicidade anual, a publicar on-line em Maio de 2019, acessível a partir do website do
Torture: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
15th to 16th July 2019
Verona, Italy
As terrorism has seen a new rise in past decades, organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram and similar others are thriving on the fear that is increasingly gripping the world. Their way of spreading horror and gaining the obedience of controlled populations is largely based on mass torture and killing. However, they are far from alone in this practice. Throughout history, torture has been u
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2019
Project name: Is it Okay to Be Gay? How Mainstream Media Culture Influences Gender & Sexuality
Full name / name of organization: Christiane Rinck and Heidi Tilney Kramer, University of South Florida
Contact email: Crinck@usf.edu
IS IT OKAY TO BE GAY? HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA CULTURE INFLUENCES GENDER & SEXUALITY
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The Media Ecology Association invites paper and panel proposals for presentation at its 20th Annual Convention, taking place on 27-30 June 2019 in Toronto.
We welcome submissions that encompass the broad array of disciplines focusing on the study of media as environments, technology and techniques, modes of information, and symbolic codes of communication that constitute media ecology.
We also invite submissions exploring this year’s theme: “Media
The Street and the City — Encounters is the third in a series of multidisciplinary conferences devoted to the study of cities and the ways of living that have evolved in them over time. Although English Studies play a central role in this conference series, both from cultural and geographical points of view, all contributions related to the topic will be considered, in line with the previous conferences: The Street and the City — Awakenings and The Street and The City — Thre
The Lessons of Rome aim at providing a space for reflection for anyone who grasps Italy as an architectural, urban and landscape research laboratory. Defining Italy as a laboratory involves analyzing contexts of urban policies but also as design expériences, theories as well as practices, legacies, mutations and prospects. It means building knowledge and culture, but also learning and developing tools to conceive the present and enrich contemporary practices.
The L
Acta Informatica Pragensia (ISSN 1805-4951) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the Open Access model of sharing scientific knowledge. The journal covers a broad range of topics dealing with the social and business aspects of informatics. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts via the journal system https://aip.vse.cz/?l=en
+ OPEN ACCESS content
+ UNIVERSITY JOURNAL (published by University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
Inflection is the annual student-run journal from the Melbourne School of Design. Internationally distributed, Inflection explores themes relevant to contemporary architectural discourse through the contributions of students, scholars and practitioners.
Inflection vol. 6 examines the theme of Originals within the discipline of architecture.
??Architects are expected to create original ideas resulting in a unique, bespoke
About MAKE A MOVE
An Art Incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised or independent theatre
/ MaM
The goal of the Make a Move project is to develop and pilot an innovative incubating environment in which small independent cultural operators primarily from the field of contemporary movement-based theatre will have the opportunity to develop their artistic and professional skills and grow their production proposals from the stage of creati
Elie Wiesel believes that “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. With these words in mind, this panel invites abstracts for papers that consider themes of protest in literature, film, and music. Prospective panelists may consider, but are not limited to, texts from authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and James Baldwin, the impact of larger movements such as the Beats,
Anti-Communism in the Twentieth Century: An
International Historical Perspective
Conference Call for Papers, 30-31 May 2019
Queen’s University Belfast
The aim of this conference is to examine the various facets of anti-communism throughout the twentieth century irrespective of focusing on any particular geographical region or limited to a specific sub-field in the study of history. By opening this discussion to scholars re
The paper submission deadline for SCSECS 2019 has been extended to Friday, December 14. A full list of panels can be found at scsecs.net. Please submit abstracts directly to the panel chair. If you don't see a panel that fits your paper idea, you can submit a proposal to conference co-organizer Ashley Bender at abender@twu.edu.
The 2019 annual meeting will be held in Dallas, Texas from 21-23 February. This year’s theme is “The Eighteenth Century i
Portraits/autoportraits in the artistic practices of the Mediterranean region: an overlooked site?
The portrait and the autoportrait hold a prominent position in Art History. Painting and Literature, as well as Theater, Cinema and the Visual Arts, have all been trying to grasp, with their own artistic devices, the features of an individual, known or unknown, whereas various writers and artists have focused, at a particular moment, on the representation of the self.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Marah Gubar — Associate Professor, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Paul Ramchandani — LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Metamorphosis and multiplicity have increasingly come to characterise the media landscape of the twenty-first century. Emerging technologies of production, distribution, and consumption not
11th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
March 22-23, 2019
Negotiating the Borderlands: Identities and Encounters in the Liminal
Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University
Mobility and displacement are elemental realities of our rapidly changing world, forcing populations to migrate, leading to potentially shifting
Mineral transformation and resource extraction generate some of the most complex environmental, social and economic problems facing humankind and the planet today.
In one way or another, resource extraction and mineral transformation are central to human existence. Like all biological organisms, we are mineral and matter transformers, on very small and very large scales. Mammals breathe oxygen and emit carbon dioxide, and build mass through minerals ingested in food; as Russian scient
Call for Papers
The University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature’s 29th Annual Conference
50thAnniversary of the Centre for Comparative Literature 1969-2019
Timepieces
29th-30thMarch 2019
Deadline Extension 15th December 2018
Keynote speakers:
John
Call for Chapter Proposals: Women in Pop Culture in Canada
Women’s Press / Canadian Scholar
Trans women, two spirit, and non-binary scholars are invited to submit chapter proposals on queer and trans women in popular culture in Canada for an upcoming volume on women in popular culture in Canada to be published by Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars. Here, pop culture is broadly conceived to include discussions of film, television, musi
10th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of security — Skopje on the following topic "
THE GREAT POWERS INFLUENCE ON THE SECURITY OF SMALL STATES" which will take place in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 23-25.06.2019.
Faculty of security — Skopje and Hanns Seidel foundation announces the call for papers which are to be presented at the Conference.
The topics are the following:
I am seeking a couple of additional essays for an edited collection on Gender and Twenty-First Century Television. I am looking in particular for essays that address contemporary television narratives featuring people of color (such as Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, Empire, Jane, the Virgin, Vida, Atlanta, Killing Eve, etc.) If you are interested, please send a 300-word abstract and brief bio to Amanda Konkle, akonkle@georgiasouthern.edu, by December 14.
This collect
The Research Office (GEE) of the Portuguese Ministry of Economy and the National Innovation Agency are opening a call for papers on the Portuguese economy. The aim is to promote scientific research oriented to economic policy problems and solutions applicable to Portugal in the area of R&D and Innovation in Digital Economy.
This call will award a monetary prize of €3,000 to the 4 best papers presented and the participation in a conference on the theme to be organized after th
Living Circles: Jewish Philosophy & Performance
Call for Roundtable Participants
Canadian Association for Theatre Research
Vancouver, BC June 3-6, 2019
Jewish spiritualties are inextricably defined and shaped by circles. We dance in them. We write in them. We keep time through them. Our daily lives, our scholarly work, and our performances exist through a framework that refuses linearity. Spatially and temp
For the 2019 conference of the International Gothic Association (to be held at Lewis University July 30th— August 2nd: https://igalewis2019.com/), I am organizing a roundtable with 5 to 8 participants to talk about best practices in teaching the Gothic.
From choosing just what to include (how do we fit this all in one semester?) to designing good writing assignments (how do we avoid terrible vampire compare-and-contrast essays?) to managing classroom discussions