The Obrana a strategie (Defence and Strategy) academic journal is seeking original research articles to the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War end and the Central European state's establishment. Czech Republic also commemorates the 80th anniversary of the German occupation by Munich Agreement and the 50th anniversary of the Soviet occupation.
We invite authors to submit their contributions to strategic, security and defense issues linked to the end of First World
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and reviews for our twelfth year of issues.
Forthcoming thematic issues will include anarchism, including Black Bloc activism, ecological radicalism, animal rights radicalism, and right-wing forms of radicalism. We are particularly interested in articles on transnational subjects as well as on lesser-known examples of radi
The academic journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction (http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation/index.html), supported by the Science Fiction Foundation at the University of Liverpool, UK, invites contributions for a special issue on Canadian science fiction. The theme issue is guest edited by Heather Osborne (University of Calgary, Canada).
In today’s global society, the question of understanding multiple cultures as we interact and construct our identities has never been more important. As educators, our responsibility to guide students to become knowledgeable consumers of media is crucial to their development as open-minded adults. In this roundtable, we will examine strategies for incorporating films from around the world that include the perspective of a child protagonist in course curricula. We will explore thoughtful
In this Author-meets-Reader roundtable, Martine Sonnet will discuss her work alongside 3-4 scholars working on French-language filiation narratives. Filiation narratives reflect an effort to recover aspects of one’s family history which were not transmitted to the author. The quest for information, garnered through various possible sources, is then incorporated into the narrative. We invite scholars working either on a filiation narrative subgenre or on Sonnet’s work in particular
it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the preparation of a new special issue of the Orbis scholae journal focused on shadow education.
Alongside the development and expansion of participation in formal education, a massive growth of private supplementary tutoring has been observed worldwide. Sometimes, these private educational activities are labelled as a shadow education, a metaphor that is used to point out mimicry and close interrelations with
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University invites abstracts and panel proposals on the topic of Fairies and the Fantastic. The submission deadline is October 31, 2018. In the Prologue to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, the narrator reminisces about a time when the land was full of fairies and the Elf Queen danced merrily on the green. In the centuries since Chaucer, fairies, far from disappearing, have lived on in the p
We are seeking proposals for essays to be included in a proposed volume on ‘Queens in Waiting’ to be submitted to the Queenship and Power series. The collection seeks to explore the processes of becoming or attempting (successfully or not) to become queen through a collection of case studies of individual women or comparative groupings of women. Potential topics could include but are not limited to:
The SGEM Vienna GREEN 2018 Conference is organized as an extended Scientific Sessions of the SGEM International Scientific Conferences on EARTH and GEO SCIENCES.
The conference will take place from 3 to 6 December, 2018, at the most outstanding historical palace in Vienna - Hofburg Congress Center.
During these four days of SGEM Vienna GREEN 2018 this famous Palace will be an epicenter of global interacting between best scientists from more than 25
At a time when Roe vs. Wade is under assault, it is crucial to reflect on the history of abortion and women's representations of their own abortion experiences- not just in the U.S. but worldwide. Since abortion is a taboo topic in many countries and cultures, since female bodies and reproduction are crucial to the discursive formation of the nation-state, female narratives of abortion constitute a transnational discourse. By investigating these counterdiscourses, across times and places, in
Travel, Movement and (Im)Mobilities An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 13th April 2019 — Sunday 14th April 2019 Bruges, Belgium
Travel, the daily movements of people (and animals), our mobility and ability to traverse spaces and places is the cornerstone of life in the 21st Century. We take it for granted, we presume it to be a feature of daily life and assume it to be a right which belongs to all of us. But whilst ‘travel’ appears t
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Creating Global Change: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s and Gender Studies, held March 28-30, 2019 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. The 2019 conference theme emphasizes issues of migration, bodies, and borders as related to women and gender. Conference topics may include: state violence, family separation, transnational families, nationalism, race and racializatio
Recommender systems are nowadays an indispensable part of most personalized systems implementing information access and content delivery, supporting a great variety of user activities. Recommender systems alleviate the problem of information overload, identifying and promoting content that is deemed more suitable for each individual user. To this end, recommender systems collect and process information about user preferences, likings and previous actions; the user’s current context (suc
The Editorial Board of our forthcoming journal, The Saharan, announces a call for papers for the inaugural issue, due to be published at the beginning of 2019.
The Saharan aims to promote an intersectional approach to the inquiry into the disciplines of Cultural Studies and International Development within the pan-African context. The journal intends to cultivate a creative engagement with contemporary Africa by focusing on how artistic output generates and
Music & Mental Health An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
13th to 14th April 2019 Bruges, Belgium
Music is the soundtrack to our lives. Listening to and creating music has strong intuitive resonances with our sense of well-being and our mental health and has a direct impact on our moods, motivations and creativity. On a typical day, music might awaken us, entertain us on the morning commute, assist us in focusing on tasks and absorbing information, energise
Decentralized 2018, organised by the University of Nicosia (www.decentralized.com). Decentralized is the largest and most in-depth conference of its kind in Europe, it will feature 1200+ attendees and 70+ world renowned industry leaders and academics from the blockchain and crypto sector.
The academic track welcomes research contributions that arise from various fields of blockchain technology with the potential of shaping our present and creating alternative futures.&
We strongly encourage students, post-docs and researchers who primarily identify as latinx in all areas of machine learning to submit an abstract describing new, previously, or concurrently published research. We welcome abstract submissions, in theory, methodology, as well as applications. Abstracts may describe completed research or work-in-progress. While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we encourage authors to
This session will present work by scholars on the literature, movements, activism, and cultural production from the regions of Latin/South America, Africa, and Asia, which have, in a showcase of imperial language, been described as the “Third World by those in the industrial West. This session topic is vital and timely as the Trump administration’s rhetoric toward Africa as having “shithole countries and the United States’ history of colonization as &ldqu
Culture and Dialogue is an international peer reviewed print and electronic journal of cross-cultural philosophy and humanities. The Journal provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, Culture and Dialogue seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator.
How do comics and related visual media such as illustrated books, comic strips, and animation represent disability differently from other media, and what new possibilities do they propose for thinking about or visualizing ability?
Of particular interest are papers that consider comics as graphic medicine, comics and ableism, comics and neuro-divergence, autism in graphic novels and comics, disability and graphic memoir, creative titles or series by comics artists and wr
This seminar considers the cultural and linguistic power differentials that affect the translation of Arabic literature. While translation from one language to another is nearly always fraught with unequal power dynamics, translating literature from, and into, Arabic poses a unique set of challenges. What are the implications of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Arabic-speaking world for literary translation? How might we approach translating work from certain regions within major
Issue 50: October 2018: Revisiting Partition of India (1947) [Last date for submission: 30 August, 2018; Date of publication: 1 October, 2018]
Guest-Editors: Dr. Kamayani Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Concept Note: Partition of the Indian subcontinent occurred in in 1947. A colossal trauma, its effect is still manifest in multiple forms even decades later. Much has been written on t
JEEIT 2019 is the joint, merged conference that IEEE — Jordan Section, Jordan Engineers Association, and Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan organize. JEEIT 2019 merges the following three conferences in one big conference with one organizing committee, one program, and one proceedings:
The 5th IEEE Jordan Conf. on Applied Electrical Eng. and Computing Technologies (AEECT 2019)
The 11th Jordanian International Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference (JIEE
The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue focusing on the theme of obscenity. We envisage papers that follow suit to the growing literature on “obscenity & sexuality (Nead, 1992, 2001), “speaking the unspeakable (Michelson, 1993) and “art & obscenity (M
