The Constructedness of the Monstrous Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015
The Constructedness of the Monstrous
The Monsters and the Monstrous Project
Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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The Constructedness of the Monstrous
The Monsters and the Monstrous Project
Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Pilgrimage to the Heart of the Sacred
The Sacred Journeys: Pilgrimage and Beyond Project
Friday 3rd July – Sunday 5th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
Pilgrimage is a cross-cultural phenomenon that facilitates interaction between and among diverse peoples from countless cultures and walks of life. In the 2nd Global Conference, we will continue to explore the many personal, interpersonal, intercultural, and international dimensions of this profound phenomenon.
Among the key issues that emerged from Sacred Journeys I: Pilgrimage and Beyond, were:
Recognising Silence
The Exploring and Managing Silence Project
Tuesday 7th July – Thursday 9th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Slavery Past, Present and Future
The Slavery Past, Present and Future Project
Tuesday 7th July – Thursday 9th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
It is an unfortunate truth that slavery, in one form or another, exists in almost all human societies. The 2014 United States State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, for example, claims that virtually every country in the world is now a source, transit, or destination point for human trafficking, which it describes as a "modern form of slavery."
Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century
The Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century Project
Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Twenty years after his death, Deleuze's thought continues to be mobilised in relation to the most timely and critical problems society faces. As theory is starting to reconcile itself with a grim environmental future and with the emergence of the Anthropocene as a key conceptual framework, we are compelled to consider the philosophical consequences of the irreversible and profound impacts of industrialisation and consumerism on environments at a planetary scale. The Anthropocene disrupts thought itself, requiring that we re-evaluate the human and its place in the cosmos: a third Copernican Revolution. It is widely accepted now that the human species is itself a geological force.
The Slavic Studies union at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce its 2015 Graduate Student Conference, to be held in Toronto on April 7-8th, 2015. Our keynote speaker Dr. Mayhill Fowler (Stetson University), a cultural historian focusing on how different kind of state systems shape creativity, and how diversity leads to innovation.
2014's conference was a great success, featuring presenters from across North America and disciplines. As a sample of the material presented, refer to last year's programme here: http://tinyurl.com/o3unwca
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
Public Intellectuals Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of English and Literature at Carleton University and the Ottawa Public Library
Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED (Jan. 12)
The Public Intellectuals Lecture Series aims to create a bridge between scholars in the Arts and the general public. While the complex ideas these scholars help develop have important, real world applications to the way we understand and interact with each other, they are often couched in jargon and confined to the journals and lecture halls of the academic sphere. This lecture series will offer a venue and format in which scholars can present these ideas to the public in an accessible manner.
Hostile Intelligences and The General Antagonism
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Collective intelligence has to organise itself into a hostile intelligence — also in the sense of inoculating the host as a malignant parasite. An alien intelligence is not concerned with any orthodoxy, it proliferates and organises its own heresies".
–Matteo Pasquinelli
The Cine-Files is now accepting submissions (4000-6000 words) for the "Featured Scholarship" segment of Issue 8 (Spring 2015), a special issue on film sound.
Papers should make an argument about some aspect of cinematic sound. We welcome a diversity of methodologies. Though writing should follow traditional essay conventions (strong thesis, linear organization and development of argument), we encourage the use of embedded film clips, audio files, and/or images to support the paper's claims.
The Department of English and American Studies is pleased to announce its 2nd Annual Science Fiction Symposium. We are seeking proposals in the following areas:
• Non-Western Science Fiction (anime, Soviet SF, etc.)
• Science Fiction and Genre Hybridity (Science-Fantasy, Science-Comedy, etc.)
• Science Fiction and Moral/Ethical Boundaries
• Science Fiction and Transhumanism
• Transmedia/Multimedia Science Fiction
All relevant topics are welcome; we encourage interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives as well.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio to superwriter@gmail.com by Feb. 28, 2015.
Conference Date: June 9, 2015
April 10th, 11th, 12th, 2015
Keynote speaker: Jasbir K. Puar
Master class: Marlon Ross
Taxonomy and tribe; gender and globe; state, sex, and system. We're categorization machines: it would sound like a weak generalization if it weren't such a persistent impulse. We survey exteriors and interiors. We reform law and language in a quest to codify identity. The more terrain we successfully chart, the wider, deeper, more tortuous we find the human landscape. How manifold are the ways we can map our worlds?
IFASC INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS STUDENT CONGRESS 2015
"Innovation In Art"
Maltepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts is organizing the Third Annual International Fine Arts Students Congress to all undergraduate (BA) students from Turkey and abroad. MA students will be able to participate only if this is their fourth year of study (countries where the BA is 3 years long ONLY) will be held at Maltepe University in Istanbul, Turkey on 6-8 April 2015. Previous conferences have attracted students and faculties from twelve countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America. This year's topic will be "Innovation in Art".
Suggested general topics for presentations:
The International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy (France) is pleased to accept presentation proposals for its third annual screendance conference to be held in May 2015 that explore the theme, "The Politics of Space".
We welcome abstracts for 20-minute moderated panel presentations that address any aspect of this theme, which can be interpreted broadly in order to foster dialogues concerning how the intersection of diverse movement and image forms investigate, create, and interpret space. Areas of interest within this topic, include but are not limited to: