Warwick Sociology Department would like to announce a call for abstracts from postgraduate students wishing to present at the Warwick Postgraduate Conference 2010 ‘Whose Rights? How Right?’. This is a conference run by and for postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities and provides and exciting opportunity to present your work in a friendly and supportive environment.
The conference theme concerns "rights." From rights claimed on the basis of humanity to those relating to a specific group in a specific setting; are rights so ubiquitous that they are rendered meaningless? What does it mean to have rights, morally and/or legally? How are they allocated, by whom, and who is included and excluded? These are some of the questions that the conference hopes to address. Abstracts submitted for presentation at the conference might cover some of the following topics –though this list is not exhaustive of the theme of rights and related abstracts on other topics ar ... read more

The sixth meeting of this global research project shall explore the many facets of creative engagement with children. Grounded in an inter-disciplinary perspective and with reference to historical and contemporary representations of childhood, this project will examine the complex issues which surround the notion and practices of creative engagement in the context of pedagogy and the curriculum, and in the face of frequently instrumental institutional imperatives. More generally, our work will also address the role of creativity in social interaction, with particular reference to children's development of life skills, autonomy and independence in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on any of the following four focus areas:
1. Creativity, Engagement and Education
* How do various disciplines define the concept of engagement?
* What is creativity in theory and practice? What is creative education? Can ... read more

Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA), this conference will bring together international academic researchers in the field of tourism and festival studies with policy makers and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector. The CTCC and IFEA are delighted to be working in partnership with the Centre for Tourism and Culture Management, Copenhagen Business School in the organisation and hosting of this event which coincides with IFEA's annual conference.
The conference will discuss the complex implications of the global economic downturn for the relationships between tourism, festivals and cultural events. We particularly welcome paper proposals that consider
questions of how the balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of festivals can be sustained during these challenging times and how festivals and cultural events and thei ... read more

 This conference aims to bring scholars of literature and law into an interdisciplinary setting to share the fruits of their research and scholarship.
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail.com

The conference’s keynote speaker is John Matteson, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. John Matteson is a professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and obtained his JD from Harvard University.

The journal Law and Literature is in the process of publishing a special symposium issue containing full versions of select papers presented at the inaugural Literature and Law Conference, and we are in negotiations with the journal to do the same for this second biennial conference.

A limited number of "Daily Show” or "The Colbert Report” tickets may be available (we are still working on this) for the evening befo ... read more

In contemporary Europe walls are far from being an old-fashioned device. Even if after the collapse of the Berlin Wall borders within EU-Schengen countries have became progressively flexible and porous, borders towards non-EU countries have became increasingly policed and fortified. In fact, walls still serve to keep people in, as much as to keep people out; they display power in concrete and symbolic terms. For some they might signify security and regularity, freedom and protection, identity and divergence as experiences to be held either inside or outside the line of the wall; for others they represent exclusion, marginalisation and stigma. In sum, walls (both real and imagined) demarcate, they chart the city-fabric and the nature of people’s civic and civil spirit, engagements and interactions. In this panel we seek to make explicit the paradoxes of confinement and liberty that underpin the existence of walls in contemporary European cities. By observing the material morphology ... read more

The objective of this 4th annual edition of INTED is to present and share your experiences in the fields of Technology, Education, Development and International Collaboration. You can present your projects in two modalities: In person (oral and poster presentations) and virtually (if you can not attend in person).
Website: http://www.inted2010.org

Email: inted2010@iated.org

Abstracts should be submitted at http://www.iated.org/inted2010/submit

before the 1st of December 2009

This is an annual International Forum for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists who wish to present their projects and results in all disciplines and fields of Education. This 4th annual edition expects to count with the attendance of more than 450 delegates from 65 different countri ... read more

Possibility to publish papers/proceedings of the conference in Amsterdam Contributions to the Caucasus. Abstract (500 words) expected no later than December 15, 2009. Draft papers due: March 23, 2010; final version (7000 words): June 15, 2010. More detailed information about style sheet, panels and programme and location will follow after abstracts are selected. You will receive reaction on abstracts by January 30th 2010. Estimated publication date Dec 2010/Jan 2011
http://www.fsw.vu.nl/en/departments/culture-organization-and-management/staff/companjen/caucasus.asp

Deadline: 2009/12/15 Country or region: Netherlands

Paper proposals are invited for the third Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 15-­‐16 March 2010 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of the 2010 conference will be "Politics,Faith, and Reason”, and papers will be considered which deal wit any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present.
Papers which bring an historical perspective to bear on problems of contemporary political theory will be welcomed. A keynote address will be given by Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge and recent author of An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate (2004). The theme should be understood broadly, to include secular as well as religious conceptions of "faith”, and diverse versions of rationality. Up to eight papers will be accepted. Panels will be led by a discussant from Cambridge, who will offer comments on each paper before general discussion ... read more

 The landmark conference to mark the progress on all global health goals among all sectors within the global health community. Visit http://www.globalhealthconference.org

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Country or region: United States

Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York, USA (time and place are subject to change) Hosted by The Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis (SATSA) The Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis (SATSA), currently housed at Syracuse University, is the first international, interdisciplinary, graduate student association dedicated to the critical analysis of terrorism, counterterrorism policy, and related national and international security issues. THEME: A World, Insecure
We invite papers and position pieces from all academic disciplines, such as international relations, public administration, anthropology, law, political science, history, sociology, business management, peace studies, economics, geography, and communications. Each paper will be presented in one of three panels, concerned broadly with 1) Hostile regional actions and the conflicts’ results for global militaries, 2) Contemporary insecurity crises and their foreshadowing for world ... read more