вторник, 27 декабря 2011 г.

Space and Place

3rd Global Conference "Space and Place"

Monday 3rd September – Thursday 6th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other" constructed in a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate.

We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following:

1. Theorising Space and Place

  • Philosophies and space and place
  • Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life
  • Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold: 2008)
  • The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005)
  • The language and semiotics of space and place
2. Situated Identities
  • Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres
  • Work spaces and hierarchies of power
  • Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism
  • Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space
  • Disabled spaces/places
  • Queer places and spaces
3. Contested spaces
  • The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism
  • The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space
  • Territorial wars, both real and imagined
  • The relationship between the global and the local
  • Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces
  • Space and place from colonisation to globalisation
  • Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place
  • Transnational and translocal places
4. Representations of place and space
  • Embodied/disembodied spaces
  • Lived spaces and the architecture of identity
  • Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces
  • Set design and the construction of space in film, television and theatre
  • Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts
  • Technology and developments in the representation of space including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing
  • Future cities/futurology and space
  • Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts
  • Space in computer games
Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.

This project will run concurrently with our project on Reframing Punishment – we welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Reframing Punishment and Space and Place for a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed panels on any aspect of Space or Place or in relation to crossover panel(s). 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: SP 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). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer 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:

Matt Melia Conference Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net Kingston University, United Kingdom E-mail: mjmelia2002@gmail.com

Rob Fisher Network Founder and Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. E-mail: sp3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.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 will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/

For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call- for-papers/

воскресенье, 25 декабря 2011 г.

Communication in a Changing Society

The Russian Communication Association (RCA) in collaboration with Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) and the Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University are happy to announce the forthcoming 6th International RCA Conference: "Communication in a Changing Society".

The Conference is convened in partnership with National Communication Association (NCA), International Communication Association (ICA), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Polish Communication Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Komunikacji Spo?ecznej, PTKS), International Federation of Communication Associations (IFCA), World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA), Russian Association for Film and Media Education (RAFM) and Kazakhstan Communication Association (KazCA).

Venue and Dates: Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, September 27-29, 2012.

Today's global society is on its path of rapid development due to the interplay of global and local factors. Communication processes are crucial to the solution of multiple problems the globalized humanity faces nowadays. Communication helps the world's nations to understand the differences and unite the potentials to achieve common goals. The forthcoming 6th RCA Conference is also aimed at uniting researchers from different countries and various domains, of various genres and types of human communication to form a multidisciplinary paradigm of contemporary communication studies. This time the Conference participants are invited to convene in the very heart of Russia, in Siberia, with the aim of integrating their knowledge, competencies and approaches to promote the study of communication in the whole world.

The discussion will follow the following relevant topics:

  • philosophy of communication
  • research methods in communication
  • speech communication
  • interpersonal communication
  • organizational communication
  • political communication
  • mass communication
  • intercultural communication
  • computer-mediated communication
  • educational communication
  • communications law
  • health communication
  • gender communication
  • communication education
  • communication design
  • media education
Submissions from researchers of various aspects of communication are welcome starting from December 20, 2011 Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2012.

Working languages: Russian, English, German.

The Conference will feature plenary lectures and panel presentations, poster papers and round-table discussions, and workshops. Researchers who are interested in organizing focused round-tables, specialized workshops are encouraged to submit their topics.

Prospective participants and workshop/round-table organizers are kindly requested to submit and register at the Conference Website: http://conf.sfu-kras.ru/conf/communication-2012?locale=en. The submissions are subject to blind review. The Website will publish all the relevant information (participant's submission status, preparatory stages of the conference, participation conditions, publication guidelines, etc.). A special webpage of the RCA Website and a Facebook group (in Russian) will also publish the information related to the Conference (in Russian): http://russcomm.ru/rca_projects/rca-conf2012/ and http://www.facebook.com/groups/208406532572509/.

Conference materials (the authors' versions) will be digital published by the start of the Conference. Selected papers will be published in the refereed Journal of Siberian Federal University (Humanities and Social Sciences), ISSN 1997-1370: http://journal.sfu-kras.ru/home and the Russian Journal of Communication.

Organizing Committee:

  • Lyudmila V. Kulikova, professor, Dr of Philology, Director of the Institute of Philology and Language Communication, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, President of the Organizing Committee
  • Irina N. Rozina, RCA President, Dr of Education, professor at the Department of Information Technologies, Institute of Management, Business and Law (Rostov-on-Don), Vice-President of the Organizing Committee
  • David C. Williams, ECANA Executive Director, Ph.D., professor at Florida Atlantic University, USA, Foreign participants Coordinator
Program Committee:
  • Olga A. Leontovich, Dr of Linguistics, professor and head of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation at Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee
  • Viacheslav B. Kashkin, Dr of Linguistics, professor and head of the Department of Translatology and Intercultural Communication at Voronezh State University, Co-Chairman of the Program Committee
  • Michael D. Hazen, ECANA President, Ph.D., professor at Wake Forest University, USA, the Program Committee's Foreign participants Coordinator
Contact person: Irina Rozina; Anna Bukhtoyarova (Krasnoyarsk)

email: rozina@iubip.ru; annabukhtoyarova@gmail.com