TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSED: CALL FOR PAPERS

Please find below a call for papers for the Scottish Archaeological Forum's forthcoming conference on 'The Experience of Technology' arranged for 22-23 October 2011 at the University of Glasgow.



CALL FOR PAPERS
Scottish Archaeological Forum Conference: 22nd/23rd October 2011, University of Glasgow.
Conference Title: The Experience of Technology
The year 2011 is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Scottish Archaeological Forum’s Early Technology in Northern Britain (Kenworthy 1981), the proceedings of the 1979 conference entitled ‘Archaeology and Early Technology in Scotland’. The papers within the volume generally focused on the production and manufacture of material culture within economic frameworks. In keeping with the zeitgeist of the 1970s, technology was considered as a separate object for research divorced from the social dimensions in which things were made and given meaning.
In the intervening period technology has retained a focus for study in archaeology, history, anthropology, philosophy and the social sciences. As we embrace the second decade of the 21st century there appears to be considerable scope for developing further the theme of technology as a sensuous and somatic experience within the social dimension as opposed to an extra-somatic object of study.
This conference seeks to explore how technology, as a sensuous embodiment, interfaces with the auditory, haptic and olfactory experiences, which may incorporate aspects of phenomenology, behaviour, practice and agency, identity, materiality, deterritorialisation, landscape studies and other concepts.
Suggested Themes:
· Landscape and phenomenology
· Sensory experiences – auditory, haptic and olfactory
· Social dimension, agency, practice and behaviour
· Materiality – how objects can give meaning to the concept of somatic technology
· The philosophy of deterritorialisation – technology as an interface where object and subject are indivisible.

Papers are invited from people across the academic disciplines who are undertaking current research where aspects of technology are a principal focus. Your research need not necessarily be within Scottish contexts. Please provide an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers will be restricted to 20 minutes.

More information on the Scottish Archaeological Forum (SAF) can be found at:
http://www.scottisharchaeologicalforum.org.uk/html/main.asp <http://www.scottisharchaeologicalforum.org.uk/html/main.asp>


Abstracts should be forwarded before the deadline of 30th April 2011 to:
Dene Wright: a.wright.3@research.gla.ac.uk <mailto:a.wright.3@research.gla.ac.uk> or
Louisa Campbell: l.campbell.3@research.gla.ac.uk <mailto:l.campbell.3@research.gla.ac.uk>





Many thanks and kind regards


Louisa Campbell
MA (Hons)
PhD Candidate

Telephone: +44 (0)141 330 3925
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/students/lhammersley/
School of Humanities, Archaeology
University of Glasgow

Paying Attention

"Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility"

European Science Foundation Research Conference

Linköping, Sweden, 6-10 September, 2010.

Convenors: Prof. Jon Dovey and Dr. Patrick Crogan, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England

CALL FOR PAPERS : Dead line for application : 1 mai 2010

Renseignements: www.esf.org/conferences/10316

"Paying Attention" concerns the politics, ethics and aesthetics of the attention economy. This is the social and technical milieu in which web native generations live much of their lives. It will address key questions like: What architectures of power are at work in the attention economy ? How is it building new structures of experience? What kinds of value does this architecture produce? "Paying Attention" encourages dialogue between researchers from the fields of Cultural and New Media Studies, Education, Communications, Economics, Internet studies, Human Computer Interface Studies, Art and Design. It also seeks the input and insights of creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new media forms and technologies.

"Paying Attention" traitera les dimensions politiques, éthiques et esthétique de l'économie de l'attention. Celle-ci est le milieu social et technique dans lequel habitent les générations du web la plupart de temps. La conférence posera des questions comme: Quel sont les architectures du pouvoir qui opèrent dans l'économie de l'attention? Comment elle fait des structures nouvelles de l'expérience? Quel caractère ont les valeurs produites par ces structures? "Paying Attention" veut promouvoir les dialogues entre chercheurs qui travaillent dans des disciplines diverses (Etudes des médias et de la culture, Pédagogie, Communications, Economie, L'informatique, l'Art et le Design). Elle fait appelle à la contribution et les réflexions des artistes et des praticiens des formes nouvelles médiatiques."

THINGS AND SPIRITS: NEW APPROACHES TO MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY

C O N F E R E N C E

THINGS AND SPIRITS: NEW APPROACHES TO MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY

Venue: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
http://www.ics.ul.pt/

Date: 15, 16 and 17 September 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN
DEADLINE: 17 May 2010

Please submit a 500 words abstract and a brief bio by email to:
Ricardo Roque: ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt
João Vasconcelos: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com


THINGS AND SPIRITS: MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY RECONSIDERED

This conference is aimed at exploring new ways of approaching the tensional
and intimate connections between ‘things’ and ‘spirits’ across distinct
practices and epistemologies. In recent decades, the theme of materiality
has gained wider currency and centrality in social sciences and
anthropological theory. A growing number of scholars in the anthropology of
religion, material culture studies, and history and sociology of science and
technology have been reexamining the partition between humans, material
objects, and immaterial entities, along with the ideas of agency, evidence,
and materiality itself. A double shift towards (i) a radically generalized
view of agency and (ii) the ontological complexity of things, spirits, and
humans is cutting across distinct approaches in the anthropology of
religion, science studies, and material culture studies. However, although
they seem to share a novel attention to the tropes of materiality and
agency, they do not necessarily agree with the angles from which these
issues should be analyzed. Moreover, the extent to which the themes of
immateriality and spirituality should be accorded analytical weight is
unequally present throughout these approaches. For example, if it seems
clear that “spirits” must have a place in the study of religion it is less
obvious how the study of immaterialities would look like in the analysis of
scientific and technological artefacts.
By bringing these scholarly approaches into closer dialogue, the conference
Things and Spirits: New Approaches to Materiality and Immateriality aims at
developing new perspectives and finding common ground in the history and
ethnography of things, spirits, and their relations to humans. It will
provide a timely opportunity for scholars to explore further the synergies
between ethnographical and historical methodologies in the analysis of
materiality and immateriality. In addition, it expects to offer students of
religion, material culture, and science a privileged occasion for mutual
engagement and theoretical and methodological cross-fertilizing.
We will take as a point of departure that what counts as “things” and
“materiality”, what counts as “spirits” and “immateriality”, and, still,
what counts as “agents” are issues to be determined empirically. As such, we
invite anthropologists, historians, and students of science, technology, and
material culture to analytically address the multiple arrangements of things
and spirits by engaging with empirical material.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Submissions of papers are encouraged that address one or more of the
following topics:
• Materiality and immateriality in religious and scientific theories
of evidence;
• Plurality of notions and modes of agency across distinct scientific
and non-scientific theories and practices;
• Boundaries between material and immaterial;
• “Things”, “spirits” and the dynamics of colonial encounters;
• Iconoclast and iconophile projects of religion building,
destruction, or conversion;
• Materiality and immateriality of power;
• Machines, material technologies and their connections to the
immaterial.

VENUE

The conference will take place at Institute of Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, on 15, 16 and 17 September 2010
(www.ics.ul.pt). The conference is designed as a small meeting so to
encourage exchange of ideas and group discussion. Accordingly a limited
number of participants will be selected. We expect graduate and
post-graduate scholars from the fields of the humanities and social sciences
to participate.

Organizers:

Ricardo Roque: ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt
Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

João Vasconcelos: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com
Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

performatives after deconstruction

performatives after deconstruction

Kingston University, London

The London Graduate School

June 29-30, 2010

Since Derrida, de Man and Miller first read Austin, the encounter between deconstruction and the performative has affected every discipline of the humanities (politics, law, architecture, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, cultural studies, etc.).

Analyses have multiplied and have put into relief the performative structure of concepts and traditions in a search for their conditions and laws of possibility. This conference seeks to understand the current terrain of the performative after deconstruction: its heritage, its operation and its future. We welcome contributions from any perspective that bring into focus the deconstructive reading of the performative in all its articulated complexity: testimony, oath, conjuration, promise, excuse, confession, disavowal,forgiveness, yes and so on.

Keynotes

Prof. Drucilla Cornell (University of Cape Town)

Prof. Werner Hamacher (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

Prof. Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)

Conference web page: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1261

Civilisation and Fear. Writing and the Subject/s of Ideology

The Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia

The Committee on Literature Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Civilisation and Fear

Writing and the Subject/s of

Ideology

http://www.fear.us.edu.pl

Conference Call for Papers

22-25 September 20l0

Ustron, Poland

And I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, ll.27-3O)

What Eliot voices here is, no doubt, his fear and, simultaneously, concern about the

prospects of European civilisation as he saw it in the first decades of the 2Oth c. Eliot’s lines

carry eschatological overtones, too. Do we fear the end of our civilisation, or the condition it

has reached at present? What is the connection between fear and civilisation? Are we still

waiting for the barbarians? Do we have more fear of the real or the virtual? Should we,

perhaps, opt for the positive senses of fear whose presence may testify to the mystery

human life is, or brings to light the limitations which human life involves? Can we

possibly conquer our fears by writing about them, and redefining their sources? Aren’t we –

as individuals, citizens, family members, superiors and inferiors, natives and strangers,

bodies and spirits – our own fears writ large?

This call for papers is not intended to alarm or intimidate anyone. We extend a cordial invitation to all scholars who take genuine interest in any of the issues raised in the title of the conference as well as those listed below. Our aim is to address a multiplicity of concerns which often coincide and intersect in modern discourses (including literary and cultural studies, psychology, sociology, religious studies, art and others). However, we propose to consider writing (both literary and non-literary) as a window onto, and a meeting ground for, the following themes:

· Arts & literature: the future of arts; literatures of terror; artistic (literary) modes (genres)

of terror; the terrific/horrific sublime; (limits of) self-fashioning and self-expression;

anxiety of influence in the age of parody, travesty and appropriation

· Civilisation & technology: fear of modernisation & of acceleration; clashes of

civilisations; the fearful interplay between culture and nature; man vis-à-vis machine (e.g.,

threats to humanness, simulacra of the human as source of anxiety, “new” humanity)

· Politics & ideology: enslavement, subjection, subordination through discourses; the

“fearful asymmetry”: discourses & practices of the modern state (intersections of the

political and the personal); democracy, liberty(ies), religion: from orthodoxy to

fundamentalism and back, the self of ideology

· Discourses: thanatophobia and the postmodern condition; religious studies as a

necessary/contingent by-product of recent traumas; fear and/of metaphysics; power and its

institutions as forces prescribing discourses of the self

· Identity / the self: phobias of exposure to fear and trauma; the threatened/shifting selfhood

& competing models of subjectivity; the sub/un/conscious; the Lacanian Real

We invite all delegates to deliver 20-minute presentations. Abstracts of the

presentations should not exceed 200 words and should be submitted

electronically to civilizationandfear@gmail.com by March 31, 2010.

For further details please visit: http://www.fear.us.edu.pl

Registration

The registration form will be attached to the first Circular (to be sent to prospective participants in April) and will be also available from our website. The registration fee will not exceed $150 (inclusive of access to all conference events, delegate bag, mid-session refreshments, seminar room hire, and the publication of conference proceedings). As you receive this, our negotiations with prospective sponsors are under way, and we expect to be able to reduce the fee. You will be notified of any alterations in this regard.

Organisers

Institute of English Cultures and Literatures

University of Silesia

ul. S. Grota-Roweckiego 5

41-205 Sosnowiec

Poland

in cooperation with

The Committee on Literature Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Chair of the Organising Committee

Prof. Wojciech Kalaga

Secretary of the Organising Committee

Anna Chromik

civilizationandfear@gmail.com

Plenary speakers

Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson – IFiS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Prof. Jeremy Tambling – University of Manchester, UK

Prof. Horst Ruthrof – Murdoch University, Australia

Venue

The conference will take place in Ustroń, Poland. Details will be included in the conference circulars. We

estimate that full board and accommodation should not exceed 150 PLN per day (ca $50). Detailed get-to

information will be posted in the forthcoming circular.

Contact us at: civilizationandfear@gmail.com

For further details please visit: http://www.fear.us.edu.pl

Constellations of objects

Call for papers for the conference:
Constellations of objects: interactive material worlds
to be held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 5th June 2010.

The concept of assemblage seems axiomatic and is ingrained within archaeological terminology. Following the upsurge of interest in material culture studies, materiality, material agency and human-object engagements more generally, we wish to move beyond assemblage as a descriptive term for aggregates of objects to focus more specifically on how material assemblages are created, enacted and recreated over time.
The affective properties of objects in the singular has attracted much discussion; we wish to build upon this work by considering how objects act together as a group. What is the role of objects in the creation of aesthetic environments? Are aesthetic environments created through object interrelations and what role does intentionality and serendipity play in the process? Are the affective properties of assemblages natural – and thus enduring – or socially contingent? In which case, are the decisions that governed the creation of assemblages in the past recoverable in the material record as it is manifested in the present? What is our role in the re-imagining of ancient assemblages? Can there be a phenomenology of aesthetic sensibility that is valid and rigorous?

We invite papers that explore these themes in any time and in any place. Participants may like to consider them from the following perspectives:
(i) the decisions that determine the inclusion or exclusion of particular objects within specific sacred, secular or funerary environments;
(ii) the ways in which assemblages may be added to or subtracted from at different points in their life-cycle: from enactment to the point of the trowel and beyond into the museum environment; (iii) and, following the last point, how authentic our recreations of object constellations and their charismatic affect can ever be.

The organisers expect to publish presented papers in a peer-reviewed proceedings volume.

Charge: £15:00, including refreshments and wine reception.

Please submit abstracts by 31/01/2010.

Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to:
Alice Stevenson, Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP.
Linda Hulin, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 5BE.



Dr Linda Hulin
Research Associate
Oriental Institute/Institute of Archaeology
University of Oxford
UK
Linda Hulin linda.hulin@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Tourism and Seductions of Difference, in Lisbon

CFP: Tourism and Seductions of Difference: 1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. 10-12 Sept 2010.

Please find a full CFP at http://www.cria.org.pt/ and http://www.tourism-culture.com/ .

We are pleased to announce the 1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference: Tourism and Seductions of Difference, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 10 to 12 September 2010. The Conference builds on previous events organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University (www.tourism-culture.com) and will mark the establishment of the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network as an international group of university researchers interested in critical tourism research. It will also bring a long established tradition in tourism anthropology research at the Portuguese Network Centre for Anthropological Research, CRIA (www.cria.org.pt) to a wider international audience. The conference is to become an annual series hosted by members of the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network or by the annual conferences of professional academic associations.

As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, the aim of this series is to bring together social scientists studying tourism and related social phenomena from different disciplinary perspectives. We wish to discuss and ‘test’ the theoretical premises of foundational texts in tourism studies and to develop ongoing critique and new ideas. We welcome papers both from established academics re-assessing their work in the light of current theoretical developments in the social sciences and from an emergent generation of academics presenting their research outputs. Tourism and Seductions of Difference, the theme of the 2010 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal addresses key issues and theoretical perspectives which have left their mark on tourism research over recent years.

Themes

• Ontologies of seduction: boundaries, differences, separations, times, others

• Formations of seduction: social assemblages, contact cultures, attractions

• Fields of seduction: gender, houses, heritages, nations, territories, classes

• Mediums of seduction: texts, bodies, arts, architectures, foods and natures

• Techniques of seduction: performance, flirtation, enticement, friendship, magic, concealment

• Emotions of seduction: temptations, transgressions, ingestions, emancipations

• Threats of seduction: spoliation, contamination, exclusion, death, degradation

• Politics of seduction: hospitality, containment, kinship, power

• Moralities of seduction: obligations, reciprocity, co-habitation

• Consequences of seduction: mobilities, cosmopolitanisms, world society

Academic Committee

David Picard, Maria Cardeira, Simone Abram, Mike Robinson, Saskia Cousin, Nelson Graburn, Maki Tanaka, Noel B. Salazar, Mathis Stocks, Pamila Gupta, Naomi Leite, Camila del Marmol, Ramona Lenz, Chiara Cipollari, Sanja Kalapos Gasparac, Britt Kramvig, Ester Võsu, Margaret Hard, Michael A. Di Giovine, Kenneth Little.

Call for papers

To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract including title and full contact details to tourismcontactculture@gmail.com. The Call for Papers for this event will initially be open until 20 March 2010. Late abstracts may be considered.

Contact

Dr David Picard

CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon

Conference contact email: tourismcontactculture@gmail.com

Source: WAC list

Living Landscape : The European Landscape Convention in research perspective

Living Landscape : The European Landscape Convention in research perspective.

In view of the 10th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention, that will be celebrated in Florence (Italy) on 20 October 2010, UNISCAPE and LANDSCAPE EUROPE are organising a scientific conference to discuss in depth the merits of landscape science at the forefront of integrated research in a rapidly changing spatial environment. The conference will be held on 18-19 October 2010 in Florence. The aim is to initiate a well prepared debate in order to define clear recommendations and guidelines from the scientific community to be presented to the audience of the official meeting on 20 October 2010. The conference is supported by the authors of the text of the European Landscape Convention, and will be realised in close consultation with the Commission on Cultural Heritage and Landscape (CDPATEP) of the Council of Europe.


http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle15165.html

Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues

4th Global Conference

Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues

Wednesday 7th July 2010 - Friday 9th July 2010

Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary

conference seeks to examine and explore issues

surrounding visual literacy in regard to

theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from

those engaged in the fields of education, visual

arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy,

psychology, critical theory and theology. These

disciplines are indicative only as papers are

welcomed from any area, profession and

vocation in which visual literacy plays a part.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops

are invited on issues related to any of the

following themes:

* the concept and tools of visual literacy

* pre-school children and visual literacy

* visual literacy and cultural identity

* interpreting elements and examples of

visual literacy

* visual literacy as therapy

* the liminal elements and facets of visual

literacy

* social and cultural reactions to visual

literacy

* visual literacy in literature

* visual literacy in television and film

* visual literacy and the media

* visual literacy as a social semiotic

* teaching visual literacy

* visual literacy as deformed discourse

* theology and visual literacy - use and/or abuse

* teleology and visual literacy

* the history of visual literacy

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the

submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers

will be considered on any related theme. 300

word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 15th

January 2010. If your paper is accepted for

presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft

paper should be submitted by Friday 28th May 2010.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both

Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,

WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of

abstract, body of abstract

We acknowledge receipt and answer to 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.

Joint Organising Chairs

Dr Phil Fitzsimmons

Faculty of Education

University of Wollongong

Australia

Email: philfitz@uow.edu.au

Dr Rob Fisher

Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

United Kingdom

Email: vl4@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'

series of research projects run by 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 this conference will be eligible for

publication 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 about the project please visit;

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/

For further details about the conference please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/

TAG in the USA

Call for Session Proposals (Due 12/1/09)

We invite the submission of session proposals for ‘The Location of Theory’, the third annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeological Group in North America, to be held April 30-May 2, 2010 at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

While our choice of topic — ‘The Location of Theory’ — offers many interpretive angles and possibilities for discussion, TAG-US 2010 welcomes sessions on any theoretical subject or controversy. Session organizers will be responsible for selecting speakers, discussants, and organizing abstracts. While various format options are possible and at the discretion of the organizer, we strongly encourage the development of workshops, roundtables, or other innovative styles of engagement that can facilitate discussion and interaction perhaps more effectively than traditional ‘stand-and-deliver’ (individual papers followed by Q&A) sessions. Sessions must be planned to occupy no more than a half day (3 hours).

The closing deadline for session proposals is December 1st, 2009.

We request the following for each submitted session proposal:
1. The name(s) and up-to-date contact information for the organizer(s)
2. The title and proposed length of the session
3. A description (500 words maximum) of the session’s theme and scope, and of its proposed format (round table, workshop, panel, debate, book discussion, media presentation, etc.)
4. A list of definite (or possible) participants in the session with (where appropriate) titles and abstracts (250 words maximum)
Please submit this as a single electronic pdf document to: TAG2010@brown.edu.

For a list of sessions that have been proposed, please visit the Session Proposals page on the TAG-US 2010 website. The deadline for individual papers or other forms of participation (to be submitted directly to specific session organizers) is February 15th, 2010 (please see the Call for Papers page on the website for details).

For more information please consult the TAG-US 2010 website at: http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010.


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Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2010
Brown University | Box 1837 | 60 George Street | Providence, RI 02912
t: (401) 863-3188 | f: (401) 863-9423 | e: TAG2010@brown.edu
http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010


Source: WAC list

TAG Durham 2009 - deadline is approaching

Dear all,

the deadlines are approaching. A reminder:

You need to alert me when your session is full and won't accept any more papers. You can always let people know about the possibility of presenting a poster http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/call_posters.html

The deadline for submission of individual paper abstracts to the session organisers is September 30th

Session organisers are responsible for sending the details of the session to the TAG organisers. This includes: title of session , abstract, order of speakers, and information about each paper (author(s); institutional affiliation; email address of speaker(s); title of paper; 200-word paper abstract). The deadline for the TAG organisers to receive this information is 15 October.
I need everybody to send me this information so that programme and the abstract book can be produced

Remember that each session has a maximum of ten 20-minute slots, including the introduction to the session, papers, and discussants (alternatively, seven 30-minute slots with a shorter coffee break is also possible). Remember that it takes several minutes for the change-over between papers and speakers should be informed well in advance that their allocated speaking time is 5 minutes less than the slot allocated to them. If session organisers want to have plenty of time for discussion, they may consider reserving one slot for discussion.

best wishes,


Marga Díaz-Andreu (on behalf of)


TAG 2009 Organiser Team
Theoretical Archaeology Group 31st Annual Meeting
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham DH1 3LE
TAG.2009@durham.ac.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/

Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine
15th & 16th October Birkbeck College

This conference, the first of its kind in the UK, addresses the remarkable projects of certain groups working in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank involved in joint resistance to ongoing military conflict and occupation. Working for mental health and human rights on the front lines involving military aggression, internal group violence, systemic interference with basic human rights, brutalization on many fronts and deep pessimism on all sides, speakers will address any and all resources for combined resistance and shared hope, whether close to home or coming from abroad. The recent catastrophic attack on the civilian population of Gaza, at the eye of the storm of sites of conflict in Western eyes, makes this event both critical and significant.

Speakers: Mohamed Altawil; Nissim Avissar; Jessica Benjamin; Tova Buksbaum; Bea Campbell; Stan Cohen; Yasmeen Daher; Stephen Frosh; Uri Hadar; Seamas Heaney; Maureen Hetherington; Samah Jabr;  Ghada Karmi; Adah Kay; Yehudit Keshet; Richard Kuper; Elana Lakh; Moshe Landsman; Tony Lerman; Sheila Melzak; Mohamad Mukhaimar; Rateb Abu Rahmeh; Jacqueline Rose; Jihan Salem; Andrew Samuels;  Eyad el Sarraj; Lynne Segal; Felicity de Zulueta.

Cost: Standard - £70 Birkbeck staff/all students/unwaged - £35
Payment and all information: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/news/Psychopolitical




Julia Eisner
Administrator
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

T: (0) 20 3073 8363
F: (0) 20 3073 8359
E: j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk

Emerging Landscapes

Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation
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25 to 27 June 2010
London, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.emerginglandscapes.org.uk


Focusing on the synergies between the disciplines of photography and architecture, this interdisciplinary conference examines the synergies between production and representation in the formation of contemporary ideas of landscape
Organized by: University of Westminster
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 November 2009
Check the event website for latest details.

Inequalities and Social Justice

BSA Annual Conference 2010: Inequalities &
Social Justice
7 to 9 April 2010
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Inequalities and Social Justice will be
addressed in both the main plenary sessions and
the sub-plenary sessions in each discipline. In
this way we hope that more established figures
in a number of fields will be represented.

The British Sociological Association invites
submissions to its 2010 Annual Conference. The
2010 Annual Conference follows the successful
new format introduced in 2009. Participants can
present on topics they wish within broad streams
(and open streams) that reflect the core
research areas of the membership:

Crime and Control
Culture and Consumption
Education
Families, Relationships, Lifecourse
Media
Medicine, Health and Illness
Methodological Innovations
Professional Forum
Religion
Science and Technology Studies
Social Divisions / Social Identities
Space, Mobility and Place
Theory
Work, Economy and Society
Open Stream(s)

All BSA study groups are strongly encouraged to
contribute posters/papers and other activities
addressed to these streams. There will also be
opportunities for study groups to meet
independently.

The Keynote Plenaries and Sub-Plenaries will
address the Conference theme:

Inequalities and Social Justice

Abstract submission form available from:
BSA Website: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/Conference
IMPORTANT DATES:
Friday 25th September 2009: Deadline for
abstract submission.
Friday 15th January 2010: Last date for
presenters to register.
E-mail: BSAConference@britsoc.org.uk

Enquiries: bsaconference@britsoc.org.uk
Web address:
http://www.britsoc.co.uk
/events/conference.htm

Engaging Communities

The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University is announcing a two-day conference on the theme of engaging communities, 4th- 5th December 2009*.

Keynote Speakers:
· Dr. Bernadette Lynch, University of Manchester
· Dr. John Carman, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, Birmingham University

This conference will bring together graduates, postgraduates and early-career researchers to share and discuss issues concerning the engagement of communities in relation to heritage, museums and galleries practice, including community-led initiatives.

Call for papers:
Papers may present, but are not limited to, research and / or case studies concerning:


* engagement of communities through museum, galleries and heritage practice
* community-led projects
* local community involvement with archaeological site management
* projects initiated and steered by local communities
* internet community development and partnerships
* the role of engaging communities when representing difficult histories
* social history studies
* cultural policy-making with an emphasis on engaging communities
* education and learning
* cross-cultural communication
* safeguarding of communal cultural heritage, including intangible cultural expressions

By ‘engaging’ the research ‘community’, this conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on a range of issues, including the following:
The conference will question how, within the research community, do we go about researching ‘communities’ in the context of heritage, museums and galleries? What are the epistemological, theoretical, methodological and ethical issues that frame this field of study? How are current researchers tackling such issues and what can we learn from the different responses coming out of the various contexts and academic backgrounds that are currently engaged with this research problem? How does the artificial division of fields and disciplines within academic research communities influence the ways in which ‘community’ / ‘communities’ is conceived, conceptualised and studied? How might improving communication and understanding of the range of theoretical and methodological approaches between different ‘disciplines’ in the research community move the field of communities and heritage, museums and galleries forward?

Deadline for 200 word abstract: September 15TH, 2009
Email abstract (word doc) to: engaging2009@googlemail.com
Questions: engaging2009@googlemail.com

Thank you,
Nikki Spalding, Bryony Slater and Michelle L. Stefano
Organising Committee
* Please note that the conference dates have changed to the 4th and 5th due to securing the Great North Museum as one of our venues.

world heritage and tourism

world heritage and tourism:
Managing for the global and the local

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada





As of 2009, approximately 900 sites are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list. For many sites inscription on the World Heritage List acts as a promotional device and the management challenge is one of protection, conservation and dealing with increased numbers of tourists. For other sites, designation has not brought anticipated expansion in tourist numbers and associated investments. What is clear is that tourism is now a central concern to the wide array of stakeholders involved with World Heritage Sites. We increasingly need to understand the multi-layered relationships between the diverse range of Sites and tourism and tourists and, to focus on how tourism is effectively managed for the benefit of all.



This conference seeks to explore a series of critical and fundamental questions being raised by the various ‘owners’, managers and local communities involved with World Heritage Sites in relation to tourism: Why do tourists visit some World Heritage Sites and not others? What is the tourist experience of such Sites? How successful are Sites in the management of tourists? What roles do local communities play in Site management? How can the ‘spirit of place’ be protected in the face of the sheer volume of tourists? How can some Sites maximize the potential of a sustainable tourism for the purposes of poverty alleviation and community cohesion? How effective are communication strategies in bringing stakeholders together? What management skills are needed to address the needs of different stakeholders, different sites and different cultures?


We encourage papers from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and welcome submissions which address theoretical, empirical, methodological, comparative and practical perspectives on the fullest array of themes associated with the management of UNESCO World Heritage.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Original papers are invited to consider subject areas including, but not limited to, the following themes:
· Marketing in the management of World Heritage Sites;

· The pragmatics of managing tourists;

· Financing World Heritage;

· Community involvement in Site management;

· Relations between intangible cultural heritage and Site management;

· The role of the private tourism sector;

· The nature of tourist experience and behaviour at World Heritage Sites;

· Shaping local, regional and national identities through Site inscription;

· Issues of governance and transnational regulation;

· Legal rights and notions of ‘ownership’;

· The management of World Heritage ‘values’;

· The geo-politics of inclusion and exclusion;

· Methods of Site evaluation;

· Managing spiritual values and biodiversity;

· The role of UNESCO and the political economies of designation.



Please submit your 500 words abstract (in French or English) including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas (Maria.Gravari-Barbas@univ-paris1.fr ) or Laurent Bourdeau (laurent.bourdeau@fsa.ulaval.ca ) as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2009.

Publication opportunity: Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Best papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change .

Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development, the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University.


For further details on the conference at a later stage please visit www.tourism-culture.com or http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/tourisme or email to ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk



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Daniela Carl
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts & Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Old School Board
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 3ED
UK

phone +44 (0)113- 812 8541
fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544
www.tourism-culture.com

TAG Durham 2009 - session on critical thinking - call for papers!

Dear colleagues
I will coordinate a session in TAG 2009 (Durham, UK):
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/index.html



Archaeologists as contemporary critical thinkers

Organised by: Vitor O. Jorge (University of Porto,
vitor.oliveirajorge@gmail.com; CEAUCP)




ABSTRACT
Right from the beginning of archaeology as a “science” during the 19th century, archaeologists, like any other social scientists at the time, tried to elaborate a “theory” of “man” and of “society”. Implicitly or explicitly, this “theory” was, and still is, meshed with “practice”. Theory and practice are combined in fieldwork, in the production archaeological texts (reports included) and the presentation of “results” to the general public. This session aims to think critically about archaeology in the modern world, paying particular attention to those debates and enquires that have preoccupied modern thinkers in the last decades. What are the contributions that archaeology has made to modern dialogue in the social sciences? If we want that the production and diffusion of our work have some effect beyond the purely academic world, how do we integrate it into a modern politics of knowledge? That is the challenge of this session, calling for papers that are situated in the interface of archaeology and a politics of knowledge, i.e., of a critical thinking and action.


Please send your paper's proposals! Thanks
Best regards
Vitor Oliveira Jorge

TAG Durham 2009 - Call for papers

Dear colleagues
We will coordinate a session in TAG 2009 (Durham, UK):
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/index.html



Archaeology and Poetry: Questions of translation

Organised by: Vitor O. Jorge (University of Porto,
vitor.oliveirajorge@gmail.com) and Daniela Kato (Tokyo Institute of Technology, ytd_kato@ybb.ne.jp)




ABSTRACT
Despite their different nature both archaeology (a social science) and poetry (an artistic expression) aim to productively translate one reality into another. Archaeologists translate remains or traces into a historical narrative re-presenting the “past” in the present. This has to do with collective memory and with a general ethos of modernity by which meaning is assigned and integrated into a total system of order. For their part poets translate feelings, thoughts and inner experiences into texts and/or performances that can re-present them at a general, public level of aesthetic enjoyment. Both archaeology and poetic activity select the elements that are incorporated into their discourse. Some elements are lost in translation, some others are re-presented or implied in a play of truth and simulation. In a world of global communication and of continuous translation, how do we preserve, recover and represent the specificity, and the local, contextual, personal meaning of a given reality? Can archaeology and poetry cross-fertilise in their different attempts at establishing a precarious “equilibrium” between identity and deferral, the local and the global, and truth and error? Can we consider these dialectics as the “motor” of an endless effort to make sense of something – and to attract the critical attention of others – in our planetary community?


Please send your paper's proposals! Thanks
Best regards
Daniela Kato – University of Tokyo – Ph. D. in Literary Studies
Vitor Oliveira Jorge – University of Porto – Ph.D. in Archaeology

Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium (RATS) 09 conference

"Hello, we’re pleased to announce that we have posted a Web site for
the Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium (RATS) 09 conference, to
be held 17 October 2009 at Binghamton University.

You can visit the site here: http://anthro.binghamton.edu/rats/main.html

There you will find directions to Binghamton, information on lodging,
and how to register. Be sure to pre-register before the 11 September
deadline, and let us know if you desire local housing. If you are
local to the Binghamton area and wish to offer housing for a
conference attendee, include this in your registration e-mail.

We look forward to seeing you in Binghamton in the fall!

Best,

John Roby "

Source: e-mail from: RATS Conference rats.binghamton.09@gmail.com

Message from the TAG (Durham. December next)

I have received this message:

Dear session organisers,

Apologies to those of you who have received this information already.

As session organisers you need to be aware of the information on
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/call_papers.html

There are some guidelines for the session organisers you have to read
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/notes_for_session_organisers.html

In these notes you will find information about deadlines, possible number of speakers in each session etc

Any questions, please ask

 
 Marga Diaz-Andreu (on behalf of the)

 
TAG 2009 Organiser Team
Theoretical Archaeology Group 31st Annual Meeting
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham DH1 3LE
TAG.2009@durham.ac.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/

________________

Note:

I organize a session alone and another one  together with Daniela Kato (University of Tokyo)

Proposals of papers for both sessions are welcome.

VOJ