Международные конференции

В Нидерландах 24-26 октября пройдет конференция "An End to Unity? East and West in the Fourth Century".

В Университете Южной Африки будут искать Античный путь к счастью. Deadline для заявок на международную конференцию - 31 мая 2012 г.

«EVA Москва» – это одна из наиболее авторитетных и влиятельных конференций в сфере культуры и информационных технологий, состав ее участников в 2011 году насчитывает более 400 специалистов архивного, музейного и библиотечного дела.

24–29 апреля 2012 г. в Барнауле состоится III Международная научная конференция «Коммуникативистика в современном мире: эффективность и оптимизациия речевого взаимодействия в социуме».

Migration is a factor, which has played a central role in the construction of a Canadian identity. Concepts such as multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism are inextricably linked with phenomena pertaining to migration, and the effects of these phenomena have made themselves felt in Canada’s cultural dynamics. The question therefore arises as to which processes and channels of communication have been instrumental in transmitting these migratory dynamics, and in which form they have manifested themselves in Canadian everyday life and culture. What are the cultural challenges of migration in Canada in the context of “globalization”? Which are the areas where a specific cultural dimension has arisen which, in its turn, has acquired a model character within the global sphere linked to the knowledge-based society? Papers to be read at the symposium should address these questions with regard not only to scientific and popular media and communication, language and literature, music and the visual arts, but also to social and political sciences.

The Department of American Studies of the Eszterházy Károly College of Eger, Hungary along with the Hungarian Association for American Studies is pleased to announce the
Ninth biennial (HAAS 9) conference to be held in Eger on
2012 May 11-12
First circular

Human life is conducted through story, which comes naturally to us. Sharing stories is arguably the most important way we have of communicating with others about who we are and what we believe; about what we are doing and have done; about our hopes and fears; about what we value and what we don’t. We learn about and make sense of our lives by telling the stories that we live; and we learn about other lives by listening to the stories told by others. Sometimes, under the influence of the culture in which we are immersed, we live our lives in ways that try to create the stories we want to be able to tell about them.

In the “Saturated Self”, Kenneth Gergen responds to globalization and the ballyhooed “communications revolution” by coining the term “multiphrenia”; this neologism accounts for “the splitting of the individual into a multiplicity of self-investments”. On this theorization, new technologies have saturated the subject in multiple competing paradigms, values, ways of life, modes of communicating, ideologies, and technological substrates. Without undue nostalgia, we may posit the subject not as a stable monad – but as a malleable conglomerate of relationships in an online and offline socio-cultural milieu with some new (and not so new) ideological and material concomitants.
The objective of this international and cross-disciplinary conference is to investigate the overarching concepts of identity, culture and communication as well as the relationships among them. Some orienting questions: What ideologies and their associated subjectivities have been enabled (or transmutated) by globalization and the “communications revolution”? How is the subject represented on screen and in new media – and to what effect? Has space been cleared for a revival of social class in discussions of identity? As globalization plays out, what is the relation between Self and Other, between Us and Them? How do scholars move beyond 1990s concepts of identity and identity politics? What is the place of agency?

The 2012 annual conference of the Social History Society will take place at
the University of Brighton from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 April 2012.

“We have an architecture still”, wrote Philip Johnson in 1932. Eighty years later we could say that we have a ‘still architecture’: too often, our first encounter with a building comes from looking at an image, usually a photograph. However, despite its importance in shaping our perception of the reality, the study of architectural photography is underestimated. The conference analyzes the potentialities of photography as a source of creative imagination and as a tool for spatial knowledge, aiming to develop a novel interpretation of architecture from avant-garde movements to present.

The conference organizers encourage the presentation of papers on the increasingly systematic and intense relationships between Diaspora communities and their communities of origin. What are the emerging patterns in this new development and what are their basic features? What are the most appropriate theoretical concepts and structures that best describe and analyze these new patterns (e.g., transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, etc.)? Are second- and third-generation migrants implicated in these new developments? If yes, what are the character and the extent of this involvement? Participants are encouraged to pay special attention to the role of diasporic associations (hometown associations, political groups, charitable and village associations, religious groups and institutions, etc.) and their homeland counterparts, as well as the states of the sending (homeland) countries and their agencies abroad (e.g., embassies and consulates).

The conference will be held on the 21st and 22nd of January 2012 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Our keynote speakers for the conference are Prof. Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California) and Prof. Delia Graff Fara (Princeton University).

АЛМАТИНСКИЙ ЦЕНТР АНТИКОВЕДЕНИЯ («Античное Научное Общество») 31 марта 2012 года, в субботу, в 10 часов утра проводит 9-ю Международную научную конференцию на тему: «ПРОБЛЕМЫ АНТИЧНОГО МИРА И СОВРЕМЕННОСТЬ».

We welcome proposals for sessions that address the widest possible range of art-historical topics, including architectural and design histories. The 2013 conference aims to represent the interests of an expansive art-historical community by covering all branches of its discipline/s and the range of its visual cultures. We therefore welcome proposals from across a broad chronological range (from prehistory onwards) and a wide geographical one. We would also like to encourage convenors to propose sessions that address topics of methodological, historiographical, or interdisciplinary interest as well as ones that open up debates about the future of the discipline/s.

The 2012 AAH Annual Conference will showcase the diversity and richness of art history in the UK and globally over an extensive chronological range. Like The Open University itself, AAH2012 is open to all people, places and ideas. This three-day event will profice a broad scope of geographies and methodologies, ranging from object-based studies, socio-historical analyses, theoretical discourses, visual culture of the moving image, exhibition cultures and display. Sessions and papers will reflect the composition of the wide consituency that is art history today.

ISVS aims to promote awareness and research on vernacular traditions by organizing seminars focused on important aspects of vernacular every two years in specifically chosen places across the globe. The last seminar, ISVS-5 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka focused on Vernacular Futures provided a great opportunity to explore the future of the vernacular traditions resulting in a suggestion that the survival and continuity of vernacular traditions may lie in ordinary informal buildings which are usually not regarded as vernacular. Building upon this insight, ISVS-6 in 2012 is delighted to lead the debate on vernacular traditions of contemporary societies and their building and settlement forms which display the same characteristics of the conventionally conceptualized ‘vernacular’. This does not mean that the ‘historical vernacular’ is out of the conference scope. Instead juxtaposition of ‘historical vernacular’ and the ‘contemporary vernacular’ is expected to be explored in such a way that the nuances of their makings, and relevance in today’s world could be understood thoroughly.

For the first time in human history, more people live in an urban environment than in a rural one. Cities are big and getting bigger. Cities have played a crucial role in the history of the Low Countries as places of encounter, exchange, protest and revolution. The city is a place of contrast: new trends emerge in a setting infused with history. Cities are often either celebrated as liberal, free spirited, worldly hybrids, or dismissed as locations of tension, lacking in morals and traditional values. Cities are places of linguistic innovation: new linguistic features emerge, indeed new urban vernaculars, of which Polder Dutch is a prominent example in the Low Countries. In art, representations of cities—and their related concerns—constitute some the most potent and thought-provoking images produced in the modern era.

Dickens is renowned for the richness of his visual imagination and his publications encouraged readers to interpret his words with and through their accompanying illustrations. Not only was Dickens deeply engaged with ideas of the visual in his writing, but his work has also provoked responses from artists across multiple disciplines within the Victorian period and beyond. The conference seeks to build on recent interdisciplinary work (such as that of Kate Flint and Isobel Armstrong) that illuminates nineteenth-century understandings of visual culture. By focussing the conference through a writer whose work is embedded in the visual imagination, Dickens will provide a test case for examining and theorising the connection between text and image across two hundred years of cultural history.

3rd-6th April 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Every five years or so, the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) tries to hold its annual conference outside the UK, in a Commonwealth country. The aim is to widen the possiblities for participation by Commonwealth colleagues. The ASA is happy to announce that it will hold its 2012 conference in India for the first time. The ASA is happily working together with colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems in the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Arts and Aesthetics, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. The conference aims to attract approximately 200 delegates with its plenary stream and parallel panel sessions, with colleagues coming from all over the world, but particularly from across India and South Asia. We extend a warm invitation to Indian colleagues through JNU's good connections beyond the capital, and through the various learned societies, including the Indian Anthropological Association (IAA), and the Indian Anthropological Society (IAS).

Воронежский государственный университет приглашает вас принять участие во 2-й Международной научно-методической конференции «Проблемы преподавания филологических дисциплин иностранным учащимся», которая состоится 26–27 января 2012 года.

Кафедра белорусского языкознания имеет честь пригласить вас к участию во ІІ Международной научной конференции «Национальный язык и национальная культура: аспекты взаимодействия», которая будет проводиться 17 – 18 ноября 2011 года в Белорусском государственном педагогическом университете им. Максима Танка (Минск, Беларусь).

Московский государственный университет им. М. А. Шолохова приглашает вас принять участие в работе III Международной научно-методической конференции «Русский язык в коммуникативном пространстве современного мира», которая состоится 23-25 ноября 2011 года.

Луганский национальный университет имени Тараса Шевченко (Украина) совместно с Международным фондом «Русский мир» (Москва) 23–24 ноября 2011 года проводит Международную научно-практическую конференцию, посвященную 210-летию со дня рождения В. И. Даля.

The 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on “Children and Youth in a Changing World”. We will examine childhood cross-culturally and historically to gain the richest and best-informed perspective for looking at children in the present and moving forward. The Inter-congress will be organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood in Bhubaneswar, India during November 26-30, 2012. The principal aim of this congress is to bring anthropologists in academia, governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and agencies working on and with children from different parts of the world and offer them a common platform to address various emerging issues relating to children and childhood.

The congress will be held in the city of Manchester, United Kingdom, from Monday, August 5 to Saturday, August 10, 2013, hosted by the University of Manchester with the support of Manchester City Council. This is the first world congress to be held in Britain since the first meeting of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences was held in London in 1934. The Congress Agenda is being planned by a UK Organizing Committee which includes anthropologists working in all sub-fields of the discipline. We are proud to have the privilege of organizing what we hope will be a truly memorable event.

С 29 сентября по 2 октября 2011 года Уральский государственный педагогический университет при финансовом содействии Министерства образования и науки РФ проводит Международную научную конференцию «Современная политическая лингвистика».

32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City:
March 31-April 1, 2012

Conference Aims

In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports etc. Panel organizers are encouraged to submit their proposals by inviting other scholars that do research in the area. Specific sessions will be organized on (a) country studies for both the European and the non-European countries of the Mediterranean Basin, (b) the environmental, ecological and biological issues of the Mediterranean Sea, and (c) the Mediterranean islands.

The aim of this workshop is to examine the nature of cultural development and socio-economic relations vis-à-vis ethno-religious diversity in the period roughly from 600–1500CE. In doing so we hope not only to address various aspects of medieval cultural transmission and innovation, but to bring into relief the processes of acculturation and exchange, manifested within both antagonistic and collaborative contexts. This will not only help to illuminate the role of ethno-religious diversity and cultural creation in the Medieval Mediterranean, but also their role in the emergence of Modernity and their place in the modern world.