CFP: TURNING POINTS: INTERPRETING THE PAST, EXPLAINING THE PRESENT AND IMAGINING THE FUTURE

 

Turning points: "Interpreting the past, explaining the present and imagining the future" International Conference
22-23 May - Athens, Greece
Why "Turning Points"? Because amid history's relentless unfolding come singular years of change. Come fulcrums in time when a genuinely new tomorrow takes hold among people, nations, and states.

"Do not call it fixity, where past and future are gathered" as the poet wrote, "there is only the dance". Why? What's at work? What's the momentum? Why the decisive moment? Who or what drives the forces that make history's twists and turns happen in the dance of the past to the future? The attractions, the repulsions, the needs?

This issue is now of particular relevance in light of the recent advanced analysis in the social sciences, history, the humanities and other pertinent domains regarding the hinges of profound alteration that occurred in 1918, 1948, 1968, 1978 and 2018 -- our key case study years. Our Turning Points conference attempts to gather together and expand this work to a new level now that scholarship has achieved an advanced stage of understanding key socio-economic, cultural and policy issues for these times.

CFP: "FACES OF WAR" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 
"Faces of War" International Conference 


The twentieth century, violent and brutal, offers a wide spectrum of material that deserves further analysis. The Great War introduced the first aspects of modern warfare; the Second World War, even more devastating in its atrocities, advanced war further. The Cold War introduced modern society to new methods and technological advancements of warfare, beyond anything our species had seen. The thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Iron Curtain in 1989 altered the balance of global power yet again. Global terrorist attacks and the introduction of electronic warfare have shown us that despite the painful experiences of the past, our world still relies on war and violence to address many of its problems in an endless geopolitical game.

CFP: MUTUAL IMAGES 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY


Mutual Images 8th International Workshop
Japanese Pilgrimages.
Experiences and motivations behind cultural, spiritual, and religious peregrinations from and to East Asia.
(Kyoto) 5-8 June 2020


Pilgrimages are a phenomenon as old as humanity with relevant consequences in the social, economic and cultural lives of countries and regions. On an individual level, there are many motivations behind the pilgrim experience where identity aspects such as religious affiliation, spiritual beliefs, tradition or mere curiosity play an important role. In recent years, the cultural industries and tourism industries have also developed sophisticated strategies in order to reach new audiences and gain market share. Content producers have obtained the sponsorship of national agencies in order to develop their products as a way of reinforcing National Branding. National agencies focused on tourism and development have found that representations of cultural heritage through fictional media positively impacts tourism through these Media Pilgrimages (also referred to as Content Tourism or Media Tourism), and media representations become a relevant tool for regional development.

CFP: "COSMOPOLITANISM AND WORLD CITIZENSHIP" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


 "Cosmopolitanism and World Citizenship" 
International Conference, London
“I am a citizen of the cosmos” Cynic Diogenes replied in the fourth century BCE when he was asked about his origins. What does it mean to be a global citizen today? Highly complex, multilayered and always contemporary, the concept of cosmopolitanism offers fertile ground and uncharted waters for scholarly interpretations. For millennia, philosophers have theorized on the meaning of global citizenship in an effort to identify who are the “kosmopolites”, the real citizens of “the Small World, the Great” in the words of Nobel laureate Odysseus Elytis.

CFP: "TECHNIQUE AND RELIGION: TECHNICAL CULTURES, BELIEFS, CIRCULATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL TODAY", SYMPOSIUM


Technical Cultures, Beliefs, Circulations from Antiquity until Today
Paris, 14th-15th September 2020


The purpose of this symposium is to offer the opportunity and the place to conduct a reflection on the relationship between technique and religion. Until recently, the history of social sciences has reserved a relatively marginal place to technique as a sphere of human activity, instead taking as objects of study areas where the coherence of a collective consciousness is manifest, notably religious practice. A separation was drawn between the primacy that then-emerging sociology granted to the religious fact as a basic social phenomenon (Emile Durkheim) on the one hand, and instrumental practices, which were therefore limited to the infra-social domain of individual organic subsistence, on the other hand. Technique and religion, two fundamental forms of discovery and of constitution of experience, have thus, in the social sciences, given rise to divergent “interests of knowledge” that historically account for the selection and formulation of objects of knowledge. Yet history of techniques and history of religion have never ceased to interact, often in a conflicting manner.

CFP: CONCURSO DE IDEAS PROMOCIÓN DE INTERCAMBIO COREA-ESPAÑA


Concurso de Ideas
Promoción de Intercambio Corea-España

Para celebrar el 70 aniversario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Corea y España en 2020, la Embajada de la República de Corea organiza un concurso de ideas para promover los intercambios bilaterales. 

CFP: CONSTITUTING BOUNDARIES: IDENTITIES, POLITIES, AND COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CONSTITUTION-MAKING, 1776-2019


In their function as frames of government, constitutions draw boundaries of belonging. The act of making a constitution makes a claim for the existence of a political community, and their texts define the terms of citizenship and of political participation in that community, including and excluding individuals based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and religion.

CONFERENCIA "LA VARIACIÓN DEL YO EN EL JAPONÉS Y SU MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA LITERATURA"


Variación del Yo en japonés y sus manifestaciones en la literatura

日本語における私の変化と日本文学での応用


Conferenciante: Dra. Mizuho Narita


Miércoles 23 de octubre, 12:30-14:00

Facultad de Filología, Ed. A, A-312
Plaza Menéndez Pelayo s/n
Campus Moncloa-UCM, 28040 Madrid

CFP: CONVOCATORIA III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS

 
Convocatoria III 
Premio Alberto Elena de Investigación sobre cines periféricos


El grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión y Cine: Memoria Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid convocan el III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS. Esta tercera convocatoria continúa con la vocación de premiar el trabajo en castellano en torno al concepto de “cines periféricos” y, en general, a una hipotética periferia audiovisual, con la intención de animar así la que fuera una de las líneas principales en el trabajo como investigador del profesor Alberto Elena.

CFP: LITERATURE AND EVENT: REFORMULATIONS OF THE LITERARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY


Literature and Event: Reformulations of the Literary in the 21st Century
One-day Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 15th February 2020


Keynote: Prof. Derek Attridge (York); Prof. Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

What is an event? From a theoretical perspective, events are irregular occurrences, moments of great change or interruptions that can potentially alter the already existing course of history, politics and thought. These changes also simultaneously remould, or at least aim to, human perception and language, which makes them an indispensable part of literature and literary thinking. While literature has referred to these calamitous changes directly, by way of description or through diegetic context, on numerous occasions literature has, for various reasons, failed to come to terms with these events or has actively resisted or undercut them. The literary has also been defined, particularly after the post-structuralist interventions, as an event in its own right, with its own strategy and ambitions to affect change. At the same time this relationship has also been entirely dismissed in readings where literature has been thought of as registering the non-events or the micro-events (madeleine cakes for Proust) that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a political or a historical discourse. This conference is addressed to all such relations between literature and its events, but more eagerly to the event that literature itself becomes and the non-event that it said to sometimes emerge from.
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