Upcoming Conferences and Meetings in Europe

Venue: Salzburg, Austria

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the growing adoption of information technologies for inter-human communication. The project will also focus on assessing the continuing impact of emergent cybermedia for human communication and culture. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which cybermedial and technological advances are occurring.

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Venue: Salzburg, Austria

After a successful first conference, this inter-disciplinary project seeks papers for its second global conference. The project seeks to explore the complex and diverse interfaces of culture, politics and ethics in contemporary political life. The claims of those who insist we live in post-modernity and therefore in transformed times for political debate have significantly challenged the way we look at culture, ethics and politics. The 'cultural turn' has alternately impoverished or enriched (or both) debate around and strategies and repertoires for political intervention and ethical articulations in the public realm, and therefore led to a renewed and critical interest in the relationship between cultural life, aesthetics and political thought and action.

Ethics has been retrieved from philosophical formalism and academic marginalia to the forefront of political debate with alternate claims that it is the 'last grand narrative' and the basis for thinking future particular formulations of political organisation and public life. Politics itself has shifted from a traditional focus on institutions and processed in organised systems to take concern at more disparate movement alignments in political representation and articulation within the public realm and the changed conditions and circumstances under which they have prominence. Whilst questions of power, resistance, oppression and inclusion are still important, questions of aesthetics, performance, the affective and governance have provided a critical framework for rethinking politics.

The purpose of this project is to provide an international network and space to explore these issues and debates, and to explore them across disciplinary and domain boundaries. Hence, we are open to papers, panels or workshops on any areas of thinking where the connections between culture, politics and ethics are developed. We are particularly interested in papers, panels and workshops that transcend disciplinary and doctrinaire boundaries, seek synergies between different domains and levels of abstraction and analysis, and that seek to move forward the agenda for how we promote the understanding of and effective intervention in politics in the C21st.

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Venue: Salzburg, Austria

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the
following themes:

1. Wrestling with 'Evil'
2. The Nature of Evil
3. Explanatory Frameworks
4. Understanding Evil
5. Representations of Evil
6. Confronting Evil

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Venue: Dublin, Ireland

The aim of this inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary conference is to provide an academic platform on which to initiate an open dialogue between academics, professionals and practitioners in the field of human sexuality.  We seek to explore the issues that arise when the concepts of "self", "selves" and "sexualities" interplay with each other.

This conference is organized by colleagues from both the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and the School of Nursing (SON) in Dublin City University, Ireland. 

We invite abstracts and posters related to the above topic from academic fields such as education, comparative studies, business studies, media and communications, law, geography, art, literature, comparative literature, visual studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, intercultural studies, women studies, gender studies and history.  Practitioners from varied professional backgrounds including nurses, teachers, clergy, social workers, counsellors and doctors are also welcome.

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Venue: Glasgow, United Kingdom

The 2010 Annual Conference is the second year of the new conference format.  It will be a less theme-led model, similar to that of the ISA.  The aim is to widen the participation of presenters and attendees.

Instead of the call for papers being organised under a single conference theme, participants may present on whatever topics they wish within broad streams (and open streams) that reflect the core research areas of the membership.  The streams are:

• Crime and control
• Culture and Consumption
• Work, Economy & Society
• Education
• Families, Relationships, Lifecourse
• Media
• Medicine, Health & Illness
• Methodological Innovations

• Professional Forum
• Religion
• Science & Technology Studies
• Social Divisions/Social Identities
• Space, Mobility & Place
• Theory
• Open Stream(s)

There is a conference theme:  Inequalities and Social Justice, which 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 at the conference.  There will also be Open Streams, in recognition that not everyone's field of interest is covered by the main stream titles. 

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