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Conferences
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Title & Description |
Organizer & Location |
| 25 - 26 October 2008 |
Afterlives of Postcolonialism
Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom
In recent times some scholars have proclaimed that postcolonial theory has exhausted its critical energies- at the very time that it has been taken up by scholars and activists not located in English or Literature departments, the area where postcolonial theory made its early impact and sometimes found an institutional home. The Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths is organising a conference on the “Afterlives of Postcolonialism”- the ‘after’ referring both to its life/lives after the proclamation of its death, and also to its life after/outside the study of literature. In what ways can/has postcolonial theory been taken up by artists and scholars of art, by those who study politics, anthropology and sociology, and area studies, and to what effects? Does it merely provide another way of ‘reading’ texts, to does it have the potential to destabilize and reconfigure art, for instance?
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Goldsmith University of London
Contact Details:
Professor Sanjay Seth
Telephone No: +44 20 7919 7740.
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk |
| 31 October 2008 - 01 November 2008 |
Exploring and Expanding the Boundaries of Research Methods
London, United Kingdom
This conference aims to bring together research students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, whose projects cover a range of thematic and geographic foci. However, the primary focus is on the methods used to research the topic, not merely the topic itself.
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Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Contact Details:
R.L. McKenzie & Mira Mohsini
www.soas.ac.uk |
| 07 November 2008 |
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
London, United Kingdom
The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdiscplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)
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Institute of Musical Research, in conjunction with Goldsmiths, University of London's Afghanistan Music Unit
Contact Details:
music.sas.ac.uk |
| 14 - 15 November 2008 |
Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement
Washington DC, United States
This conf framewerence will explore alternative perspectives of the Gülen Movement within the largerork of Islam in the Age of Global Challenges. We encourage both papers examining Fethullah Gülen’s thought directly as well as those relating tangentially to issues central to his approach to Islam in the modern world as an instrument of peace.
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Georgetown University, Rumi Forum, The Institute of Turkish Studies
Contact Details:
www.gulenconference.us |
| 17 - 19 November 2008 |
International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2008)
Madrid, Spain
The general objective of the conference is to promote international collaboration in the fields of Education and Research in all educational fields and disciplines. ICERI 2008 will be an International Forum for those who wish to present and discuss their innovations, projects on research and the latest innovations and results in the field of Higher Education.
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International Association of Technology, Education and Development
Contact Details:
www.iated.org |
| 04 - 05 December 2008 |
Putting Theory into Practice: Teaching for the Next Century
Rome, Italy
Join teachers, researchers and scholars from more than 15 countries around the world to address this year's theme of Putting Theory into Practice: Teaching for the Next Century.
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Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture
Contact Details:
Dr. Bruce C. Swaffield www.theworldwideforum.org |
| 16 December 2008 |
3rd International Conference on Postgraduate Education
Penang, Malaysia
This Conference will be a meeting of minds to primarily discuss on significant issues which focus on multidisciplinary perspectives in higher education. The conference will provide a vibrant scholarly space to critically and creatively engage with new ideas and research about teaching and lifelong learning in higher education. In addition to researcher and student presentations, experts of the region will also be invited to give keynote speeches, sharing their insights on challenges and issues facing contemporary scholarship on higher education.
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Institute of Graduate Studies, Universiti Sainsa Malaysia
Contact Details:
icpe3.cs.usm.my |
Conferences in 2009
| 18 - 19 February 2009 |
Regional Conference on the Humanities 2009: Managing ASEAN's Future
Perak, Malaysia
The Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Petronas sees its inaugural conference as a platform for reflecting and responding to latent and emerging issues and problems in the study of the Humanities in Malaysia and in ASEAN. The region of Southeast Asia is rich and diverse in values, traditions, and responses to modernity and nationhood. In the context of developing the region's human capital, the spirit of inquiry demands that we critically think on what is apparently relevant or not relevant in the dynamism of this information-rich region.
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Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Contact Details:
Telephone No: +60 5368 7695
www.utp.edu.my |
| 21 - 22 March 2009 |
Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam:
Copenhagen, Denmark
We invite proposals for papers that deal with the power and role of the image in creating a rhetorical lexicon for political Islam in the modern period in national, nationalist, and trans-national cultural production. Topics should deal with aspects of the visual in any region of the Islamic world, from the emergence of visual media in the early modern period to the production and reception of the latest interactive media, including the presentation of Islam on television (talk shows, Qur ’ an classes, films); the internet and other digital media; banners, posters, murals and graffiti; and illustrated pamphlets, cartoons, graphic novels, and children ’ s books.
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Copenhagen University
Contact Details:
Sune Haugbolle
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| 25 - 28 March 2009 |
Spaces for Change? Decentralisation participation and local governance innovation in the MENA region
Florence, Italy
Under pressure from Western governments and international organisations, Arab regimes are engaging in “authoritarian upgrading”. New (official) discourses emphasize rights, social justice, and citizenship. While past and current research analyzes these trends through the perspectives of “Good Governance” and theories on democratic transition at the national level, less attention has been given to processes of “authoritarian upgrading” at the local level.
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European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Contact Details:
Sylvia I. Bergh
www.iue.it |
| 26 March 2009 |
Academic Autobiography, Intellectual History & Cultural Memory in the 20th Century
Pamplona, Spain
Autobiographies by academics who have played important public roles and whose scholarship have shaped the ways we think about disciplines, society, culture, or politics—such as Nancy K. Miller, Eric Hobsbawm, Clifford Geertz, Leila Ahmed, Edward Said, Jill Ker Conway, Ihab Hassan, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Yi-Fu Tuan, among others—may be explored as new approaches to the discourses of intellectual history and culture in our age. We invite proposals that offer new ways to read these autobiographies and analyze their discursive possibilities in the historical, cultural, and academic contexts in which they were written.
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University of Navarra
Contact Details:
Prof. Rocío G. Davis
www.uni-graz.at |
| 17 - 19 April 2009 |
The Problem of Sources in [Turkish] Women’s Memory from the Ottoman Era to the Present:
Istanbul, Turkey
The symposium will offer the broadest examination to date on "sources in women’s studies and women’s history". We aim to raise and discuss a wide range of issues including, but not limited to, the policies of official state institutions concerning documents on issues relating to women, the evaluation of documents on women’s issues from a gender perspective, the process of preparing a national catalogue on women’s documents, as seen in a number of other countries, the problem of awareness in the conservation of these sources, the destruction or deletion of sources for political or other special reasons
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Women ’ s Library and Information Centre [WLIC]
Contact Details:
Selhan Savcıgil Endres
www.archimac.org |
| 20 - 22 May 2009 |
The Contemporary Oriental City from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective:
Krakow, Poland
The Oriental city is one of the crucial phenomena of the contemporary world, which, as observations demonstrate incorporates an increasing part of the local population. In the age of globalization the Oriental city has ad opted plenty of characteristics of the Western city, however, they still differ from each other fundamentally. The proposed overarching theme of the conference is to serve for broad discussion within the scope of existing knowledge on the varied aspects of the Oriental city as well as searching for theoretical research instruments to serve its description.
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The Department of Interdisciplinary Eurasiatic Research of the Institute of Oriental Philology (Jagiellonian University)
Contact Details:
Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari
Telephone No: (12) 633-63-77 w. 2326
www.filg.uj.edu.pl |
| 27 - 29 May 2009 |
Change and Stability. State, Religion and Politics in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Krakow, Poland
The prime objective of the conference is to analyze interactions between institutions of a modern state and traditional structures and values. State-society relations, identities, culture and religion undergo changes which origins may be considered as external to Islamic civilization. We would like to address such phenomena as: pluralizing political systems, discourse of democracy, secularization, liberalization, as well as durability of authoritarian regimes, de-politization of large social sectors, and mobilizing aspects of political Islam.
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Department of Middle and Far East Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Contact Details:
katarzyna.jarecka@uj.edu.pl
Telephone No: +48 012 664 54 15
www.bliskiwschod.pl |
| 28 - 30 May 2009 |
Convivencia: Representations, Knowledge and Identities (500 AD-1600 AD)
Madrid, Spain
Convivencia is traditionally the term for designing the cooperative and conflictual coexistence of Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities in the medieval Iberian Peninsula. The conference will study this phenomenon with regard to the interacting dimensions of representations, knowledge and identities. Representation stands for all forms of cultural production in art, religion, literature, science and law.
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG)
Contact Details:
Albert Presas i Puig
www.h-net.org |
| 06 - 10 June 2009 |
Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald and The Rubaiyat
Leyden , Netherlands
This week-long conference to be held at Leyden and Cambridge celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edward FitzGerald (1809) and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).
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The Persian Department at the University of Leiden and Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge
Contact Details:
Dr Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
www.ames.cam.ac.uk |
| 12 - 13 June 2009 |
Empires and Revolutions: Iranian-Russian encounters since 1800
London, United Kingdom
This conference will explore the myriad encounters which have taken place between Iranians and Russians since the early nineteenth century up to the present. In particular it will attempt to understand the complexities of the impact on Iran of the Russian presence on its northern borders: the very expansion of Tsarist empire during the nineteenth century threatening Iran's independence yet bringing ideas of social-democracy to its doorstep, the Soviet Union in the twentieth century similarly contradictory in its effect, sustaining a version of radical Iranian politics while advancing its own strategic interests.
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Iran Heritage Foundation and London Middle East Institute, SOAS (LMEI)
Contact Details:
Dr Stephanie Cronin
www.lmei.soas.ac.uk |
| 04 - 06 September 2009 |
Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion
Trondheim, Norway
Existing studies of the contemporary Islamic and Islamist upsurge include social surveys of various movements, analyses of the teachings of ideologues, and sophisticated reflections concerning their meaning and significance. The conference seeks to contribute to this ongoing research by adopting an interdisciplinary approach which combines two complementary perspectives, the historical and the cultural studies approach; the latter has in fact developed in conscious relation to globalization and its concomitant communications revolution.
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NTNU-The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Contact Details:
Ulrika Mårtenson
www.ntnu.no |
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