Fwd: International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR 2016)

3rd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR 2016) BEIJING, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA April 3-5, 2016 Dear Researchers and Scholars, You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR 2016). The Conference will be held on April 3-5, 2016 at Beijing, People's Republic of China. Successful conferences of IAMURE had been staged at Nagoya Hilton Hotel, Nagoya, Japan; Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel, Hong Kong; Singapore Marriott Hotel, Singapore; The Stones Hotel, Bali Indonesia; The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; The Venetian Macao, Macau, China; Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines; Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel, Australia; Renaissance Seoul Hotel, Seoul, South Korea; Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City; JW Marriott Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia; Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, Singapore; JW Marriott Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand; Marco Polo Plaza Cebu, Cebu City Philippines; Hotel Centro, Puerto Princesa, Palawan; Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Angkor Borei Resort and Spa, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Sofitel Saigon Plaza, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Radisson Hotel, Brunei Darussalam; Raffles Hotel, Singapore; Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Manila, Philippines; and Grand Hyatt Taipei, Taiwan. The theme of the ICMR 2016 is "Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Applying Scientific Results for Developing Institutions and Communities." The objectives of the conference are to: (1) provide a forum for professional and student researchers as means for dissemination and utilization of multidisciplinary research; (2) nourish collaborations among researchers and institutions in the promotion and production of multidisciplinary research; (3) recognize meritorious contributions of researchers and institutions; and (4) promote quality research publications as credible sources of scientific literature. The conference proceedings will be submitted to Procedia of Elsevier for possible indexing. STREAMS Education Communication and Media Science and Clinical Laboratory Business and Management Literature, Philosophy, Religion Social Sciences Mathematics Nursing Biology Engineering Technology and Computer Studies Ecology and Conservation Sexuality and LGBT Health Education SUBMISSIONS FOR PRESENTATION CONSIDERATION Submit a 200-word abstract (with a list of references) with five parts: (1) introduction of the topic; (2) chief purpose; (3) methods; (4) results; and (5) conclusion with keywords having four parts: (1) discipline of the study; (2) concepts investigated; (3) methods and process, (4) geography (country/continent). It must be accompanied by updated curriculum vitae (for awards purposes). Send these documents to icmr@iamure.com. Early submissions are greatly appreciated. All submissions must be in Microsoft Word. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission for presentation consideration: March 7, 2016 Award and Proceedings submissions: February 22, 2016 Final Payment Deadline: March 11, 2016 USEFUL LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION Submissions for presentation consideration: icmr@iamure.com Website: www.iamure.com Sponsored by: IAMURE Multidisciplinary Research COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES Dr. Jeng-Ming Yih, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, Taiwan Dr. R. Anbin Ezhilan, University of Puthisastra, Cambodia Dr. Moktar Lamari, L'universite de l'administration publique, Canada Arch. Tiberiu Constantin Florescu, "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urban Planning Bucharest, Romania Dr. Djuwari, STIE Perbanas Surabaya, Indonesia Dr. Guarang Rami, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India Dr. Ken Kawasaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Dr. Adesoji Adeolu Oni, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria Dr. Chew Fong Peng, University of Malaya, Malaysia Dr. Kaneez Fatima-Shad, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Dr. Maheshvari Naidu, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Dr. Jia Yan, Hogskolan Dalarna, Sweden Dr. Jose Gerardo Martinez Martinez, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus, Puerto Rico

Branding the Intangible: Culture and Heritage in City Branding and Tourism Marketing

Branding the Intangible: Culture and Heritage in City Branding and Tourism Marketing 29 August-2 September 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.islanddynamics.org/placebranding.html This international, interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners to explore the role of intangible culture and heritage in city branding and tourism marketing worldwide. Place branding is a complex process through which individuals or institutions seek to influence a place's reputation or brand image. Tourism marketing is a particularly visible form of place branding but is just one tool for public diplomacy. Although a city's residents may not always be aware of it, many place branding efforts target not only foreign publics (consisting of potential tourists, business visitors, policymakers, investors, etc.) but also the local population, nudging or urging city residents to be warm and welcoming, forward looking and innovative, proud of their traditions, or internationally oriented – all in accordance with the aims of the particular branding initiative. Urban place branding is thus more than just marketing the city as a product; it is also a form of product development. But where does urban culture fit into the picture? What happens when some local stakeholders desire a type of city that is difficult or unpalatable to market? Should urban planners, branders, and developers seek to build a market for the existing urban product or instead seek to change the product to fit a desired market? How do intangible aspects of culture (foodways, festivals, fashion, lifestyles, etc.) interact with city branding and economic development processes? Can (or should) expressions of local inheritance be integrated into the presentation of built heritage and cultural landscapes to tourists whose own interpretations of this heritage may differ from local ones? How can the multitude of voices, opinions, and practices among the local population be distilled into policies that benefit the community as a whole? About the conference. At 'Branding the Intangible', delegates can contextualise knowledge and engage with community members. On 29-31 August, delegates will explore Copenhagen, experiencing cultural attributes and intangible heritage that various communities within the city deem to be important. Delegates will visit traditional Danish restaurants, centres of design, public parks, museums, historical buildings, and bastions of counterculture to learn how local culture is lived and how it is presented to outsiders. Delegates will also visit Tivoli Gardens, a historic amusement park that has developed into a key site for Danish identity building and cultural expression. Conference presentations take place on 01-02 September. How to make a presentation. Presentations are welcome from all segments of research and practice. Presentations last 20 minutes and will be followed by around 10 minutes' question time. The deadline for abstracts is 28 February 2016, but to take advantage of early registration rates and ensure that you have time to seek funding from your institution or government, we recommend that you submit your abstract early. You can submit your abstract here: http://www.islanddynamics.org/placebranding/cfp.html Enquiries: info@islanddynamics.org Sponsored by: Island Dynamics

Getting Your Message Across: Storytelling for Researchers and other Professionals

Getting Your Message Across: Storytelling for Researchers and other Professionals A One Day Workshop Wednesday 13th July 2016 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Participation: In September 2015 Inter-Disciplinary.Net hosted a one day workshop on Getting your Message Across: Storytelling for researchers and other professionals, during which we presented some of our views about the value of adopting a storytelling style, for those who want to write engagingly and in ways that both inform and challenge their readers. However, the dominant focus of the day was on two things. First, it offered participants the opportunity to reflect on some perennial problems faced by authors in writing both clearly and concisely about research and other professional matters, especially when they are writing for an inter-disciplinary audience. Secondly, it gave them the opportunity to engage in shared writing and live editing of text in a supportive and collegial group. In our second workshop on Getting your Message Across, we will again be offering support to writers at all levels in developing an engaging style that communicates clearly, by conveying complex information as simply as possible using a storytelling style. In doing so we will invite participants to abandon the idea (if they have it, and many people do) that since their research and ideas are important, they need to use difficult and important sounding words (including as much technical jargon as possible) and to develop a style of writing that only really clever people will be able to understand. We will suggest, instead, that they should aim to make their writing as easy to understand as possible, by thinking of it as a species of storytelling. Call for Participation Anyone, from any background, who is interested in the use of storytelling to convey important ideas, is invited to submit a brief expression of interest in the workshop (up to 300 words) which should address one or more of the following: - the reason or reasons that they would like to participate in this workshop, which may include references to what they have to share with others, as well as to what they hope to gain from it. - whether, and if so, how, they think that the challenges they face in communicating their ideas or the results of their research to an interdisciplinary audience differ from those they face in communicating them to an audience of peers from their own discipline or subject. - what, in their view, are the characteristics of engaging, genuinely informative and challenging writing in any area of professional or academic life. Expressions of interest will be printed in the workshop booklet and during the workshop participants will have the opportunity to elaborate the ideas and views they have thus expressed, during a structured 'round-table' session. We invite expressions of interest for people thinking of attending and for them to send a statement of their interest and experience/expertise to the organising chairs by Friday 26th February 2016: Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn: gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: message2@inter-disciplinary.net Schedule: The day will begin with registration between 8.30 am and 9.30am Wednesday 13th July 2016 and will be followed by a series of presentation sessions and workshops. Refreshments and a 2 course sit-down lunch will be provided. After the final workshop and summation of the days discussions and the event will end with a drinks reception. The workshop will include presentation by the workshop leaders; episodes of reflection and discussion, and a number of practical activities aimed at developing ideas and skills. So, for example, there will be: Opportunities for reflection about the nature of academic and professional writing. Opportunities to share problems with writing. Opportunities to share 'hot tips' for writers. Opportunities for shared writing and editing. The opportunity to engage in 'live editing' of text as a group Giving a timetable for a workshop like this is almost impossible. However, at some point during the day, we will talk about a range of issues, including: Developing an engaging style. Conveying complex information as simply as possible. Abandoning complex language, big and important sounding words when possible. Academic and professional writing as a species of storytelling. Engaging, informing and challenging readers. Empathising with your audience. How citation can interfere with meaning-making in academic storytelling Putting citation to use in developing academic texts, and in developing academic stories. All of this activity will take place between the set timetable for coffee/tea breaks and lunch and will end with a wine reception. Registration Fee: £85. (Special discounted price of £65 available if booked with the Story's Place in our Lives event – details of which can be found here: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/) conference registration fee discounted rate off any Inter-Disciplinary Press or Fisher Imprints publications access to the conference project initiative support materials morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes 2 course waiter served lunch afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes Drinks Reception Further details and information can be found at the workshop website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/courses-and-workshops/getting-your-message-across/ Organisers: Workshop Leaders Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn: Independent Researchers Gavin and Susan have worked in a wide range of areas, including medical and nursing education; applied philosophy and ethics; social and environmental psychology; primary and special education; social work and residential care; learning disability; child, adolescent and adult psychiatry; teacher education; professional development and study skills. Between us we have published on a very wide range of topics, including medical and nursing education; doctor's interviewing skills; suicide; reconciliation after conflict; empathy; storytelling; professional development; euthanasia; sexuality and learning disability; bereavement; the spiritual care of dying children, and inclusive education. While pursuing our own professional lives, we have managed find ways of working together at times and have, for example, organised and chaired many conferences, including a series many years ago about Ethical Issues in Caring, as well as IDNET conferences on Empathy; Storytelling, Bullying and Responsible Living. Together we have published three books about professional ethics. Between us we have published four books about issues in academic literacy. Gavin co-authored Getting Published: advice for academics and other professionals with David Canter and his book with Chris Winch, Reading, Writing and Reasoning; a guide for students, now in its 26th year and third edition, has been translated into both Portuguese and Chinese. Together we co-authored Writing your Abstract: a guide for would-be conference presenters and Reading at University: a guide for students, which has been translated into both Chinese and Indonesian. As teachers at every level from nursery school to postgraduate level we have had a great deal of experience of facilitating the development of writing, including academic and professional writing. Together we have presented a number of workshops for developing academic writers and during his time as Professor of Ethics and Language at Leeds Beckett University, and in earlier posts as Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope and as Professor of Professional Development at the University of Glamorgan, much of Gavin's time was given over to such workshops both with colleagues and students and at other institutions, including universities in Poland and in the UK.

Sixth International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education

Sixth International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education: Connecting Research and Practice Across Contexts 20th to 22nd October 2016 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA This conference addresses the unique challenges of immersion and dual language education through research-informed dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, and contexts. Enquiries: larso205@umn.edu Web address: http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/immersion2016/ Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) University of Minnesota

2016 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science – Summer Session (ISESS - Summer 2016)

Call for Papers 2016 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science - Summer Session (ISESS-Summer 2016) Kyoto, Japan July 12-14, 2016 http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/ 2016 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science - Summer Session (ISESS-Summer 2016) is to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12-14, 2016. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on important topics of Economics and Social Science. Since more than 20 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with different perspectives. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website (http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/). We sincerely invite your participation for this important academic event. Please submit full paper or abstract by April 1, 2016. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support. Kyoto is Japan's capital for more than 1,000 years. Kyoto was the center not only for politics, but religion, philosophy, art, culture, and cuisine. Gion Matsuri is one of the oldest festivals in Japan and one of the greatest. Traditional rituals and events related to this amazing festival are held throughout the month of July in Kyoto. We believe that you will enjoy your stay in Kyoto. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact us. Conference Website: http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/ Online Submission: http://175.99.76.113/ISESS-summer/ Enquiries: isess.summer@gmail.com Submission Deadline: April 1, 2016 Best Regards, Conference Committee of ISESS-Summer 2016

2016 International Conference on Library and Information Science (LIS 2016)

Call for Papers 2016 International Conference on Library and Information Science (LIS 2016) Kyoto, Japan July 12-14, 2016 http://soci-science.org/LIS/ 2016 International Conference on Library and Information Science (LIS 2016) is to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12-14, 2016. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on important topics of library and information science. Since more than 20 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with different perspectives. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website (http://soci-science.org/LIS/). We sincerely invite your participation for this important academic event. Please submit full paper or abstract by April 1, 2016. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support. The conference venue Kyoto is Japan's capital for more than 1,000 years. Kyoto was the center not only for politics, but religion, philosophy, art, culture, and cuisine. Gion Matsuri is one of the oldest festivals in Japan and one of the greatest. Traditional rituals and events related to this amazing festival are held throughout the month of July in Kyoto. We believe that you will enjoy your stay in Kyoto. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact us. Conference Website: http://soci-science.org/LIS/ Online Submission: http://175.99.76.113/LIS/ Enquiries: iclis.conf@gmail.com Submission Deadline: April 1, 2016 Best Regards, Conference Committee of LIS 2016

2016 International Conference on Hospitality, Leisure, Sports, and Tourism-Summer Session (HLST-Summer 2016)

Call for Papers 2016 International Conference on Hospitality, Leisure, Sports, and Tourism-Summer Session (HLST-Summer 2016) Kyoto, Japan July 12-14, 2016 http://science-techs.org/hlst-summer/ 2016 International Conference on Hospitality, Leisure, Sports, and Tourism - Summer Session (HLST-Summer 2016) is to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12-14, 2016. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on important topics of Hospitality, Leisure, Sports, and Tourism. Since more than 20 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with different perspectives. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website (http://science-techs.org/hlst-summer/). We sincerely invite your participation for this important academic event. Please submit full paper or abstract by April 1, 2016. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support. Kyoto is Japan's capital for more than 1,000 years. Kyoto was the center not only for politics, but religion, philosophy, art, culture, and cuisine. Gion Matsuri is one of the oldest festivals in Japan and one of the greatest. Traditional rituals and events related to this amazing festival are held throughout the month of July in Kyoto. We believe that you will enjoy your stay in Kyoto. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact us. Conference Website: http://science-techs.org/hlst-summer/ Online Submission: http://175.99.76.113/HLST-summer/ Enquiries: ichlst.summer@gmail.com Submission Deadline: April 1, 2016 Best Regards, Conference Committee of HLST-Summer 2016

ACSS2016 - The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2016

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the Seventh Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2016 and enjoy the beautiful seaside city of Kobe, Japan. The deadline to submit your abstract is February 15, 2016. Held alongside the Sixth Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment and the Asian Conference on Aging and Gerontology, at the Art Center of Kobe from June 9-12, join us as we discuss this year's conference theme, "Justice and Sustainability" along with conference co-chairs Stuart D.B. Picken, James McNally, Hiroshi Ishida, Keynote Speakers Gregory Clark, Jun Arima, and more! To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/acss2016/ Enquiries: acss@iafor.org Join IAFOR at ACSS2016 to: -Deliver your own research findings to a global audience -Have your work published in the conference proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, open access IAFOR Journals -Benefit from IAFOR's interdisciplinary focus by hearing the latest research in the Social Sciences, Sustainability, Energy, the Environment, Aging & Gerontology and more! -Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event -Participate in interactive audience sessions -Access international networking opportunities -Discounts on registration fees are available for those able to pay registration fees early. Please see the registration page for details: http://iafor.org/acss2016-registration -If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer a 10 percent discount in appreciation of your support. ***Conference Theme: "Justice and Sustainability" The conference theme for ACSS2016 is "Justice and Sustainability", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: -Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Humanities -Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences -Computational Social Science -Cultural and Media Studies -Economics and Management -Education and Social Welfare -Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies -Ethnicity, Difference, Identity -Globalization and Internationalization -Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation -Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender -International Relations & Human Rights -Journalism and Communications -Linguistics -Natural, Environmental and Health Sciences -Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness -Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology -Psychology & Social Psychology -Research Methodologies, Quantitative and Qualitative -Social History -Social Work -Sociology -Sustainability -Teaching and Learning -Technology and Applied Sciences -Urban Studies -Other Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/acss2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams ***About IAFOR and its global events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization's platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world's leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR's credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences has two sister events around the world. If you are interested in attending one of them, please visit the conference websites for more information. February 27-29, Dubai Festival City, Dubai, UAE The IAFOR International Conference on the Social Sciences Extended Abstract Submission Deadline - January 1 http://iafor.org/conferences/iicssdubai2016/ July 7-10, The Waterfront Hotel, Brighton UK ECSS2016 - The European Conference on the Social Sciences Abstract Submission Deadline - March 15 http://iafor.org/conferences/acss2016/ To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ***ACSS/ACSEE/AGen Invited Speakers - Please visit the speakers page of the website to learn more about our invited speakers and their presentations. http://iafor.org/acss2016-speakers/ ACSS2016 Keynote Speaker Jun Arima Japanese Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry/The University of Tokyo ACSS2016 Keynote Speaker Professor Gregory Clark Tama University & Akita International University, Japan ***ACSS2016 Conference Chairs -Professor Stuart Picken Chairman of the IAFOR IAB Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S. Stuart D. B. Picken is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board, and in this role is Chairman of the Organisation. As Chairman of IAFOR, Professor Picken helps guide the academic and political strategy of the organisation, and assists in the forging of global institutional partnerships. He is also responsible for the development of the IAFOR Research Institutes. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, Professor Picken is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalisation in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialised in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Airlines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organise fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the Chair in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, through the IAFOR IAB, and through regular visits. -Dr James McNally Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, University of Michigan James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. He currently does methodological research on the improvement and enhancement of secondary research data and has been cited as an expert authority on data imputation. McNally has directed the NACDA Program on Aging since 1998 and has seen the archive significantly increase its holdings with a growing collection of seminal studies on the aging lifecourse, health, retirement and international aspects of aging. He has spent much of his career addressing methodological issues with a specific focus on specialized application of incomplete or deficient data and the enhancement of secondary data for research applications. McNally has also worked extensively on issues related to international aging and changing perspectives on the role of family support in the later stages of the aging lifecourse. -Prof. Hiroshi Ishida Department of Comparative Contemporary Societies, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Ishida is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo. He served as the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences and the Director of the Center of Social Research and Data Archives, at the University of Tokyo, from 2012 to 2015. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, conducted post-doctoral research at Nuffield College and St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and held positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He was a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Fellow of Sociology at Yale University. Dr. Ishida's research interests include comparative social stratification and mobility, school-to-work transition, and social inequality over the life course. He is the author of Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan (Stanford University Press) and the co-editor with David Slater of Social Class in Contemporary Japan (Routledge). His work has been published in a number of journals and edited volumes, including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, and Japanese Sociological Review. Dr. Ishida was the president of the Japanese Association of Mathematical Sociology from 2011 to 2013, and currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Research Committee on Social Stratification of the International Sociological Association. From 2005 to 2010, he was the editor-in-chief of Social Science Japan Journal, an international journal on social science research on Japan published by Oxford University Press. He is the principal investigator of the Japanese Life Course Panel Surveys, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He presently serves on the international editorial board of several journals, including British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, and Social Forces. He is currently the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Official Representative for the University of Tokyo.

Call for papers: The 7th RMUTP International Conference

Dear colleagues,

 

You are invited to submit your paper for a special session of the joint Centre for Financial Econometrics and Rajamangala University (Bangkok, Thailand) conference on the theme of "Innovation/technology, financial markets, and economic growth". Selected papers presented at this session will be considered for publication in Economic Modelling—an A-ranked Elsevier journal.

 

The conference will be held at Pullman Bangkok King Power, Bangkok, Thailand, 23-24 June 2016.

 

We will appreciate if you can disseminate this call for papers to your colleagues . The submission deadline is 1 April 2016.

 

Please see the attached call for papers for further details.

 

Sincerely,

Centre for Financial Econometrics, Deakin Business School, Faculty of Business & Law

 

Deakin University

Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia."

 

MUSICULT ‘16 / 3rd Music and Cultural Studies Conference

MUSICULT '16 Music and Cultural Studies Conference, organized by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center), will take place on May 13-14, 2016. www.musicultconference.org MUSICULT '16 Conference aims to trace the tracks of the dialectic correlation between music and culture. Artistic crops of this correlation from the very ancient roots of the communication with sound to the contemporary state are among the field of interest of the conference. During the conference and within the context of culture and identity, well-known periods and moments of the history of music in the all possible meanings, forms and genres will be brought to the agenda and new areas of interest, that will be revealed by this perspective, will be explored on the basis of the main focus point as "Local versus Universal". KEYNOTES Keith Negus, Professor of Musicology at Goldsmiths, University of London. PUBLICATION All submitted papers are subject to double blind peer review. Conference proceedings are going to be available on DVD as e-book and DAKAM's digital library with an ISBN number before the conference and will be sent to be reviewed for inclusion in the "Thomson & Reuters Web of Science's Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (CPCI) and Google Scholars. AGENDA Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 5, 2016 Deadline for registration: March 4, 2016 Deadline for full papers submission: March 11, 2016 Please visit our website to see the last updates http://www.musicultconference.org/p/registration.html THEMES - Locality & Universality - Composition and Sources of Creativity - Music, Arts and Culture - History and Traditions: Relation of music to cultural identity - Social Aspects - Sound and Science For subthemes please visit: http://www.musicultconference.org/p/themes.html VENUE The conference will be held in Istanbul. Please check the conference website for details. http://www.dakamconferences.org/#!venue/vuhwe SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The scientific committee consists of significant scholars Academic Advisor: Prof.Dr. Songul Karahasanoglu / Istanbul Technical University Scientific Committee: Prof.Dr. Bruno Nettl / University of Illinois School of Music Prof. Dr. Martin Stokes / King's College London Prof.Dr. Ali Ergur / Galatasaray University Prof.Dr. Orhan Tekelioglu / Bahcesehir University Prof.Dr. Istar Gozaydin Savasir / Dogus University Assoc. Prof. Donna Buchanan / University of Illinois Assoc. Prof. Gozde Colakoglu / Istanbul Technical University Assoc. Prof. Can Karadogan / Istanbul Technical University Assoc. Prof. Kivilcim Yildiz Senurkmez / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Akat / Karadeniz Technical University Asst. Prof. Ilke Boran / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Asst. Prof. Ozan Baysal / Istanbul Technical University Asst. Prof. Irene Markoff / York University Asst. Prof. Omer Can Satir / Hitit University Lecturer Ismail Sinir / Mugla Sitki Kocman University http://www.musicultconference.org/p/commttees.html ABSTRACT SUBMISSION You can submit your abstract by entering the online registration system EASYCHAIR at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=musicult16 You will receive a reply to your proposal within three weeks following a double-blind review process.

SDC 2016 - 4th Annual Sustainable Development Conference

SDC 2016 - 4th Annual Sustainable Development Conference 7th to 9th July 2016 Kuching, Malaysia Enquiries: vilic@tomorrowpeople.org Web address: http://www.sdconference.org Sponsored by: Tomorrow People Organization Dear Scholars, Academics, NGO and Governmental Representatives, We are proud to invite you to join us at Sustainable Development Conference 2016: Green technology, Renewable energy and Environmental protection, that will take place from July 7th - 9th 2016 in Kuching Malaysia in the beautiful island of Borneo, the home of orangutans and hundreds of indigenous plants and animals. This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others. The official language of the conference in English. Conference will be attended by distinguished scholars, governmental officials, NGO representatives and professionals from more than 40 countries worldwide. Conference topics include but are not limited to: Advanced Energy Technologies Air pollution control and equipment Biodiversity Bio fuels Clean Coal Technology Clean energy investments Climate and climatic changes Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation Economic and Social aspect of Sustainable Development Ecosystem Restoration Ecosystems Management Energy and Environment Energy Policy, Planning and Management Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development Environmental dynamics Environmental Ergonomics Environmental hydraulics Environmental Management Environmental policy in developing countries Environmental Pollution & Management Environmental restoration and ecological engineering Environmental Science and Technology Environmental sustainability Global environmental change and ecosystems management Global warming Green Energy Options Green energy systems Hazardous waste and waste treatment Health and the Environment Hydro power Industrial waste treatment Innovative clean technologies Legal, economic and managerial aspects of solid waste management Management of ecosystems, environment and water resources Nuclear Energy Fission & Fusion Policy makers and the Public Pollution prevention in industry Recycling technologies Renewable Energy Standards Renewable energy technologies Renewable sources of energy Resource management Rural development Solar Energy Solid waste Management Sustainable Development and Education Water pollution and treatment Wind Energy Applications are accepted on a rolling admission basis as long as space is available. Due ti limited space in the venue and highly competitive admission process we strongly encourage early applications in order to secure a spot in the conference. Papers accepted in the conference will be published in the official ISBN conference proceedings publication. Sustainable Development Conference 2016 will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals. Apply now at: http://www.sdconference.org/application.html We look forward to seeing you in Kuching in July 2016! SDC 2016 Organizing Committee

2016 International Forum - Public Affairs, Social Science and Economics

Dear Colleague, The 2016 International Forum – Public Affairs, Social Science and Economics (iPASE 2016) is to be held in Fukuoka, JAPAN, on August 5-7. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on certain important topics of Public Affairs, Social Science and Economics. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the official website. We sincerely invite your participation for this event. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support. We are glad to inform you that the Chikugo River Fireworks Display is scheduled to take place on August 5th. All registered participants will have VIP seats to watch the Chikugo River Fireworks Display. The event is over 350 years and is one of the largest in western Japan with roughly 18 thousand fireworks being let off. We are sure that all participants will enjoy the fireworks show. Conference Website: http://iainst.org/ipase/ Online Submission: http://iainst.org/ipase/submission Enquiries: ipase.conference@gmail.com Submission Deadline: March 31, 2016 Sincerely yours, Muh-Fen, Chao, Tamkang University, Taiwan http://iainst.org/ipase/

ACCS 2016 - The Sixth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the Sixth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016 and enjoy the beautiful seaside city of Kobe, Japan. Held alongside the Sixth Asian Conference on Asian Studies and the IAFOR International Conference on Japan and Japan Studies, at the Art Center of Kobe from June 2-5, join us as we discuss this year's conference theme, "Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday" along with conference co-chairs Baden Offord, Donald E. Hall, Sue Ballyn, Koichi Iwabuchi, invited speakers and more. To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2016 Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/accs2016/ Enquiries: accs@iafor.org Join IAFOR at ACCS2016 to: -Deliver your own research findings to a global audience -Have your work published in the conference proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, open access IAFOR Journals -Benefit from IAFOR's interdisciplinary focus by hearing the latest research in Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Japan Studies and more! -Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event -Participate in interactive audience sessions -Access international networking opportunities -Discounts on registration fees are available for those able to pay registration fees early. Please see the registration page for details: http://iafor.org/accs2016-registration -If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer a 10 percent discount in appreciation of your support. Conference Theme: "Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday" The conference theme for ACCS2016 is "Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme: Sub-Themes: -refuge -mobility -social praxis -disability -education and/or pedagogy -the city -the nation -human rights -social justice -minor cultures -activism -technology -terrorism -identity -internet -media -law -popular culture -the family -gender, queer and/or sexuality -religion -curation/the archive -sport -place -creative arts -the ecological -the transnational/global -the economy Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: -Black Feminism -Critical Legal Studies -Critical Race Theory -Cultural Geography -Cultural History -Cultural Studies -Cultural Studies Pedagogy -Education -Gender studies / Feminist Theory -Justice Studies -Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies -Media Studies -Orientalism -Political Philosophy -Political Theory -Queer Theory -Social Criticism -Sociology -Visual Culture Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/accs2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams About IAFOR and its global events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization's platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world's leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR's credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ACCS has two sister events around the world. If you are interested in attending one of them, please visit the conference websites for more information. ECCS2016 - The European Conference on Cultural Studies - http://iafor.org/conferences/eccs2016/ Global2016 - The IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies - http://iafor.org/conferences/global2016/ ACCS2016 Conference Chairs and Featured Speakers Professor John Nguyet Erni ACCS2016 Keynote Speaker Hong Kong Baptist University Keynote Presentation: Negotiating 'Refuge': Humanitarianism for the 'Included-outs' John Nguyet Erni is Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller and Annenberg research fellowships. He is also an elected Fellow and Member of the Executive of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. Erni has published widely on international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth popular consumption in Hong Kong and Asia, and critical public health. His books include (In)visible Colors: Images of Non-Chinese in Hong Kong Cinema – A Filmography, 1970s – 2010s (with Louis Ho, Cinezin Press, forthcoming in 2016); Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture (forthcoming in 2016, Springer); Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (with Lisa Leung, HKUP, 2014); Cultural Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations (Routledge, 2011); Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (with Ackbar Abbas, Blackwell, 2005); Asian Media Studies: The Politics of Subjectivities (with Siew Keng Chua, Blackwell, 2005); and Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS (Minnesota, 1994). Currently, he is completing a book project on the legal modernity of rights. Professor Baden Offord ACCS2016 Conference Chair Chair of Featured Panel Director and Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia. Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Baden Offord is an internationally recognized specialist in human rights, sexuality, education and culture. In 2012 he was a sponsored speaker to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum in Brussels where he spoke on ASEAN and sexual justice issues. In the same year he conducted a three-week lecture tour of Japan sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister's Educational Assistance Funds post the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake in 2011. Among his publications are the books Homosexual Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia (2003), Activating Human Rights (co-edited with Elizabeth Porter, 2006), Activating Human Rights Education (co-edited with Christopher Newell, 2008), and Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts (co-edited with Bee Chen Goh and Rob Garbutt, 2012). His most recent co-authored publication in the field of Australian Cultural Studies is titled Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values (with Kerruish, Garbutt, Wessell and Pavlovic, 2014), which is a collaborative work with the Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy. His latest chapter, 'Queer activist intersections in Southeast Asia: human rights and cultural studies,' appears in Ways of Knowing About Human Rights in Asia (ed. Vera Mackie, London, Routledge, 2015). He has held visiting positions at The University of Barcelona, La Trobe University, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and Rajghat Education Centre, Varanasi. In 2010-2011 he held the Chair (Visiting Professor) in Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, The University of Tokyo. In Japan he has given lectures and research seminars at Chuo, Otemon Gakuin, Sophia, Tohoku and Keio Universities. Prior to his appointment at Curtin University, he was Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights at Southern Cross University, where he was a faculty member from 1999-2014. Professor Donald E. Hall ACCS2016 Conference Chair Lehigh University, USA Donald E. Hall has published widely in the fields of British Studies, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies, and Professional Studies. Prior to arriving at Lehigh in 2011, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University (WVU). Before his tenure at WVU, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he taught for thirteen years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was 2001 Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, for 2004-05, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki for 2006. He has taught also in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He has served on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Association of Departments of English. In 2013, he was elected to and began serving on the Executive Council of the MLA. His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic community-building, the dialogics of social change and ethical intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. His book, The Academic Community: A Manual For Change, was published by Ohio State University Press in the fall of 2007. His tenth book, Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies, was published in the spring of 2009. In 2012, he and Annamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, collaborated on a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, which was published in July of that year. He continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom. Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn ACCS2016 Conference Co-Chair Professor Emerita and Founder/Co-director Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona University, Spain Sue Ballyn is Prof. Emerita at Barcelona University from where she graduated with a BA in 1982. Her M.A. thesis on the writings of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes won the Faculty prize in 1983. In 1986 she won the Faculty prize again, this time for her PhD thesis on Australian Poetry, the first PhD on Australian Literature in Spain. She joined the English and German Philology Department on graduation 1982 and has remained at the university ever since. In 1990 she founded the Australian Studies Program which was recognised as an official Barcelona University Observatory – Studies Centre in 2000, known as CEA, Observatorio Centre d'Estudis Australians. It is the only Australian Studies Centre in Spain and one of the most active in Europe. Over the last twenty-five years, Sue Ballyn's research has been focused on foreign convicts transported to Australia, in particular Spanish, Portuguese, Hispanics and Sephardim, and she works closely with the Female Convicts Research Centre, Tasmania. She has published and lectured widely in the area, very often in collaboration with Prof. Lucy Frost. 2016 will see the publication of a book on Adelaide de la Thoreza, a Spanish convict, written by herself and Lucy Frost. More recently she has become involved in a project on ageing in literature DEDAL-LIT at Lleida University which in turn is part of a European project on ageing: SIforAge. As part of this project she is working on Human Rights and the Elderly, an area she started to research in 1992. In 2016 a book of interviews with elderly women, with the working title Stories of Experience, will be published as part of this project. These oral stories are the result of field work she has carried out in Barcelona. She is also involved in a ministry funded Project, run out of the Australian Studies Centre and headed by Dr. Bill Phillips, on Postcolonial Crime Fiction (POCRIF) This last project has inevitably intertwined itself with her work on convicts and Australia. She currently holds the position of Profesor Emerita and Founder / Co-Director of the Australian Studies Centre, at Barcelona University. Koichi Iwabuchi Professor Koichi Iwabuchi ACCS2016 Conference Co-Chair Monash Asia Institute in Monash University, Australia Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Monash Asia Institute in Monash University, Australia. His main research interests are media and cultural globalisation, multicultural questions, mixed race and cultural citizenship in East Asian contexts. His English publications include Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002); East Asian Pop Culture: Approaching the Korean Wave (ed. with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press, 2008); "Uses of media culture, usefulness of media culture studies: Beyond brand nationalism, into public dialogue (in Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies, M. Morris and M. Hjort (eds), Hong Kong University Press & Duke University Press, 2012); "De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond" (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2013). Together with Chris Berry, he is a co-editor of Hong Kong University Press book series, TransAsia: Screen Cultures.

International Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS-2016) May 24-25, 2016 Paris (France)

International Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS-2016) May 24-25, 2016 Paris (France) 24th to 25th May 2016 Paris, France The conference is being organized under the patronage of: Marketing Learning & Research Department, La Rochelle Business School, France. The papers will be published ISBN hardcopy Proceedings and the same will be provided at the time of the conference. Later, the Proceedings of the conferences will be submitted to ISI Thomson/SCOPUS for review and possible indexing. In addition to the English as official Language in this conference we do have the FRENCH language as official language. So, the papers written in FRENCH language can also be submitted and will be published in conference proceedings Topics of interest for submission include any topics on Humanities & Social Sciences and related topics: --Arts and Humanities --English --Art History --Language --Linguistics --Literature --Music --Philosophy --Politics --Culture --Psychology --Religious Studies --Social Sciences --Sociology SUBMISSION METHODS 1. Electronic Submission System; (.doc/.docx/.pdf formats): http://eaamp.org/paper_submission.php OR 2. Simply, email the paper/abstract/poster at Email id: ed@eaamp.org The template can be downloaded using the link: Conference Paper Template DOWNLOAD (.doc): http://erpub.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ERPUB%20Template(3).doc One Excellent Paper will be selected from each oral session. The Certificate for Excellent Papers will be awarded after each session of the conference Enquiries: ed@eaamp.org Web address: http://blss.eaamp.org/ Sponsored by: Emirates Research Publishing CONFERENCE VENUE Canadian House of City universitaire de Paris (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens) 31 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France Phone: +33 1 40 78 67 00

2016 International Education Conference in Venice

2016 International Education Conference in Venice, Italy #IECVenice16 June 5-9, 2016 Venice, Italy The deadline for initial submissions and early payment discount is April 19, 2016. OVERVIEW Please join The Clute Institute for our 2016 International Education Conference Venice, Italy. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their ideas, proposals, or completed research. Since 30 to 50 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with a different perspective. An extensive list of acceptable topics is available on our website and a peer review is available upon request. CONFERENCE VENUE This year we've chosen the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice, located in Venice, Italy. In addition to the International Education Conference, we are also hosting an International Academic Business Conference (including many business education presentations) that will be held concurrently; one registration covering both. INQUIRIES Inquiries: contact@cluteinstitute.com 303-904-4750 Web address: http://www.cluteinstitute.com/education-conferences/2016-international-education-conference-venice-italy-iecvenice16/ Sponsored by: The Clute Institute, Littleton, Colorado, USA

International Conference @ Osmania University

14th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development

14th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development 13th to 14th May 2016 Belgrade, Serbia Topics are focused, but not limited to recent challenges: Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World, Enterprise in Turbulent Environment, Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy. Our scientific books of proceedings are indexed in WoS CPCI, ProQuest and EconBiz and our delegates have opportunity for further publishing with several journals: http://www.esd-conference.com/Publishing.html Enquiries: info@esd-conference.com Web address: http://www.esd-conference.com/ContactBG.html Sponsored by: John Naisbitt Univeristy and VADEA

International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research Studies (ICIRS)

International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research Studies (ICIRS) 18th to 20th March 2016 Washington DC, United States of America This global conference will serve as a meeting place for scholar practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and students engaged in research to exchange ideas on the challenges, opportunities, emerging trends, best practices, and innovative ideas in the fields of business, technology, and education. Enquiries: info@icirsconferences.com Web address: http://icirsconferences.com

International Conference on Business Management - 2016 (ICBM 2016)

International Conference on Business Management 2016 Dubai, United Arab Emirates http://businessresearch.co/2016/ "Best Practices in Business – Review and Appreciation" The International Conference on Business Management will be held on 05 - 06 of April 2016 in Dubai. The conference will be based on main tracks HRM, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Finance, Corporate and social responsibility and Digital Marketing that related latest finding of the Business Management field. The Conference will submit the proceedings to be indexed in the Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS, Mendeley, Google scholar, CiteULike and Cross ref for possible Indexing. Abstract Deadline: 31st January 2016 Why you should take part in the conference - ICBM allow create and publish research papers with DOI number - Get to know the giants in the Business & Management around the world - Explore the attraction of Arab - Take part in an International Business forum with the ICBM Keynote Speakers Prof. H.H.D.N.P. Opatha, Senior Professor [formerly Professor of Human Resource Management (on Merit)] in the Department of Human Resource Management (HRM), Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka Dr. Syed Bashir Chair of Business and HR Curriculum Design Committee Mr. Ammar Shams The Head of HR for HSBC in the UAE Mr. Gundeep Singh President/Founder of the Change Initiative Dr. Nadir Kolachi Research & Case Study Center & Professor (Management & HRM) SKYLINE University, University City of Sharjah, UAE Lina Hourani The Director, CSR Division, Al Ahli Holding Group Submit the abstract & Join ICBM 2016. Don't miss this great opportunity of having a meaningful conversation with representatives from all over the world. Write us: abstract@businessresearch.co We look forward to receive your contributions and kindly request you to disseminate this email to other possible interested participants or institutions. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further clarification. Enquiries: info@businessresearch.co Web address: http://businessresearch.co/2016/ Sponsored by: Tiikm Conferences

Third International Conference on Violence and Humanity

Third International Conference on Violence and Humanity 14th to 17th October 2016 New Delhi, India Violence is perceived as a problem as well as the solution to the almost all the problems that humanity has ever faced all through human history. The III International Rit Vimarsh Conference seeks to explore this phenomenon in various contexts. Enquiries: ritconferences@gmail.com Web address: http://ritconferences.com/events.php?id=17&et=1 Sponsored by: Rit Foundation

Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative

Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative 9th Global Meeting Call for Participation 2016 Sunday 10th July – Tuesday 12th July 2016 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Earlier meetings of the Storytelling: global reflections on narrative project have brought together participants with both personal and professional interests in the unique role that storytelling plays throughout our lives. We have been challenged by philosophers, literary theorists, artists, psychologists, playwrights, storytellers, film makers, historians, teachers, psychotherapists, nurses and many others, into reflecting on the place that story plays in our lives and the ways in which we consciously and unconsciously employ it. We have also been engaged, entertained and challenged by traditional storytellers from Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, the Philippines, India and elsewhere as well as by theatrical and musical performances, digital stories, films and performance art. For our ninth global meeting we invite participants to continue to reflect on and celebrate story in challenging ways. Human life is conducted through story, because the telling of stories comes naturally to us. Almost every time we speak we engage in storytelling, and 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 make sense of our lives by telling stories about them; and we learn about other people by listening to the stories they tell. 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. The importance of the stories we tell and the stories we hear is recognized in every culture. The work of many professions, including medicine, nursing, teaching, the law, psychotherapy and counselling, involves a great deal of time listening to and communicating through stories. Story is a powerful tool for teachers, because by telling stories they can help students to integrate what they are learning with what they already know, by placing what they learn in a context that makes it easy to recall. Story also plays an important role in academic disciplines like philosophy, theology, anthropology, archaeology and history as well as literature Narrative methods for the collection of data are increasingly used in research in the social sciences and humanities, where the value of getting to know people in a more intimate and less distant way – almost as if we are getting to know them from the inside, is increasingly valued, and academics in many disciplines have begun to realise the value of storytelling as a model for academic writing. Abstracts are invited for contributions that address any aspect of story or narrative, including, for example: - Story as a pedagogical and research tool in academic disciplines such as history; anthropology, psychology, theology, cultural theory, medicine, law, philosophy, education, archaeology; the physical sciences and archaeology. - Narrative and the gathering of stories of lived experience, as a research approach in any area of professional and public life, including academic disciplines such as those listed above. - The place of story and storytelling in the practice of journalism; conflict resolution; architecture; religion; tourism, politics and the law, and in clinical contexts such as medicine, psychotherapy, nursing and counselling; personal relations and advertising.. - Story's place in culture, including theatre; cinema; music, including opera, folk music and popular music; literature, including poetry, short stories and graphic novels. - The place of storytelling in the digital age, including digital storytelling; forms of storytelling in social media; and computer gaming. We especially welcome abstracts from those who bring together reflections from both professional and personal perspectives. Abstracts that address the interdisciplinary potential of storytelling, both as an approach to a wide range of topics and as a means for communication between colleagues from different academic disciplines and professions, are also warmly welcomed. Further details and information can be found on the conference website: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/ Call for Cross-Over Presentations The Storytelling project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Madness and another project on Persons and Sexualities. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission "Crossover Submission". What to Send 300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 26th February 2016. All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed. You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 11th March 2016. If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016. Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: Storytelling Abstract Submission Where to Send Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails: Organising Chairs: Gavin Fairburn: gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: story9@inter-disciplinary.net This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. A number of eBooks and paperback volumes have already emerged and/or are in press from the work of this project. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Ethos Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

The 2016 ICBTS International Social Sciences and Education Research Conference in Dubai

The 2016 ICBTS International Social Sciences and Education Research Conference in Dubai May 4-7 Dubai, UAE The deadline for initial submissions and early payment discount is February 10, 2016. OVERVIEW Please join The 2016 ICBTS for our the 2016 International Social Sciences and Education Research Conference in Dubai, UAE. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their ideas, proposals, or completed research. Since 25 to 35 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with a different perspective. An extensive list of acceptable topics is available on our website. A blind peer review is available upon request. CONFERENCE VENUE This year we've chosen the Movenpick Hotel located in the center of Dubai. which is four stars hotel in Dubai. In addition to the International Social Sciences and Education Research Conference, we are also hosting an International Business and Tourism Research Conference and International Sciences and Technology Research Conference that will be held concurrently; one registration covering both. INQUIRIES Inquiries: icsbsconfo@gmail.com Web address: http://www.icbtsconference.com/15559483/dubai-social-sciences-education-conference Sponsored by: The ICBTS Conference Center, Bangkok, 10900 Thailand

ACAH2016 - The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities

The final deadline to submit to the Seventh Asian Conference on Arts Humanities, is February 1, 2016. Submit, present and join us in the beautiful seaside city of Kobe, Japan. Held alongside the Sixth Asian Conference on Literature, Librarianship & Archival Science, at the Art Center of Kobe from April 7-10, join us as we discuss this year's conference theme, "Justice" along with conference chairs Stuart D.B. Picken and A. Robert Lee, invited speakers and more. To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information. Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Visit the conference website: http://iafor.org/conferences/acah2016/ Enquiries: acah@iafor.org Join IAFOR at ACAH2016 to: -Deliver your own research findings to a global audience -Have your work published in the conference proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, open access IAFOR Journals -Benefit from IAFOR's interdisciplinary focus by hearing the latest research in Arts & Humanities, Literature, Librarianship, Archival Science and more! -Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event -Participate in interactive audience sessions -Access international networking opportunities -Discounts on registration fees are available for those able to pay registration fees early. Please see the registration page for details: http://iafor.org/acah2016-registration -If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer a 10 percent discount in appreciation of your support. ***Conference Theme: "Justice" The conference theme for ACAH2016 is "Justice", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions are organized in to the following thematic streams: Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts Arts - Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism Arts - Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Arts - Visual Arts Practices Arts - Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music Arts - Literary Arts Practices Arts - Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media Arts - Other Arts Humanities - Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication Humanities - Aesthetics, Design Humanities - Language, Linguistics Humanities - Knowledge Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness Humanities - History, Historiography Humanities - Literature/Literary Studies* Humanities - Political Science, Politics Humanities - Teaching and Learning Humanities - Globalisation Humanities - Ethnicity, Difference, Identity Humanities - Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation Humanities - First Nations and Indigenous Peoples Humanities - Sexuality, Gender, Families Humanities - Religion, Spirituality Humanities - Cyberspace, Technology Humanities - Science, Environment and the Humanities Humanities - Other Humanities Visit the conference website for further details: http://iafor.org/acah2016-call-for-papers/#conference-streams ***About IAFOR and its events IAFOR welcomes thousands of academics to our conferences each year, which range in size from around 100 to in excess of 500 attendees. They do so because of the supportive and nurturing research environment, because of the unique networking opportunities, and because of the strength of the organization's platform. Our conferences are meticulously planned and programmed under the direction of prominent academics to ensure that they offer programs of the highest level, and are also quite unique in the way in which they are supported by some of the world's leading academic institutions, including the University of London (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Monash University (Australia), Barcelona University (Spain), Waseda University (Japan), the National Institute of Education (Singapore), and The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR). IAFOR's credibility has enabled it to become a genuine pioneer, and has grown to be the most respected and trusted organization encouraging international, intercultural and interdisciplinary study. The organization is a formative influence in providing new research avenues and visionary development solutions necessary in our rapidly emerging globalized world. We welcome you to engage in this expanding global academic community of individuals and network of institutions, and look forward to seeing you at one of our future events, as we look forward to breaking new ground, together. To learn more about IAFOR - http://iafor.org ***ACAH2016 Conference Chairs and Featured Speakers Professor Helmi Vent ACAH2016 Spotlight Presenter Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria Spotlight Presentation - Between Art and Culture: Performance Art as an Integral Form of "Doing Culture" Professor Stuart D. B. Picken ACAH015 Conference Chair and Featured Speaker Chairman of the IAFOR IAB Stuart D. B. Picken is the founding chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through his work with IAFOR. A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. Dr. A. Robert Lee ACAH2016 Program Adviser A. Robert Lee, a Britisher who helped establish American Studies in the UK, was Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, having previously long taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He now lives in Murcia, Spain. His academic books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); Postindian Conversations (1999), with Gerald Vizenor; Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004; Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009); Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010), and collections like Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995); Beat Generation Writers (1996); China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (2008); The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes (2010); Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (2010); and Herman Melville, 4 Vols (2001): Native American Writing, 4 Vols (2011), African American Writing, 5 Vols (2013), and U.S.Latino/a Writing, 4 Vols (2013). He edited the Special Japan edition of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2006. His creative work is reflected in Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007), with Mark Gresham; Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line (2011); and the poetry collections Ars Geographica: Maps and Compasses (2012), Portrait and Landscape: Further Geographies (2013), and Imaginarium: Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines (2013).