International Conference on Business and Internet (ICBI) 2015

International Conference on Business and Internet (ICBI) 2015 22nd to 24th April 2015 Taipei, Taiwan The ICBI 2015 Organizing Committee invites your participant at International Conference on Business and Internet (ICBI) 2015. During the conference, attendees will find various activities useful in bringing together a diverse group from across disciplines for the generation of new ideas, collaboration potential and research opportunities. Prospective authors are welcome to submit their abstracts or full papers. All submissions to the conference will go through blind review processes by at least two independent peers. All accepted abstracts and full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended for the fast track reviews by the sponsored journals. ICBI2015 aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to meet and share the latest development in the field of business and Internet studies. Enquiries: icbi.conf@gmail.com Web address: http://icbi2015.conf.tw/ Sponsored by: International Business Academic Consortium, Knowledge of Association Taiwan, National Taipei University, and Shih Chien University

Psychoanalysis and Politics - Migration, Exile and Polyphonic Spaces

Psychoanalysis and Politics - Migration, Exile and Polyphonic Spaces 20th to 22nd March 2015 Barcelona, Spain "Philosophy, drama, and psychoanalysis each examine exile and return in the grand scheme of the life cycle - exile from the womb, from symbiosis with mother, from motherland, but also from our own reason and passions," We invite theoretical and clinical contributions questioning migration, exile, cultural complexity, polyphony and what Said called contrapuntal awareness in relation to psychoanalysis. This is an interdisciplinary conference. Perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools are most welcome. We promote discussion among the presenters and participants, for the symposium series creates a space where representatives of different perspectives come together, engage with one another's contributions and participate in a community of thought. We would like to thank the Spanish Psychoanalytical Society. Please send an abstract of 200 to 300 words, attached in a word-document, to psychoanalysis.politics@gmail.com by November 1st 2014. We will respond by, and present a preliminary programme on November 15th 2014. For further details, please see: http://www.psa-pol.org/?p=331 Enquiries: psychoanalysis.politics@gmail.com Web address: http://www.psa-pol.org/?p=331 Sponsored by: Psychoanalysis and Politics

INTED2015 (9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference)

INTED2015 (9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) March 2nd-4th, 2015 Madrid, Spain www.inted2015.org Submit your abstract at www.inted2015.org/submit before December 4th, 2014 OVERVIEW You are invited to participate in INTED2015 (the 9th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference) that will be held in Madrid (Spain) on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March, 2015. INTED2015 will provide the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences. It is the perfect platform to discuss the latest developments in the field of Teaching and learning methodologies, educational innovations and new technologies applied to Education and Development. A TRULY INTERNATIONAL EVENT After 9 years, INTED has become an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists. Every year, INTED brings together over 700 delegates from 80 different countries. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: There will be 3 presentation modalities: Oral, Poster or Virtual. You can submit your abstracts proposals until December 4th, 2014. Abstracts should be submitted online at www.inted2015.org/online_submission OBJECTIVES - Share best practices and promote international partnership and cooperation - Present and disseminate projects about education and the emerging technologies - Create an international forum to discuss and exchange ideas about the latest innovations in education and research, applied to all fields and disciplines PUBLICATIONS: Two ISBN publications (INTED2015 Abstracts and Proceedings) will be produced with all the accepted abstracts and papers. All accepted contributions will be included in the IATED Digital Library to form part of our database of innovative projects in Education and Technology. INTED2015 Publications will be included in Google Scholar and sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index. IMPORTANT DEADLINES - Abstract Submission Deadline: December 4th, 2014 (included) - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: December 29th, 2014 (included) - Final Paper Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2015 (included) - Registration deadline for authors: January 22nd, 2015 (included) VENUE: In addition to your professional experience in INTED2015,you will be able to enjoy one of the most impressive cities in Spain, Madrid. Madrid, the capital of Spain, with its cosmopolitan air, is a monumental city with a growing amount of tourists who visit it the whole year round. It is well known for its monuments, historical old quarters, cultural offer, traditions and tasty gastronomy. Visiting Madrid will be an experience that you will never forget. Come and experience it for yourself! More information is available at http://inted2015.org/tourism Enquiries: inted2015@iated.org Website: http://inted2015.org

POLITSCI '14 / Political Science Conference on Political Science in Contemporary World: Neoliberalism, Crises and Social Resistance Movements

POLITSCI '14 / Political Science Conference on Political Science in Contemporary World: Neoliberalism, Crises and Social Resistance Movements 10th to 12th December 2014 Istanbul University, Turkey Keynote Lecture: Jamie Peck The full papers are going to be published in the proceedings book with an ISBN number, and will be sent to be reviewed for inclusion in the "Thomson and Reuters Web of Science's Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (CPCI). Enquiries: info@politsciconference.org Web address: http://www.politsciconference.org Sponsored by: Istanbul University and DAKAM Social Classes and Late Neoliberalism Neoliberalism in the post-crisis Period: States and Changing Accumulation Regimes Changes in State-Capital Relations The Impact of Economic Crises in late 2000s on Middle Classes State Crises, Regime Crises and Neoliberal Governmentality State Forms under Transition, New Regulatory Frameworks and Hegemonic Projects New State Forms and New Governmental Techniques Political Regimes/Political Crises under Late Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Tendencies Crises of Political Hegemony and New Political Rationalities in 2000s Global Capitalism and Global Institutions (the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization etc.) Changing Terms of the Global Trade and Financial Regime Changing Role of Global Institutions New Policy Instruments and Agendas of Global Institutions The dynamics of "fast policy" transfer under Late Neoliberalism Social Policy and the New Regulatory Frameworks for Poverty New Techniques in the Government of Poverty Rights-based Approach to Social Policy vs. the Approach Based on Poverty Aids: New Trends Exclusive vs. Inclusive Citizenship Regimes under Late Neoliberalism Urban Space, Class Struggles and Social Resistance Movements under Late Neoliberalism Power, Sovereignty and Resistance in the Urban Space New Forms of Class Struggles Theory, Action and Social Protests Urban Marginality Gender Regimes under Late Neoliberalism Gender, Politics and Space Women, Poverty and New Regulatory Frameworks Queer Politics and Neoliberalism Reconstructing Manhood under Late Neoliberalism State and Repression-Surveillance Network State, Coercion and Social Control The State and Surveillance Network Security State, the "State of Emergency" and the Legal Sphere Politics of Time, Space and Memory under Late Neoliberalism Politics of Urban Restructuring under Late Neoliberalism Cultural Heritage and Sites of Memory Politics of Memory Problematizing Politics as a Discipline Epistemological discussions Debates on Methodology in Politics New interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Science Teaching Difficult and/or Controversial Subjects Research and teaching politics

16th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil

16th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil Wednesday 18th March – Friday 20th March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: Does evil exist? Should 'evil' exist in the 21st Century? The newspapers use it when talking about children who have been abused or parents who murder their babies. Political language splits into tensions of good versus evil, the forces of light versus the forces of dark, particularly in relation to situations of war or terrorism. Films attract huge audiences at the cinema who are looking to be frightened or scared by supernatural demons, possessions, witches and the malignant power of evil and evil beings. And when confronted by people and events which we cannot fathom or understand, all of us seem to revert to the language of evil to point to 'something more' than it being just 'wrong' or 'bad'. But what is this 'something more'? Is it real? Just an illusion? A convenience? A cop out? Or does evil still have a role to play today? Everyone – academics and artists, NGOs and performers, practitioners, clergy, journalists, therapists, nurses, doctors, social workers – has something to say about anything that might be considered "evil" through any one of a hundred-plus prisms. This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. In wrestling with evil(s) we are confronted with a multi-layered phenomenon which invites people from all disciplines, professions and vocations to come together in dialogue and wrestle with questions that cross the boundaries of the intellectual, the emotional and the personal. Underlying these efforts there is the sense that in grappling with evil we are in fact grappling with questions and issues of our own humanity. We want YOU to join this discussion! Two themes which emerged at the 2014 meeting were financial and political acts which can be considered evil, especially acts of genocide and monetary policy decisions that impact wide segments of the world population. We can both build on these discussions and reach out in new directions and follow new leads, exploring new tangents of EVIL in any way, shape, or form. The complex nature of evil is reflected in this call for presentations: in recognising that no one approach or perspective can adequately do justice to what we mean by evil, so there is an equal recognition that no one form of presentation ought to take priority over others. We solicit contributions which may be ~ papers, panels, workshops, reports ~ case studies ~ performance pieces; dramatic readings; poetic renditions; short stories; creative writings ~ works of art; works of music We will also consider other forms of contribution. Successful proposals will normally be given a 20 minute presentation space. Perspectives are sought from all academic disciplines along with, for example, those working in the caring professions, journalism, the media, the military, prison services, politics, psychiatry and other work-related, ngo and vocational areas. Presentations that build on these themes or branch out into new areas are equally welcome. Key themes for reflection may include, but are not limited to: -what is evil? -is there 'new' evil, or are evil acts/events pretty much the same across time with only our interpretive lenses changing as cultures shift? -the nature and sources of evil and human wickedness -evil animals? Wicked creatures? -the places and spaces of evil -crimes, criminals and justice -psychopathic behaviour – mad or bad? -villains, wicked characters and heroes -vice and virtue -choice, responsibility, and diminished responsibility -social and cultural reactions to evil and human wickedness -political evils; evil, power and the state -evil and gender; evil and the feminine -evil children -hell, hells, damnation: evil and the afterlife -the portrayal of evil and human wickedness in the media and popular culture -individual acts of evil, group violence, holocaust and genocide; obligations of bystanders -terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing -fear, terror, horror -the search for meaning and sense in evil and human wickedness -the nature and tasks of theodicy -religious understandings of evil and human wickedness -postmodern approaches to evil and human wickedness -ecocriticism, evil and suffering -evil and the use/abuse of technology; evil in cyberspace The Steering Group also welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are at least double blind peer reviewed. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words E-mails should be entitled: Evil16 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Stephen Morris: smmorris58@yahoo.com Rob Fisher: evil16@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. 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. 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. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/perspectives-on-evil/call-for-papers/ 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.

8th Global Conference: Visual Literacies

8th Global Conference: Visual Literacies Wednesday 18th March – Friday 20th March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: In a relatively short space of time, the concept of visual literacy has grown from seedbeds of ideas in a small subset of disciplines into a movement of thinking and practice that touches nearly all fields of research. The exponential growth in the digital world in only one example of how visual literacy has become an integrated component of modernity. This interactive inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine, explore and make multi-disciplinary connections to all issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to current theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in fields such as popular culture, architecture, cinema, youth culture, education, semiotics, art history, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and vocation in which visual literacy plays a part. Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to, but not limited by, any of the following themes; 1. Visual Literacy as Theory ~What are the theoretical constructs of your discipline? ~What are the current debates and directions of your field? ~What are the various forms of socio-cultural reactions and realizations of visual literacy? ~What are the modes and nodes of interdisciplinary connections to visual literacy in your field? ~How will the concept of visual literacy be described in the next decade in your discipline? ~How does the concept of 'framing' fit with visual literacy in your field? 2. Visual Literacy as Practice ~What are the forms of representation and realization of visual literacy in your field? ~What are the current debates and issues around the notion of 'practice' in your field? ~What are the current 'tools, approaches and applications' of visual literacy in your field? ~What are the current interdisciplinary connections to the 'tools, approaches and applications' of visual literacy in your field? ~What are the 'insiders views' visual literacy? (That is from the perspective of artists, taggers, digital natives, digital or visual immigrants) 3. Visual Literacy as Analysis ~What are the modes of visual literacy analysis in your field? ~What are the 'tools' of visual literacy analysis in your field? ~What are the current debates around analysis in your field? ~What are the current debates and forms of analysis in the areas of art history, fine arts, creative arts, multimodality, cinema, television, drama and IT? 4. Visual Literacy as an Interdisciplinary Overlap ~How is visual literacy connected to visual rhetoric and/or visual thinking: overlaps, questions and differences? ~How is visual literacy related to sensory perception? ~How is curriculum design in, or across disciplines connected to and through Visual literacy? The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. What to send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are at least double blind peer reviewed. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords E-mails should be entitled: VL8 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar: phil.fitzsimmons@avondale.edu.au Rob Fisher: vl8@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the 'At the Interface' series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference 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. 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. For further details of the conference, please visit: www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/

LibrAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship

LibrAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2nd to 5th April 2015 - Osaka, Japan IAFOR and its global partners are proud to announce the Fifth Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship. We encourage submissions and participation from around the world to this international, interdisciplinary and international event. Enquiries: librasia@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/librasia2015/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum Conference Theme and Streams - Please submit your abstract through the online submission system found on the "Call for Papers" page of the conference website. Conference Theme: "Power: Text and Context" The 2015 conference theme is "Power: Text and Context" in literature, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this unifying subject 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 will be organized into the following streams: Literature African Literature Ancient and Classical Literature Anglo-American Literature Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature Asian Literature Children's and Young Adult Literature Comparative Literature European Literature Folktales, Myths and Legends Historical and Political Literature Indigenous People's/Ethnic Literatures and Minority Discourses Latin American Literature Literary Criticism and Theory Literary Practice Literary Translation and Translatology Literature and Film Literature, Language and Identity Literature and Religion Poetry Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism Memoir and Autobiography Teaching Literature Travel Writing Theatre and Drama Librarianship This expanded stream intentionally seeks educators, researchers, scientists, engineers, industry people, policy makers, decision makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Library and Information Science (LIS) of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical aspects of the following: Principles, theories, models, standards challenges, legal, and social issues of LIS Protecting and preserving librarianship: 21st Century problems and solutions Management, leadership, planning, operation, and monitoring Cataloging, classification, and collection management Library research and development Library, information literacy, education, and culture Library instruction and reader advisory Library, content and knowledge management Information architectures, resources, services and promotion Information retrieval, recommendation and personalization Archives, museums, record management and information preservation Publishing, electronic publishing and bibliometrics Digital media, social media and libraries E-learning, M-learning, learning objects, content, platforms and tools Taxonomies, ontologies and applications Digital humanities, literature and culture Virtual environments and game-based learning Emerging technologies for information organizations, such as but not limited to Web, mobile, Cloud, machine intelligence and big data Censorship, ownership and intellectual property Trust, reputation, ethics, security, and privacy issues LibrAsia2015 Conference Chairs Dr. Myles Chilton LibrAsia2015 Conference Chair (Literature) Nihon University, Japan Myles Chilton (B.A. University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Nihon University. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Chilton has been in Japan for over twenty years, where in addition to continuing his work in exploring relationships between contemporary world literature and global cities, he has become increasingly interested in the pedagogy of literature in EFL classrooms. Dr. Dickson Chiu LibrAsia2015 Conference Co-Chair (Librarianship) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He is now teaching at the University of Hong Kong and has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. Dr. Patrick Lo LibrAsia 2015 Conference Co-Chair (Librarianship) University of Tsukuba, Japan Dr. Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba in Japan (since 2012). From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Lo served as Assistant Librarian I (Head of the Cataloguing Section) and Subject Specialist for School of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University of Hong Kong Library.