National Conference @KSOU

www.karnatakastateopenuniversity.in/fisd

NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES, 2015

http://barefootphilosophers.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/national-undergraduate-research-conference-in-the-humanities-2015/

Faculty Development Programme @ NIRMA University

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am happy to inform you that Institute of Management, Nirma University has launched Faculty Development Programmes on Teaching Tools & Techniques for Management Teachers to be held at IMNU during November 20-22, 2014.

For more details, please refer to the programme brochure. It is available on our website, and given below are the links to access the same:

http://www.imnu.ac.in/www/downloads/TTTMT_2014.pdf

We look forward to receiving nominations from your Institute.

 For additional information or specific queries, please feel free to get in touch with me on 079- 30642609, 0217-241900(Ext 609) or
jigar@nirmauni.ac.in

 We look forward to our mutually beneficial association.

Yours Sincerely,
Jigar J. Barot
MDP Office
Institute of Management
Nirma University
Ahmedabad

ABSRC 2014 MILAN - Advances in Business-Related Scientific Research Conference

ABSRC 2014 MILAN - Advances in Business-Related Scientific Research Conference 10th to 12th December 2014 Milan, Italy ABSRC is an important international gathering of business and business-related sciences scholars and educators. In addition to scientific papers, the focus is on various best practices and solutions, which are important for business-related policies and activities at the individual, organizational, group, network, local, regional, national, international, and global level. ABSRC is a global conference. Researchers and practitioners from 50 different countries participated at the past ABSRCs. Information: www.absrc.org Business and business-related issues are covered including the following topic groups: Business strategy Change management and organizational development Conflict management Critical management Economic growth Entrepreneurship Gender, diversity and social issues Human resource management and career development Humanities and arts and business Industry, area or region specific studies Industrial organization International business Language in organizations Law and business Macroeconomics Management consulting Management education, training and development Managerial and organizational cognition and psychology Marketing and consumer behavior Microeconomics Natural sciences and business Organizational behavior Organizational information and communication systems Organizations and financing Production and operations management Research methods Social sciences and business Technology and innovation management Enquiries: chair@absrc.org Web address: http://www.absrc.org Sponsored by: GEA College - Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Edukator d.o.o.

New academic opportunities from the UNCTAD Virtual Institute network

Dear Vi friends,

I'm pleased to forward the following academic opportunities. I hope you find them of interest, and that you will distribute widely among your own professional networks.

The International Development Bank's Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (IDB-INTAL) has issued a call for research proposals for researchers and research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Researchers or institutions from other regions may also submit projects, provided it is done in conjunction with LAC partners.

Proposals must address one of four research areas: value chains and natural resources; climate change and integration; renewable energy; and standards and market access. One project in each area will receive up to USD 15,000.

Proposals must be submitted simultaneously to intal@iadb.org and coordinacion@redmercosur.org by November 3, at 17:00 (Montevideo, Uruguay).

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IDB-INTAL will also grant scholarships of USD 7,000, 5,500 and 4,000, as well as provide mentoring, to three projects from young LAC economists in the areas of value chains and natural resources, climate change and integration, or renewable energy.

Proposals for the Young Economists Award should be submitted simultaneously to intal@iadb.org and coordinacion@redmercosur.org by November 3, at 17:00 (Montevideo, Uruguay).

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As published in the latest Vi Quarterly Newsletter, full scholarships are available for the Virtual Institute online course on trade and gender, scheduled for January 19 to March 8, 2015.

Funded by the Government of Finland, the course targets academics (from universities and research centres), policymakers and representatives of civil society in developing and transition countries involved in research, teaching, policy formulation and implementation, or field work in the area of trade and gender. Qualified women candidates, as well as candidates from sub-Saharan Africa and the least developed countries, are particularly encouraged to apply. 

The deadline for applications is December 1.

For more information, contact vi@unctad.org

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Best regards,

Susana Olivares
Virtual Institute
UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Division on Globalization and Development Strategies
Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10 - Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 917 5823 Fax: +41-22 917 0050
Web: http://vi.unctad.org

5th Global Conference: Trauma: Theory and Practice

5th Global Conference: Trauma: Theory and Practice Sunday 22nd March – Tuesday 24th March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding individual and collective trauma in terms of practice, theory and lived reality. Trauma studies has emerged from its foundation in psychoanalysis to be a dominant methodology for understanding contemporary events and our reactions to them. Critics have argued that we live in a 'culture of trauma.' Repeated images of suffering and death form our collective and/or cultural unconscious. The fifth global conference seeks papers on a variety of issues related to trauma including: the function of memory, memorial, and testimony; collective and cultural perspectives; the impact of time; and the management of personal and political traumas. Trauma has a thematic identity that exists on the interdisciplinary fringes of other subject areas, either peripherally nudging, or fully penetrating existing research, shifting cultures and influencing global politics. Thus, while we continue to welcome research papers of core theoretical and clinical interest, we would also warmly encourage those papers that address: trauma in disguise – how trauma is denied, hidden, re-presented in new guises; banal trauma – the rise of trauma culture and the changing definitions and conceptualisations of trauma, in particular its socio-cultural construction; intertextuality; displacement, migration, and homelessness; living with the realities of trauma; Finally, whilst we will continue to encourage presentations that take the following forms: auto-ethnographical and experiential accounts, case studies, papers, performance pieces, reports, and works of art, works-in-progress, and workshops. We would also enjoy receiving submissions that might conceive of trauma as a space, or opportunity, to make life and behaviour changes, that supports psychological and emotional growth, and develops interests in spirituality across any of the following themes: 1. Theorising Trauma - Trauma and post colonialism - ideological and ethical considerations - Memory - recalling the 'ghosts' of trauma - Wounds of national identity - Trauma studies - Individual versus collective trauma - Socio-cultural perspectives on traumatic experience - Gender – differences, outcomes, and responses. - The body as a trauma a site - Psychic trauma – emotional and mental disorder - Resilience and trauma - Social justice and trauma – culturally different approaches - New theory, integration, and application 2. Representing Trauma - Aesthetics and experience - Affect, trauma, and art - embodiment and transformation - Eyewitness/bystander reports - Fear and horror – fact and fiction - Gaming, violence and normalisation - Trauma on stage, screen, and in cyberspace - Traumatic expression - Language and media: mixing reality with fiction - Literature and poetry - New technologies of trauma - Reporting on trauma - Images and narrative relationships - Otherness, spirituality, and trauma 3. Personal Experiences and Local Contexts of Trauma - Bereavement: parent; sibling; partner loss - Abandonment - Betrayal - Peer pressure and bullying - Murder and assault - impact on the self and portrayal by the news media - Domestic violence - impact upon individuals and future service delivery - Child abuse and childhood trauma - Survivor guilt - in the wake of loss - Identity - de/construction and transformation - Disability - the affect on psychomotor skills - Witnessing trauma – helping those we love - Testimony - The interrogation, critiquing, representation, and/or creation of works that deal with fictional and actual traumatic events. 4. Public and Political Trauma - War and trauma, both past and present - Captivity and torture - Public disasters and trauma including environmental catastrophes - Disease, public health and trauma - Political trauma, silencing dissent/voicing dissent - Social trauma - Traumatic displacement and cultural uprooting - Inherited intergenerational trauma - Truth, remembrance, and reconciliation 5. Diagnosing and Treating Trauma - Critical questions of practice - Experiential trauma work and practical projects - Medical, therapeutic, and holistic approaches to trauma management - Non-medical therapies/approaches – the uses of drama, dance, narrative, bibliotherapy and scriptotherapy, music, art, and digital technologies - Vicarious traumatisation, secondary stress, and compassion fatigue. Professional helpers/researchers' experiences and/or as survivors - Coping strategies – stress management and reduction - Person to survivor. Perspectives of change - identity, and post-traumatic growth - Treatment as re-traumatisation What to Send: The Steering Group also welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. 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: Trauma 5 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: Peter Bray: pbray@eit.ac.nz Rob Fisher: trauma5@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/trauma/call-for-papers/

EDC 2015 - 10th Annual Education and Development Conference

EDC 2015 - 10th Annual Education and Development Conference 5th to 7th March 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Enquiries: contact@tomorrowpeople.org Web address: http://www.ed-conference.org Sponsored by: Tomorrow People Organization Dear Scholars, Students, NGO and governmental representatives: We are happy to announce EDC 2015, hosted by Tomorrow People Organization. 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 interested in Education. More specifically, it targets: Scholars: Share your research, learn some new approaches, hear about others' experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience. Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, educational development strategies and educational systems around the world; network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting educational development. NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others. Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills. Company representatives: This is a chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the importance of permanent education in achieving the high performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships. Others: Anyone who is interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities. Education and Development Conference 2015 will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field of education and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals. We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are reviewed on a rolling admission basis - as long as space is available. The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Adult Education, Arts Education, Anthropology and Education, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Systems and Policy, Educational Psychology, Environmental Education, Gender and Education, Guidance and Counseling, Health Education, Higher Education, History of Education, IT and Education, Language Education and Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Multicultural Issues in Education, Philosophy of Education, Physical Education, Primary Education, Quality in Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Research and Development, Rural Education, Science Education, Secondary Education, Sociology of Education, Special and Inclusive Education, Teacher Education, Values and Education, Vocational Education and Training, Other areas of Education. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a dedicated ISBN publication of EDC 2015 Conference Proceedings. We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2015, as one of our participants, coming from over 60 countries worldwide! Sincerely, EDC 2015 Organizing Committee Email: contact@tomorrowpeople.org