AASG conference
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Australian Animals Study Group 2013
July 8, 2013 – July 10, 2013The 5th Australian Animals Study Group Conference will be held at the Faculty of Law, 8 - 10 July 2013
Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek Studies
The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand's 11th Biennial Conference
The present crisis in Greece creates the presuppositions for a new critical approach to the accepted cultural orientation, self-awareness and social culture. The profound impact of the crisis on all levels of contemporary Greek life has already generated a systematic critique of the overall structure of modern Greek state, historical consciousness and political order expressed in all forms of cultural production through literature, arts, language studies, education and journalism.
The conference is dedicated to the exploration of the new cultural paradigm that is emerging for Greek studies and wants to investigate the parameters and the coordinates of the new critical self reflection that is likely to shape Greek studies in the near future.
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Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek Studies
December 7, 2012 – December 9, 2012
The present crisis in Greece creates the presuppositions for a new critical approach to the accepted cultural orientation, self-awareness and social culture.
The profound impact of the crisis on all levels of contemporary Greek life has already generated a systematic critique of the overall structure of modern Greek state, historical consciousness and political order expressed in all forms of cultural production through literature, arts, language studies, education and journalism.
The conference is dedicated to the exploration of the new cultural paradigm that is emerging for Greek studies and wants to investigate the parameters and the coordinates of the new critical self reflection that is likely to shape Greek studies in the near future.
Call for Papers
Papers are invited to discuss, question and examine the revaluation process that is taking place, locate its focal points and analyse its premises and consequences.
Papers are expected to cover a wide area of studies, from politics, language, economy, tradition, education, social studies, literature, cinema, arts, history, cultural studies, gender studies, journalism, media and the blogosphere.
Special sessions are planned for specific events or areas of studies, such Cyprus, the European Union and the Balkans.
One parallel session is also planned on the Legacies of Cornelius Castoriadis, organised in collaboration with the Australian Association of Cornelius Castoriadis’ Friends.
Deadline for the Submission of abstracts: 28th May 2012
Organising Committee
A/Professor Vrasidas Karalis Vrasidas.Karalis@sydney.edu.au
Dr Anthony Dracopoulos Anthony.Dracopoulos@sydney.edu.au
Dr Panayota Nazou Panayota.Nazou@sydney.edu.au
Australasian Humour Studies Network Colloquium
HOLD THE DATE: 20TH AHSN COLLOQUIUM, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, 14-15 FEBRUARY 2014
The 2014 Annual AHSN Colloquium will take place at the National Library in Wellington, New Zealand, 14-15 February. The conference theme is, “Anything Goes” and the Call of Proposals will be made here in April.
As usual, papers will be welcome on any humour-related topic, but particularly those realting to the limits of humour and those occasions when professional and everyday humorists go too far. Since this is the first AHSN event to be held in New Zealand (ie. not Australia), attention is particularly encouraged for the issue of whether “anything goes” in trans-Tasman joking: given the close relations between the two countries, is it in fact possible to “go too far” in antipodean joking?
The colloquium is likely to include contributions from the New Zealand Cartoon Archive (housed in the National Library), and the New Zealand Film Archive, so issues relating to cartooning and film will also be welcome.
Conference Convenor is AHSN Review Panellist, Dr Mike Lloyd (Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington), assisted by VUW colleagues, Dr Marco Sonzogni (Italian,
Translation Studies), and AHSN member, Dr Meredith Marra (Linguistics).
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20th AHSN Colloquium, Wellington, New Zealand, 14-15 February 2014
February 14, 2014 – February 15, 2014The Call for Papers is now open for the 20th AHSN Colloquium, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 14-15 February 2014.
To submit your propsal, please click on the "call for papers" link below, then follow the instructions. To proceed directly to the submissions page, click here.
To submit your proposal, you will to log in to your user account for the University of Sydney's OCS Conference Management System. If you do not already have an account (from a previous AHSN colloquium or other event) you may create one at the next step.
For more information about the colloqiuium and about the activities of the Australasian Humour Studies Network, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/humourstudies/.
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AHSN 19th Annual Colloquium on "Humour and Creativity", 7-9 February 2013
February 7, 2013 – February 9, 2013The 19th Colloquium of the Australasian Humour Studies Network will be held at the University of Newcastle (city campus) from 7-9 February 2013. Co-convenors, Conjoint Prof. Michael Ewans FAHA and Mr Michael Meany, have selected as the conference theme, “Humour and Creativity”.
A draft program is now available via the AHSN website, or by clicking here. AHSN is a transdisciplinary network of scholars concerned with humour, laughter and the comic in all their forms.
Information about this Colloquium, including the Call for Papers and Workshops, is posted here and also on the AHSN home website: http://www.sydney.edu.au/humourstudies where you are cordially invited to subscribe to the AHSN e-newsletter and to access additional resources on Humour Studies.
Please note: Submissions are now closed. Registration for the Colloquium is now open. For details, please see http://sydney.edu.au/humourstudies/events/registration.
An interactive map of the conference area is now available here.
Sensibility
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Sensibility in the Early Modern Era
August 28, 2012 – August 29, 2012Location: Boardroom, Darlington Centre, City Road (entrance is facing the turnoff to Carillon Ave), University of Sydney
Organisers: Stephen Gaukroger and Anik Waldow
Registration: Registration is free, and is just to give us an idea of numbers for catering purposes. Please indicate your intention to attend by registering online on the "Registration" page or by emailing Annette Pierdziwol: annette.pierdziwol@sydney.edu.au
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Workshop on Representation and Sensibility
September 19, 2011 – September 20, 2011Two day workshop on Representation and Sensibility
This workshop marks the beginning of a series of conferences and events exploring two core problems in early-modern philosophy: representation and sensibility. The first is an issue in 16th- and 17th-century thought, as knowledge comes to be construed in terms of representations of the world. Sensibility turns on the question of the standing of reason in Enlightenment thought in the mid-eighteenth century, in particular the issue of what role sensibility plays in our conception of the world, tying together reflections on physiological sensitivity, psychological/epistemological sensation, and aesthetic/moral sentiments. In bringing these two issues together the workshop aims to shed new light on our thinking of the origins of science, religion, morality, and norms of behaviour more generally.
Word and Image, East and West
October 28, 2011 – October 29, 2011
In the last twenty years the relationship between the visual and the verbal has become a key issue in the humanities in general and, in particular, in the creation of new inter-, multi- or transdisciplinary areas of study. Reaction to the growing presence of images in contemporary culture has, thus, led to a flourishing of publications, conferences and academic courses on the varied interactions between text and image. Yet, a comparative investigation on the way the East and West perceive the interrelation between the visual and the textual still needs particular attention.
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Word and Image, East and West
October 28, 2011 – October 29, 2011
In the last twenty years the relationship between the visual and the verbal has become a key issue in the humanities in general and, in particular, in the creation of new inter-, multi- or transdisciplinary areas of study. Reaction to the growing presence of images in contemporary culture has, thus, led to a flourishing of publications, conferences and academic courses on the varied interactions between text and image. Yet, a comparative investigation on the way the East and West perceive the interrelation between the visual and the textual still needs particular attention.
The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scholars and researchers from different backgrounds (historical, literary, theoretical or philosophical) in order to discuss and compare the mutual interdependence of words and images, the mixed mediality of the visual and the verbal, and the way they have been interlacing in different geographical and cultural areas, from Europe and the US to the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region, throughout the years.
Discussions will therefore focus on the different modalities one medium has been included in the other in the Western and Eastern cultures, as well as the way the interaction of word and image has contributed to challenge the East/West binary.
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The conference is organized by Giorgia Alù and Francesco Borghesi (Department of Italian Studies, The University of Sydney). It has been generously supported by the China Studies Centre (The University of Sydney), as well as by the School of Languages and Cultures, the Power Institute, the School of Letters, Art, and Media (The University of Sydney), the China Research Centre (University of Technology, Sydney) and the International Association of Word and Image Studies Association.
Enquiries and proposals should be addressed to:
Venues
The University of Sydney: How to get there
Art Gallery of New South Wales: How to get there
Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship
A PARADISEC conference
Digital methods for recording information are now ubiquitous. In fieldwork-based disciplines, like linguistics, musicology, anthropology and so on, recordings are typically of high cultural value and there is great benefit in the proper curation of these recordings, to the researcher, to the community in which they worked, and to the broader society.
What are the costs and benefits of these technologies?
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Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship
December 12, 2011 – December 14, 2011A PARADISEC conference
12-14th December 2011
Go to the conference homepage http://paradisec.org.au/2011Conf.html for details and to register for the conference.
Digital methods for recording information are now ubiquitous. In fieldwork-based disciplines, like linguistics, musicology, anthropology and so on, recordings are typically of high cultural value and there is great benefit in the proper curation of these recordings, to the researcher, to the community in which they worked, and to the broader society.
What are the costs and benefits of these technologies?
Abstracts (max 400 word length) are due by May 9th, 2011.
Second Sydney Winter School on Experimental Economics
The School of Economics at The University of Sydney is pleased to announce a five-day winter school on advanced topics in experimental economics.
Two leading international experimental economists will participate in the winter school as teaching faculty. They are Professor Simon Gächter (University of Nottingham) and Professor Graham Loomes (University of Warwick).
The winter school will comprise four days of intensive coursework and laboratory sessions. On a fifth day, there will be a research symposium in which participants will have the opportunity to present results of their own research. The symposium will also include a poster session, in which participants will be able to present more preliminary work, including work at a design stage.
The winter school is intended primarily for PhD students from the Australasian region, however applications from early-career postdoctoral researchers and applicants from other parts of the world will also be considered should places be available. It is expected that all participants will either already be using experimental economics methods in their research, or intending to apply these methods to investigate aspects of their current research interests.
Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia
Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent | December 8-10, 2011
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Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent
December 8, 2011 – December 10, 2011This symposium, to be held at the University of Sydney, relates to the place of Indigenous Knowledges in Higher Education, and approaches to the same across different cultural contexts. The symposium and planned workshop will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous Knowledge and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.
This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.
Venues and Symposium Material
The Symposium program, and abstracts, are now available at the following links:
Indigenous_Knowledges_Program_English.pdf
Indigenous_Knowledges_Program_Spanish.pdf
Indigenous_Knowledges_Abstracts_Spanish.pdf
Indigenous_Knowledges_Abstracts_English.pdf
Information flyer for Les Malezer Sydney Ideas Lecture
Film Festival flyer - español
Film Festival flyer - English
Use this interactive map to locate the following venues on the main campus.
December 8, 9 Symposium
Old Teachers College, Room 215
December 9 - Sydney Ideas Keynote Speaker 6pm
Law School Foyer
December 10 - Indigenous Film Festival
Law School, Lecture Theatre 101
How to get to the University
Follow this link for public transport alternatives for reaching the University
Ameen Rihani International Conference
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Ameen Rihani: A Century of Engaging Humanism
November 25, 2010 – November 26, 2010Convenors: Nijmeh Hajjar & Ahmad Shboul
This Conference celebrates the achievement of the leading Lebanese-Arab-American intellectual and man of letters, Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). It highlights the relevance of his original ideas to our own times. The Conference hopes to provide a shift away from the barren paradigms of the “clash of civilisations” by focusing on Rihani’s positive contributions, particularly in the context of cultural relations, and the quest for global peace on the basis of mutual acceptance and respect between peoples and cultures.
Invited Speakers
- Safdar Ahmed
- Samer Akkach
- Fadiah Alshehri
- Youssef Choueiri
- Nuwar Mawlawi Diab
- Todd Fine
- Nijmeh Hajjar
- Vrasidas Karalis
- Ali Mahafzah
- Naji Oueijan
- Ameen Albert Rihani
- Ahmad Shboul
Humboldt Kolleg "Wissensfiguren bei Heinrich von Kleist"
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Humboldt Kolleg "Wissensfiguren bei Heinrich von Kleist"
February 17, 2011 – February 20, 201117.-20. Februar 2011
REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED
Full registration - standard 200.00
Full registration - student 100.00
"Full registration" included lunch and coffee breaks every day plus transport to Manly for Day Four sessions at the Manly Novotel.Day registration - standard 50.00
Day registration - student 25.00
"Day registration" includes lunch on the days for which you register, and on Day Four transport to Manly for the sessions at the Manly Novotel.Conference Dinner 40.00
Sydney Sawyer Seminar: The Antipodean Laboratory Humanity, Sovereignty, and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands
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The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field
August 5, 2010 – August 7, 2010How was the Pacific made into the obligatory site for exploring the issues that mattered in the Atlantic world? This conference will consider how scientific exchanges and cultural encounters between the peoples of the Atlantic world and the Pacific reshaped knowledge of humanity, human systems, and the environment.
For full details please visit: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/research/sawyer_seminar_series/conference/index.shtml
CAP-FIPF 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference
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Commission Asie Pacifique F.I.P.F. Congrès CAP 2010
December 2, 2010 – December 6, 2010Université de Sydney
AustralieLe français et la diversité francophone en Asie-Pacifique.
Australian Society for French Studies Conference
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Le XVIIIème Congrès de l’Association australienne d’études françaises
September 30, 2010 – October 2, 201018th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies
University of Sydney
30 September-2 October, 2010
Playtime: formes, fonctions et théories du jeu
Australian Media Traditions
International Media History - From Australia To The World
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