The first special issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) presents the proceedings of a 2009 conference on ‘Music and Migration’, which was part of the 3-year research project ‘Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: A Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa’. The project was based at the Universities of Southampton and… Continue reading Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
Category: Academic Research
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Submissions are invited for The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science (TJES), by the The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS). The editors search for original manuscripts reporting multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary engineering and science research. Not only primary research articles, but also papers in transdisciplinary education can be published.… Continue reading The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science
Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Orientation for Cultural Cooperation Between China and Europe Free download link at the end of this post ! As a result of the project EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS, a publication is now available, addressing the question of intercultural communication and cooperation. In the framework of an ongoing dialogue between China and Europe, the project was generated… Continue reading Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability
Essex 17th – 18th of April 2012 The conference Ecocultures 2012 takes place at the University of Essex from the 17th to the 18th of April. The aim of Ecocultures 2012 is to show, how communities can adapt successfully to social-ecological change and thus reach the maintenance of resilience and the enhancement of wellbeing. Ecocultures… Continue reading Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability
Call for Papers: Beyond the Creative City
Special Issue: Beyond the Creative City Portugal The “Cities, Cultures, and Architecture Research Group” of the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra is going to publish a special journal issue called “Beyond the Creative City” in December 2012. Therefore it calls for papers on the topic of urban development and its effect on… Continue reading Call for Papers: Beyond the Creative City
Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12
Turkey From the 11th to 14th of April 2012 the Contemporary Art Conference takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. It is open to the approaches of institutions and history of contemporary art as well as to styles generated by various international artists with different tendencies. Contemporary art has contrary characteristics and constantly renews itself and its… Continue reading Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12
Call for Papers: The International Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change
USA September 13-15 2012 The Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change is an event of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder, that takes place from the 13th to the 15th of September 2012. Which obstacles and opportunities are U.S. climate policymakers and scientists confronted with? Current… Continue reading Call for Papers: The International Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change
Sociology of the Arts – Artistic Practices
Vienna 5th to 8th of September 2012 Call for Papers: The 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which is part of the European Sociological Association (ESA), takes place from the 5th to the 8th of September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be organised by the Institute for Music Sociology… Continue reading Sociology of the Arts – Artistic Practices
“Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency”
November 07th, 2011 MIT (USA) “How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises through individual and collective art practice? How do we reconcile the arts, activism, and pedagogy? Stella McGregor, Founder and Director of Urbano Project, will share her experience of working with inner city youth and introduce projects such as… Continue reading “Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency”
Call for Papers for the Graduate Conference “Landscapes and Mindscapes”
Submission deadline: 15th of June. Conference date: September 16th to 17th in Naples, Italy Graduate students, recent Ph.D.s, and junior scholars from different fields focusing on any cultural and literary tradition are encouraged to apply. Papers should investigate critical methodologies (geocriticism, ecocriticism, geopoetics, etc.) and different approaches to the relationship between word and space.
