Информационный бюллетень № 297

САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ЦЕНТР ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ
ОБЩЕСТВО ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ В САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЕ
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN RUSSIAN ART
Amherst College
Department of Russian
 
Amherst’s Robert E. Keiter 1957 Fund for Postdoctoral Fellows, with matching funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports exceptionally promising young scholars for two years of half-time teaching (one course each semester) and half-time research at the College. As part of the Keiter Fellowship program, Amherst will appoint a postdoctoral fellow as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Art for the academic years 2014-16. This Keiter Postdoctoral Fellowship is a full-time salaried appointment that is open only to those who will have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by September 2014 and who have not already held a regular faculty appointment.
 
We invite applications from candidates whose work concerns Russian art history and visual culture in Russia.  The ideal candidate will have both training in art history and broad knowledge of Russian language and culture.  The Fellow will teach courses in English in the context of the Russian Department’s curriculum.  For both teaching and research, the Fellow should expect to draw on the Whitney Collection of Russian Art at Amherst’s Mead Art Museum and the collection of artists’ books at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.
 
Applicants should submit electronically   https://jobs.amherst.edu/view/opportunity/id/644   a cover letter, curriculum vitae (to include a description of courses taught), one writing sample not to exceed thirty pages and one sample syllabus for a course appropriate for our department. Two letters of recommendation should be sent directly by email attachment to Elizabeth Damon, Academic Department Coordinator, at  [email protected] .  Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.
 
Amherst College is a private undergraduate liberal arts college for men and women, with 1,600 students and more than 200 faculty members. Located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts, Amherst participates with Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts in the Five-College Consortium.  Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The College is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff.
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http://www.imre-kertesz-kolleg.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=73&l=1
The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena offers long-term Fellowships of up to twelve months and short term Fellowships from one to three months. Applications are invited from historians as well as from scholars in neighboring fields.
In general, long-term Fellowships commence in October or April. Please note the following information before you apply:
Fellows are expected to reside in Jena for the duration of their Fellowship.
1. Eligibility
Applicants must hold a PhD (Applicants for Junior Fellowships must have submitted their doctoral thesis)
Applicants should propose a research project within the thematic range of the Imre Kertész Kolleg (Focus on the 20th Century and on Central and Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe)
Applications from neighboring disciplines are encouraged.
2. Deadlines
Long-term fellowships are publically advertised
Long-term fellowships normally start in October or April; individual arrangements are subject to negotiation
Short-term fellowships can be negotiated individually
3. Applications must include
Curriculum vitae
List of publications
Project Proposal (max. 7 pages). See below for further details.
4. Project Proposal
Central questions and methodological approach
Relevance in view of state of research
Place within the research program of the Kolleg
Pre-studies realised so far
Work schedule for stay in Jena
Planned form of publication (article, monograph etc.)
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 The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) is now opening the annual call for fellowship applications. This is an opportunity for those who wish to spend a period of time during the academic year 2015/16 to conduct research as a part of the NIAS community.
Two open calls: individual Fellowships (non-Dutch) and Theme Groups 2015/2016
http://www.nias.knaw.nl/Pages/NIA/35/808.bGFuZz1FTkc.html
 
  A NIAS fellowship offers time to think and write as well as providing space to generate ideas and engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues from around the world. We invite scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and those working at the interface with other disciplines.
Please, continue to
 
NIAS Individual Fellowships for non-Dutch scholars 2015/16
Deadline: 15 April 2014
 
NIAS Theme Group Fellowships 2015/16
Deadline: 1 April 2014
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 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) Fellowships
 
The full announcement can be read at:    https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jid=287
 
The University of Tampere Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) declares open at the minimum six(6) and at the maximum eight (8) one- or two-year fixed-term IASR FELLOWSHIPS starting on 1 August 2014.
 
This application round does not include Category I Fellowships (Professorial Fellow). Fellows in Category II (Senior Research Fellow) must have completed a doctoral degree and conducted research actively in the past years. Fellows in Category III (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) must have completed a doctoral degree in the year 2010 or after. The duration of the employment relationships is primarily two years. One of the employment relationships in Category II is primarily defined as a one-year Kone Foundation Senior Fellowship for a foreign applicant. The applicant to be appointed to the post in question is expected to conduct his/her research on one or more societies in the Baltic Sea region from a transnational or comparative perspective. The position will be filled on the condition that the Kone Foundation decides to continue the funding of the Kone Foundation Senior Fellowship, which is currently under evaluation.
 
The IASR Fellowships are meant for researchers whose research activities focus on society and who are currently working at the University of Tampere or foreign researchers who are interested in developing cooperation with researchers working at the University of Tampere. Former IASR/Research Collegium/UTACAS Fellows can be appointed if at the beginning of the new research period five (5) years have passed since the end of the previous research period. This rule does not, however, apply to the Kone Foundation Senior Fellowship.  The selection criteria to be used are the applicant’s
academic merits demonstrated by his/her application documents and work plan, with emphasis on internationality. The appointed Fellows are expected to work at the premises of the IASR, take part in the activities of the group and live in Finland during their research period. The Fellows are also expected to participate in the postgraduate education of their field (5% of total working hours).
 
The monthly salary of Category II Fellow (Senior Research Fellow) is 5,020 euro and the monthly salary of Category III Fellow (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) is 4,320 euro.
 
The application must be submitted on 20 February 2014, at 15.45 (UTC +02:00) at the latest by filling out the electronic application form in use at the university (link at the bottom of the website).
 
The following documents must be appended to the application form:
 
* An English-language work plan, maximum 1,500 words, with the following structure: 1.  Title; 2. Abstract of no more than 70 words; 3. Background; 4. Main hypothesis and/or research questions; 5.  Data and methods; 6. Current phase of the project and work planned to be done at the IASR; 7.  Significance of the results; 8. Cooperation at the University of Tampere and elsewhere; and 9. Publication plan;
* an English-language CV, maximum five pages, compiled in accordance with a model curriculum vitae drafted by the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (Tutkimuseettinen neuvottelukunta, TENK; for instructions, go to    http://www.tenk.fi/en/template-researchers-curriculum-vitae ) or
including the corresponding information; and
* a full list of publications, prepared in accordance with the recommendation of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, which is used by the Academy of Finland (for instructions, go to    http://www.aka.fi/en-GB/A/Funding-and-guidance/How-to-apply/Appendices/List-of-publications/  or including the corresponding information.
 
All three (3) attachments must be attached to the electronic application form in the above-mentioned order as one pdf file (maximum size 5 Mb) named LastnameFirstname(IASR).pdf.
 
The Certificate of the Doctoral Degree must be presented before signing the employment contract.
 
For further information, please contact:
 
Professor Risto Heiskala, Director
University of Tampere
Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR)
Email:   [email protected]
Tel.   +358 40 741 7518
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Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists
Oldenburg, Germany
Scholarship / Financial aid: up to five grants
Date: 2014 intake
Deadline: 16 February 2014
Open to: international artists aged 35 or below
Website:    http://www.eastchance.com/anunt.asp?q=1957,eu,sch&issue=20140112&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140112
 
Conferences - No fee conferences
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 Visiting Scholars Programme 2014-2015,
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
 
Each year, the Aleksanteri Institute invites highly
qualified foreign scholars studying Russia and
Eastern Europe to undertake a 1–3 month
research stay at the premises of the institute. The
stay is supported with a monthly grant. The visitors
have the opportunity to conduct research and
interact with other researchers at the Aleksanteri
Institute and with the wider academic community at
the University of Helsinki and in Finland.
 
The call for proposals for the 2014–2015 academic
year is open from 8 January and until 24 February
2014. The call details will be found on the
Aleksanteri Institute website
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/fellowship/
how_to_apply.html
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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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4th Global Conference: Gender and Love
 
Wednesday 24th September - Friday 26th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations
The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field intertwined with feminism, queer studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies (to name just some relevant fields).
 
This project calls for the consideration of gender in relation to various kinds of love (with regard, for example, to self, spirit, religion, family, friendship, ethics, nation, globalisation, environment, and so on). How do the interactions of gender and love promote particular performances of gender; conceptions of individual and collective identity; formations of community; notions of the human; understandings of good and evil? These are just some of the questions that occupy this project.
 
This conference welcomes research papers which seek to understand the interaction and interconnection between the concepts of love and gender; and whether, when, how and in what ways the two concepts conceive and construct each other.
 
Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
 
1. Love as a Disciplinary Force: Productions of Gender
- Love, Gender, Essentialism and Ontology
- Love, Gender and Narrative
- Love, Gender and the Law
- Love, Gender and Religion
 
2. Norms, Normativity, Intimacy
- Rituals and Rites
- Conventions, Commitments and Obligations
- Choices and Respect; Loyalty and Trust
- Transgressions and Taboos
 
3. Gendered Yearnings
- Personhood and Identity
- Body Politics and Belonging
- Love and Gender Performativity
- Transgender Desires
- Queer Kinship Formations
- Queer Conceptualisations of the State
- Interpersonal attraction
 
4. Global Perspectives on Gender and Love
- Transformations of Intimacy in a Global World
- Sex and Choice
- Reproductive Rights
- Sexual Citizenship
- Gender, Love and Trans/Nationalism
 
5. Representations of Gender and Love
- Aesthetics and Intelligibility
- Gendered Narrations of Love
- Media, Gender and Love
 
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â─⌠ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Gender and Love and Suicide, Self Harm and assisted Dying and Digital Memory.
 
What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF 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: GL4 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:
Dikmen Yakal? Ã┤amo?lu:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the 'Gender and Sexualities' 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/gender-and-love/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.
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  5th Global Conference: Space and Place
 
Wednesday 3rd September - Friday 5th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations
Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other" constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate.
 
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance - recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following:
 
1.Theorising Space and Place
-Philosophies and space and place
-Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life
-Space and place as realms of becoming
-Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold: 2008)
-The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005)
-The language and semiotics of space and place
 
2.The situation and location of Identities
-Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres
-Work spaces and hierarchies of power
-Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism
-Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space
-Disabled spaces/places
-Queer places and spaces
-Alterity and its relationship to the production of space and place
-Spatialities in Rural areas of nature
-Queer Ruralities
-Dangerous Nature vs. Civilisation
 
3.The Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places
-Contemporary local and global political insurgencies and the politics of occupation in urban spaces and places, including the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the London Riots and the incursion by M23 into the DRC.
-The economic, political, social and cultural contestation of urban space and its effect upon the production of place
-The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism, class politics, or ethnic and cultural heterogeneity.
-The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space
-Territorial wars, both real and imagined.
-The relationship between the global and the local and their relationship to space and place ~Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces
-Space and place from colonisation to globalisation
-Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place
-Transnational and translocal spaces and places
 
4.Representations of place and space
-Embodied/disembodied spaces
-Lived spaces and the places of the architecture of identity
-Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces
-Set design the construction of space and the representation of place in film, television and theatre
-Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts
-Technology and developments in the representation of space and place including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing
-Future cities/futurology and the future of urban space and place
-Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts
-The spaces and places of and within digital gaming and digital games
 
5.Networks of Mobility and the Relationship to Movement and Space
-The spaces of flows ~Mobility, movement, and their effects upon the production and ontology of space and place
-Non-spaces and their relationship to mobility and movement
-The space of Immobile mobiles (Urry, Castells) and their effects upon the nature of place
-The places of mobility
 
Presentations on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â─⌠ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Space and Place, The Graphic Novel and Augmentation.
 
What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats, following 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: SP5 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 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:
Matt Melia and Harris Breslow:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/
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  5th Global Conference: Digital Memories
 
Wednesday 24th September - Friday 26th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environments, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation.
 
Presentations, papers, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes:
 
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues. Inventing and Re-inventing Historical Knowledge.
 
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Digital Media in the Process of Creating the Social Memory. Representational Principles for Memory Recording.
 
3. Digital Museology and Cultural Heritage
Trends in Exhibition Design. Collection Building. Multimodal Interfaces. Navigation. Visualization. Augmented Reality. Spatial representation. Image and Sound.
 
4. Memory and Cultural Software
Cultural Visualizations and Mapping. The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The Recording Device and the User Response. Strategies for Performing Digital Memory. Mobile Systems.
 
5. Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data
The Future of Digital Libraries and Archives. Media Library. Principles of Digital Data Recording and Cataloguing. Memory Restoring and Preservation Strategies. Big Data Retrieval, Usage and Preservation. Data Ownership. Open Data.
 
6. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge
History of Society Memory. National Identity and Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical Revisionism. Digital Memory and Communities of Place.
 
7. Memory in Cybercultures and Arts
Digital Art Preservation. Fan Cultures and Social Networking. The Spatialization of Memories in Interactive Media, Computer Games and Virtual Worlds.
 
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â─⌠ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Gender and Love and Suicide, Self Harm and assisted Dying and Digital Memory.
 
What to Send
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF 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: Digital Memories 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
Daniel Riha:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the 'Cyber' 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/call-for-papers/
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  Free Will    Conference 
 
10th to 11th October 2014 
Flint, MI, United States of America 
 
Website:    http://cognethic.org 
Contact person:  Jami Anderson 
 
What is free will? Are we morally responsible--and if so, for what? This is an interdisciplinary event; we welcome submissions from humanities, social, natural and medical sciences, and race, gender, disability and critical studies. 
 
Organized by:  Center for Cognition and Neuroethics 
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  1st March 2014 
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ECAH 2014 - The Second European Conference on Arts and Humanities 
 
Conference 
 
17th to 20th July 2014 
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom 
 
Website:    http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/the-european-conference-on-arts-humanities-2014/ 
Contact person:  The ECAH 2014 Conference Team 
 
The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university partners is proud to announce the Second European Conference on Arts & Humanities, to be held from July 17-20- 2014, at the Thistle Hotel Brighton, in the United Kingdom. 
 
Organized by:  IAFOR - The International Academic Forum 
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  15th March 2014   
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Приглашаем Вас принять участие в работе
международной научной конференции, посвященной 10-летию кафедры музейного дела и охраны памятников Философского факультета
 
«Рубежи памяти:
музей и наследие современной культуры»
(Россия, г.Санкт-Петербург, 24-26 апреля, 2014 г.)
 
Последний день подачи заявки: 25 марта 2014 г.
 
На конференции планируется обсудить вопросы определения, сохранения и актуализации культурного наследия, а также проблемы исторической и аксиологической идентификации культуры XX – XXI вв.
 
Направления научной дискуссии:
• Современная культура в музейных, архивных и библиотечных коллекциях.
• Формы актуализации, трансляции и архивации культурного наследия.
• Роль национального наследия в развитии современного общества.
• Современная выставочная практика музеев, архивов, библиотек.
• Аксиология техники и будущее технических музеев.
• Традиционные институты памяти в пространстве Интернета и цифровых носителей.
• Оппозиция «консервация или инновации» в музейно-библиотечной проекции.
 
Электронный адрес оргкомитета конференции:   [email protected] ,   [email protected]
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199034, Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Менделеевская линия, д.5
Философский факультет
тел. 8 (812)3289421 доб. 1858
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http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-arts/call-for-presentations/
  1st Global Conference: Digital Arts and Digital Art History 
 
Conference 
 
20th to 22nd September 2014 
Oxford, United Kingdom 
 
Website:    http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-arts/call-for-presentations/ 
Contact person:  Rob Fisher 
 
This inter- and multi-disciplinary project aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication in respect to arts, technology, media and history. 
 
Organized by:  Inter-Disciplinary.Net 
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  4th April 2014 
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 1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust
 
Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices
 
Friday 16th to Sunday 18th of May, 2014
Partner: Humber ITAL
Venue: Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Lakeshore Campus (Building: Lakeshore Commons)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond.
As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving? In shifting our notions of the possible, challenging our understanding of the bonds between us, and framing our need to remember and to forget, how are these new conceptions redefining our notions of the moral self and of ethical beings?
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send presentation proposals that address these general questions or the following themes:
1. On Hope: Fluidity and Substance
- What is hope: an act, a sensation, a cluster of expectations, a feeling, a desire, an orientation?
- What place does hope have in our lives? Why do we hold on to the idea of hope?
- Is hope a characteristic and quality of certain societies and cultures? Is it a consequence of certain historical circumstances?
- How is hope constructed culturally and how does it translate into the experience and lives of groups and individuals?
- Does hope have social currency or value today?
- Are there lessons from the past or from cultures foreign to us that require our attention and critical understanding?
- How does hope relate to myths and superstitions? And how might it relate to a sense of reality and to forms of identity?
- Is hope a form of belonging?
- How does hope relate to faith and religion?
- What kind of principles and symbols inhabit definitions of hope and how are these accepted and shared among members of groups and communities?
- How do we perceive, conceive and evaluate hope in others?
2. The Possible and The Impossible
- What are the conditions for the possibility of hope?
- What discursive role does hope have in our lives?
- How does hope relate to time, temporality and chronology?
- How might hope relate to the past, present and future?
- Is hope always oriented to the future or to a general sense of the future? And if so, what does it require from the past and from the present?
- How does hope relate to the possible, the feasible and the realizable?
- What is the relationship between desire and hope? How do they shape and inform each other?
- What about desiring the impossible?
- Should hope have limits?
- Must hope be grounded in the possible? Can we hope for the impossible?
3. On Trust and Trusting
- What is the history of trust and how is trust established?
- How are new technologies and changes in social relations affecting our understanding of trust? How are they changing our definitions of trust and our experiences of trusting?
- How do we navigate in a world in which we are forced to trust more people at greater distances from us geographically, politically, socially?
- How has our understanding of the meaning and the requisites for trust evolved?
- What is the relationship between security and trust?
- Can one trust oneself?
4. Betrayal and Trust: A History of Politics?
 
- Can trust exist without the potential for betrayal? Is trust always a risk?
- What are the relationships between betrayal, trust, loyalty and love?
- How are these concepts related on a personal level? How are they enacted in politics?
- How do trust and betrayal relate to power and privilege?
- What are the conditions for the possibility of trust?
- What arguments and explanations do we deploy for trusting and betraying? Are they fundamentally the same for trust than for betrayal or do they belong to different domains and logics?
- What is the importance of intersubjectivity for trust? To what degree is betrayal intersubjective?
- What is the logic of betrayal? How is it related to the logic of the promise?
- Why is there a willingness for us to betray and a hesitation to believe we have been betrayed?
- What are the limits of loyalty?
- How do acts of remembering and of forgetting inform betrayal?
- Is betrayal avoidable?
5. The Bonds Between Us
- What is the nature of the bond in hope, betrayal and trust?
- Which binds us more tightly to others – trust or doubt?
- Regardless of feasibility, does hope require trust? Does trust require hope?
- Are the conditions for the possibility of trust, also necessary for hope?
- Does hope entail responsibility? What is the relationship between these two concepts?
- Can hope exist without the basic agreements that enable trust and also make possible betrayal?
- To what degree and in what way does hope depend on betrayal or the existence of the motivation to betray?
- What are the bonds created between the betrayer and the betrayed?
- Does betrayal, in any of its forms, renovate the need for hope, as it does for trust?
- Defending and upholding agreements generate the continuation of trust; is there something similar that happens in the domain of hope?
-Whether formal or informal, betrayal cannot exist before agreements; is there an equivalent with hope?
- Are disturbances in communication and understanding good territories for betrayal, for feeling betrayed, for perceiving betrayal in that action of others?
- Is trust and hope possible in a context of communicative disturbances?
6. Hopelessness?
- What are the conditions for the possibility of hopelessness?
- How would we live a life structured by constant threats of betrayal?
- Does hope have a place within strategic thinking and instrumental reason? How would we describe this place?
- How do hope and hopelessness relate to social, cultural and economic privilege? And how do they relate to disempowerment, destitution, marginalization and extreme poverty?
- How are hope and justice linked? What are the effects of each on the other?
- What are the problems with living a life devoid of hope or driven by hopelessness?
- Do we have or can we conceive of a space for the possibility of deciding to live embracing hopelessness?
- How would we understand an unrestricted and unconstrained personal choice to abandon hope altogether? Could we empathically respect this decision?
- Are there “false” hopes? Are all hopes “true”?
- What is the relationship between hopelessness, cynicism and despair?
 
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500 word abstract as soon as possible and no later than Friday 18th of April, 2014. (For justifiable cases, we do uphold a tolerance period of fifteen days.)
 
Please use the following template for your submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
 
To submit an abstract online follow these steps:
1) Go to our webpage:   www.alternative-academia.net
2) Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events (listed by period and city)
3) Go to LOG IN at the top of the page
4) Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in
5) Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium
6) Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First Step of Submission Process button
7) Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract submission process
 
For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume the submission process was not completed successfully. Please try again or contact our technical support for clarifications.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Evaluation of abstract submissions will be ongoing, from the opening date of Monday 14th of October, 2013. All Prospective Delegates can expect a reply time to their submission of three weeks.
Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Friday 2nd of May, 2014. Papers are for a 20 minute presentation, 8 to 10 pages long, double spaced, Times New Roman 12. All papers presented at the symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
 
Hope to meet you in Toronto!
 
Symposium Coordinators:
Wendy O'Brien
Professor of Social and Political Theory
School of Liberal Studies
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email:   [email protected]
 
Marina Kaneti
PhD Candidate, Politics
New School for Social Research
New York, New York
Email:   [email protected]
 
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
General Coordinator
International Network for Alternative Academia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Email:   [email protected]
 
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 1st Global Conference: Digital Arts and Digital Art History
 
Saturday 20th September - Monday 22nd September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations
This inter- and multi-disciplinary project aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication in respect to arts, technology, media and history. The project will attend to both theoretical and practical debates concerning (co-)production, (re-)mediation, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation in relation to cultural contexts of and intersections between digital and classical arts.
 
Proposals, presentations, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes:
 
1. Digital Art, Interactive Art, Digital Art History
-Theories and concepts
-Identifying key features and critical issues
-Artists and movements
 
2. Externalisation and Mediation of Art
-The role of digital (re)-presentation and (re)-interpretation technologies
-Critical and popular reception studies
 
3. Digital Art History and Aesthetics
-Methodologies for researching digital art history
-The role of digital media in the production of historical studies of classical and new art
-The value of integrating digital media into the study of art history
-Representational principles for works of art
 
4. Digital Cultural Heritage
-Virtual museums today
-Collection-building and curatorial practices
-Multimodal Interfaces
-Navigation
-Levelling
-Emergent technologies
-Augmented and virtual reality
-Spatial representation
-Social tagging
 
5. Archiving and Disseminating Digital Art
-Nextgen art databases and image collections
-Digitisation and dissemination of classical art
-Digital art preservation
-Media libraries and their uses
-Strategies for recording and archiving of live events and performances
-Innovative interfaces for dissemination of art
-Open Data
-Open Access
-Business/economic dimensions of digital art production
 
6. Art and Big Data
-Cultural visualizations and mapping
-Collaborative use and access
-Big data as art
 
7. Creativity and Education
-Art and art education for the public
-Digital art and art history education: pedagogies and perspectives
-Creative Europe
 
8. Interactive Media and Robotic Technology as Digital Art
-Computer games and virtual reality as art
-Robot painting
-Artificial intelligence
-Sound and noise art
 
Presentations, performances and papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups - and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Beauty and The Digital Arts.
 
What to Send
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF 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: DA1 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
Daniel Riha:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/critical-issues/cyber/digital-arts/call-for-presentations/
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  7th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Madness
 
Sunday 7th September - Tuesday 9th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations:
Madness: what is it? Why does it exist? Where and when does it happen? How does it happen, and to whom? Like otherness to identity, madness might have always been used to define its opposite, or defined by what it is not. Madness or its absence are intrinsically linked to everything we do and do not, to all we aspire and escape. It could even be linked to our origins and fate. This international, inter-disciplinary conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are interested as well in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand the place of madness in the constitution of persons, relationships and the complex interlacing of self and other. In the six previous conferences we had the participation of people who have experienced forms of madness in their personal lives, and their presentations have always been not only welcome, but also moving and illuminating for all: Such contributions based on the actual experience of madness from within have been an essential part of our conferences and this year we encourage again the submission of abstracts based on first hand experience.
 
In particular presentations, papers, workshops, performances and exhibitions are invited on any of the following themes:
 
1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need Madness?
- Critical explorations: beyond madness/sanity/insanity
- Continuity and difference: always with us yet never quite the same
- Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence and re-emergence of madness
- Profound attraction and desire; fear of the abyss and the radical unknown
- Naming, defining and understanding the elusive
 
2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions
- Love as madness; uncontrollable passion; unrestrainable love
- Passion and love as a remaking of life and self
- Gender and madness; the feminine and the masculine
- Anger, resentment, revenge, hate, evil
- I would rather vomit, thank you; revulsion, badness and refusing to comply
 
3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality
- Madness, sanity and the insane
- Being out of your mind, crazy, deranged... yet, perfectly sane
- Deviating from the normal; defining the self against the normal
- Control, self-control and the pull of the abyss
- When the insane becomes normal; when evil reins social life
 
4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the Politics of Madness
- The social allure and fear of madness; the institutions of confining mad people
- Servicing normality by castigating the insane and marginalizing lunatics
- Medicine, psychiatry, psychology, law and the constructions of madness; madness as illness
- Contributions of the social sciences to the making and the critique of the making of madness
- Representations, explanations and the critique of madness from the humanities and the arts
 
5. Creativity, Critique and Cutting Edge
- Madness as genius, outstanding, out of the ordinary, spectacularly brilliant
- The art of madness; the science of madness
- Music, painting, dance, theater: it is crazy to think of art without madness
- The language and communication of madness: who can translate?
- Creation as an unfolding of madness
- Madness as an unfolding of creativity
 
6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating Promise of Madness
- Metaphors of feeling free, unrestrained, capable, lifted from reality
- Madness as clear-sightedness, as opening up possibilities, as re-visioning of the world
- The future, the prophetic, the unknown; the epic, the heroic and the tragic
- The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness
- The insanity of not loving madness
 
7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life about and from Madness
- Cultural and social constructions of madness; images of the mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, abnormal
- What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from madness how to cope with reality
- Recognising madness in oneself; relativising madness in others
- Love, intimacy, care and the small spaces of madness
- Critical and ethical implosions of normality and normalness; sane in insane places and insane in sane places
 
Presentations will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinary engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â─⌠ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Time, Space and Body and Madness and Empathy.
 
What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF 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: MADNESS7 Abstract Submission.
 
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using 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
Gonzalo Araoz:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:' series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/call-for-papers/
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Объявление о конференции: «NewsLiteracy и проблемы современного медиаобразования» (Москва, 5-6 марта 2014 г.)
От кого: "Serguei A. Oushakine" <  [email protected] >
Кому: "Serguei A. Oushakine" <  [email protected] >
Вчера, 19:45
 
Международная научно-практическая конференция « News   Literacy  и проблемы современного медиаобразования»
 
Приглашаем вас принять участие в Международной научно-практической конференции « NewsLiteracy  и проблемы современного медиаобразования », которая пройдет   в Москве   5-6 марта 2014 г.
 
Конференция организована факультетом медиакоммуникаций НИУ ВШЭ в рамках проекта по созданию первого в России Центра новостной грамотности. К участию приглашены исследователи из России, стран СНГ, Европы, США, Китая, Индии.
 
Новостная грамотность (News Literacy ) —  один из наиболее перспективных векторов развития такого важного сегмента гуманитарного знания, как медиаобразование. Пристальное внимание к данной теме – не только общемировой, но и российский тренд: в 2013 году Министерство связи и массовых коммуникаций РФ внесло медиаобразование в число приоритетных направлений развития медиаотрасли. Основная  цель  научно-практической конференции «News Literacy и проблемы современного медиаобразования» -обмен актуальной научно-практической информацией по заявленной проблематике между исследователями и педагогами высшей школы стран-участниц, а также развитие соответствующего вызовам времени кадрового потенциала российского образования и науки, обусловленное потребностью общества в становлении медиаобразования в целом и его важнейшего вектора – новостной грамотности – в частности.
Основные темы конференции:
·          Индустриальные, политико-экономические и этические вызовы новостной журналистики XXI века
·          Новостная грамотность: сущность, проблемы и перспективы
·          Векторы развития современного медиаобразования
·          Экология журналистской профессии
В рамках темы News Literacy предполагается обсудить следующие проблемы:
·          Новость в исторической ретроспективе и современном социуме: закономерности производства, распространения и потребления
·          Проблема идентификации новостного сообщения (новость в современном медиапространстве)
·          Журналистика новостей и журналистика мнений
·          Методики оценки источников информации
·          Технологии анализа и декодирования новостных сообщений современных медиа
и другие.
В зависимости от содержания присланных заявок возможны и другие темы
Рабочие языки конференции : русский и английский.
Регламент : 20 минут (пленарные заседания) / 10 минут (секционные заседания).
Заявки  на участие в конференции принимаются до  25 января 2014 г.
 
Заявка на участие
 
Все заявки проходят экспертизу оргкомитета и предварительный отбор. На основе тематической экспертизы заявок будут сформированы пленарные заседания, секции и круглые столы конференции. По результатам мероприятия авторам наиболее интересных докладов может быть предложено подготовить статью для сборника материалов конференции, который будет подготовлен к изданию в 2014 году.
Оргвзнос не взимается .  Оргкомитет конференции располагает возможностью компенсировать авторам наиболее интересных докладов проезд и проживание в гостинице; остальным участникам – оказать содействие в размещении.
Связаться с организаторами:   [email protected]  или по телефону  +7 (909) 631-86-83
С уважением,
Оргкомитет конференции
Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, PhD
+7(919) 721 -9612
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  International Conference on Philosophical Practice (ICPP)
Philosophical Practice as a Profession and as a new Paradigm in Philosophy
 
15–18 August 2014, Belgrade, Serbia
 
Co-organised by
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Ethics Study Group, Belgrade, Serbia.
 
Philosophical practice is gradually becoming an established philosophical profession with an
increasing amount of clients such as organizations, government or individuals. Whilst
retaining the philosophical curiosity faced with the perennial questions of life, meaning and
values, philosophical practice seeks to make the philosophy of any school, conceptual
background or methodological focus as practical as any discipline can become: it seeks to
use philosophy to foster the quality and transparency of the meaning of life, both
organisational (or corporate) and individual. The community of philosophical practitioners has
grown to an impressive group of philosophers ranging from the so-called philosophical
‘generalists’ to specialists from varied fields as philosophy of language on the one hand and
traditional metaphysics, on the other engaged in consultations, advice of organizations or
facilitating Socratic group dialogue. The common denominator of all these philosophers’ work
is their quest to allow the wisdom, experience and conceptual rigour that characterise
philosophy to bear upon the solution of everyday individual or organisational problems,
dilemmas and issues.
Apart from becoming a profession, philosophical practice is generating another impact, which
has not been sufficiently addressed so far. It is impacting the mainstream academic
philosophy in ways that need to be critically explored so that the interaction of philosophical
practice and the philosophy limited to teaching and research is made fruitful. Namely,
philosophical practice is opening entirely new areas and themes of philosophical insight that
require novel methods and new resources to be invested in the traditional philosophical
exploration of the actual pre-requisites, contexts and consequences of the application of
philosophy to everyday life. This is an exciting area of research which promises to
emancipate some aspects of traditional academic philosophy from its main problem these
days: its removed position from the public and the everyday concerns of ordinary people. At
the same time, philosophical practice is establishing itself as a genuine discipline of
academic philosophy, as the practical application of philosophy leads, as in all areas of
philosophical life, to the opening of new philosophical questions. Philosophical practice is
thus both a profession and a philosophical issue in itself. This is so much the case that the
impact of the lessons learned in philosophical practice deserves the name of a new discipline
of research and teaching philosophy itself.
The aim of the 13th International Conference of Philosophical Practitioners is to bring
together, in a highly inclusive way, philosophical practitioners from around the world and
generate a series of sessions which will show the public what philosophical practice is and
how it is growing into both a profession and a new philosophical discipline. Demonstrations
prevail. However, the conference also provides accredited master classes for philosophical
practitioners, opportunities for exchange of experience among practitioners, lessons for
students or lay public, and free consultations by practitioners from all over the world.
Prospective contributors are asked to send a 250 word abstract of their presentations, or a
description of their demonstration sessions, performances or interactive workshops,
accompanied by a 200 word biography, to [email protected]. The deadline for abstracts
or session descriptions is 31 January 2014. Decisions on acceptance will be made and all
applicants notified by 31 March 2014.
The conference will be held at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of
Belgrade, in central Belgrade. Sessions and workshops will run at several locations in central
Belgrade.
The registration fee for the conference is EUR 150 if paid by 15 April 2014, EUR 200
between 15 April 2014 and 15 July 2014, and EUR 250 if paid between 15 July 2014 and the
beginning of the conference including the registration session ad the commencement of the
conference on 15th August 2014. The fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks and a
cocktail at the conclusion of the conference.
Participants are advised to arrive to Belgrade on 14 August 2014 and plan to depart on 19
August 2015.
Belgrade offers a variety of accommodation, most of which is reasonably priced and good in
quality, close to the centre of the city and to all venues of the conference. For those
participants who are interested in student accommodation the organisers will make every
effort to explore such options, but anyone interested in this type of room should contact
Aleksandar Fatic ([email protected]) as soon as possible.
The working language of the conference is English.
Conference Organizer: Aleksandar Fatic, PhD, Research Professor, University of Belgrade,
[email protected]
Advisory Committee:
Constantinos Athanasopoulos, PhD, FHEA, Research Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, OU (UK);
President of the Hellenic Society for Philosophical Practice (Greece).
Oscar Brenifier, Chairman, Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques (France).
Viktoria Chernenko, Philosophical Practitioner, member of Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques
(Russia).
Guido Giacomo Gattai, Philosophical Counselor, member of Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques
(Poland).
Ora Gruengard, PhD, Philosophical Practitioner; Senior Lecturer, Shenkar College Shenkar College
of Engineering and Design (Israel).
Peter Harteloh, Ph.D., Philosophical Practitioner, Erasmus Institute of Philosophical Practice.
Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
Lou Marinoff, Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy, The City College of New York (USA);
President, APPA ― American Philosophical Practitioners Association.
José Barrientos Rastrojo, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sevilla (Spain).
Young E Rhee, Professor, Department of Humanities Therapy, Humanities Institute, Kangwon
National University (Korea).
David Sumiacher D’Angelo, National Autonomous Universtity of Mexico (Mexico).
Detlef Staude, Philosophical Practitioner, President of Network for Practical Philosophizing
philopraxis.ch (Switzerland).
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3rd Global Conference: Food
 
Monday 15th September - Wednesday 17th September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Call for Presentations
'You are what you eat' is a saying that usually signifies the influence of diet on health and well-being. When we turn this adage around - 'What you eat is what you are' - we see more clearly the broader implications of our ways with food. Our history and culture as well as our economic and social circumstances determine, and in turn are reflected in, the nature of our food consumption. The same applies to our personal beliefs and predispositions. Eating is an everyday necessity - and yet there is an immense variety in the manner in which we nourish ourselves. Furthermore, mostly due to circumstances beyond our control, not all of us humans have access to adequate nutrition. It follows that eating requires our attention, one way or another, throughout our lives, pleasantly for some, and desperately for others. Indeed, it has been observed that in rich societies people obsess about food because they have too much, and in poor societies they think about it all the time because they have too little.
 
The vicissitudes of consumption do not constitute the whole story about food. What ends up on the plate has usually arrived there after a long and complex journey - one which involves not only time and distance, but also a multitude of processes. The extent to which these are understood is by no means equal in all societies and cultures; some people live much closer to their food supply than others, and/or are more personally active in its production and preparation. Food is central to the economy of social systems at all levels; on global scale, food is deeply implicated in the overall economic and political circumstances of the contemporary world.
 
The inter-disciplinary project seeks to open up a multi-faceted enquiry into the ways in which food and its consumption are enmeshed in all aspects of human existence. In particular, the project seeks to foster discussion about the way in which meaning is constructed via food practices. Certainly to-day there is no shortage of commentaries on this subject, both in the public arena and within academia, and there is broad recognition of the place of food in the globalised economy - as well as of its role in discourses about international inequalities, climate change and public health issues. A focus on the perceived problems of the day, however, often results in specific 'fields' of study where the high level of activity, productive though it is, may create barriers to an understanding of different perspectives. This project will provide a framework for a broadly based dialogue concerning food and eating, and the ways in which food practices both construct and are constructed by larger issues such as identity, community, culture, taste, etc. It is our hope that this will put forth a variety of matters to be considered at a number of levels and from many different points of view.
 
Presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on any issues related to the following themes:
 
1) Representations of food and eating:
- The histories of food; repasts of the past
- Reflections of food and eating in literature
- Food and the performing arts
- Portrayals of consumption in visual culture
- Food and the modern media
- Food as metaphor
 
2) Food and society:
- Food at the interface with class and culture
- The politics of food production and consumption
- Food security: issues of quantity and quality
- The industrialisation of food production and its counter-movements
- 'Foodism': conspicuous consumption, or identity management?
 
3) Food and existential matters:
- Eating and evolution
- Food and group identity: food as manifestation of cultural origins and influences
- Food as transmigration, diaspora and de-colonialism
- Food and ritual
- Eating as a need and as a want: what is appetite?
- Food and philosophy
 
4) Eating and well-being:
- Fearing food â─⌠ fears and facts
- Beliefs and controversies about food and wellness
- Health, illness and food in medical discourses
- The magic of food â─⌠ ancient and modern; food as fetish
- The role of 'expert' advice in eating practices
- 'Diets' â─⌠ disturbed eating patterns or rational action?
 
5) Working with food:
- Food production and provision; pleasures and problems
- The restaurant: guests' perspective
- Cooking and serving for customers
- Being a chef: the reality and the mystique
- Behind the counter of the gourmet store
- The daily bread; making and baking
 
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.
 
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between these groups â─⌠ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Fashion and Food.
 
What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th April 2014. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF 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: FOOD3 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
Nina Namaste:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
The conference is part of the Making Sense of: 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 proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals 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/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/food/call-for-presentations/
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CALL FOR PAPERS  - Abstract deadline March 1, 2014
 
NEW ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON TANGENTIAL POINTS BETWEEN NATURAL SCIENCES AND ARTS
Helsinki, May 15-16, 2014
 
Special topic: Influence of A. Bogdanov's systemic thinking on film arts via the Proletkult-movement
 
We invite abstracts for paper presentations in the two-day international conference to be held at Aalto University, Helsinki, May 15-16, 2014.
 
This new annual conference will bring together international scholars from natural sciences and arts to discuss historical and contemporary tangenting points between distinct fields.  Each year a new specific topic will provide participants with a playground for creating, sharing, and cultivating a multiplicity of novel, even radical tangential points between natural sciences and arts.
 
The 1st meeting aims at linking the early Russian systemic thinking with the montage thinking that emerged within the film community in the first half of the 20th century.
 
The young Sergei M. Eisenstein, among other artists, joined the Proletkult, a cross-disciplinary movement aiming to revolutionize culture, arts, and sciences. The medical doctor Alexander Bogdanov was the ideological father of this movement. Bogdanov held regular lectures, which embedded his tektological ideas of organization and emergent behavior as universal mechanisms of nature. Once V.I. Lenin’s closest collaborator, Bogdanov soon became his worst rival, and his systemic ideas were doomed to vanish from the Soviet history until their re-discovery in the 1980s.
 
The tangenting points between the early systemic thinking and film arts constitute the general topic of this meeting. Among the specific issues is, for example, to what extent Eisenstein theoretical work on montage systems was influenced by the systemic thinking of Alexander Bogdanov. To reach for present day, one may even ask, to what extent are these early systemic ideas recycled in contemporary media art theories?
 
We encourage expert and student submissions that link systemic thinking with film arts in general, or with Bogdanov, Eisenstein, and the Proletkult-movement in particular. A joint special topic publication based on proposed papers will also be considered.
 
ABSTRACT:
Please use the online form to submit your abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio to the conference convener Pia Tikka by 1 March.
 
For more information and online abstract submission, click here
 
ORGANIZER:
Aalto University, Department of Film, Television and Scenography (  www.aalto.fi ) in collaboration with the Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki (  http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/ )
The members of organising committee are Pia Tikka   [email protected] , Vesa Oittinen   [email protected]  and Giulia Rispoli   [email protected]
 
LOCATION: Aalto University, Media Center LUME, Sampo Hall, Hämeentie 135 C, 00560 HELSINKI, Finland
 
More information and online abstract submission at     https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1im9cSM_Sgq_1Y-ZmkmuaWnEdiz10UXvQNw46wQr6n1o/viewform
 
The Aalto University strives to change the world through top-quality interdisciplinary research, pioneering education, surpassing traditional boundaries, and renewal by educating responsible, broadminded experts with a comprehensive understanding of complex subjects to act as society's visionaries.
 
Contact organising committee for inquiries.
 
Pia Tikka
Dr. Researcher, Filmmaker
NeuroCine@aivoAALTO research project
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland - Dept. of Film, Television and Scenography
Finland mobile phone    +358 50 347 7432
Skype: piatikka
e-mail:   [email protected]
www.aalto.fi
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 Россотрудничество сообщает о запуске II Международного конкурса «Лучший учитель русской словесности зарубежья». Оператором проведения конкурса является Коммуникационное агентство АГТ   http://www.agt-agency.ru/ .
Одна из основных задач проекта – объединение и деятельная поддержка работающих в зарубежных странах учителей русского языка и литературы, установление партнерских отношений с российскими и зарубежными коллегами, профильными организациями и издательствами.
Конкурс отличает творческая атмосфера, дружеская поддержка коллег, возможности реализовать свои профессиональные интересы.
К участию приглашаются дипломированные филологи-русисты, ведущие преподавание русского языка в странах Европы, Азии и Америки.
Конкурс включает два тура. Первый заочный тур пройдет на официальном сайте конкурса  www.russian-lang.ru  или  www.russian-lang.com  c марта по май 2014 года. Конкурсантам будет предложено выполнить тестовые и творческие задания.
Победители первого тура будут приглашены для участия в финале конкурса, который пройдет в Москве 21 – 25 октября 2014 года. Помимо конкурсных мероприятий, финалистов ждет экскурсионная программа. Проезд, проживание, питание, экскурсии – за счет организаторов.
Всем конкурсантам будут предоставлены сертификаты об участии в конкурсе. Финалисты и победители получат ценные призы и дипломы.
 
Дирекция конкурса:
Тел.  +7 (495) 624-03-01
Факс  +7 (495) 621-00-60
[email protected]
Симакова Мария Сергеевна
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  Российский университет дружбы народов при поддержке Министерства образования и науки Российской Федерации проводит первый Всемирный конкурс поддержки проектов, направленных на развитие и популяризацию русского языка, «МЕРИДИАНЫ РУССКОЙ РЕЧИ» для российских и зарубежных фондов, центров, кабинетов, клубов, учебных заведений и других организаций и учреждений, проводящих работу по развитию и популяризации русского языка и культуры.
 
Регламент конкурса размещен на сайте   http://meredianRussia.rudn.ru .
 
Для участия в Конкурсе участники должны предоставить информацию о проекте, включающую в себя:
-наименование проекта;
-отчет в свободной форме о проделанной работе объемом 10-40 страниц (размер шрифта - 12, Times New Roman, интервал полуторный), содержащий информацию о целях и задачах проекта, целевой аудитории, количестве вовлеченных специалистов и участников проекта, сроках реализации проекта, результатах и перспективах деятельности, а также развернутое описание проекта за последние 3 года;
-презентацию проекта в формате Microsoft Power Point;
-по желанию участники Конкурса могут дополнительно предоставить ссылку на фото- и видеоматериалы, посвященные проекту.
 
Язык подаваемых на конкурс работ – русский.
 
Работы представляются только в электронном виде (на сайт   http://meredianRussia.rudn.ru  загружаются: файл с отчетом в формате .doc или .docx; файл с презентацией проекта в формате .ppt или .pptx Microsoft Power Point). К представляемой на конкурс работе прилагается сопроводительная записка (анкета), размещенная на сайте конкурса в разделе «На конкурс», в которой указываются: название организации, адрес организации, информация о руководителе проекта, контактная информация.
 
Последний срок подачи работ на конкурс – 15.04.2013 г.
 
По итогам конкурса руководители 10 проектов (обладатели дипломов I, II и III степени) будут премированы культурно-образовательной поездкой в г. Москва. Победитель конкурса — обладатель диплома I степени - получит денежную премию в размере 1 000 000 рублей.
 
Проекты победителей, призеров и лауреатов конкурса вместе со списком всех участвовавших в конкурсе проектов будут опубликованы отдельным сборником (в электронном или печатном формате).
 
Требования к оформлению отчета:
-форма свободная;
-объем 10-40 страниц;
-размер шрифта - 12, Times New Roman, интервал полуторный;
 
ВНИМАНИЕ! Все материалы печатаются в авторской редакции. Просьба проверять текст на грамотность.
 
Вся информация о конкурсе размещена на сайте   http://meredianRussia.rudn.ru . Там же вы можете задавать интересующие Вас вопросы в рубрике "Обратная связь".
 
КОНТАКТНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ:
Почтовый адрес Оргкомитета: 117198, Москва, ул. Миклухо-Маклая, д.6, филологический факультет, программа «Меридианы русской речи»;
телефон:  +7 (962 924 54 17)  ;
факс: (495) 433-95-88
e-mail:   [email protected]
Ответственный секретарь: Эбзеева Юлия Николаевна, заместитель декана по научной работе филологического факультета Российского университета дружбы народов.
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GRANTS & AWARDS / ГРАНТЫ&ПРЕМИИ
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Российский гуманитарный научный фонд (РГНФ)  и  Сообщество балтийских организаций в целях финансирования науки Европейского консорциума  (BONUS EEIG, БОНУС) в соответствии с заключенным между ними договором о сотрудничестве, Уставом РГНФ и Положением о конкурсах РГНФ проводят в 2015 году международный конкурс совместных научно-исследовательских проектов в области гуманитарных и общественных наук.
 
Основная цель конкурса  – продвижение и поддержка научного сотрудничества между квалифицированными российскими и европейскими учеными в рамках программы БОНУС.
 
Условиями конкурса предусматривается финансирование российских участников совместных проектов со стороны РГНФ и зарубежных участников - со стороны Сообщества балтийских организаций в целях финансирования науки Европейского консорциума (BONUS EEIG). Экспертиза совместных проектов проводится на базе экспертной системы РГНФ и БОНУС.
 
В рамках международного конкурса РГНФ – БОНУС 2015 года поддерживаются проекты по областям знания  классификатора РГНФ   по следующей тематике:
 
Усиление способностей общества реагировать на современные и будущие вызовы в регионе Балтийского моря (Improving the capabilities of the society to respond to the current and future challenges directed to the Baltic Sea region)
> 1. Управленческие структуры, стратегия и инструменты выполнения (Governance structures, policy performance and policy instruments).
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> 2. Связь товаров и услуг, предоставляемых экосистемой, с образом жизни человека и его благополучием (Linking ecosystem goods and services to human lifestyles and wellbeing)  РГНФ обеспечивает финансовую поддержку  в размере до 1 миллиона рублей на проект  на один год выполнения с максимальным сроком финансирования каждого проекта – 3 года.
Требования к участникам
 
К конкурсу допускаются проекты, в состав участников которых входят научные коллективы не менее чем из четырёх стран: России и трёх стран ЕС (или ассоциированных с ЕС), две из которых должны быть представлены финансирующими БОНУС организациями (Дания, Эстония, Финляндия, Германия, Латвия, Литва, Польша и Швеция).
 
Российская часть проекта выполняется небольшим коллективом учёных не более чем из 10 человек, в состав которого могут входить аспиранты и студенты.
 
Руководитель проекта не может быть лицом, административно подчиненным исполнителю проекта.
 
Ученый имеет право подать на конкурс РГНФ - БОНУС 2015 года в качестве руководителя российского коллектива только один проект.
 
Российские и зарубежные учёные - участники проекта по конкурсу РГНФ – БОНУС 2015 предварительно согласовывают между собой содержание своих заявок. Название проекта должно быть одинаковым для российской и зарубежной заявок. Российские учёные направляют заявки в РГНФ, а зарубежные – в секретариат БОНУС.
 
Участники должны осуществить предварительную регистрацию проекта в BONUS ЕPSS (Электронной системе подачи заявок БОНУС) в срок до 17 марта 2014 года (17.00 по центральному европейскому времени). Подробнее о порядке подачи заявки в секретариат БОНУС на сайте по адресу:  http://www.bonusportal.org/call2012.
 
РГНФ устанавливает следующие  сроки подачи  заявок (печатных и электронных версий) Основного конкурса 2014 года:
*  начало оформления заявок в ИС РГНФ – 16 февраля 2014 года (включительно);
*  окончание регистрации заявок в электронном виде в ИС РГНФ – 16 апреля 2014 года (включительно);
*  окончание приема заявок научных коллективов в целом в секретариате БОНУС – 17.00 по центральному европейскому времени 16 апреля 2014 года.
*  окончание приема печатных экземпляров заявок в РГНФ (после регистрации заявки в ИС РГНФ и присвоения ей номера) – 17.00 по московскому времени 21 апреля 2014 года. Примечание: заявки в электронном виде, поступившие на регистрацию в установленный срок и направленные сотрудниками РГНФ на доработку, после соответствующей доработки и повторного направления на регистрацию регистрируются в ИС РГНФ в срок до 18 апреля 2014 года. При этом печатный экземпляр заявки должен поступить в Фонд не позднее 21 апреля 2014 года.
 
Печатные экземпляры заявок должны поступить в Фонд в срок до 16 апреля 2014 года включительно.
 
В случае поступления печатного экземпляра заявки после истечения установленных сроков, вне зависимости от даты отправки заявки, заявка к конкурсу не допускается.
 
В целях своевременной подачи заявок на конкурсы Фонд рекомендует заблаговременно направлять подготовленные заявки в электронном виде на регистрацию.
 
Полный текст сообщения о Конкурсе на сайте РГНФ:  http://www.rfh.ru  
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 British Academy Research Projects
Application forms for a new call for proposals for Academy Research Projects are now available on e-GAP:    https://egap.britac.ac.uk
The British Academy has a strong record in the promotion of collaborative, infrastructural, and often international research. The programme of Academy Research Projects currently gives academic recognition and modest financial support to around 50 projects, and the Academy is now looking to expand this through the adoption of a small number of new projects in the social sciences. This programme  does not  offer the kind of major funding currently available via the ESRC, and it is expected that any project supported under the scheme will need to be able to demonstrate that it is independently financially viable.
Academy Research Projects typically share the characteristic of being infrastructural projects or research facilities, intended to produce fundamental works of scholarship, in most cases for the use of a variety of disciplines, rather than to produce interpretative works or monographs. Another typical feature is the contribution made by the voluntary work of many scholars, whether as organizers or participants. A full list of the current portfolio of ARPs is available at    http://www.britac.ac.uk/arp/index.cfm , while successful projects adopted in response to the last Call for Proposals in 2011 are listed at   http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.cfm/newsid/750
The Academy does not, however, have preconceived ideas about the type of project that may be proposed in response to this Call for Proposals, in terms of length of time required for completion, or organization. The onus is on project proposers to convince the Academy that their project is particularly suited to Academy support, benefiting from the academic recognition offered by Academy Research Project status, which may assist projects in appealing to a wide range of funding agencies both in the UK and abroad, both public and private. The Academy will also make available to projects small-scale research expenses, normally up to a ceiling of £5,000pa (on a competitive basis), to meet certain kinds of costs that can be difficult to cover through other funding applications.
Level of award:  Up to £5,000pa.
Period of award:  Once adopted into the ARP programme, the project will be required to submit an annual progress report, together with a bid for financial support (if needed) in 5 year tranches. Projects are subject to thorough review, normally every five years, where the case for continuing Academy support is assessed. Given satisfactory progress, there is no specific limit on the length of time the project may expect to continue its association with the Academy. Projects performing unsatisfactorily will be given time to try to resolve any short-term difficulties, but the Academy reserves the right to terminate the association after a due period of notice.
Suitable Projects:  Directors of projects of the kind described above, whether existing or new, in any field or fields of  the social sciences only , may approach the Academy for support through this scheme. The applicant should be the project director, and must be a UK resident but need not be in a permanent full-time academic post in the UK. Co-applicants may be co-directors of the project and may come from anywhere in the world.
The Academy expects to use this opportunity to broaden the current portfolio of projects into a wider subject base. Accordingly, the Projects Committee will only accept applications in the social sciences in response to this call.
Number of awards:  The Academy expects to be able to add a small number of new projects to the existing portfolio up to a maximum of three or four, but there is no specific number of awards available. The Academy reserves the right not to adopt any of the projects proposed. Previous calls for proposals were issued in 2003, (when the Academy received 17 proposals and adopted four projects – a success rate of 23.5%); in 2007 (when the Academy received 72 proposals and adopted eight projects – a success rate of 11%); and in 2011 (when the Academy received 33 proposals and adopted five projects – a success rate of 15%).
The closing date for completed Outline Stage applications is Wednesday, 12 March 2014
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  Grants for Media Art 2014
Oldenburg, Germany
Scholarship / Financial aid: three Grants of 10,000 € each
Date: 6 months (July–December 2014)
Deadline: February 16, 2014
Open to: international media artists, working on video to audio or audio-visual installations
Website:    http://www.eastchance.com/anunt.asp?q=1954,eu,sch&issue=20140112&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140112
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