Conferences Archive March 2007
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This Culture.Info sub-portal provides links to culture-focused conferences, seminars and related events around the world which are of interest to those in the cultural sector, especially to managers, policy makers and researchers.
Most of these events have an international focus – i.e. they are aimed at an audience both in and beyond the country in which they are happening. The list below covers events from January to March 2007.
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March 2007
Society For American Music: 33rd Annual Conference
Rice University
01 - 03 March 2007
Topic this year include:Music Librarianship and Research in American Music: A Collaborative Perspective;Researching the American Music Library: Then and Now;
The Contentious Question (s) of Culture in Contemporary Society
01 - 03 March 2007
The use of the word culture, and its often-unstated assumptions, has given rise to considerable theoretical controversy. What exactly do we mean when we talk of culture? Is it associated with language, ethnicity, religion, nationality, a civilization, a way of life or everyday social practices? Is it conceived as relatively unchanging, as something that is threatened by the impact with other ‘cultures’ or as a set of ideas and practices that is subject to historical and social change? How are these notions of culture affected by the changing forms of political, economic and military domination and the vicissitudes of the postcolonial world? Questions of representation and interpretation of cultures have greatly impacted on these theoretical debates, both in the field of the social sciences and in the study of literature, film and the arts. The seminar will bring together scholars from different disciplines to address these questions. It will explore the various notions of culture underlying contemporary debates, the artistic forms with which writers and other artists have reflected on these notions and their social and political implications.
1st International Globalisation, Diversity and Education Conference
01 - 03 March 2007
We invite proposals for presentations that engage the themes of diversity and education within the contexts of globalization and diasporic movements of peoples, economies, cultures, and ideologies. We are especially interested in work that engages the topic of diversity while connecting the local with the global. Proposals should address the theme of the conference from any disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, or trans-disciplinary perspective. Diversity is conceptualized broadly and includes languages, people, ideas, theoretical frameworks, ideologies,etc.
Perspectives on Power: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
03 - 05 March 2007
We invite proposals for papers from all subjects in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, at both Masters and Doctoral level, which interpret the theme as widely as possible. We particularly welcome collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts
Local Media in Transition - The Case of South -Eastern Europe 1990-2007
03 - 05 March 2007
This exciting and far-reaching subject is certain to attract a host of local, national and international interest. Topics will include the public’s Confidence in the Media; Journalists as Political Actors;Chances, Trials and Tribulations of On-line Journalism and Blogs;Independent Media – Must they remain a Myth? What was/is the role Transitional Countries’ Media in reinforcing Democracy? Covering Conflict; Actual/Applied Freedom of Access to Information; Changing Media Ownership; Creative Media. Email: briel@unys.edu.mk
De Lange Conference VI: Emerging Libraries: How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information
Rice University
05 - 07 March 2007
The traditional concept of a library has been rendered obsolescent by the unprecedented confluence of the Internet, changes in scholarly publication models, increasing alliances between the humanities and the sciences, and the rise of large-scale digital library projects. The old ways of organizing and preserving knowledge to transmit our cultural and intellectual heritage have converged with the most advanced technologies of science and engineering and research methodologies. Such rapid and overwhelming changes to a millennia-old tradition pose significant challenges not only to university research libraries but to every citizen. If the traditional library is undergoing a profound metamorphosis, it is not clear what new model will take its place. More information has been produced in the last several years than in the entire previous history of humanity, and most of this has been in digital format. Libraries are not storage places any more; they are less and less a place. The De Lange 2007 Conference will examine the transformational influences these astonishing emerging libraries may entail.
La Rencontre de Sevilla
Funding culture in Europe : public and private partnerships
8 – 11 March 2007
In view of the growing pressures on the funding of culture in Europe, Les rencontres has decided to address the question of the cooperation between local and regional authorities and private companies, foundations and civil society. The plenary sessions and the workshops will be articulated around five issues: • The evolution of funding models for cultural projects and emerging trends for public and private partnerships
• Legal frameworks in Europe for sponsorship and cultural patronage and their relationship with local and regional authorities
• Experiences of cooperation through public and private partnerships in Europe
• Civil society participation
• New collaborative strategies for developing the objectives of cultural diversity
La Rencontre de Sevilla is organised together with the City of Seville. The debate is open to all elected representatives in charge of culture from local and regional authorities in Europe, as well as directors of cultural affairs, professionals in foundations, cultural institutions and private companies, artists and academics.
Learning Futures: Public Libraries for the New Generations in Australia and New Zealand
09 - 10 March 2007
Organised by Auslib Press, who specialise in library and information literacy texts, directories and mailing labels for Australian and New Zealand libraries.
Persons, Intimacy and Love: Probing the Boundaries
20 - 22 March 2007
This research conference seeks to explore issues of intimacy and love within the context of persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical, contextual and cultural 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 what it is to be a person and what it means for persons to stand in individual, social and national relationships of intimacy, love, desire and friendship.
8th Mediterranean Research Meeting - Mapping the Cultural Economy in the Euro-
Mediterranean Region
21 - 25 March 2007
The European University Institute will host a workshop directed by Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Luís Bonet under the title Mapping the Cultural Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region. The workshop will explore aspects of the cultural economy in the region, in particular on its eastern and southern shores. It will seek to map the state of cultural enterprise across the region – the term being understood as a broad range of market-related cultural activities – thus exploring cultural industries stricto senso (many of which are rather more incipient than fully developed in this region) as well as atrisanal endeavours in fields such as handicrafts, exploitation of the intangible heritage, artistic production, etc. The main focus will be on the political economy of these cultural enterprises large and small, including the relationship to the reconfigurations of the economy in a financialized and globalized world. Yet sociological and semiological analyses of cultural phenomena as symbolic production systems of collective representation that are central in forging visions of public identity (national or local) will also be relevant. The workshop will thus map the economic as well as social nature, dimensions and significance of the cultural economy in different countries.
Irish Caucus, American Conference for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
22-25 March 2007
Panel Proposals are solicited for the March 22-25, 2007 annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies' Irish Caucus in Atlanta, GA, USA. ASECS Montreal featured many panels on Irish themes, including a general discussion of Irish culture in the 18th century, Daniel Corkery's twentieth century concept of the Gaelic/Jacobite "Hidden Ireland" of the eighteenth century, and the role of gender in representations of "Irishness" in the period. Proposals for panels on Irish connnections with the Continent, eighteenth century Ireland and the new world, gender and sexuality in Irish culture, economics and Irish identity, and colonial discourse analysis will receive special consideration, though any and all ideas that link Irish Studies to the field of Eighteenth-Century Studies are welcome.
Annual Conference on the Association of Law Culture and Humanities
23-25 March 2007
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, and values, about authority, obligation, and justice, and about law's place in culture
Song, Stage and Screen II
23-25 March 2007
Contributions are invited to this conference organised by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, which aims to bring together scholars from all over the world in any discipline, working on the relationship between music and the stage/screen. Papers, panels and workshops on the following themesare welcome:
- The body performing music(al) theatre
- Semiotics of escapism: watching music(al) theatre
- Music(al) theatre as voyeurism
- Contemporary British music(al) theatre
- Post-modernism and songs on stage
- Ideology, politics and the musical stage
- Globalisation and the consumption of the musical stage
- Problems of genre: opera / music(al) theatre
- Utopia and reality: escapism and the screen musical
- Gender and sexuality in Music(al) Theatre
- Analysis: the fusion of words and music
- Paralinguistics and the rhetorical expression of music in song
Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations
27-30 March 2007
Swansea University
This conference aims to grapple with some of the 'troublesome' aspects of African American and Celtic identities, and to explore moments of interaction, of correspondence, of hostility and of attraction between cultural traditions. To evoke the idea of a 'Celtic' or 'African American' identity is already to invite controversy. The conference seeks, however, to encourage transatlantic approaches that move out of self-enclosed, exceptionalist, models in exploring specific moments of interaction that are often completely ignored when a merely 'British' or 'American' perspective is brought to bear
4th Interim Conference of the ESA Research Network Sociology for the Arts: Creativity, Support and Sustainability
28 March - 01 April 2007
The ESA Research Network Sociology for the Arts is organizing its 8th meeting at the end of March 2007 in Lueneburg (Germany), with additional events in near-by Hamburg. The main conference venue will be at the University of Lueneburg, close to the medieval old town.The conference will feature keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, workshops, and round tables. Following the triad theme of the conference, “Creativity, Support, and Sustainability", we will put an emphasis on those issues that are of sociological interest within arts worlds but also relate to those powerful developments in economy, ecology and ethic contexts on the macro level that influence, manipulate or determine production, content and forms, distribution and reception of the arts.
4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM2007)
28 - 30 March 2007
The Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 2007 provides a broad integrative overview of organizational, cultural, social and technical aspects on Knowledge Management. Focus of the conference is bringing together different research disciplines and sharing experiences gained in the different areas where knowledge management is being applied. We invite both practitioners and scientists to the knowledge marketplace in Potsdam in order to exchange experiences, to discuss current problems and challenges as well as to learn from each other. We provide participants with a well founded overview of the most important trends in the area of knowledge management. Therefore our conference offers much time and space for communication.
4th Triennial Symposium on African Art
28 March - 1st April 2007
The theme of the 2007 Triennial Symposium emphasizes the place of African expressive arts in global contexts, encouraging panels and papers that address Africa's international and trans-cultural reach. In selecting this theme, the organizers seek to foreground the ways in which African arts in all media draw from and contribute to global histories, cultures, and aesthetics. These global connections are particularly dramatic in the growing field of contemporary African art, in which artists study, exhibit, sell their work, and live all over the world. The aim of the symposium is to meet, network, share best practices, and brainstorm about issues that are important to access and quality in the art curriculum, teaching-learning and assessment in some countries in Africa to develop creative and practical solutions for positive changes in the shape of the discipline of art education in the continent. It is anticipated that the gathering will lead to advocacy forums, programs development, project initiative and implementation to facilitate, or improve the art curriculum, teaching-learning, and assessment in some countries in Africa. Contact: vrovine@africa.ufl.edu
Music of Japan Today
30 March - 1st April 2007
UMBC will host a three-day symposium of performances, lecture-recitals,panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese music from the widest possible range of disciplines andexpertise. A performance and roundtable is also being planned at the Freer Gallery (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institute) in Washington, DC. Contact: tanosaki@umbc.edu
Social History Society 32nd International Conference
30 March - 1st April 2007
The society was founded in 1976 to encourage the study of the history of society and cultures by teaching, research, publication and other appropriate means. Since then it has organised a conference annually and acted to represent the interests of social and cultural history and of social and cultural historians both within higher education and in the wider community. The society is based in the UK but is concerned with social history internationally and it all its broadest forms. It welcomes not only contributions and members from overseas, but also historians and interested individuals from both inside and outside the formal academic community. It actively seeks to maintain links with other historical societies and bodies, including the Historical Association and the Royal Historical Society, as well as the Economic History Society, and HUDG.
Auslib Conference 2007: Places and Spaces - Public Libraries for the 21st Century
31 March - 01 April 2007
Organised by Auslib Press, who specialise in library and information literacy texts, directories and mailing labels for Australian and New Zealand libraries.
International Performing Arts Laboratory
31 March - 04 April 2007
A limited number of places is available on a competitive basis.
NALGAO Conference 2007
05 - 07 September 2007
This year the conference will focus on the contribution that the arts and creative industries make in building sustainable communities. The theme of growth will allow us to explore issues concerning the new growth areas, many of which are in the Eastern region and the government's place making agenda. We will also be able to consider how to grow creative businesses and the personal growth and training needs of all those working in and with the local government sector. Breakout sessions will present case studies drawn from the region and nationwide, demonstrating good practice across the range of local government activity as suggested by the building blocks of Local Area Agreements.
Installations and Performances:The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art
10 September 2007
Digital Live Art is the intersection of Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Live Art and Computing. (re)Actor2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art seeks to bring together practitioners and academics from the varying worlds of Live Art, Computing and HCI for a lively debate and event which will explore this emerging field. We are particularly interested in unanticipated performance spaces and playful arenas, such as festivals and nightclubs.This year's theme, BAD GIRLS, GADGETS & GUERRILLA PERFORMANCE focuses on women who are practicing at the intersection of Computing and Live Art. In focusing on women, Computing and the Arts, this year we look to celebrate the diverse skills, knowledge and experience that women bring to the field. It is our hope that bringing these people together will foster an environment for mutual learning, mentoring and support. Proposals and participation are welcomed from all genders.
10 - 12 September 2007
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social, (geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious significance of them, both individually and together. Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror; 2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror; 3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 11th May 2007. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 24th August 2007.
Arch '07: 5th International Conference on Arch Bridges
12 - 14 September 2007
The development of arch-shaped constructions, many centuries ago allowing an optimization of the material behaviour, represented an outstanding step forward in several domains of society. Nowadays, in spite of the development of new materials and construction techniques, the arch remains highly present in engineering. Therefore, the maintenance of the arch bridge heritage in parallel with the multiple aspects involved in the construction of new arch bridges represent a true challenge to modern engineers. The success of the previous editions of the conference, held in Bolton (UK, 1995), Venice (Italy, 1998), Paris (France, 2001) and Barcelona (Spain, 2004), certifies that arch construction is more and more a key issue in engineering, for ancient masonry arched structures but also modern and innovative arch bridges.
12 - 15 September 2007
The ECPR Standing Group on International Relations will hold the 6th Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Turin from 12 to 15 September 2007. We have now selected the 25 sections of the conference, which will have up to nine panels each
14th ETN Conference: Collaboration Across Textiles and Technology
13 - 16 September 2007
The 2007 ETN Conference and General Assembly will be held in London, UK, on 13 - 16 September 2007. Under the title of Collaboration across Textiles and Technology, the event aims to bring together people working in textiles and in research teams across art, science and technology. The European Textile Network (ETN) will explore how people involved in textile making are working and collaborating in research teams across art, science and technology. Contact:ETN@ETN-net.org.
Political Linguistics
13 - 15 September 2007
In recent years, 'political-linguistic' studies have been drawing on increasingly bigger empirical input from the neighboring domains, including linguistic pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, social psychology, sociology and anthropology. Our conference, the first international event of its kind and scale in central/eastern Europe, comes as a response to this trend. It aims at convening scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political domain.
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