The Arts Diplomacy Festival 2012 will explore how the arts can be used to change theory into practice and express, create and improve social awareness and diplomatic relations. The arts include a variety of mediums through which emotions and culture can be expressed: music, art, literature and sports, to name only a few. The program will examine how the arts can be used within the field of cultural diplomacy to initiate intercultural dialogue and cooperation through movement, thought and active expression. The Arts Diplomacy Festival 2012 is the brainchild of Cultural Diplomacy in Practice (CDP), a department within the Institute…

Current debates on the configuration of ethnic and racial boundaries in the era of transformations have refocused academic attention on the concept of diaspora. Diasporas are one kind of social phenomenon where a complex social process can be observed characterized on the one hand by dispersion, dislocation and feelings of social exclusion and on the other hand by movements for location. However, diaspora is a complex concept and can sometimes be misused and misunderstood. The concept is sometimes understood as a synonym for ethnicity and nationalism, an assumption based on the ethnic, nationalist and religious conceptions of ethnic particularity that,…

The 11th Annual CIR Conference at Yale Saturday, April 14, 2012 Abstract Submission Deadline: November 11th, 2011 Final Paper Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2012 The Critical Islamic Reflections (CIR) Committee at Yale invites scholars and professionals from all fields to submit proposals for our 11th annual conference, "Islamic Bioethics and Law: The Role of Traditional Scholarship in Modern Times." This interdisciplinary forum will explore the role of the Islamic tradition in the resolution of modern day bioethical dilemmas while also investigating the methodologies used by ethicists, healthcare practitioners, policy makers, and religious scholars to address ethical dilemmas pertaining to public…

Second Call for Papers North Carolina State University, 20-22 April 2012 The Mashriq and the Mahjar: Migration from the Levant, 1800-2000 Organisers, Akram Khater, John Karam, Andrew Arsan It has now been two decades since the publication of Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi's edited volume The Lebanese in the World, the first comprehensive attempt to track the dispersal of Eastern Mediterranean men and women through the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its effects on the lands of their birth. In the intervening years, the study of modern Eastern Mediterranean migration has blossomed into an intellectually fecund and…

Welcome to the web site of the "International Conference on eBusiness and eGovernment" (ICEBEG) organized by SoSReS (Social Sciences Research Society). This major international event will be held in Izmir, Turkey on between 28 and 29 April 2012.

31st Annual Conference May 18 - 20, 2012 Hosted by Arizona State University and organized to mark the birth of the two Sudans, this conference seeks to reflect on recent work on the Sudan from present-day South Sudan Republic, new scholarship of Sudan in the world and to open up new discussion, incite discourses, and to encourage progressions for future research. We expect to bring together scholars working in different disciplines to consider the connections, comparisons, and contrasts between faces and facets of the Sudan in the world. With this in mind, we invite scholars working on any aspect of…

The Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education is pleased to announce its 1st Postgraduate Conference on the Study of Islam and Muslims. This 2-day conference (24-25 May 2012) is designed to actively engage in a cross-disciplinary exploration of topics related to the Study of Islam and Muslims. By bringing together postgraduate students from UK institutions the conference aims to: - promote intelligent debate and understanding of contemporary issues and perspectives related to this field of knowledge; - offer to postgraduates students the opportunity to present and discuss their research in an interdisciplinary, semi-formal, and intellectually stimulating setting; - stimulate awareness and…

1st International Congress on Social and Cultural Studies (ICSCS2012) Port Harcourt-Nigeria 25-28 June, 2012 Announcement Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Programme Committee we are pleased to invite you to take part in the 2012 International Congress on Social and Cultural Studies that will be held in Port Harcourt (Nigeria) on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of June, 2012. The event is organized by African Association for Scientific Research (AASR) in cooperation with other institutions ICSCS2012 will be an International Forum for those who wish to present their works, having also the opportunity to discuss the main aspects and…

As an expression of culture, a form of intangible heritage, a signifier of place, and a marker of moments, music provides an important and emotive narrative for tourists. Indeed, it is increasingly difficult to imagine tourism ‘in silence’, outside of the scores and songs which accompany and punctuate journeys. From touristic performances of traditional dance, pilgrimages to the homes and graves of composers and singers, impromptu street entertainments, tours to concerts, attending festivals, to the sounds of the car radio, the travelling with ipods and the ‘muzak’ of hotel lifts, music can both activate and shape the journey, and passively…

12th EASA Biennial Conference Nanterre, France 10-13th July 2012 Uncertainty and disquiet Muslim Saints, Dreams, and Veneration of Shrines International Workshop organized by Dr.I.Edagr (Dept. Anthropology, University of Durham, UK) Dr.P. Khosronejad (Dept. Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, Scotland) The human need to orientate their inner quest for wisdom guidance and healing with outer spatial settings is well manifest in the many traditions of pilgrimage to Saints’ tombs in the Islamic world, and in other major faith traditions (i.e. Crapanzano 1973). The particular tradition of dream questing at sacred sites is well documented in the ancient Greek tradition of…

Abstract The conventional analyses of society-state relations in the Arabian Gulf region easily lend themselves to the erroneous thesis that countries in this region are devoid of the modern political currents and counter currents that have shaped most contemporary societies in the world. For some analysts, the Arabian Gulf states are nothing but an extension of the “oriental despotic” cultural logic according to which the state is always perceived as strong, authoritarian and coercive, ruling through petro-economic means over a passive and weak society. For others, the state-society relation has been collapsed into a form of tribal nationalism in which…

The 4th BSPSP will deal with the relationship between personality and control processes. The keynote lectures, symposia, and poster sessions will cover a wide range of topics including cognitive control, contribution of conscious and automatic processes in the control of behavior, developmental aspect of regulation of emotion, self-regulation, mood regulation, and self-control with the corresponding areas of everyday experience such as avoiding distraction, decision making, resisting temptation, spending money, etc. Keynote Speakers: Charles S. Carver, University of Miami, USA Ezequiel Morsella, San Francisco State University, USA Gisela Labouvie-Vief, University of Geneva, Switzerland Roy F. Baumeister, Florida State University, USA Kathleen…

SICSS 2012: Call for Papers 2012 Shanghai International Conference on Social Science Shanghai, China, August 14-17, 2012 www.shanghai-ic.org We are delighted to announce that we will have a session about International Relations: Regional Security. People who are interested in International relations are sincerely welcomed. SICSS 2012 values your participation and supports on this significant international event. SICSS 2012 aims to build a platform allowing parties interested in it to share and discuss their studies from various perspectives in the aspects of social science, including: Culture, Economics, Education, Law, Mass Communications, Politics, Psychology, Society, Tourism, Transportation, Urban Planning, and so forth.…

At a time when the economic development and the (negative) consequences of globalization are causing the gap between rich and poor rather to widen than to shrink poverty and social inequality have gained public attention again. While movements like ATTAC and OCCUPY highlight the relevance of social inequality and poverty due to their material aspect as existential issues of a developed civil society, it is for other groups to deal with the cultural aspect of the issue and to discuss the perception of poverty by modern society as a case of cultural encounter. The IMAGES (2) -- Images of the…

Telos in Europe: The L'Aquila Conference Conference Theme Recent developments appear to end the "end of history" and foreshadow instead the end of the West. After 1989, many expected a gradual convergence toward Western models of liberal market democracy. But Western responses to 9/11 and the 2007-8 transatlantic "credit crunch" have exposed the limits of U.S. international primacy and accelerated the global shift of power from West to East and North to South-as evinced by the rise of China, India, and other emerging markets. Politically and economically, that shift seems to portend the emergence of a post-American and perhaps even…

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Political Science Political theory Political philosophy Political systems Policy analysis Policy studies Public policy Public administration Ideology Game theory Political economy Geopolitics and political geography Policy studies and public policy analysis Comparative politics National systems Courts and Judicial Politics Democratic Innovations Green Politics Cross-national political analysis Supranational and intergovernmental politics Political development Foreign policy analysis Analytical Politics Intelligence Governance Peace studies, conflict analysis, international law and politics, public administration and local government studies Political psychology, bureaucratic, administrative and judicial behaviour Legislative processes and public law Political Methodology Interdisciplinary Perspective on Violence…

What is the phenomenon of solidarity in the current world? What is the sense to talk about it with the increase of violence around the globe? What is its role in shaping identities – of cultures, nations, individuals? Is it born from memory or from oblivion? Questions such as these gave rise to the idea of our interdisciplinary conference. It is going to be devoted to solidarity in all its multiple aspects, in the broadest contexts possible – historical, cultural, artistic, psychological, philosophical. In the age of rapid socio-political changes, with deepening ethic and religious conflicts on one hand, and,…

Welcome to the web site of the "5h International Conference on Social Sciences" organized by the Social Sciences Research Society (SoSReS). This major international event is going to be held in 0zmir, Turkey from 05-07 October 2012. This is a conference for those, who are interested in presenting paper in all fields of social sciences. The conference topic areas especially focus on such disciplines as economics, business, corporate and public governance, political science, sociology etc

Time & Temporality in Language and Human Experience The conference will offer a forum for the presentation of multidisciplinary perspectives on the concept of time and its embodied, phenomenological experience as expressed in diverse systems, above all human language, and should thus be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy, anthropology and psychology of time. Also welcome are scholars who investigate temporal experience, time expressions and categorization in language and literature, including metaphor and figurative language, learning-acquisition of temporal concepts as well as annotation and identification of temporal structures in language corpora. In addition, the organizers hope to attract…

IAAB is proud to announce the 5th IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora to take place October 13-14, 2012 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Through a series of panels, workshops, and presentations, the 2012 IAAB Conference aims to engage a diverse array of academics, community leaders, artists, and members of the global Iranian diaspora. In addition to providing an open environment for productive and interactive dialog on cutting edge research, community programs, and cultural productions, the conference will also serve as an opportunity to build a stronger network of Iranians across our various borders. Proposals are…