[csaa-forum] Upcoming conferences 2012

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The fifth annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will be held at the Melbourne Law School, Melbourne,
6-8 December 2012. 

It will again bring together higher research students and early career researchers from all disciplines and across diverse fields of scholarship to critically engage with law and its theoretical and methodological questions.
This year we explore how the challenge of ‘grounding’ law could offer a critical and political engagement with and responsibility for law. This is a different task to legitimating or substantiating a new foundation, basis or ground for law. Deconstructive jurisprudence has exposed the constituted violence inherent in every asserted or disavowed ground of law. To ground, as a verb, couldmean to connect something to the ground – to the surface of the Earth, the terrain, the soil, the humus. It could mean to connect to the immediacy of the present moment through affect and the senses. Grounding law may be a process of finding law in, and making law more responsive to, the question of particularity and immediacy, to the imperatives of being and dwelling.
Possible topics may include (this list is non-exhaustive):
• the force of law: rethinking violence as a ground of law
• the ecological crisis: the relationship between lawand the environment
• land, sky, sea: the ethereal and terrestrial in law’s cosmos
• Indigenous jurisprudence
• settling/settler laws in the international
• radical legal pluralism, religious laws and customary laws
• the place and space of law
• theOccupyMovement and/or resistance as a grounding project
• the groundless community of global capitalism: the disciplinarity, (ir)regularity and cooperativity of law
• grounding fiscal reformin economies of (dis)possession, austerity and surplus, accumulation and expenditure
• methodologies of legal ethnography, history and geography
• transmission, transplantation and legacies of lawmaking
• constituting community: critical constitutionalismand administrative law
Send abstracts of 500 words (max) and biographies of 100 words to law-mdflt at unimelb.edu.au by Monday 6 August 2012. A limited number of bursaries will be available for interstate and international presenting participants who are unable to claim funding to cover the full cost of travel from their home institution. The bursaries are intended to contribute towards travel expenses. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a bursary.
Conference Organisers: JuliaDehm,Marc Trabsky and TimothyNeale

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What is Interdisciplinary Success?
4-5 October 2012
Lund University, Sweden
www.fil.lu.se

The Department of Philosophy hosts a two day workshop on “Interdisciplinary Success.”  To contribute, please send a max 500 word abstract, prepared for blind review, no later than July 29 to frank.zenker at fil.lu.se. 

Travel cost are covered/subsidized; accommodation is provided.

Your abstract should address the question: “What is interdisciplinary success?” This need not entail providing an answer. Possibly, you might suggest why the question is mistaken and suggest a more appropriate question. Or you might cite necessary (though perhaps non-sufficient) conditions of such success, or provide examples of what such success is not or cannot be (i.e., present failure cases of such projects). You might also critically discuss the kinds of success-measures used to evaluate disciplinary projects, if any, and whether these can be transferred to interdisciplinary projects, or not, etc. Contributions related to the natural or the human sciences are equally welcome.

Speakers
Annika Wallin (Lund University)
Erika Mansnerus (London School of Economics)
Hanne Andersen (Aarhus University)
Henrik Thorén (Lund University)
Lena Wahlberg (Lund University)
Matti Sintonen  (University of Helsinki)
Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki)
Rani Lill Anjum (Bergen University)
Till Grüne-Yanoff (KTH Stockholm)
Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki)

Organizers
Johannes Persson
Henrik Thoren
Frank Zenker

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2ND AUSTRALASIAN REGIONAL FOOD CULTURES AND NETWORKS CONFERENCE, NOV 12-13, 2012

Dear Colleagues,
Some of you will have seen the Call for Papers sent out recently for the above event, to be held in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. The conference and registration website is now active. We invite academics, producers, industry spokespersons, administrators and  regulators to join us at this exciting event.
Hope to see you in the Barossa.

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Call for Papers: Volume 2 Number 2 The Belonging Project/The Belonging Issue 

As an integral part of human experience, ‘belonging’ is a ubiquitous concept in many areas of the humanities and social sciences and beyond. This is increasingly the case in the contemporary contexts of globalization, trans-nationalism, and the emergence of the network society, which have imbued issues of belonging with a renewed emphasis and increased urgency. Yet, as important as the concept of belonging is to discourses on migration, citizenship, community and wellbeing, among others, it is rarely defined or interrogated at length. While such ambiguity and elasticity is no doubt part of belonging’s efficacy as a concept, it nonetheless veils the complexities of processes and experiences of belonging/not belonging. 
Following a successful interdisciplinary workshop and symposium on belonging, the organizers of the Belonging Project, an initiative by interdisciplinary researchers from Melbourne, are now calling for submissions for a special issue of New Scholar. This special issue will showcase innovative research across disciplines that critically engages with the concept of belonging and the ways in which it is deployed and understood in academic discourses, with a view to examining the challenges and ambiguities embedded in the concept. 
Submissions might address (but need not be limited to) the following themes: 
• Structures and processes of belonging 
• Moving past the belonging/not-belonging dichotomy 
• Belonging beyond identity 
• Technology, communication and belonging 
• Scales of belonging, e.g., local, national, transnational 
• Belonging and intersectionality 
• Memory and belonging 
• Place and belonging 
• Mobility and belonging 
• Agency and belonging 
• Indigenous belonging 
• Migrancy, transnationalism, and belonging 
• Hybridity and belonging 
• Language, culture and belonging 
Submissions should be uploaded to www.newscholar.org.au by August 14, 2012 
Please see the New Scholar website for updated guidelines for authors. Please address all inquiries (but not submissions) to Caitlin Nunn, Nadia Niaz, Karen Schamberger and Gillian Darcy at thebelongingproject at gmail.com

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Following on from the successful conference in Melbourne, I should like to remind you that next year's special issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, which will be launched in Brisbane at the 2013 conference, is on Crime. So, if your conference paper this year was on Crime (crime fiction, crime on tv or film, true crime, and so on), or if you have written or would like to write a paper on this topic, please consider sending it through to me at this email address:

alistair.rolls at newcastle.edu.au

Authors should refer to the journal's website for details about style, but I should like to ask at this stage that you aim to keep papers within the 5,000-6,000-word bracket and that you make sure that you yourself have secured permissions for any images that you would like to use (and the journal is keen to have images).

The deadline for getting papers to me is end September 2012.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Affecting Deleuze

A Conference on the Ethics of Gilles Deleuze
18-20 October 2012
The University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand

"I would say that Anti-Oedipus (may its authors forgive me) is a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time. … The Christian moralists sought out traces of the flesh lodged deep in the soul. Deleuze and Guattari, for their part, pursue the slightest traces of fascism in the body."
Michel Foucault, Preface to Anti-Oedipus.

"This requirement persists in [Spinoza’s] Ethics, albeit understood in a new way. In neither case can it suffice to say that truth is simply present in ideas. We must go on to ask what is it that is present in a true idea. What expresses itself in a true idea? What does it express?"
Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Spinoza.

What is that peculiar insistence on ethics that Foucault glimpsed early on? And is it at all engaged with the complications Deleuze makes with Spinoza and Leibniz — a curious ethics expressed in active affectivity of joyous passions contrasted with the passivity of sad passions?: “Most men remain, most of the time, fixated by sad passions which cut them off from their essence and reduce it to the state of an abstraction” (E in S, p. 320). Would we want to say that the sad passions that for the most part afflict most men are the micro-fascisms by which we coerce each other, reducing each to a state of abstraction? How is ‘ethics’ complicated by Deleuze? When we read Deleuze and apply his thinking in myriad fields how do we keep a Deleuzian ethics in sight? How does Deleuze not become a state of abstraction or theoretical strata, cause of its own fascisms?

Affecting Deleuze is a three-day conference that aims to focus on the practical philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and on practices that engage the philosophy of Deleuze. We aim for papers that foreground a questioning of Deleuzian ‘ethics’ in relation to a thinking that might otherwise approach Deleuze as method or procedure in practical, or one might say, creative assemblages. How would ‘ethics’ differentiate itself from a politics and, more acutely, from a theory of the ethical?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Although we are waiting to hear from several invited speakers, confirmed speakers include

Steven Shivaro, Wayne State University, U.S.A. 
Ian Buchannan, University of Wollongong, Australia Stephen Zepke, Independent Scholar, Vienna, Austria Jan Jagodzinski, University of Alberta, Canada Rex Butler, University of Queensland, Australia

     We are calling for

Individual paper presentations — 20-minute papers/10-minute question time. 
We will thematically group papers for 90-minute sessions  Or 

Panel/group presentations — 90 minutes organized according to your own inventiveness

Abstracts (250-300 words individual / up to 700 words for panel) will be blind reviewed

Abstract submission no later than Friday 24th August

Some possible themes to consider for a focus on Deleuze’s ethics

Deleuze’s Foucault: Power, knowledge, self Ethics and the outside of thought (Deleuze and Blanchot) Ideas of Reason (Kant and Deleuze) Aesthetics and Ethics: Expression and affects Deleuze with Guattari: Thinking a new earth Spinoza’s multitudes: Negri and Deleuze

And with respect to a focus on working with Deleuze:

Space, design and ethics
The image of thought: affectivity and percepts Sensations and matter: Bergson and freedom Ethics and the post-cinematic Societies of Control

KEY DATES 

Abstract submission no later than Friday24th August Notification of acceptance by Monday 3rd September Conference early registration opens Monday 10th September Conference commences Thursday 18th October at 5.30p.m (opening key note and reception) Conference concludes Saturday 20th October with conference dinner

Conference venue will be at the University of Auckland (venue details to be confirmed)

Registration rates

Full Registration                $130.00 (NZ)
Early Bird Registration (10th to 30th September)    $100.00 (NZ)
Student Rate                $  65.00 (NZ)
Early Bird Student (10th to 30th September)        $  50.00 (NZ)
Conference dinner rate             To be advised
(Credit card and other payment option details to be confirmed)

Send Abstracts or any enquiries to 

Associate Professor Laurence Simmons (University of Auckland) l.simmons at auckland.ac.nz & Associate Professor Mark Jackson (AUT University) mark.jackson at aut.ac.nz 

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue - Women’s Studies International Forum
Eating like a ‘man’: Food and the performance and regulation of masculinities 

Guest Editors
Meredith Nash, University of Tasmania
Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania

Scope

This special issue is intended to provide a sustained examination of feminist perspectives on food as a site for the performance and regulation of masculinities. Existing feminist scholarship on food and eating has tended to focus on women’s experiences food preparation and consumption. While this has been an appropriate corrective to the historical marginalisation of women’s lives and experiences, much of this work tends to focus on food and eating as primarily feminine experience. The ways in which food operates as a site of masculine gender construction for both men and women has been largely neglected in the scholarship. More work is urgently needed that considers food and masculinities from global and international perspectives and which addresses the vectors of nationality, ethnicity, migration, class, age and sexuality. Contributions to this special issue will extend existing feminist work on gender, food and eating by examining masculinities as important sites through which meaning and power with respect to food are mobilised (and sometimes contested).

We are especially interested in papers that explore relationships between food and masculinities beyond hegemonic masculinity. We intend to unsettle and ‘queer’ the notion that masculinity is associated with biological ‘men’ as much as possible, and so we are interested in contributions that will engage with transgender masculinities and female masculinities and how they operate in connection with food, eating and embodiment. 
Themes

We hope that the articles in this special issue will raise questions on several levels: conceptual (how do concepts of masculinity help to us understand and define contemporary gendered relationships to food?), cultural (what discourses of masculinity are attached to food, and how do men and women negotiate these cross-culturally in their daily lives?), political (how can feminist perspectives on food and masculinities assist us to understand, and contest, relationships between food, eating, gender and social power?), and practical (how does masculinity help us to address the gendered nature of food access and inequity around the world?)

We are seeking articles that adopt a feminist approach to food and masculinities and that explore one or more of the following topics as they relate to masculinities or ‘men’:
• The gendered geopolitics of food
• Food and nation-building
• Foodways and their relationship to agriculture, globalisation and industrialisation
• Cross-cultural relationships to food
• Class and consumption
• Food and families
• Food, fitness and health
• Embodied experiences of eating
• ‘Obesity’ and ‘fat’
• Food, appetite and emotion
• Food, sex and sexuality
• Eating and (im)morality
• Risk related to food
• Food fads and trends
• Fast food, extreme food, competitive eating
• Genetically modified food
• Famine and hunger
Contributors are invited to submit articles of 7500 words (maximum) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by 31 October 2012.

Articles for this special issue will need to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) for Women's Studies International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/ 
Authors should follow Women's Studies International Forum’s submission guidelines available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/361/authorinstructions. 
Articles for this special issue will need to be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) for Women's Studies International Forum: http://ees/elsevier.com/wsif/. 
Authors must select “Eating Like a Man SI” in the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Authors must also request ‘Kalwant Bhopal’ at the ‘Request Editor’ stage of the submission process.  

The editors of the Special Issue welcome discussion of initial ideas for articles via e-mail (please send queries to both of the editors):
Meredith Nash: Meredith.Nash[at]utas.edu.au
Michelle Phillipov: Michelle.Phillipov[at]utas.edu.au 

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Dear colleagues, 

We encourage you to disseminate this position information to potential candidates. This is a research-only position for a social scientist (or someone with similar skills) to work with an ARC Linkage Project on monitoring and managing Moreton Bay and its catchments, South-East Queensland, as a social-ecological system. The work focuses on eliciting people’s values towards the Bay and waterways, resource uses and behaviour patterns. The project provides the social component of a set of studies assisting the partners to design monitoring for the Moreton Bay Marine Park and associated waterways.

The collaborating partners are the University of Queensland Schools of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics; Agriculture and Food Sciences; and Social Sciences; and The Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts; HealthyWaterways; Traditional Owners; and South East Queensland Catchments. 
The position is tenable two years full-time or three years fractional (budgeted for 70% fraction). It is based at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus. 

Details are on these links:

UQ Jobs <http://uqjobs.uq.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=493596&amp;lWorkTypeID=&amp;lLocationID=&amp;lCategoryID=&amp;lBrandID=1735&amp;stp=AW&amp;sLanguage=en> 
SEEK <http://www.seek.com.au/Job/arc-linkage-postdoctoral-research-fellow/in/brisbane-cbd-inner-suburbs/22686556> 
Closing date: Monday 6th August, 2012

Enquiries to  Helen Ross (Helen.Ross at uq.edu.au; 0408-195324

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media Studies 2012 (A191-12Z)
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

An exciting opportunity to join an established and growing Media Studies programme in New Zealand's capital city. 

Location: Kelburn Campus 
Term of Contract: Permanent 
Closing Date: 15 August 2012 

The School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies at Victoria University invites applications for a permanent position for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, to begin in January 2013. Candidates with a demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas would be desirable: new media; media theory and analysis; media, politics and society; and media and popular culture. 

The successful candidate should have a Ph.D in hand (or expected prior to January 2013) in media studies or related field, a record of scholarly productivity, and the ability to teach a broad range of introductory and advanced courses, including at first-year level. At the Senior Lecturer level, candidates will need to have a strong record of scholarly research and publication; an active research agenda; demonstrated evidence of high quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; administrative experience and skills; and experience in successful student supervision at MA and PhD levels.

Applications should include the following material: a letter of interest addressing teaching and research goals; a curriculum vitae with the name of three referees; writing samples, teaching evaluations and a research plan will be required for the next phase of the process but can be submitted initially. 

For further information about this position and to begin online application, please visit (http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/) 

For further information on the position contact Associate Professor Thierry Jutel, Head of School (Thierry.jutel at vuw.ac.nz) or Dr Jo Smith, Programme Director (Jo.Smith at vuw.ac.nz). 

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Associate Professor/Professor in Media Studies 2012 (A192-12Z)
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

This position offers an exciting opportunity for a senior academic of international standing to contribute to Victoria University's Media Studies programme. 

Location: Kelburn Campus 
Term of Contract: Permanent 
Closing Date: 15 August 2012 

The School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies at Victoria University is seeking to make a senior appointment, at either Professor or Associate Professor / Reader level, in its Media Studies Programme to start at the beginning of 2013. Established in 2000, the Programme has now large undergraduate enrolments, and a fast-growing MA and PhD Programme. The Programme’s general focus is to approach the study of the media through critical investigation and includes expertise in critical theory, postcolonial and indigenous theories, queer and gender studies, political economy, institutional and industry analysis, and audience studies among others. The University seeks to build on the Programme’s existing strengths through the appointment of a Professor or Associate Professor / Reader who will provide leadership in teaching, administration and research. 

The appointee will be expected to have a PhD in Media or related field, to have an excellent research record with an international reputation in her or his specialist field; to have significant supervisory experience, and the potential to attract new post-graduate enrolments; and to have extensive experience of teaching at the tertiary level. The ability to build positive working relationships within the discipline and to work in an interdisciplinary context is also important. Experience of academic administration would be an advantage. 

Applications should include the following material: a letter of interest addressing teaching, research, and leadership goals; a curriculum vitae with the name of three referees; writing samples, teaching evaluations and a research plan will be required for the next phase of the process but can be submitted initially. 
Professor is the most senior academic rank in the New Zealand tertiary system, and Professors are expected to be academic leaders within their discipline, and more broadly within the university community. 

To get more details about this position and to begin online application, please visit (http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/). 

For further information on the position contact Associate Professor Thierry Jutel, Head of School (Thierry.jutel at vuw.ac.nz) or Lillian Loftus, Faculty HR Manager (Lillian.loftus at vuw.ac.nz). 

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I am editing  on all aspects of the media in Australia. The volume, featuring 540 entries and 230 contributors, will be published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2014: http://scholarly.info/media/

I have yet to find an author for the entry on crime reporting. The length assigned is 1000w words; the focus is obviously on Australia; and the approach should be historical, but go right up to the present. I could be quite generous with the deadline for the right author! I wonder if any of you may be interested in taking this on, or could recommend a suitable author? 

Sincere thanks,

Bridget.

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IACSS CONFERENCE 2013 Singapore
 *Main theme*: Beyond the Culture Industry *Date*: July 3rd to July 5th 2013
** *Venue*: National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge Campus *Organizers*:
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Asia Research Institute, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS *Submission deadline*: Dec 1st 2012 &#65533; online submission form<http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/panel-proposal-submission/>
*Announcement of accepted panels*: Jan 1st 2013 *Email: * iacs.conference at gmail.com *Call for Panels*

The general theme of the 2013 conference is eyond the Culture Industry&#65533;.
In the past two decades, the cultural sphere of rising Asian economies has increasingly shifted from being marked by the politics of authoritarianism and democratization to being pervaded by the market logic of deepening capitalism. The development of Asian culture industries has come under increasing scrutiny in cultural studies. However, we note that the emphases have been on the cultural policy of developmental states and the production of the cultural economy. For the 2013 conference, we seek to move beyond these emphases and inquire into the politics of culture that accompanies the neoliberalization of the cultural sphere.

We welcome panel proposals of 3-4 papers based on the general theme and other important topics in inter-Asia cultural studies today. Panels proposed will be listed on the Submitted Panels<http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/submitted-panels/>
page
on the IACS Society website. We will only accept panel proposals,
*not* individual
paper proposals. To facilitate panel construction and encourage interaction between scholars, we will be providing the CFP Bulletin Board<http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/call-for-panels-bulletin-board/>
for
prospective panel organizers to put up their panel ideas and contact email &#65533; interested presenters are encouraged to either look for a panel to join or to put up a panel idea<http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/cfp-bulletin-board-submission/>
on
the Bulletin Board. *The call is now open &#65533; please submit your panel proposal using our online form<http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/panel-proposal-submission/>
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Accommodation information, registration fees schedule, and other details about the conference will be updated here when they are confirmed.
http://culturalstudies.asia/iacs-conference-2013/

For enquiries, please email the IACS Society Conference Secretary, Daniel Goh, iacs.conference at gmail.com

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Cultural Studies Association of Australasia annual conference 2012

Hosted by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney

Dec 4th-6th (pre-fix pre-conference Dec 3rd)

‘Materialities: Economies, Empiricism, & Things’

Organising committee: Fiona Allon, Prudence Black, Catherine Driscoll, Elspeth Probyn, Kane Race & Guy Redden.

Second Call for Papers

 Cultural studies has a long history of investigating material practices – indeed it was a founding tenet of British cultural studies – but recently a new turn or return to materialism seems to be emerging in the field.  What this materiality now means is still open, but we suggest that it flags a renewed interest in questions of how to study cultural objects, institutions and practices (methods), what constitutes matter and materiality (empiricism), and how things (humans and non-humans) are being reworked at a time of global economic, environmental and cultural flux.

Our keynotes have all directed critical attention to these questions – to the more-than-human, to new philosophies of matter, to the gendered material and economic circuits of media, and to ‘the heavy materiality of language’. We have invited them to help us in reinvigorating what cultural studies can do today. 

Keynote speakers: Jennifer Biddle (UNSW), Ross Chambers (Michigan), Brenda Croft (UniSA), Katherine Gibson (UWS), Ros Gill (University of London), Gay Hawkins (UQ), Lesley Head (Wollongong), Bev Skeggs (Goldsmiths, London).
Other plenary speakers will include: Ien Ang (UWS), Tony Bennett (UWS),  Stuart Cunningham (QUT), John Frow (Melbourne), John Hartley (Curtin), Meaghan Morris (Sydney), Stephen Muecke (UNSW), Tom O’Regan (UQ), and Graeme Turner (UQ).

We encourage proposed panels and individual papers that engage with the wide spectrum of issues flagged by our title, including submissions that focus on:
· the crossing of science studies and cultural studies;
· questions of method;
· the relation between culture and economy;
· cultural histories of objects and forms;
· new ideas about empiricism;
· placing sexuality, gender and race within the more-than-human;
· the materiality of texts and genres;
· the future and the past of material cultural studies;
· environmental humanities and changing ecologies;
· cultural studies within the anthropocene;
· cultural relations with/in primary and natural resources;
· the new materiality of globalism
Papers and panels not focusing on the theme are also welcome.

Please send submissions to csaa.2012 at gmail.com by August 24th and include your name and affiliation. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words. Panel submissions must include three individual abstracts, a panel title and 100-150 word rationale for the panel as a whole.

We will advise all proposers of accepted papers within 4 weeks of this deadline. Please note that accepted presenters will need to register before their paper will be scheduled in the program.

Early bird registration for the conference up to 1 October 2012 will shortly be opening. Please register herehttp://www.csaa2012.org/registration.html

There will also be a separate event, “Pre-Fix”, geared to the needs of postgraduates and early career researchers, on December 3rd. Details of this and the main conference are on the website.

Conference website: http://www.csaa2012.org
CSAA website: http://www.csaa.asn.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSAA2012
Twitter: csaa2012

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International Interdisciplinary Conference

"Self, Culture and Justice: East and West"

9-11 January 2013

Fo Guang University, Taiwan

Call for Papers

Conference Topic: Self, Culture and Justice: East and West

This is an international and interdisciplinary conference to be held at Fo Guang University, Taiwan, on 9-11 January 2013.

Please email a 150-word abstract to Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti <chandanachak at gmail.com>.

Date of proposal acceptance: One week after the proposal is submitted.

Suggested subtopics:

Self & No Self; Personal Identity; Self as Continuum, as Flux or as Stream of Consciousness; Social Self; Self & Absolute; Process Theology; I & Thou; Cultural Self; Identity; Personal Immortality; Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science; Global Justice; Criminal Justice; Globalization; Secularization & Future of Religion; Atheism & Values; Marx & Freud, Anti-Globalization Movements; Consumerism & Ethical Values; Socialism; Capitalism; Compassion & Perfectionist Ethics; Human Rights & Justice; Animal Rights; Mediation & Peace; Nonviolence of the Brave; Noncooperation as a Form of Nonviolence; Culture of Nonviolence; Merciless Justice; Social Justice; Liberal Democracy; Enlightened Anarchy; Politics & Morals; Global Market & Values; Globalization & Environment; Ecology; Cosmology & Teleology.

The above list is suggestive and not exhaustive.

Please email a 150-word abstract to Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti <chandanachak at gmail.com>.

Selected papers from the conference will be published (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies / Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion).

Advisory Board Members:

Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Linda B. Elder (USA), Gordon Haist (USA), Rajani Jairam (India), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Simi Malhotra (India), Maria Marczewska (Poland), JoAnne Myers (USA), Eve Mullen (USA), Rizwan Rahman (India), Andrew Ward (UK)