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The First International Conference of Indigenous & Cultural Psychology – July 24-27, 2010 – Indonesia

Call for Papers The First International Conference of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology Understanding people in culturally diverse contexts Center for Indigenous and Cultural Psychology & Faculty of Psychology, University of Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 24-27, 2010  Recently, psychology celebrated its 120th anniversary of the founding of psychology by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879. Wundt helped [...]

Studies in Social and Political Thought – University of Sussex – Centre for Social and Political Thought

Call for Papers   Now in its eleventh year, Studies in Social and Political Thought, is a student run journal based in the University of Sussexs Centre for Social and Political Thought. The journal has dual purpose: first, fostering developments in the inter-disciplinary areas of social and political thought and, second, serving as a publishing [...]

The Embodied Mind: Perspectives & Limitations – Nijmegen, NL – Oct. 27-28

The Embodied Mind: Perspectives and Limitations
October 27-28, Nijmegen, NL
http://embodiedmind.cognitive-psychology.eu/ We are very pleased to announce TEMPAL 2010, a workshop on The Embodied Mind: Perspectives and Limitations, to be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on 27-28 October 2010. The aim of this workshop is to generate a critical discussion on the relevance of an embodied view [...]

Marx & Philosophy Society 7th Annual Conference – June 5, 2010 – London – Graduate Panel – Abstraction, Universality & Money

Call for graduate panel papers Marx and Philosophy Society Seventh Annual Conference Saturday 5 June 2010, Institute of Education, University of London ‘Abstraction, Universality and Money’   Main speakers: Chris Arthur Richard Seaford (Exeter) Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)   The Marx and Philosophy Society aims to encourage scholarly engagement with, and creative development of, the philosophical [...]

MiW Invitation to Advertising Disappointment and Desire Friday 12th March 5-7pm

The Next Media & the Inner World Event is: Advertising, Disappointment and Desire A Round Table and Audience Discussion Room One, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Friday 12th March 2010 5-7pm Nearest Tube: Hyde Park Speakers: Helen Powell, Senior Lecturer Culture Industries, Media & Advertising University of East London Martin Bojam, Managing Partner 360 Education [...]

CfP FQS Special Issue “Participatory Qualitative Research”

CfP FQS Special Issue “Participatory Qualitative Research: What? Who? How? In Whose Interests?” In this Special Issue we hope to publish papers that illuminate philosophical, ethical, political, ideological and methodological issues peculiar to participatory qualitative research, through articulating them in relation to examples of substantive hands-on research. We do not wish to prescribe or proscribe [...]

Eyal Sivan’s Artist talk at the AA – London – Friday 5th March

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Artist’s Series (supported by the London Consortium) Organised by Parveen Adams Friday 5th March                        EYAL SIVAN 6.30-8.00 In an investigation of the way in which memory is used for political purposes Sivan works with the idea of an archive common to victims and perpetrators – in this case Palestinians and Israelis.  His films [...]

AFFECTive and AFFECTing Research: researching affect in the social sciences

A one day colloquium: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Friday 26th March 2010, 11am-6pm Organised by ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Networks for Methodological Innovation Researching Affect and Affective Communication Network Director: Professor Valerie Walkerdine Increasingly, social science researchers are pointing to the central importance of affect and affective communication to understanding the [...]

Identity Project

Identity Project: Exhibition and Events What influences or determines our sense of who we are? What makes one person distinct from another? This major new exhibition explores the tension between the way we view ourselves and how others see us. Subjects tackled include twins, phrenology and brain imaging, gender and sexuality, race and prejudice. As [...]

Health in Women’s Writing (3/4/2010; 1/6-9/2011) MLA Los Angeles

Health in Women’s Writing (proposed special session MLA 2011): abstracts by March 4 Representations of Health and Well-Being in 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Women’s Writing. Exploring the cultural discourse of health and well-being, illness, and disease in 19th- and early-20th-century American literature by women. 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2010; Stacey Lee Donohue (sdonohue@cocc.edu).