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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
Women’s Memoirs and the World of the Sixties (MLA Special Session, Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011) Many women have written memoirs about their lives in the 1960s. How have they characterized these times? Was it a decade of optimism, hope, accomplishment, regret, anger, betrayal, or confusion? Papers analyzing women’s memoirs from diverse perspectives especially welcome. [...]
Proposed Special Session for MLA 2011 in Los Angeles When Katherine Stubbes “bequeaths” their newborn son to Phillip Stubbes, she asks her husband to “bring up this childe in good letters, in learning and discipline, and above all things, see that he be brought up and instructed in the exercise of true religion.” The late [...]
The 13th ISJR Conference is approaching fast, which means it is time to put in your conference submissions if you haven’t already. To be held in Banff Alberta, on August 21-24, 2010, the theme of the conference will be on “Rights and Equality in the Global Community”. The conference line-up features, in addition to Carolyn [...]
Call for Papers Special Section of the British Journal of Social Psychology on
“Innovation in Theory and Research on Collective Action and
Social Change” Guest Editors:
Martijn van Zomeren, University of Groningen
Bert Klandermans, VU University Amsterdam =================================== This Special Section of the British Journal of Social Psychology
seeks to bring together exciting and new research on collective
action and social [...]
Global Justice. Concepts, Theories and Constraints Bucharest, May 18-19, 2010 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest Worldwide suffering caused by large-scale famine, poverty, human rights violations, military interventions or environmental degradation have a global dimension, because those responsible are not only individuals, but also states and international institutions. Recently, what some have perceived as global [...]
We invite psychologists, other mental health professionals, researchers, teachers, students, and other activists to join Psychologists for Social Responsibility for our conference “Toward a More Socially Responsible Psychology”, July 15-17 at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline, MA (next to Boston). LEARN MORE and REGISTER TODAY at www.psysr.org/conference2010. In a relaxed and interactive [...]
Roskilde University, May 26-28 2010 This conference focuses on the everyday practices of persons, and the interplay between actors and social structures in everyday life. Everyday life in the Nordic and Europeans societies is characterized by an unprecedented rupture of economic and political systems, cultural meanings and individual identities. Global and environmental changes force us [...]