Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Infirmitas. Social and Cultural Approaches to Cure, Caring and Health

August 23 – 26, 2012 University of Tampere, Finland

The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability. These topics are of major importance for communities and societies both in Antiquity and [...]

8th Deaf History International Conference

8th Deaf History International Conference

Telling Deaf Lives: Biographies & Autobiographies

Toronto, Canada— July 24–29, 2012

The DHI Conference 2012 is timed to coincide closely with two other big events being held in Toronto: 1) the 2nd World Deaf Athletics Championships (July 14 to 21) and 2) the 10th Deaf Canada Conference (July 20 to [...]

3rd Global Conference Spirituality in the 21st Century

3rd Global Conference Spirituality in the 21st Century

Thursday 7th March – Saturday 9th March 2013 Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:

The contemporary study of spirituality encompasses a wide range of interests. These have come not only from the more traditional areas of religious scholarship╉theology, philosophy of religion, history of religion, comparative religion, mysticism╉but [...]

The Reshaping of Planet Earth: Connections Between Humans and the Environment in World History

2nd to 5th August 2012 

Allendale, Michigan, United States of America 

Website: http://www.mwwha.org 

Contact person: Paul Jentz 

This conference will discuss current scholarship in world history as well as the teaching of world history. It will explore connections between human history and the environment. 

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CFP Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLICATION

Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference

ENTIDENTIC 2012

The progress of genetics has strengthened the relation between body and identity at such an extent that a number of researchers have argued that DNA can be considered today what traditional religions and philosophical conceptions understood [...]

Second Marxism and Psychology Conference

Morelia, Mexico, 9-12 August 2012

Conference website: http://marxpsyconference.teocripsi.com/index.php

Abstract submission deadline: 15 March, 2012

Key-speakers and special participants include: Guillermo Delahanty, Anup Dhar, Fernando González-Rey, Raquel Guzzo, Grahame Hayes, Lois Holzman, Gordana Jovanovic, Lynne Layton, Athanasios Marvakis, Raúl Páramo-Ortega, Hans Skott Myhre, Ian Parker, and Lawrence Wilde.

 

Invitation to the Second Marxism and [...]

Sites of Memory, Anamnesis and Representation of Identity (Lieux de Mémoire, Anamnesis et Représentation de l’Identité) (SMARI 2011) Paris International Conference (21-23 September 2011)

With the development of the contemporary communicating tools, contemporary society seems to be marked by a rapid flow of events and ideas that appear and disappear from the memory of a relatively young individual as fast as they appear. This atmosphere of rapid exchange of hot news and new trends in fashion, ways of life, [...]

FORMS OF CORRUPTION IN HISTORY AND IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: ORIGINS, CONTINUITY, EVOLUTION (CORHICS 2011) 7-9 September 2011, Paris 1 Sorbonne University

The etymology of the word “corruption” (lat. Co-rruptum) indicates either an alteration, or an act of seduction, but in any case it leads toward a rupture. In a broader meaning, corruption is understood as the behavior of a person who derails another one from his/her way, customs or duties, through the promise of money, honors [...]

Call for Papers “Contemporary Identities” Paris International Conference (CIPIC 2011)

Ars Identitatis Cultural Research Association intends to publish a series of paperback volumes entitled Contemporary Identities (two volumes per year, one on a specific subject, the other miscellaneous). In order to make the selection process for the volumes as competitive as possible, we will organise a preliminary conference, which will take place in Paris at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, from 13 to 16 April 2011. [...]

AutoBiography Summer Conference 2010 (7/8-10/2010) UK

XIXth Auto/Biography Summer Conference Program 8 to 10 July 2010 * University of Leicester “Legacies”

Thursday, 8 July 2010 * 6:30 – 7:37:30 pm “Auto/biographical reflections on personal and other legacies: Much more than money” The Phil Salmon Memorial Lecture by Gayle Letherby, University of Plymouth

Friday, 9 July 2010 * 9:00 – 9:50 “Reflections [...]