Calls for Papers

AUDIENCE LOST: MINORITY WOMEN AND SPECTATORSHIP 22-23 November 2019, Ghent University, Belgium Website: https://audiencelost.wordpress.com/blog/ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Prof. Judith Thissen (Utrecht University) Prof. Allyson Nadia Field (University of Chicago) In 2002, Annette Kuhn reflected, in Dreaming...

International migrations are an intricate part of a more interconnected world in terms of trade, communications and cultural exchanges. There is no question that migrations help improve people’s lives in both sending and receiving states, offering new opportunities for millions of people worldwide...

‘Sport’, as Mandela famously observed, ‘has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.’...

The dispersion of communities of people physically displaced from their perceived ‘homeland’ to other parts of the globe has been a defining feature of the human experience. Commonly referred to as diasporas, these groups have travelled to other lands for reasons including to escape persecution, to...

Call for Papers 7th Euroacademia International Conference Re-Inventing Eastern Europe 30 Years from the Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe 13 – 14 December 2019 School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Anglo-American University, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1...

Violence 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 3rd July 2020 - Saturday 4th July 2020 Bratislava, Slovakia Throughout history violence has horrified and enthralled in equal measure, defining some of our most glorious and most distressing historical events. Debate continues about...

Experiencing Prison 7th Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Friday 3rd July to Saturday 4th July 2020 Bratislava, Slovakia Prison is used world-wide as a form of punishment or detention for men, women and children, within a functioning criminal justice system, and its use can be traced...

***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPT. 30*** Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism and Women’s Rights February 20-22, 2020 University of Houston-Downtown Houston, Texas The XV Recovery conference will convene in Houston from February 20 to 22, 2020 to continue the legacy of scholars meeting...

Food and drink not only provide the nourishment that sustains life, they also serve as an anchor for identity by tethering human kind to a particular place in nature, culture, time and place. Food has long been the immigrant’s language for articulating a conflicted sense of identity, a diasporic...