multidisciplinary studies

Monstrous Hungers and Desires Special Conference Stream within The Monsters and the Monstrous Project Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Humans can be consumed by desires; the need to possess and control, to hunger for more...

Madness The Making Sense Of: Madness Project Tuesday 15th September – Thursday 17th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Madness: What is it? Why does it exist? Where and when does it happen? How does it happen, and to whom? Like the relation between...

Gender and Love The Gender and Love Project Sunday 20th September – Tuesday 22nd September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The “Gender and Love” project calls for reflections on the interaction between gender and love and how this nexus of ideas pertains to...

Constructing and Defining Food Practices The Food Project Tuesday 15th September – Thursday 17th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Food and consumption are, undeniably, enmeshed in all aspects of human existence. Our history and culture, as well as our...

Millenarianism and Surviving the Destruction of Humanity The Apocalypse Project: Rescheduled! Saturday 1st August – Monday 3rd August 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: From the Christian concept of the ‘Apocalypse’ to the Hindu notions of the Kali Yuga, visions...

Fashion The Fashion Project: Exploring Critical Issues Thursday 24th September – Saturday 26th September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: Coco Chanel observed that fashion is ‘not something that exists in dresses only,’ and ‘has to do with ideas, the way we...

Fan Activism and Civic Engagement The Fan Communities and Fandom Project Sunday 20th September – Tuesday 22nd September 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: From Trekkies taking action to save the Star Trek television series from cancellation, to fan ownership of...

Gender and Cyberspace Special Conference Stream within The Femininities and Masculinities Project Saturday 2nd May – Monday 4th May 2015 Dubrovnik, Croatia Call for Presentations: Is there gender in Cyberspace and is so do we get to choose which one, if any, we are? Whilst physical reality would...

Sci-Fi The Sci-Fi Project Wednesday 5th August – Friday 7th August 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: From the 10th century’s The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, to 19th century classics like War of the Worlds, to the universe of superheroes that populated comic books...

The Body’s Transformations The Body Transformations Project Saturday 1st August – Monday 3rd August 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Call for Presentations: The Body. Friend, ally yet also betrayer and foe. From the cradle to the grave it is our constant companion on the journey...