Brunel University & University of Westminster

1st Joint Researching the Arts/Social Sciences Conference for Research Students

Westminster University, June 17 & 18, 2013
foreclose—foris claudere—to exclude, to shut out

You are invited to submit a proposal for the two-day interdisciplinary conference Foreclosure, that aims to bring together law, art and politics. We understand foreclosure as the art of ordering and securing a common ground for the unfolding of a common experience; the exchange of affects and perspectives; and the performance of bodies and spaces. Art, Law and Politics habitually build walls around their concepts and practices. Foreclosure aims to encourage the exploration of practices and performances of law, art and politics through the prism of their shared operation; the investigation of the juncture between their disciplinary fences; and the unfolding of the fragility of their mechanisms. This is our aim: to dissect, dismantle and improve the operations of art, law and politics in order to locate cracks, produce apertures, and ride the lines of flight where new potentialities are generated.

This conference invites you to take up this task, to think, write, speak, draw and perform ways to disclose the foreclosures; to propose artistic, political and legal modes able to unleash the potentialities often imprisoned within their [individual] apparatuses.

This CALL is for PhD students only and invites papers or performances from all areas in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Papers can be critical articles, fieldwork reports, creative readings or/and performance/presentation (including sound, film, installation, theatre, exhibition, etc) of no longer than 20 minutes in length. Please send a 200 word proposal including the title of your project along with a short biography to: foreclosuresconference@gmail.com by the 28th Feb, 2013.

There will be prizes awarded, one for the best paper and one for best performance at the conference.

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

With regards from the student committee:
Caterina Nirta, Danilo Mandic, Andrea Pavoni, Serena Volpi, Jessica Worden, Roswitha Gerlitz

Call for papers
Visual Communication Journal
Special Issue

DIFFERENCE AND GLOBALIZATION

Co-edited by GIORGIA AIELLO (University of Leeds) and LUC PAUWELS (University of Antwerp)

Continue reading DIFFERENCE AND GLOBALIZATION CFP

The ISSC is pleased to announce a call for contributions to the 2013 World Social Science Report. The report, to be launched in October 2013, will focus on “Changing Global Environments: Transformative Impact of Social Sciences”.

World Social Science Reports address key social science challenges posed by fast changing global realities, evaluate social science contributions and capacities to respond to them, and make recommendations for future research practice and policy. In particular, the 2013 WSSR will foreground the contributions of the social sciences to environmental change research.

For further information on the 2013 WSSR and the contributions expected, please download the call here : http://www.worldsocialscience.org/?p=2901. The deadline for expressions of interest is 20 July 2012.

Segnaliamo che sono aperte le iscrizioni al Corso di Perfezionamento Post laurea “Azione locale partecipata e sviluppo urbano sostenibile” che si tiene all’Università Iuav di Venezia e che è giunto alla sua dodicesima edizione.

Il progetto formativo è mirato  all’approfondimento delle nuove competenze e conoscenze che occorrono ai professionisti che pianificano e progettano interventi di sviluppo locale o di sviluppo  urbano e a tecnici e amministratori locali chiamati a lavorare in un’ottica  di azione strategica, intersettoriale e partecipata.

La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 12 luglio 2012; informazioni sul bando e la modulistica sono pubblicate alla pagina Iuav dedicata al Corso: http://www.iuav.it/master/
Per il programma del corso si rimanda a: http://www.azionelocale.net .
Per informazioni: azionelocale@iuav.it

Locandina in pdf

L’Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette ha aperto quest’anno un post-master d’introduzione alla ricerca in architettura, che si propone l’osservazione delle mutazione delle città e dei territori come “sfida” di ricerca, che non può limitarsi ai soli aspetti spaziali, ma che anzi deve aspirare ad agirvi dopo aver maturato gli strumenti interdisciplinari più consoni a comprenderli.

Le informazioni per le iscrizioni e la struttura del percorso formativo, qui: http://dpearea.wordpress.com/

The Urban Studies Foundation and the Urban Studies Journal Ltd are pleased to announce that they are funding the second round of a competition to host an urban research seminar series.  Submissions are invited for seminar or conference events to be held during the 12 months following the closing date for applications (15th of June, 2012).

The seminars should be academically excellent, international events that will produce demonstrable academic outputs. They will advance knowledge in any area of urban studies’ definition of relevant research areas in the Urban Studies journal rules for article submission.

The Urban Studies Journal Limited will fund up to £20,000 of reasonable costs and expenses for the running of the event. A panel of senior editors of the Urban Studies journal will select the best application for the competition and disseminate the outcome within six weeks of the closing date. Last year we funded two seminar series competitions but anticipate funding one this year.

For further information please contact : socpol-usjseminarseries@glasgow.ac.uk

Full Call and Application Form in pdf