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The ‘Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Working Papers in the Humanities’ is an international, refereed online journal “intended to allow researchers to present initial findings or hypotheses such as might, at a more advanced stage, become eligible for publication in established scholarly journals”. The journal is now inviting contributions for its 2009 issue. For more information about the journal, access to previous issues, and details about the current call for paper, please visit the journal website.

Things are already gearing up for the DRHA conference 2009, which is to be held in Belfast from the 6th to 9th September. DRHA (or Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts to give it its full title)  is an Intute Arts and Humanities favourite for obvious professional reasons, but also due to its always-entertaining eclectic mix of the latest cutting-edge humanities projects and artistic performances (see blog entries passim).

DRHA 2009 is shaping up nicely. The theme of the conference is ‘Dynamic Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Contexts, Crises, Futures’, and the organisers (I must admit to being on the programme committee myself) are keen to attract a varied set of proposals, from young scholars and performers as well as old hands. The full details are available at http://www.dho.ie/drha2009. Do note that the deadline for submissions is the 31st March, and abstracts should include a reasonable amount of detail.  In the interests of creativity the conference particularly encourages proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats, so get thinking about how you (and your network if you have one) can get involved.

I report four calls for papers that may be of interest to archaeologists.  The first one is the International aerial archaeology conference that will be held in Siena, Italy, thais September and for which some attendance boursaries are available for students and young researchers. The second conference focuses on Contemporary Art and Archaeology and will be held in Paris this October. It promises to be an interdisciplinary conference that should be of interest to art historians as much as archaeologists. More details on the individual conferences follow. The third one is entitled The Death Toll, Violence, Warfare, Sacrality and Power in the European Bronze Age; it will be held in Rome in May and has opened a call for posters. Finally, the 3rd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology will be held in Tiruchirappalli, India, on 17-21 August 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Call for papers and posters from Oxford University’s annual educational technology conference Shock of the Old 8, which is on the 2nd April 2009. This year’s conference theme is “Digital literacy: the place of new media in higher education“. (Deadline for submission is Friday 9th January 2009 with notification to authors on 19th January 2009. Full details on submission are available via the website).

Whilst web-based tools are rapidly becoming standard in education and in the workplace and technologically-mediated communication is the norm, fluency in information, visual, and technological literacy is not formally taught to most students, according to the Educause 2008 Horizon report. We therefore need new definitions of academic digital literacy.

Presentations and Posters should address either:

• Research reports and case studies of teaching using student- or teacher-created audio, video, images, simulations, hypertext or virtual worlds in academic subjects which:
  • explore the challenges that the use of these new technologies brings to received wisdom in the planning, design, assessment and evaluation of teaching and learning activities.
  • explore the impact that the use of these new technologies has on motivation, participation and differentiation.
  • reflect on the skills and knowledge (competencies) required by students and staff in this context.
  • identify new approaches to relevant skills training.
• Or Theoretical or position papers on new academic literacy in areas such as modelling, collaborative working, computer gaming, mash-ups, co-creation and open content.

As a slight departure from previous years the conference will be followed the next day not by the Beyond Debate, but this year we will be hosting a conference “Beyond Walls“, concerning production, processing and distribution of digital media such as video, audio and podcasts. Details of this are still being finalised.

This Call for Papers is to announce a two-day conference to be held at the University of Birmingham, on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 April 2009. This AHRC-supported conference will take as its organising theme “The War in the Inter-War: Reflections on World War, between 1918 and 1939”. We plan to explore the responses to war of artistic, cultural/literary, intellectual and political movements in a Franco-British perspective.

The AHRC-sponsored network Culture FB — Culture franco-britannique — has organised several conferences and research workshops on both sides of the Channel, the most recent of which was a three-day international conference held at the French Institute in London in June to celebrate the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908.

Papers on themes such as British and French pacifism, cross-Channel avant-gardes and their responses to war, writers’ organisations such as PEN, would be welcome (note: these are suggestions only, and are not prescriptive). Other topics might include the comparative reception of state or official visits (e.g. the British sovereigns’ visit to France in 1938), cross-cultural memorials of World War One, regards croisés in reviews, or ‘harbingers’ of the coming war in Britain and France.

Contributions from younger scholars on both sides of the Channel are particularly welcome.

Proposals—one side of A4 maximum—should be sent to Professor Martyn Cornick (m.cornick@bham.ac.uk<mailto:m.cornick@bham.ac.uk>) by 1 September 2008. There may be some financial support available for travel and/or accommodation expenses. The Steering Committee of the Culture FB network will make the final selection of papers. It is anticipated that 12-14 papers will be included.

As the centenary of Tolstoy’s death approaches (2010), proposals for chapters in an international collection of essays on the cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy’s texts are being considered.

Tatiana Samoilova as Anna Karenina in the 1967 screen version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel, published under the terms of  the Non-Free Content Criteria licensing policy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Intute has launched a new events calendar that should reduce posts about events in this blog. However, some major or interdisciplinary conferences might still be worth mentioning here. One of these is entitled Disease, Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-1200 and will be held in Oxford on 5-6 July 2008. A call for papers and a provisional list of speakers are available. The conference is organised by the Wellcome Trust, University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham. For further information, please visit the conference website. Read the rest of this entry »

“And strange to tell, among that earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried -
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the pot?“

Leyden, Netherlands, 6th and 7th July, 2009
Cambridge, England, 9th and 10th July, 2009

This week-long conference running consecutively in Leyden and Cambridge, will celebrate the the 200th anniversary of of the birth of Edward FitzGerald (1809) and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).

2009 will be an opportunity to mark the unqiue achievements of this former Cambridge student (Trinity 1826-1830) and his contribution to world literature. The Rubaiyat, rather loosely based on the verses of attributed to the eleventh-century Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet and philosopher, Omar Khayyam, has become perhaps the most widely-known poem in the world. It has been re-published virtually every year from 1879 (the year of FitzGerald’s 4th edition) to the present day, and has been translated in some 80 different languages. Read the rest of this entry »

11th MindTrek conference 2008: Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era, October 7th-9th, 2008 Tampere, Finland

MindTrek, a leading Northern new media festival and conference series, is running a three day conference to explore current and emerging topics of social media, ubimedia and games.  It includes a workshop day, three main tracks, plenary sessions and invited presentations. Read the rest of this entry »