Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 13/03/2015; Description : Diasporas role in world economy is increasingly vital. They use their networks in both the home and host countries and mostly become visible, and sometimes invisible, as they influence living condit…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42067; Description : This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. Cross-culturally and historically, childhood can be seen as the time of danger…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42067; Description : What is the role of global citizenship in achieving environmental justice? How can we be sure all voices, present and future, human and nonhuman, are heard? We seek to explore, frame and solve problems o…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42067; Description : We have entered a post-truth era and believability has become an acceptable substitute for truth, and manifold deceptions of our culture are difficult to separate from its few enduring truths.

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 13/03/2015; Description : Nostalgia is an extremely powerful feeling; it can in equal measure lift us up, make us feel safe, create fond memories and/or bring us down, make us feel intensely isolated, lonely, left behind, de…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 13/03/2015; Description : This years conference will explore the various ways in which digital freedoms are currently challenged as well as possible responses to such threats. We will explore why the status of online citize…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42067; Description : We have a long and sometimes questionable history of both differentiating ourselves from animals and identifying ourselves with specific animals or animal qualities. How have our relationships with anima…

Contact Person : Lydia Allen; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42162; Description : Scholars and professionals are invited to present a paper on current issues and or the history of human rights, education law and criminal justice. You may also serve as a panel member, or attend as an obse…

Contact Person : Sarah Baldwin; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42281; Description : The main goal of the conference is to tackle the fluid, mercurial nature of identity and to develop new perspectives and theories. Research from various regions of the world and/or covering different type…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42009; Description : We are our bodies and our bodies are ourselves. We grow, evolve and transform as it does. Yet the symmetry is not exact. It can betray, break, mutate; it can be damaged, amputated and disabled. We explor…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42009; Description : The enduring popularity of sci-fi and fantasy as a source of entertainment among the general public and an object of academic scrutiny raises important questions about the significance and meanings of th…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42009; Description : From Trekkies saving Star Trek from cancellation, to fan ownership of sports teams, to Harry Potter Alliance's support for charities and NGOs working in the areas of health, gay rights and humanitarian r…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42009; Description : Our aim is to question the ways in which we construct and experience such things as pre-worlds, this world, other worlds, non-humans, humans, post/trans-humans, boundaries, liminality, flows and differin…

Contact Person : Dr. Rob Fisher; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 42009; Description : NGOs play an increasingly important role in generating the political, economic and social developments that shape daily life in our contemporary, global society. We promote understanding of NGOs and thei…