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Worldwide Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

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Calls for Papers

• International workshop on psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility organised by Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago deadline February the 1st; to be held in the Black Forest near Freiburg, Germany from the 3rd  - 6th of July 2012.

• The announcement that the World Cycling Research Forum 2012 will be held at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands on 13 - 14 September triggers this Call for Abstracts.
  
  So if you have been furiously beavering away at some aspect of the myriad that apply to cycling and wish to tell others about your work, have a look at the WOCREF web site ( www.wocref.org ), complete the abstract and whip it back to me before Friday 10 February.
  
  At the Forum you can tell others about your work or impending work through a presentation at the Forum or if you have a need of publishing your work, you can produce a paper for peer review and also present your paper/work at the Forum. WOCREF is the ideal opportunity for those active and interested in research into cycling to present their work and even present their ideas for work, to others of a similar persuasion.
  
  WOCREF encourages feedback to presenters and is particularly encouraging for students to present progress on their work.
  
  If you know someone who may be interested in the WOCREF capers please pass on the details.
  

• SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
  Convergence: The international journal of research into new media technologies
  
  Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil
  
  Edited by: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University)
  Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen)

  Important dates:
  Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words).
  Notification of accepted abstracts: March 15th, 2012.
  Full papers: June 15th, 2012 (8000/9000 words).
  Notification of accepted papers: September 15th, 2012.

  Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes
  ( icgf@itu.dk )

• CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

  UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON

  MONDAY 3rd and TUESDAY 4th SEPTEMBER, 2012 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE 29TH FEBRUARY, 2012

  The Cycling and Society Annual Symposium is an informal and interdisciplinary event. It welcomes academics, policy makers and advocates who wish to share research, knowledge and experience of any topic related to cycling. (At previous symposia, participants have discussed cycling in relation to comparative research; conflict; culture; environmental issues; fear and stigma; gender; history; identity; image; inequalities; interventions; legal issues; methodology; modelling; policy; planning; social change; social movements; statistics; technology; transport infrastructure; well-being - and more!)

  This year we invite poster as well as oral presentations. Oral presentations should be no more than 15 minutes to allow plenty of time for discussion. Poster presentation may be particularly suitable for those new to presenting or those seeking to raise awareness of new projects. Those wishing to participate without presenting are also very welcome to attend. A programme will be available in April giving details of presentations and additional events including the annual Cycling and Society Research Group meeting. If you require any further information in the meantime please contact Rachel Aldred at R.E.Aldred@uel.ac.uk .

  To submit an abstract, please email your title with an abstract of up to 300 words, stating whether this would be a poster or an oral presentation, to R.E.Aldred@uel.ac.uk by the deadline of Wednesday 29 February 2012. Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of members of the Cycling and Society Research Group and decisions will be sent via e-mail to the corresponding author by Friday 30th March 2012. The fee for the event will not be more than £25.

  Background to the C&S Symposium Series

  The Cycling and Society symposium series was launched in 2004 at Lancaster University, with subsequent meetings at the Universities of Cardiff (2005), Chester (2006), at the offices of the CTC in Guildford (2007), University of West of England (2008), University of Bolton (2009), Oxford University (2010) and Glasgow School of Art (2011). The symposia are linked to the Cycling and Society Research Group ( http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cycling-and-society.html ) whose members span many disciplines and approaches to the study of cycling. An edited collection of papers presented at earlier symposia was published in the book ‘Cycling and Society' (eds. Horton, Rosen & Cox, 2007) by Ashgate as part of its Transport and Society Series.

• TOURISM MOBILITIES: Examining Tourism at Different Speeds ICOT 23rd – 26th May 2012, Archanes, Crete

  Special session at “Setting the Agenda for Special Interest Tourism:

  Past, Present and Future”

  This session explores the intersection between various kinds of tourism mobilities. It focuses especially on two fields which shape tourism mobilities, namely technology and the senses. It is interested in highlighting the way in which both technology and the senses encourage and promote different speeds at which tourism is imagined, performed, and consumed. The aim will be to address the agencies of such speeds and examine the degrees to which different speeds intermingle, converge or by contrast diverge. The session then evaluates the relationship between technology and senses in tourism practices. It is hoped that perspectives gained from the dynamics of speeds in tourism processes provide invaluable insights and solutions to the evolution of tourism at a time when environmental, financial, and political strains and crises keep affecting both its practices and discourses.

  The session builds on the understanding of ‘social as mobility' introduced by the New Mobilities Paradigm and embraces its pivotal role in highlighting the ‘social' as core in shaping (as well as being shaped by) diverse mobilities such as corporeal, imaginative and virtual travel, circulating objects, goods, money, images, waste etc. Of importance for tourism studies is the way in which the New Mobilities Paradigm and other theoretical approaches supporting a mobile logic keep contributing to unpacking and unlocking engrained static and sedentary perspectives. In this respect then the session faces the challenge of locating different speeds of technologies and senses beyond, below, and in-between opposites such as movement and stasis or distance and proximity.

  1. MEDIATING TOURISM MOBILITIES

  ‘Mediating Tourism Mobilities' investigates the role and consequences of technologies, materialities and networks in tourist experiences and practices. Tourism inevitably involves diverse systems and networks, comprised of material, technological and human parts. On the one hand, tourism is enabled by ‘scapes' or enduring networks of machines, technologies and organisations that enable flows of people, images, texts and information. The unevenly distributed flows at varying speeds not only claim some places and leave others on the margin, but also affect the way places are imagined, planned for and experienced. On the other hand, tourist bodies become interwoven with objects and technologies constituting hybrid assemblages of human and material parts that assist movement and experience of the world. Systems and networks (also social networks) thus enable and mediate the speed and rhythms through which places are imagined, performed and remembered. The session asks: in what way are systems and technologies shaping tourist experiences and what is the role of trust in technologically mediated relations? How are tourists forming, shaping and creating (social) networks in order to enhance their experiences? What is the role of different objects and materials in imagining, performing and remembering places?

  2. SENSUOUS MOBILITIES

  The senses are crucial in tourism mobilities and play a lasting part in both attachment to as well as estrangement from certain places while also ever modelling experiences and practices. ‘Sensuous mobilities' evaluates the ways in which different speeds are mediated and shaped by embodied experiences and practices of place. It situates the role of the senses within flows of technology, materialities, networks, people and places. It further examines consequences and possible conflicts or clashes which different speeds may incur upon such flows. In this way the session critically addresses the dynamic forces that perform and imagine mobilities into transformative processes of cultural change. It asks: In what ways do sensuous embodied articulations of places inform (and perhaps re-form) relations and practices in and of place? To what extent do sensuous relations and practices enact/translate ‘green' understandings and doings in and of place?

  Methodologically the session seeks ethnographic and other qualitative contributions to unpacking various tourism mobilities. Taking either a contemporary or historical approach, papers are invited on the following themes but not restricted to it:

  - Networks and networking in tourism

  - Technology and systems

  - Materiality and objects in tourism

  - Senses, the body, pleasure, the ludic

  - Rhythms of places and practices

  - Hospitality and sociality

  - Immobilities; stillness; slowness; fasteness

  Abstracts of no more than 350 words should be submitted electronically by 1 March 2012 to Dr Dana Bentia ( d.bentia@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:d.bentia@lancaster.ac.uk >).

  For further inquiries regarding this session contact session organizer Dr Dana Bentia (email as above). For enquiries regarding conference fees, conference programme, recommended accommodation, maps/instructions, and registration forms, please visit the web address at http://www.iatour.net/icot2012/ .

Forthcoming Conferences / Workshops / Seminars

• 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Manchester, UK, 5-10 August 2013
• International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations, Marriott New Orleans at the Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. - 31 October - 3 November, 2012
• 3rd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network , Connections, Corridors, and Communities, Centre for Southwest Borderland Ethnic Minority Studies, Yunnan University (YU), Kunming, China- 12 - 15 October 2012
• World Cycling Research Forum 2012, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands13 - 14 September 2012
• CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON, 3 & 4 September 2012
• 11th International Conference on Urban History, Prague, Czech Republic 29 August - 1 September 2012
• Analyzing Communities on the Internet Session by RC 33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology) at the 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology ("Social Justice and Democratization"), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-4 August 2012
• Making space: the production of rural-urban fringe XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology ,  Lisbon, Portugal, 29 July to 4 August 2012.
• RC33 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia 9 - 13 July 2012
• Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel Liverpool ,UK 6-9 July 2012
• International workshop on psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility organised by Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago to be held in the Black Forest near Freiburg, Germany 3- 6 July 2012
• RGS-IGB Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute for British Geographers, Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2012
  - Mobile Urban Lives
• ‘The Influence of Tourism on Global Activity: Central or Peripheral?' The Institute for Tourism Research (INTOUR) and the Division of Tourism and Leisure to be held at the University of Bedfordshire, Putteridge Bury, Luton , UK - 27- 29 June 2012
• 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain - 25-28 June 2012
• Aging, Mobility and Quality of Life (AMQoL) 2012 conference , University of Michigan, USA jointly organized by the University of Michigan and Elsevier 24 - 26 June 2012
• 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada, 14-17 June 2012
• 5th GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE, Eurasia and Globalization: Complexity and Global Studies , Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia - 20-22 June, 2012
• The Anthropology in the World conference, Clore Centre British Museum, London, UK; 8-10 June 2012
• TOURISM MOBILITIES: Examining Tourism at Different Speeds ICOT, Archanes, Crete 23– 26 May 2012
• The 2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-conference Workshop: "Mobile Communication, Communication and Locative Media", 23-24 May 2012, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Mimi Sheller will be a keynote speaker.
• Networked Regions and cities in times of fragmentation:developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands - 13–16 May 2012
• 2nd Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference, Fethiye, Turkey - 24-29 April 2012
• 6th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, Fethiye, Turkey - 24-29 April 2012
• 3rd “Policy meets Research”- Workshop on Sustainable Mobility, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Szentendre (Hungary) - 19-20 April 2012
• Methodological and conceptual approaches for researching climate change at different societal scales, BSA Climate Change Study Group Event, University of Southampton, UK - 30-31 March 2012
• 15th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, Borders and Borderlands: Contested Spaces to be held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany 28 – 31 March 2012
• Models of Mobility: Systemic Differences, Path Dependencies, Economic, Social and Environmental Impact (1900 to tomorrow) a workshop jointly organised by the German Historical Institue (GHI), Washington DC, the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES), and the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto and to be held at York University, Toronto, Canada - 23-2 March 2012
• 3rd Mobilities conference Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media, Raleigh, USA hosted by the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Program and the Mobile Gaming Research Lab at NC State University will be hosting the 3rd joint international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network 16-18 March 2012
• Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York 24-28 February 2012
• The 100th College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles will be held 22-25 February 2012
  Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture in Place Making
  Session Co-chairs: Hana Iverson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and Mimi Sheller, Drexel University;  hiverson@rci.rutgers.edu  and  mbs67@drexel.edu
• 'The Mobile and the Immobile' School of Spatial Planning in association with the Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, Dortmund Germany - 9-10 February 2012
• EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 10-12 January 2012