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Exchange and Power Around the Baltic Sea Region up to Industrial Age – Call For Papers

“Origines et mutationes circa principio Mare Balticum”
Exchange and power around the Baltic Sea Region up to Industrial Age
Baltic International Cultural Park Faktoria, 83-000 Pruszcz Gdański; ul. Zastawna, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
3–5 September, 2015

Conference Website

We hereby have the pleasure to invite you to the 2nd international conference “Origines et mutationes” aimed at wide range of researchers, e.g. from Ph.D. Candidates to Professors.

The resemblance of the topic of the conference to Peters’ Blau work “Exchange and Power in social life” is not coincidential. The foreseen, but not preconditioned task is to evaluate undertaken research topics in the classic humanities field (history, history of arts, archaeology,) on phenomenons connected with keywords “exchange and power” of the Baltic Sea Region between VIII-XIXth cent. in the light of theories of social sciences.
Conference presentations & proceedings should pertain to:

  1. Phenomenons related to Exchange in Baltic Sea Region up to Industrial Age
  2. Phenomenons related to Power in Baltic Sea Region up to Industrial Age
  3. Theories of social sciences and possibilities of their application in the fields of historical and archaeological research focusing in Baltic Sea Region

Note: Participants are not obliged to include theories of social sciences in their presentations and proceedings in wide context. If you do not find any of the areas suitable for your presentation and you have 3 presentations in similar research focus, you can apply for tailored panel.

Language: English

Registrations: baltic.conf@gmail.com

Application Form: Please type your Scientific Title, Full Name & Surname and Institution. Alternatively please send a www.academia.edu link.

Further information on accommodation and initial schedule will be passed to participants in May 2015.

Abstracts: For individual abstracts: max. 700 signs with spaces.

For Panels: Max. 2000 signs describing the panel and the presentations.

Deadline for sending applications: 30 April 2015.

Presentations: Max. 20 minutes.

Proceedings: Max. 12 pages, with summary, scientific apparatus & bibliography should be sent by 15 December, 2015.

Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize – Call For Applications

The Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize may be of interest to Honours, Masters and PhD students as well as Early Career Academics.

Due date for essays and/or creative works with exegesis: 1 March, 2015.

Prizes include:

  • $1000 for the winning essay; $250 for two highly-commended essays
  • Winning entry will be offered publication in the prestigious journal: Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
  • Winning and two highly-commended entrants will be invited to present their submissions at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) biennial conference, The University of Sydney, 1-4 July, 2015.

Further information and Guidelines on the competition can be found of the ACIS homepage: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggan-essay-prize.

Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011) was a great artist and a great friend of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS). Her artistic practice left what is arguably the richest and most compelling recent collection of photographs by an Australian artist to engage with Italian culture, history and art. Her work demonstrates not only artistic rigour and depth but also remarkable breadth, spanning from public spaces/places of Italian diaspora in Australia to enquiries into the re-contextualisation and museification of Renaissance art, from Australian archives of Italian migration to complex case studies on the legacy of the Gonzagas. In her research-led and interdisciplinary endeavour, Jo-Anne asked crucial questions and opened up original paths with regard to the construction of space/place, our relationship with the past and its reception, and the role of photographic art in mobilising and questioning the viewer’s gaze, starting from what she called her ‘postcolonial eye’.

Jo-Anne Duggan’s photographic work can be found at: http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/artists-in-our-stockroom/jo-anne-duggan.

Jo-Anne Duggan’s publications (selection) can be found at: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggans-writings.