GaucheHemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks

April 24-27, 2014 Ministerio de Cultura, Lima, Peru

Submissions Deadline: 5:00 p.m. EST, November 30, 2013

Proposal Submission

The challenges facing the Western hemisphere are multidimensional  and complex.  Urban agglomeration, economic development, ecological crisis, military conflict, digital privacy, impediments to advanced learning, negotiations of multiple cultural and historical perspectives—these are problems with scientific and human factors that must be considered together.  HASTAC 2014 challenges participants to consider the interplay of science, technology, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts in the context of addressing the urgent contingencies facing the evolving hemisphere.  Themes addressed by the conference include:

– humanities research and hemispheric grand challenges

– indigenous culture and technology

– technology and education–open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education

– technology and interhemispheric communication of knowledge and publishing

– Heritage, Patrimony, Memory and the Digital

– new publics, movements going global and communities of the future

– technology and social identity and roles:  gender, race, and other identities

– digital animation and other visualization media arts and sciences

– games and gaming, including for learning

– community development including the importance of art and culture districts

– Mobile technologies and everyday life

– Improvisation, tinkering, hacking

HASTAC 2014 will be composed of keynote addresses, paper presentations (variations detailed below), hackathons, workshops, birds of a feather meet ups, as well as performances and tech demos.

Join us at the CA CONFERENCE AND AGM (10 - 11 January 2014, University of Gloucestershire) 
Leadership in a Changing World: Higher education, sustainability and the new Global Action Programme on ESD
Friday 10 – Saturday 11 January 2014
University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham Spa, UK
The Rio+20 outcome document, ‘The Future We Want’, acknowledged the critical role of higher education in the attainment of sustainable development. This international conference takes place in the year when the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005 - 2014) comes to an end and the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) begins to take shape.
The Conference has a focus on global platforms, institutional development and student leadership for sustainable development in higher education. More...

By Marielk. The conference “Organizing Education – Sociological Approaches, Analyses and Findings” will be held 13–14 June 2014 at the University of Teacher Education in Basel, Switzerland. The conference is organized by the Education Sections of the Sociological Associations of Switzerland (SGS), Germany (DGS) & Austria (ÖGS).
The main aim of the conference is to put focus to extend the  organizational perspectives to theoretically and empirically examine themes such as inequality, quality, reforms and so forth, as well as to strengthen educational sociology by using the epistemological and methodological tools from organizational research to focus on the specifics and dynamics of organizations.
Conference contributions are expected on the following themes:

• Genesis, Functioning, Change and Mortality of Educational Organizations
• Educational Organizations and their Environments
• On the Relationship(s) among Educational Organizations
• Education as an Objective and Activity of Organizations
• The Production and Distribution of Education: Consequences for Pathways, “Consumers” and Careers
• Organizational Culture(s)
• Membership in Educational Organizations