International Research Conferences

There are various kinds of censorship, but most often this term is connected with some kind of political tense and oppression. However, many important intellectual or artistic movements have developed under censorship in various countries over the years. So does censorship have a positive or negative influence on people's work and creation? Do people become more creative or intellectually fertile when they are oppressed in some way? In recent years – as it is often said – democracy throughout the world has seemed to collapse, and various political forces (e.g. ISIS or pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine) have oppressed people. Those who have decided to comment on current political situations have been punished for their words (as the journalists of Charlie Hebdo), and those who have broken national or political taboo have been incarcerated (as the members of a Russian feminist band Pussy Riot). When we live in such times, we start to think about the past – comparing it to presence – and ask ourselves numerous questions: Where does the freedom end, and where does the oppression start? What can we do to prevent such situations? How can we live under censorship and political oppression? We would like to share our queries with researchers with various experience, that is why we invite scholars interested and involved in: We encourage scholars from various countries and cultures to visit our conference, so the intellectual experience we share is deeper and multi-level! Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses. We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers, as well as doctoral students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of censorship in the past and in the present-day world. Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to: 1. Social life: • social effects of censorship • social effects of political oppression • societies living under oppression • minorities influenced by censorship • minorities influenced by political oppression • violating human rights under political oppression • migrations caused by political oppression • censorship and exile

This interdisciplinary conference will feature papers by emerging and established scholars from around the world whose work deals with American arts patronage from the early twentieth century to the present day.

On Wednesday 26 June, from 15.00-16.30, John R. Blakinger, Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, University of Oxford, will deliver his plenary, ‘“To Remain Silent Is To Be Complicit”: Arts Funding in the Trump Era'.

On Thursday 27 June, from 15.00-16.30, Mary Anne Goley, Founding Director of the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board will deliver her plenary, ‘Playing By the Rules, How I Directed the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board, 1975 thru 2006’.

Makalah ini merupakan salah satu dari sekian makalah yang dimuat pada Proceedings International Conference on Islam Modernity and Civilization (ICIMC) 2019 yang digelar untuk pertama kalinya di Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh atas kerja sama dengan Institute of the Malay World & Civilization (ATMA), Malaysia dan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur  yang dilaksanakan dari tanggal 3-4 Desember 2019.

A b s t r a c t : International academic conferences represent one manifestation of globalisation. At these conferences, academics come together to exchange ideas and experiences and to make contacts. Education is one of many academic fields on which a wide range of international conferences take place. Unfortunately, many people fly to such conferences, just contributing to climate change and other forms of ecological damage. This article focuses on the use of ICT for virtual presentations at these conferences, one way to enjoy the benefits of global interchange while lessening damage to the environment. Virtual presentations can be defined as presentations where the presenters do not attend the conference in person but instead do their presentations asynchronously or synchronously by electronic means. Thus, via virtual presentations, academics share and interact without travelling to the conference venue. This article has three parts. The first part explains ideas for doing virtual presentations. The second part of the article presents a study of conference organisers' reactions to virtual presentations at international conferences on education. The third part discusses pros and cons of virtual presentations. K e y w o r d s : Virtual presentations; climate change; international conferences; presentations via distance; environmental activism. R e s u m o : Encontros acadêmicos internacionais são uma das manifestações da globalização. Neles os acadêmicos se encontram para trocar ideias e experiências e para estabelecer contatos. A educação é uma das áreas acadêmicas sobre as quais há uma grande quantidade de encontros internacionais. Infelizmente, muitas pessoas voam para esses encontros contribuindo assim para a mudança climática e outras formas de danos ecológicos. Este artigo trata do uso de ICT (information and communication technology) em apresentações virtuais nesses encontros, um modo de usufruir os benefícios das interações globais ao mesmo tempo que em que evita aumentar os danos ao meio ambiente. Apresentações virtuais podem ser definidas como aquelas em que os apresentadores não comparecem pessoalmente, mas, ao contrário, apresentam seu trabalho assincronicamente ou sincronicamente por meios eletrônicos. Assim, fazendo sua apresentação virtualmente, os acadêmicos compartilham ideias e interagem sem viajar para o local do encontro. Este artigo consta de três partes. A primeira faz sugestões para fazer apresentações virtuais. A segunda apresenta um estudo das reações dos E C OR E B E L 50 organizadores dos encontros a apresentações virtuais em encontros internacionais sobre educação. A terceira discute as vantagens e desvantagens das apresentações virtuais. P a l a v r a s-c h a v e : Apresentações virtuais; mudança climática; congressos internacionais; apresentações à distância; ativismo ambiental.

Deadline (revised) for full articles: 5 October, 2019

Article author guidelines: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc



The aims of this Themed Issue of IJTC are to:

1. Define business events and identity the characteristics that distinguish them from cultural, sports and community events, as well as from leisure tourism.

2. Document the positive and negative impacts of business events on cities, including their impacts upon local communities.

3. Review approaches to measuring residents’ attitudes and opinions on business events in their communities.

4. Explore the methods used by cities to attract business events.

5. Investigate the impact on business events of forces operating in the wider market environment, including geopolitical changes, advances in information technology and demographic developments.

6. Consider how business events can generate additional leisure tourism in the cities where they are held.

We invite papers linked to the theme of Business Events in Tourism Cities in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):

• Definition and categorisation of business events

• Impacts of business events on urban environments and host populations

• Measurement of urban resident attitudes toward business events

• ‘Bleisure’

• City branding

• Destination marketing for business events

• The role of destination image in the process of marketing cities for business events

• The impacts of technology, geopolitical changes and demographics on the business events market

• The sharing economy and business events

• Safety and security at business events

• The supply and design of venues for business events

• Participants’ perception of their own experience of attending business events

• Education and training for business events professionals

• Ethical issues in business events.



Interested authors should email their abstract (200-300 words) or proposal to Dr. J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak (a.coca-stefaniak@gre.ac.uk) by 12th May, 2019.

Authors will be notified no later than 25th May 2019 on the decision over their abstracts.

Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by October 15th, 2019 using the journal’s online submission system at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc

Further author guidelines for submission of manuscripts is provided on the journal webpage:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijtc

All manuscripts will undergo anonymous peer review.

Call for Papers
The Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus announce the fifth bi-ennial Global Reggae Conference  under the theme "Dancehall, Music and the City”. This conference is being staged at a time when we celebrate Bob Marley’s birth and the very foundation, the space – dancehall – through which the world has consumed seven distinct musical genres in mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, nyabinghi, dub and dancehall. This conference also comes at a time when Kingston celebrates its designation as a creative city for music by UNESCO in December 2015. 
The conference intends to open discussions about contemporary considerations for Jamaican music spaces, genres, cross-fertilization, production and economy using Kingston as a backdrop for discussing the foundational space of the dancehall as a main theme. 

The conference will also honour the work of Professor Carolyn Cooper, CD, founder of the Global Reggae Conference, Bob Marley Lecture Series and co-founder of the Reggae Studies Unit. Her contributions to the field of cultural studies have paved the way for researchers and practitioners, often bridging the gap in research and practice for Jamaican popular music genres, reggae, and especially dancehall. 

Slated for Reggae Month 2017, the conference will provide a platform for timely updates on discussions, research and development in reggae and dancehall locally, regionally and internationally. GRC2017 offers academics, researchers, artistes, musicians, scholars, cultural practitioners, entrepreneurs and music lovers from around the world a warm and welcoming environment to share their research, experiences, perspectives and passion for Jamaican music.

International Conference of the Department of English Language and Literature (ICDELL) was
organized on April 6-7, 2019. The event was supported and funded by University of Management
and Technology, Lahore, Allied Book Company (Lahore), and Multi-Line Books (Lahore). The
Conference combined together keen researchers and innovative practitioners of theoretical and
applied linguistics and English literature to an interactive and stimulating forum which turned out
to be a premier, vibrant and trend-setting event for both local and international researchers because
of the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of its thematic focus.

Brand extension strategy emerged as an alternative strategy that must be understood along with the increasing number of companies that use it as the main strategy in marketing new products. This research is intended to explore the factors influencing the success of brand extension, where the success of brand extension strategy is measured from consumer attitudes toward the expanded brand. The study was conducted in Indofood's fast moving consumer goods. The result shows that the model built has score of RMSEA 0.019 and GFI 0.906 as the criteria of conformity. The overall test shows that the perceived quality, advertising, similarity, and corporate image significantly affects the success of the brand extension strategy. While testing individually, only corporate image variable that do not significantly affect the success of brand extension.

The topic of the conference is myth and rhetoric in Greek tragedy. There are two main literary tools at the disposal of the tragic poet: myth, which serves as material, and rhetoric, by which poetry itself and characters’ speeches are shaped. The tragic genre is inseparable from myth, for the essential characters and plots of tragedy are drawn from the traditional mythological repertoire. But the myths taking place in specific tragedies are discussed from a rhetorical perspective, which questions the protagonist’s words and deeds, influences the plot’s development and equally comments on the values of the πόλις. Myth and rhetoric are therefore potential tools, which should guide our interpretation of Greek tragedies of the classical era.

Lembar Kerja Siswa (LKS) dalam pembelajaran IPA terpadu sangat membantu guru dalam pembelajaran di kelas. Metode pembelajaran kooperatif tipe STAD salah satu metode yang dapat diterapkan pada LKS IPA terpadu dalam pembelajaran fisika. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui respon ahli, praktisi dan respon siswa terhadap LKS IPA terpadu dalam pembelajaran fisika pada sekolah menengah. Penelitian dijalankan menggunakan Research & Development. Sembilan orang subjek (tiga orang ahli materi, tiga orang ahli media dan tiga orang praktisi) dilibatkan untuk menilai kesesuaian materi, desain,  dan keterpakaian LKS. 70 orang siswa (20 orang siswa uji coba kelompok kecil dan 50 orang siswa uji coba kelompok besar) dilibatkan untuk melihat kemenarikan LKS IPA Terpadu tersebut. Lembar validasi digunakan untuk melihat respon ahli dan praktisi. Sedangkan respon siswa dikumpulkan menggunakan angket. Data dianálisis secara deskriptif menggunakan statistik deskriptif berbantukan software Statistics Package For Social Science (SPSS versi 22.0). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa respon ahli materi tinggi (70%) dan respon praktisi Tinggi 79% sedangkan respon ahli media sangat tinggi (80%), respon siswa sangat tinggi (85.30% uji coba kelompok kecil dan 87.86% kelompok besar).

We have various speculations about the origin of life. Our universe is from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. The Earth was formed out of debris 4.6 billion to 5 billion years ago. The mysterious life emerged and evolved afterward. Our motherland, Earth, is a charming planet, it is also our unique and wonderful home. However, the rapid development of civilization becomes a critical threat to the ecological environment. Human activities such as indiscriminate hunting, deforestation, massive of pollutants, and so on, have eventually brought a lot of irreversible ecological damage and environmental degradation.