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** Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices **
15-17 February 2009
University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany
http://www.design-conference.com/

** The Art of Management Conference **
September 2002 saw the beginning of the Art of Management and Organization Conference in London. The aim is, and continues to be, the exploration and promotion of the arts (in the most inclusive sense) as a means of understanding management and organization(al) life.
For more info: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:30

** The Banff Centre- Leadership Development Program **
Canada's renowned centre for leadership development, The Banff Centre, has recently announced the following leadership development programs which explore the intersection of arts and business. "Powerful Expression for Leaders" is a series of four courses.
For more info: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:31

** FutureNow: Australia **
FutureNow is an organisation which provides high level strategic advice and leadership to government and industry on the training needs of the creative, cultural and recreation industries. As well as advising government, FutureNow, promotes education and training to employees and employers, and provides a strategic brokerage role and consultancy service to industry and other stakeholders.
For more info: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:29

** The Creative Economy: Australia **
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Creative Economy is a gateway to research and commentary on developments in Australia's creative industries and their cultural and social impact, hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). The site draws on the resources of Australian Policy Online, together with outputs from industry groups, consultants and other researchers and research organisations. For more info: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:28

** Art and Social Justice! **
Two recent issues of the journal "Social Justice" explore the art of social justice. Essays in Vol. 33, No. 2 address the power of art as a voice of dissent, a tool for democracy, the core of a revolutionary strategy, and a source of memory and future ways of knowing in settings as varied as post-WWII Europe, early modern Japan, contemporary Hong Kong and Taiwan, Argentina after the dirty war, and post-civil rights youth organizing in the U.S.
For more info: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:27

** Third International Conference on the Arts in Society **
28-31 July 2008
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design,
Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
http://www.arts-conference.com/
To submit a proposal, see:
http://a08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/new_proposal_entry
To register for the Conference, see:
https://secure.cgpublisher.com//conferences/124/web/registrations/new_rego_entry

** Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society **
16-19 July 2009
Venice Italy
http://www.arts-conference.com/

** Journal Award Winner **
Congratulations to Oliver Bray the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the Arts for his paper 'Towards an Academic Artist: Recognising Teachers & Learners as Performance Practitioners'. For more information on this paper, and on the Runners-up for the Award and their papers, see: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:85:32

** International Journal of the Arts in Society - Volume 3 (2008) **
Paper submissions are open for Volume 3 of the Journal.
Submission guidelines can be found at http://a08.cgpublisher.com/publish.html
You can submit your paper until one month after the conference close date or 31 August 2008.

** International Journal of the Arts in Society - Volume 2 (2008) **
There are five issues available for Volume 2 at www.Arts-Journal.com
You can view the contents and/or purchase the entire issue in print or electronic format at:
Volume 2, Number 1: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.157 (contains papers resulting from the Arts Symposium)
Volume 2, Number 2: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.188 (contains papers resulting from the Arts Symposium)
Volume 2, Number 3 http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.215
Volume 2, Number 4: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.234
Volume 2, Number 5: http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.247
The sixth and final issue will be published soon.

** Electronic Subscription Access **
There are now around 250 published articles available.
If you registered for the third International Conference on the Arts in Society take advantage of your complimentary electronic subscription by logging in at www.Arts-Journal.com and downloading articles of interest to you. You'll also be able to download the full issue in electronic format.
If you are not attending a conference but would like to subscribe you can do so at
http://ija.cgpublisher.com/subscriptions.html

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified).
If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

PSi # 14 conference in Copenhagen 2008, August 20-24

The Performance Studies International # 14 conference INTERREGNUM: In Between States takes place at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. It will represent the collaboration of several institutions in the Øresund region, and seek to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the concepts of vision and visuality within performance studies.

The conference will include areas beyond the traditional theatre studies approach, by emphasizing performance studies in relationship with visual arts. At the same time we wish to stress vision and visuality as areas of interest within disciplines other than art history, visual culture studies and media studies. This interdisciplinary focus on vision and visuality will be captured and developed throughout the conference under the theme of INTERREGNUM: In Between States.

Please visit the Performance Studies international website http://psi-web.org for more information about the PSi organization.

We would like to invite you to join us for the 11th International Consortium for Experiential Learning (ICEL) Conference at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia on the 8– 12 December, 2008.

Keynote Speakers for the conference will be David Boud (University of Technology Sydney Australia) and Tara Fenwick (University of British Columbia Canada). See below for further details.

Our conference theme - The Identity of Experience - focuses on current and future challenges for experiential learning. These challenges include:

the challenge of integration
the challenge of difference
the challenge of research investigation
the challenge of application

Each of these themes will be explored by a team of symposium keynote speakers: Colin Beard from the UK (author of Experiential Learning: A Best Practice Handbook for Trainers and Educators), Hilary Armstrong (Director of Training and Research at Institute of Executive Coaching Sydney), Paul McKey (Director Redbean Learning Solutions and international authority on learning and professional development) and Jennifer Newman, Wiradjuri woman and lecturer at UTS in Aboriginal Studies and Adult education. Keynote contributors include Yoshimi and Jon Brett (Designers and developers of TetraMap), and Tony McGarn (International consultant on outbound [WINDOWS-1252?]–outdoors learning). More information on the keynote speakers and the conference program, conference fees, as well as how to submit proposals for papers workshops and poster presentations can be found on the conference website:

http://www.education.uts.edu.au/icel/index.html

Early Bird Registration is now open for delegates. The closing date for submission of abstracts for refereed papers is 20th June 2008; non-refereed papers, August 30th and for Workshops and Posters, September 30th.

Register now: http://www.education.uts.edu.au/icel/register.html

Call for Papers to the Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes critiques en improvisation Special Issue: Sexualities in Improvisation. We are excited to announce that this upcoming special issue will be guest-edited by Julie Dawn Smith and Kevin McNeilly. The submission deadline is August 15th, 2008. As usual, the guidelines for submissions can be found online at www.criticalimprov.com in the "About the Journal" section. We look forward to receiving your submissions and sincerely hope that you are continuing to enjoy our exciting publication.

Gregory Fenton
Managing Editor
Critical Studies in Improvisation/ Etudes critiques en improvisation 519-824-4120 Ext 56547

Call for Papers: Sexualities in Improvisation

Compositions and performances in recent years by such prominent artists as Fred Hersch, Marilyn Lerner, Patricia Barber, Irene Schweizer, Maggie Nicols, Gary Burton, Pauline Oliveros, Lori Freedman, Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi, Miya Masaoka, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann and many others have placed the cultural politics of gender directly at issue, while many recorded works from the history of improvised music and jazz (from Valaida Snow to Cecil Taylor, from Billy Strayhorn to Andy Bey) provoke a reconsideration of the music's relationship to sexuality and identity.

With an ear to addressing this gap, Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation invites submissions for a special issue on sexualities and improvisation, guest-edited by Julie Dawn Smith and Kevin McNeilly. Essays can range from theoretical to practical, from aesthetic to political in their aims and methods, and interdisciplinary work is both welcome and encouraged. We are especially interested in provocative, informed writing that deals with improvisation in as unlimited a sense as possible.

This special issue emerges in part from work presented at Comin' Out Swingin': Sexualities in Improvisation, a symposium held at the University of British Columbia in November, 2007. The editors want to include as wide a variety of material as possible, and would also welcome for consideration artist statements, commentaries, interviews and related texts. Possible themes and areas of interest for critical essays may include, but are not limited to, any of the following topics.

- Queer Music
- Sexing the Ear of the Other
- Women in Contemporary Creative Music
- Body Languages: Fingering, Tonguing, Blowing
- Performance and Performativity
- The Poetics of Improvisation: Speaking in Music
- Musical Affect, the Textures of Feeling
- The Politics of Dissonance: Fractured Identities
- Improvising Masculinities
- The Instrument as Prosthesis
- Radical Subcultures: Revolting Noise
- The History of Sexuality in/and Contemporary Creative Music
- Transitive Genders: Playing with Our Selves
- The Erotics of Close Listening
- Bump and Grind: Rhythm and Corporealities
- Mixed Media, Cyborg Songs
- Extemporaneous Positions: Improvising Sexualities
- Auscultation and other Apparatuses of Audience
- Other than Music: Confronting Idioms of the Heteronormative

Essays of approximately 6000 words should conform to the journal's guidelines for style and format. The deadline for submissions is 15 August 2008.

Place, Writing and Voice Conference

5 - 6 September 2008

At the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

Organized by the School of Humanities, University of Plymouth and the Cornwall Audio Visual Archive

Speakers include: Nick Groom, Tim Fulford, Richard Kerridge, Heike Roms, Mike Pearson, Brycchan Carey, Philip Schwyzer

This conference presents a series of talks about 'the local', through consideration of the written and spoken word. It will consider a range of localities in South West Britain, Italy, Alaska, and India, for example, exploring connections between the local, national, and global environment, as well as between the written and oral.

It will bring together scholars from various areas of research, including: English literature, performance studies, oral history, geography, environmental studies, architecture, and music.

For more information e-mail, shelley.trower@plymouth.ac.uk or artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk

A booking form can be downloaded from: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=22979

Booking is also now open for the Hidden City Symposium focusing on mythogeography, writing and site-specific performance, on 4 October 2008, also at the University of Plymouth: www.plymouth.ac.uk/arts/theatre

Canada's renowned centre for leadership development, The Banff Centre, has recently announced the following leadership development programs which explore the intersection of arts and business. "Powerful Expression for Leaders" is a series of four courses. The courses allows leaders to explore the power of expression through words, movement, voice, and drama with Leadership Development faculty and master artists. During these courses participants will learn how to communicate more effectively and creatively - a valuable skill for today's leaders. You may pick just one, or register for two or more!

Powerful Expression for Leaders: Leadership that Moves Us: August 28 - 30, 2008

Powerful Expression for Leaders: The Leader's Voice: October 30 - November 1, 2008

Powerful Expression: Acting Like a Leader: February 5 - 7, 2009

Powerful Expression for Leaders: The Write Stuff: March 19 - 21, 2009

For more information: please phone one of the Banff Centre's Personal Learning Advisors at 1.800.590.9799.

September 2002 saw the beginning of the Art of Management and Organization Conference in London. The aim is, and continues to be, the exploration and promotion of the arts (in the most inclusive sense) as a means of understanding management and organization(al) life. This conference has given rise to a vibrant global community of praxis - including scholars and practitioners. The conference has resided in London (2002), Paris (2004), Krakow (2006); and in 2008 - we will travel to Banff, Canada. This movement out of Europe reflects the growing diversity of the community - which touches every continent. The location of The Banff Centre, a world renowned arts centre, also reflects our desire to encourage take participants into the wider environment - to not simply intellectually explore the topics at hand, but to also aesthetically experience the conference. Information about the Conference can be found at:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/afm/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm