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Return of the Ring: Celebrating Tolkien
Arts->Literature
August 16, 2012 - August 20, 2012
Tolkien is an author who excites diverse critical response from both academia and non-academia. Although best known for The Lord of the Ringsand other tales of his Middle-earth 'legendarium', Tolkien's oeuvre extends to Anglo-Saxon studies (to which he contributed much as an academic), essays on fairy tales, poetry, children's tales and non Middle-earth fantasy.
In recent years academic interest in the fantasy genre has increased dramatically. Likewise fandom studies are developing as fan productions proliferate, particularly since Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
"The Return of the Ring" is a conference which aims to bring together scholars read more...
2nd International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design 2012
Arts->Architecture
March 3, 2012 - March 5, 2012
with all its positive effects however, has left the bottom billion behind. The United Nation Millennium Goal of eradicating poverty by halve; fights hunger and disease; and provision of basic amenities to the poor by 2015 requires aggressive and collaborative efforts from the world community for it to be successfully achieved. The conference showcases trends and practices in the development of sustainable architecture and urban design and set a platform for the fraternity to take up the moral challenges in addressing the bottom billion. Themed “Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Intervention: Reaching Out to the Bottom read more...
2nd International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design 2012
Arts->Architecture
March 3, 2012 - March 5, 2012
with all its positive effects however, has left the bottom billion behind. The United Nation Millennium Goal of eradicating poverty by halve; fights hunger and disease; and provision of basic amenities to the poor by 2015 requires aggressive and collaborative efforts from the world community for it to be successfully achieved. The conference showcases trends and practices in the development of sustainable architecture and urban design and set a platform for the fraternity to take up the moral challenges in addressing the bottom billion. Themed “Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Intervention: Reaching Out to the Bottom read more...
10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Arts
honolulu, United Arab Emirates
January 10, 2012 - January 13, 2012
main goal of the 2012 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines read more...
International Conference on Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Engineering
Arts->Architecture
December 21, 2011 - December 23, 2011
International Conference on Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Engineering aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Engineering, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. read more...
Performing Arts Training Today
Arts
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria
December 17, 2011 - December 21, 2011
for Presentations, Workshops, Papers!
International Performing Arts Conferences
at Retzhof Castle - Leitring bei Leibnitz, AUSTRIA
The conference is open to performers, performing arts educators and
teachers from all over the world interested in the research of topical
questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and
training.
December 17 - 21
http://www.iugte.com/projects/Conference.php
The conference is open to different art genres, techniques and forms -
theatre, dance, music, circus, visual and multimedia art.
At the moment we are accepting presentation proposals.
Presentation formats:
• practical workshop/master class
• work in progress
• performance fragment not requiring special technical conditions
• reading/lecture
• other way of demonstration offered by Speaker/Presenter can be read more...
Sustainability through Biomimicry: Discovering a world of solutions inspired by nature
Arts->Architecture
November 28, 2011 - November 30, 2011
THROUGH BIOMIMICRY
Discovering a World of Solutions Inspired by nature
28-30 November 2011
First international conference
Organized by the College of Design
The effects of our present lifestyles on the environment are leading towards drastic conditions of major read more...
Theory of Architecture Symposium
Arts->Architecture
November 23, 2011 - November 26, 2011
for the Sake of the Theory"
Architectural theory can be defined as a unity of contradictions that has been one of the factors having paved the way of the architectural practice in the modern world. From Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to slums, from urban transformations triggered by the French Revolution to the construction workers’ strikes, from Bauhaus to the contemporary tendencies of architectural education, from avantgarde movements to architectural fashions, from Newton's definition of universal space, to the phenomenological studies on user perception, from Postmodernism’s global impacts to Lefebvre's daily life scale, from an activist manner read more...
Books with a view, Celebrating the birth of the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos S
Arts->Architecture
November 23, 2011 - November 25, 2011
with a view
Celebrating the birth of the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos (1711-1760)
International Conference on 18th-century Architecture & Culture
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisbon, Portugal
November 23rd-25th, 2011
The year of 2011 celebrates three hundred years since the birth of Eugénio dos Santos (b. 18.03.1711-25.08.1760), the Portuguese architect and city planner who, among other projects, was responsible for the plans to rebuild Lisbon after the earthquake of November 1, 1755. His artistic and technical training, his architectonic production, his aesthetic preferences and some of the books in his private library (comprising 160 titles), reflect a person that embodied the transition between read more...
RIFF National Architecture Conference
Arts->Architecture
November 17, 2011 - November 17, 2011
on 4 specialized areas- roofs, insulations, facades and floors- the conference will approach from a multiple perspective the architecture as a whole as well as policies concerning urban architecture, with presentations of case studies and good practice models of contemporary architecture. The program of the conference will include both presentations held by the Order of the Architects in Romania and presentations held by companies that offer efficient solutions and products for architecture. read more...
