http://www.frenz.org.nz Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:30:00 +1200 Social Sciences and Humanities Research News human08 http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2011/confdetail352/352-preliminary-programme.html Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:30:00 +1200 This conference will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation. It will fill a gap in current literature on religion, politics and society, which tends to ignore or treat as secondary the gendered dimensions of these developments. Toward this end, the conference seeks to advance knowledge and understanding, and to build a coherent research network, around the following core goals to: 1) Move gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life; 2) Stimulate new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith-based practices across different religious traditions; 3) Foreground and apply an ‘intersectional’ lens to issues of religion, gender and women’s human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorizing on gender and religion across global ‘South’ and global ‘North’ perspectives; 4) Expand the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights. The conference will bring together senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including, but not limited to, political science and international relations, sociology, gender and women’s studies, human rights and socio-legal studies, development, anthropology, European studies, and religious studies. human07 http://www.siie.fr/ Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:10:00 +1200 The Fourth International Conference on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence will be held from 17 to 19 February 2011 in Marrakech, Morocco. Business intelligence is a field which uses technology to find and analyse business data. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining and predictive analytics. The dynamic of business intelligence depends on the control of knowledge and requires competences to design the best strategies and ensure that decision makers have the right information. human06 http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/2010/EASCworkshop10.htm Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:15:00 +1200 The First International Workshop on Engineering a Sustainable City will be held from 10 to 12 November 2010 in Shanghai, China. Cities cover less than one percent of the Earth's surface. However, more than half of the world's population reside in them. Building sustainable cities is a chance for human society to respond to climate change and environmental crisis. This can also lead to significant business opportunities where information technology can play an important role. The workshop on engineering a sustainable city will be a forum where the latest findings and experiences of e-business relevant issues related to the design, development and improvement of cities with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability will be discussed. human05 http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:40:00 +1200 The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued a call for proposals for sponsorships within its EIB-University Research Sponsorship Programme (EIBURS). EIBURS provides grants to university research centres working on research topics and themes of major interest to the EIB. For the academic year 2010/2011, three new lines of research have been selected. Contact person:For further information, please contact: Ms Luísa Ferreira, Co-ordinator, EIB-Universities Research Action 100, boulevard Konrad Adenauer, 2950 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.