Details

4th Global Conference

Wednesday 7th July 2010 – Friday 9th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford

The conference will commence at 13.30 on Wednesday 7th July 2010 and finish at 17.00 on Friday 9th July 2010. Registration will be from 12.30 on the opening day of the conference.

Important – Please Note: The ethos of the ‘Visual Literacies’ project emphasises dialogue with the issues raised by the conference as a whole and engagement with the people attending the conference. These two elements are essential to the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of the event. Over the past few years the success of our projects has rested on the continual interaction between delegates for the duration of the conference and beyond. The Steering Group feel it is essential that delegates should be present for the duration of the conference so as to facilitate the exchange of perspectives for which the conference strives, and which any publication should clearly demonstrate. Failure to attend for the duration of the metting will automatically exclude eligibility for inclusion in any of the project publications.

Papers should be of no more than 20 minutes duration (circa 8 pages). Responses to Papers should be of no more than 10 minutes duration. Work-in-Progress presentations should be of no more than 15 minutes duration. The time allotted to workshops will be considered on an individual basis. Other forms of presentation will be considered on request.

Please note: Power point presentations are neither encouraged nor desired. Power point has been banned from all the projects we organise. You are advised to take note of this as you prepare your submission. Presenters are also strongly encouraged not to read their papers verbatim: draft papers will be avilable on the web site prior to the conference beginning. We hope that presenters will instead speak to the significant points raised in their papers.

300 word abstracts are to be submitted by Friday 15th January 2010. These should be emailed either as an attachment or in the body of an email to the Organising Chairs: Phil Fitzsimmons and Rob Fisher. Attachments may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats. Papers will be minimally double blind peer reveiwed (where appropriate); in practice our procedures usually entail that by the time an abstract is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple blind peer reviewed.

Both the 300 word abstract and the draft paper will be available on this web site before the conference commences. Papers will made available in downloadable .pdf format.

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for inclusion in an ISBN eBook published by The Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed ISBN hard copy volume. Our standard model is for such volumes to be strongly dialogical, with chapters showing awareness of and interacting with each other. The decision whether to proceed to hard copy publication will be taken by the Organising Chairs and Steering Group within three weeks of the conference close.

The conference venue is Mansfield College Oxford. Accommodation is also being offered at the College.

The location of the venue can be found on the map provided in the accommodation section.

We would like to note that whilst the conference is being held at an Oxford University College, it is not being formally sponsored by the University. Please do not contact the College with questions about the conference. All inquiries about the conference should be directed to Rob Fisher.

The details of the registration fee are as follows;

The cost for attending the conference is £245. This includes;

• conference registration fee
• a copy of the eBook
• a 50% discount off any hard copy themed volume which ay emerge from the meeting
• access to the email discussion group and conference project initiative support materials
• Wednesday coffee on registration
• Wednesday afternoon tea and biscuits
• Wednesday wine reception
• Wednesday evening 3 course waiter served dinner
• Thursday morning coffee and pastries
• Thursday 2 course waiter served lunch
• Thursday afternoon tea and biscuits
• Friday morning coffee and pastries
• Friday 2 course waiter served lunch
• Friday afternoon tea and biscuit

All registration and accommodation costs are to be paid by Friday 7th May 2010.

Delegates must complete the online booking form by Friday 19th March 2010 at the latest. After the deadline has expired, an invoice will be drawn up and sent to you; the invoice will contain all the necessary information for you to pay by bank transfer, cheque or credit card. The invoice must be settled by Friday 7th May 2010. It is the responsibility of delegates to ensure that payment is made by this date. Failure to receive payment will result in your booking being cancelled.

There are a number of ways payment can be made.

Cheque
Payment can be made by cheque, in pounds sterling (gbp) or in Euro. The Euro rate will be fixed at the bank buy-back rate current at the point of issuing the invoice. Cheque’s in pound sterling must be drawn against a bank with headquarters in the United Kingdom; cheque’s may also be in Euro currency. Cheque’s should be made payable to ‘Inter-Disciplinary.Net’ and sent, with a copy of the booking form, to:

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House
149b Wroslyn Road
Freeland
Oxfordshire. OX29 8HR
United Kingdom

We cannot and will not accept cheques made payable in currencies other than GBP Sterling or Euros.

Bank Transfer
Payment may be made using bank transfer. Full details to enable a bank transfer are made available on your conference invoice. If paying by this method, you must agree to pay all charges at the sending and receiving banks.

By Invoice
You may request that an invoice be sent to you and/or your institution. It is your responsibility to ensure that the invoice is paid prior to the start of the conference.

Credit Card
Payment may also be made using credit card. Please note: a 3.5% charge applies to all items and services paid for in this way: this is the amount we are charged by the credit card company.

Paypal
Payment may also be made using Paypal. Please note: a 3.5% charge applies to all items and services paid for in this way: this is the amount we are charged by Paypal.

All fees are payable in advance. No delegate will be permitted entry to the conference if an invoice is still unpaid.