Bullying and the Abuse of Power

Can there be bullying without a bully? (3)

Many years ago, in a book entitled Sexuality, learning difficulties and doing what’s right (David Fulton, 1995) I explored, with my friend Denis Rowley, the idea that there could be sexual abuse without an abuser, and also the idea that an individual could be a sexual abuser without sexual abuse being experienced.
Sexual abuse without an [...]

Childhood

Welcome to the Childhood Blog (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Childhood interdisciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly. If you would like to be part of the blogging team, please contact David White (Project Leader) and Rob Fisher (Network Leader).

Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children

Welcome to Creative Engagements (1)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence in the next fortnight

Culture, Politics, Ethics

Welcome to Culture, Politics and Ethics (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Culture, Politics and Ethics inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly

Cybercultures

Welcome to the Cybercultures Blog (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Cybercultures inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The project is now reaching it’s 5th year and is celebrating by launching the blog and a new email discussion group.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/cybercultures/
We warmly wlecome your thoughts, comments and contributions to the issues and discussions

Diasporas

Welcome to the Diasporas Blog (1)

Welcome to the Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues blog. The blog supports the work of the inter- and multi-disciplinary research and publicatons project,  which seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of [...]

Digital Memories

Welcome to the Digital Memories Blog (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Digital Memories inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The project is now in it’s second year after a hugely successful luanch in 2009 in Salzburg, Austria.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/
We warmly wlecome your thoughts, comments and contributions to the issues and discussions

Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship

Climate Law Database (0)

In 2008 the United Kingdom as a first EU country passed legislation which introduced binding framework to tackle the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction on a national level. In several EU member states an UK CCA act–like laws have already been adopted or are seriously discussed. If this model is feasibly and effectively extended the [...]

Ethics and Public Life

Welcome to Ethics and Public Life (1)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Ethics and Public Life inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly

Fashion

Wessie Ling’s Victoria & Albert Museum Presentation and Exhibit, Jan 28, 2011 (0)

IDN Fashion Steering Group member Wessie Ling will be presenting “China through the Looking Glass” at the Victoria & Albert  on January 28, 2011.   Details below. If you are in London on the 28th, please join her (I’ll be in California, but Wessie will be sending photos, etc, which I will post here).   JLF

 Date:  28 January [...]

Fear, Horror, Terror

Welcome (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Fear, Horror and Terror inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
Blogging will commence shortly

Forgiveness

Welcome to the Forgiveness Blog (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Forgiveness interdisciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly. If you would like to be part of the blogging team please cotact the Project Leader (David White) and Rob Fisher (Network Leader).

Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics

Welcome to Good Sex, Bad Sex (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crrime and Ethics inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly.

Intellectuals

Welcome to Intellectuals, Knowledge and Power (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Intellectuals, Knowledge and Power inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly

Madness

3rd Global Conference. Madness - Probing the Boundaries (0)

3rd Global Conference
Madness: Probing the Boundaries
Tuesday 14th September – Thursday 16th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range [...]

Magic and the Supernatural

Welcome to the Magic and the Supernatural Blog (9)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Magic and the Supernatural inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
This is a new project launching in March 2010 -
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/magic-and-the-supernatural/
We warmly wlecome your thoughts, comments and contributions to the issues and discussions.

Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

9th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease (3)

9th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
Saturday 11th September – Monday 13th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. In previous years, this interdisciplinary conference has attracted delegates from around the world, including [...]

Monsters and the Monstrous

8th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (0)

8th Global Conference
Monsters and the Monstrous
Sunday 19th September – Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the intention of examining [...]

Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging

5th Global Conference on Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging (0)

The Call for Papers for the 5th Global Conference on Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging has recently been opened. The conference will take place at the Mansfield College in Oxford, United Kingdom on Thursday, 22nd September and will end on Sunday, 25th September 2011.
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the [...]

Perspectives on Evil

Evil Laughter (2)

Have you ever wondered about evil laughter? On the surface, it’s all good fun: the villain relishing his or her dastardly deeds and crowning the moment with a triumphant, head back laugh-out-loud glorying of what they have achieved. Every villain simply must have an evil laugh; it some how contributes to making you villainous and [...]

Revenge

Welcome to the Revenge Blog (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Revenge interdisciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly. If you would like to be part of the blogging team please cotact the Project Leader (David White) and Rob Fisher (Network Leader).

Sexualities

Welcome to Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices (2)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Sexualities: Bodies, desires, Practices inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence shortly

Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners

Call for Papers: World-Building (0)

World-building: The Logic of Science, Fiction and Fantasy
Call for papers, international conference and Ph.D. course (09-10.06.11): Papers are invited for a themed conference on the concept of World-Building in science, fiction and fantasy. The conference will investigate the process of creating and recreating earths, planets, time-schemes, biology, languages, social and cultural [...]

The Education Hub Blog

Who Drives Education? (3)

ID.Net has long championed the time-honoured motto “education for education’s sake” - a conviction that education is an end in itself, something of inherent rather than fiscal value which allows people to lead richer and possibly more fulfilled lives.
It comes as no surprise to find a former UK Education Minister declaring that such a motto [...]

The Erotic

Do we need the erotic? (0)

Hello Everyone
The idea behind the ‘Erotic’ Blog is to promote the development of discussion on themes raised within the network, away from the conferences or individual e-mails. This is a space where members can develop their ideas in a community of enquiry, developing their understandings of what the erotic is, its meanings and how it [...]

The Hostility and Violence Hub Blog

War and Peace - Call for Papers Consultation (0)

The War, Virtual War and Human Security project is undergoing some restructuring in anticipation of the 2010 meeting. We are posting below the initial draft call for papers for the revised project, and warmly welcome feedback, suggestions, reflections and ideas.
War and Peace
Draft Call for Papers
The opening decade of the 21st century has seen war assume [...]

The Making Sense Of: Hub Blog

Happy (2)

I am thrilled to see our two new conferences in Sydney (MSO ‘Care in Health Care’ and MSO ‘Pain’)  up on our website. The little contingent of I-D.Netters Down Under is happy to see the Oz connection re-established. Now the world can come to us! It is summer in Sydney in February, so do join [...]

The Persons Hub Blog

The Persons Hub Blog to Begin (3)

Welcome to the Persons Hub Blog. This blog will deal with issues and perspectives surrounding the Persons Hub collection of projects.
The Blog will commence in June 2009.

The Transformations Hub Blog

Transformations Hub Blog to Begin (2)

Welcome to the Transformations Hub Blog. This blog will deal with issues and perspectives surrounding the Transformations Hub collection of projects.
The Blog will commence in June 2009.

Times of Our Lives: Growing Up, Growing Old

Welcome to Times Of Our Lives (4)

Welcome to the Times of Our Lives: Growing Up, Growing Old blog.
The blog supports and exapnds the work of the Times of Our Lives inter- and multi-disciplinary research project and brings together varied approaches to the study and contemplation of the life-course. The project examines the idea and meaning of the human ‘life course’. We age from [...]

Uncategorized

Wessie Ling’s Victoria & Albert Museum Presentation and Exhibit, Jan 28, 2011 (0)

IDN Fashion Steering Group member Wessie Ling will be presenting “China through the Looking Glass” at the Victoria & Albert  on January 28, 2011.   Details below. If you are in London on the 28th, please join her (I’ll be in California, but Wessie will be sending photos, etc, which I will post here).   JLF

 Date:  28 January [...]

Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment

Welcome (0)

Welcome to Videogames Project Blog!
Im looking forward to fruitfull online debates and content exchange.
Daniel

Villains and Villainy

Welcome (0)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Villains and Villainy inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
Blogging will commence shortly.

Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

Welcome to the Visions of Humanity Blog (0)

Welcome to the Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction blog. The blog supports the work of the inter- and multi-disciplinary research and publicatons project,  which seeks to explore what it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project will explore the possibilities [...]

Visual Literacies

Welcome to Visual Literacies (1)

Welcome to the blog which supports the work of the Visual Literacies inter-disciplinary research and publications project.
The blog will commence in the next fortnight

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2011 New Hubs
2011 will see three new Hubs come into existence. The Gender and Sexuality Hub will launch in May 2011 with 2 new projects "Queer Sexualities" and "Femininity and Masculinity". The Horror Hub will launch in July with new projects in "K-Horror" and "The Fear Inside". And there will be a new Monsters Hub building on and expanding the work of the existing project.

Interdisciplinary Schools
We are pleased to announce that for 2011 we will be launching a series of schools for Easter and Summer, initially in Oxford and then in Europe. There will be a Horror School, a Gender and Sexuality School, a Monsters School, and at least 2 more to be confirmed. Further details will be available at the end of September.

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