Details

10th Global Conference

Chronic Illness: The Borderlands Between Health and Illness

Tuesday 6th September – Thursday 8th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The conference will commence at 13.30 on Tuesday 6th September 2011 and finish at 18.00 on Thursday 8th September 2011. Registration will be from 12.30 on the opening day of the conference.

Important – Please Note: The ethos of the ‘Health, Illness and Disease’ 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 meeting 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 available 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 25th March 2011. These should be emailed either as an attachment or in the body of an email to the Organising Chairs: Maria Vaccarella and Rob Fisher. Attachments may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats. Papers will be minimally double blind peer reviewed (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 two weeks of the conference close.

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

* Mansfield College, Oxford, OX1 3TF, UK
* Tel: +44 (0) 1865 270999
* Fax: +44 (0) 1865 270970

Mansfield College occupies one of the most attractive sites in Oxford. The 1886 buildings, which house all the College’s public rooms, are regarded as amongst the finest work of the important Victorian architect, Basil Champneys. Mansfield’s spacious site is close to all the libraries and shops, yet in a quiet position near to the University parks and River Cherwell.

The location of the venue can be found on the map provided in the Venue and 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.

Delegates are, of course, free to find alternative accommodation.

The details of the registration fee are as follows;

The cost for attending the conference is £255. This includes;

* conference registration fee
* a copy of the eBook
* discounted rates in relation to any hard copy themed volume(s) which may emerge from the meeting
* access to the email discussion group and conference project initiative support materials
* Tuesday coffee on registration
* Tuesday afternoon tea and biscuits
* Tuesday evening wine reception
* Tuesday evening 3 course waiter served dinner
* Wednesday morning coffee and pastries
* Wednesday 2 course waiter served lunch
* Wednesday afternoon tea and biscuits
* Thursday morning coffee and pastries
* Thursday 2 course waiter served lunch
* Thursday afternoon tea and biscuits

All registration and accommodation costs are to be paid by Friday 8th July 2011.

Payment Process
Delegates must complete the on-line booking form by Friday 27th May 2011 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 8th July 2011. 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.