Call for Proposals to Malmö University and Rochester Institute of Technology Partnership Symposium
RIT Campus, October 8 – 10, 2015

This year’s Symposium will be hosted by RIT. It is designed primarily to build on and bring to fruition already-established collaborative initiatives, but also to invite new contributions that extend the partnership in strategically important directions. The symposium is driven by the partnership’s commitment to support the following four Malmö University/RIT Partnership goals:

1. joint research projects
2. collaborative course development
3. curricular integration opportunities
4. enhancement of student and faculty mobility

The themes for this year’s Symposium are the following:

• Conceptions and Practices of “nature”: urban and non-urban environments; industrial and post-industrial environments; the wild and the cultivated; constructing and crossing boundaries—the local and global.
• Making and Managing Bodies: their circulation in urban space; green clothing initiatives; sexology; nationalized, colonized, and migrating bodies; forms of identity construction.
• Effects and Implications of new Technologies: gaming; mapping/producing space; managing people and privacy; improving infrastructure; transforming authorship, collaborative pedagogy; multi-media platforms; imaging practices.
• Forms and Practices of Sustainability: architecture; urban agriculture; housing and real estate; health systems; engineering systems; interactive design.

PLEASE CONSIDER PROPOSING, in one or two paragraphs, a Labinar and/or Study-Visit that addresses one or more of the four goals mentioned above and is set within one of the symposium themes.

Proposals will be reviewed by the MU/RIT Partnership Academic Council.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY TO: muritpartnership@rit.edu

The symposium is free of charge, but travel and hotel is covered by each MaH participant/institution respectively.

Open for all interested – there is no fee but travel and accomodation expenses must be paid for and organized by each participant.

The following Contact persons at Malmö University can answer your question: Culture and Society: US – Magnus Johansson; K3 – Berndt Clavier; GPS – Dimosthenes Chatzoglakis; LS: Despina Tszimoula;
Technology and Society: Jeanette Eriksson.