Dear Colleagues,

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit proposals for papers for the International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture 2^nd edition is just around the corner: 1 March 2016.

The conference is organised by the Teacher Training Department, West University of Timișoara, and will be held at Timișoara (Romania) in June 23-25, 2016.

The aim of the conference, proposing interdisciplinary perspectives, is to build comprehensive and holistic explanations of beliefs from different sciences that have a great impact upon education and culture. The conference addresses themes related to issues and processes of education at any level, from kindergarten to lifelong learning, from formal to informal education.

We propose topics of debate, such as but not limited to:

*   Educational policy impact in different cultures
*   Culture and emotions in education
*   Beliefs and behaviours in culture and education
*   Research and innovation in Education
*   Technology and Digital Learning
*   Implications of media exposure
*   The representation of mythical spaces in literature and the arts
*   Gothic and horror in contemporary entertainment media: aesthetic experience and emotional impact.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Clive Bloom (Middlesex University)
Professor Ingrid Schoon (University College London)
Professor Alexandru Gafton, ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iaşi)
Professor Ștefan Borbély (Babes-Bolyai University)
Professor Régis Malet (University of Bordeaux)
Dr. Sam George (University of Hertfordshire)

This interdisciplinary conference addresses a variety of topic areas:

· Educational research

· Pedagogy

· Educational Psychology

· Community Psychology

· Psychology of aggression

· Social Psychology

· Cognitive Psychology

· Didactics of specialty

· Teaching practice

· Media studies

· Cultural studies

· Empirical study of literature

· Comparative literature

· Imagology

· Cultural Geography

· Tourism

· Gothic studies

Please submit 100 word abstracts by email to:

Dr. Marius-Mircea Crișan (conference coordination, Humanities): [log in to unmask]

Dr. Roxana-Andreea Toma (conference coordination, Social Sciences): [log in to unmask]

Conference website: http://www.dppd.uvt.ro/bbec/index.html

Best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Monica Oprescu