Rhythm 2021: International Conference cum Workshop on Rhythm of Happiness Indian institute of Technology, Kharagpur Kharagpur, India, December 10-12, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/rhythm2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rhythm2021 |
Poster | download |
Abstract registration deadline | September 10, 2021 |
Notification of Acceptance | September 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | October 15, 2021 |
Rhythm as an International Conference cum Workshop was envisaged last year as a quest for the underlying rhythm that spans the massive Universe to the tiniest DNA. The International Conference cum Workshop on Rhythm in Speech and Music from Neuro-cognitive perspectives (ICRSM 2020) in its debut endeavor saw participation of eminent scientists, scholars, researchers and luminaries from across the globe. A special issue of the Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics has already been published as part of indexing about 60 contributory papers we had received during the Conference.
This year, the proposed theme of the Conference is “The Rhythm of Happiness - a Multidisciplinary Exploration”. Rhythm is a part of our very existence. We find it in the cycle of our life, seasons, years and days. It is a part of our waking life and our sleep. Our very bodies are rhythmic in the primordial rhythm of the heartbeat. Rhythm has various synonyms – flow, cycle, periodicity, throbbing, self-similarity, repetition, harmony – and pervades every walk of our lives. Interestingly, rhythm and happiness are intrinsically linked. Rhythm and flow allow us immersion in our work (doc) and happiness. Happiness is also manifest in the rhythm of dance and music. Rhythm, in terms of harmony of colors, forms, work and leisure have the ability to induce happiness. Standing antithetical to chaos, lack of order, disorganization, disruption, distortion and disharmony, rhythm stands as antithetical to all that is negative. Thus, both as a cause and effect of happiness, it stands on two sides, paranthyzing happiness.
How does rhythm contribute to happiness? How does happiness lead to rhythm? A search for the answer would lead one to multiple disciplines – bio-rhythms, neuro-rhythms, cosmic rhythms, ecological rhythms, socio-cultural rhythms, rhythms in music, art and culture, and rhythms in our everyday life. In each of these areas rhythms contribute significantly, they also inter-play and impact our state of happiness and wellbeing in interrelated ways. This conference proposes to explore these two fundamental questions in each of the areas cited above, as well as in ways that many of them are interrelated.
The core concept of rhythm irradiates and touches many disciplines, transcends many disciplines. Thus, the various diverse understandings of rhythm and its synonyms can be viewed as diverse manifestations of a fundamental unitary principle. This conference attempts to delve into this fundamental proposition and explore it further.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of original, unpublished work from those who wish to present their work in any area relevant to the following topics (but not limited to) of the conference. Submissions will be reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters. All presented papers will be published in some Scopus indexed conference proceedings. Submissions must be made through Easy Chair.
List of Topics
- Topic 1: Influence of Rhythm on Happiness and Wellbeing : Cognitive and Bio-Sciences Perspective
- Topic 2: The Rhythms of Happiness in Music, Visual Arts and Dance
- Topic 3: Rhythms in Everyday Life and Culture & their contribution to Happiness and Wellbeing
- Topic 4: Rhythm and Positive Psychology
- Topic 5: Rhythm in Sound & Vibration: Wellbeing from Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
- Topic 6: Rhythm of Positive Communication: Language and Speech, Poetry
- Topic 7: Ecological Rhythm, Environment and Wellbeing
- Topic 8: Interdisciplinary exploration of rhythm and happiness
Venue
The conference will be held in VIRTUAL MODE
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icrhrhythm2021@gmail.com
Sponsors
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)