Conferences

Featuring keynote addresses by Ed Ayers and Alan Liu as well as talks by eight other historians working with the tools and methods of digital history and a luncheon address by Lawrence Grossman of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT). The event is free and open to the public. The program will be vodcast and podcast shortly after the event and will be published in an electronic format in the spring by the University of Illinois Press and the History Cooperative.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

June 7-8, 2006 :: Duke University

Sponsored by the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC); Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS); and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).

Duke University is pleased to announce that it will be hosting an international graduate student conference dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of new media technologies and their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment. The purpose of the Thinking Through New Media workshop is to build a graduate student community around new media scholarship and to introduce participants to HASTAC (pronounced “haystack”), ISIS, and RENCI. Conference organizers have encouraged students from all academic disciplines to submit 20-minute papers exploring their own research into the study and/or creation of new media technologies. Students need not submit papers to attend the conference.

The Program Committee for SKG2006 is requesting papers and presentations from the Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) Communities for its 2nd International Conference.

The 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2006) is bringing together researchers and practitioners in areas of knowledge and intelligence, semantics, and grid computing to share their visions, research achievements and solutions to real applications, to resolve the challenge issues and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. SKG2006 will be held in Guilin, a city with natural beauty and historical treasures, located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.