Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers
- CFP: Games as Transformative Works- Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) invites essays on gaming and gaming culture as transformative work. We are interested in game studies in all its theoretical and practical breadth, but even more so in the way fan culture shapes itself around and through gaming interfaces. Potential topics include but are not limited to game audiences as fan cultures; anthropological approaches to game design and game engagement; on- and off-line game experiences; textual and cultural analysis of games; fan appropriations and manipulations of games; and intersections between games and other fan artifacts.
- Call for applications: VISU 2009 "The Culture of Science & Its Philosophy"- The Vienna International Summer University will be holding a two-week session, July 13-July 24, 2008 on "The Culture of Science & Its Philosophy."
- SLACTIONS 09 - Call for papers | Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms- SLACTIONS 09 - Conference simultaneously `in-world` (SL) and 9 countries Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms
- AAAHRP Call for Papers-
AAAHRP Call for Papers
- 2009 Mardi Gras Conference on Virtual Worlds now accepting submissions-
The 2009 Mardi Gras Conference on “Virtual Worlds: New Realms for Culture, Creativity, Commerce, Computation and Communication” is now ready to accept submissions, following the significant damage to the Baton Rouge area from Hurricane Gustav.
The conference currently is accepting proposals for papers, workshops, panels and posters. If you or other faculty/students at your university are conducting research in the broad and far-reaching area of virtual environments such as Second Life, MultiVerse and Croquet, please consider submitting a paper to address this during the conference.
Abstracts are due Sept. 30, and the program committee will notify selected participants by Nov. 15. Final papers will be due Jan. 9, 2009. Please visit the conference Web site, www.mardigrasconference.org, for more information. This site is frequently updated, so please check back often. - Call for Papers: the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA)- CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUNDTABLESat the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA)
Deadline: October 15, 2008
http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm
- Call for papers: Expertise: Media Specificity and Interdisciplinarity, deadline September 22, 2008-
"In this conference, we would like to examine the question of the level of expertise necessary in conducting research in a specific field. In an interdisciplinary era, how can we define media-specific knowledge? Or should we speak of defined knowledge, specific to any artistic media at all? What should be the relationship between critical theory and media specificity?"
- Call for Papers/Abstracts & Invited Sessions Proposals: 2nd Int'l Multi-Conference on Engineering & Technological Innovation- Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation (July 10th-13th, 2009 - Orlando, Florida, USA). http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/IMETI
Deadlines:
Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: September 24th, 2008
Authors Notifications: November 17th, 2008
Camera-ready, full papers: February 4th, 2009 - NEH Chairman Bruce Cole at SC08: Humanities Scholarship in the Petabyte Age, November 18 in Austin, TX-
As a follow up to Mechelle's post about the Education Program at SC08, here is another event within the larger SC08 agenda. SC08 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. See their website at http://sc08.supercomputing.org/
On Tuesday, November 18, NEH Chairman Bruce Cole will give a talk entitled "Humanities Scholarship in the Petabyte Age" at the Supercomputing 2008 Conference in Austin, Texas. He also plans to announce the grantees from the recent NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing program, and will hold a meet-and-greet event following the talk. So if you are in the Austin area, please do stop by.
- Call for Papers: Designing for palpability Workshop at Pervasive 2007, 13-16 May 2007, Toronto- Pervasive computing is becoming a reality, but people often find it hard to understand its potential, let alone appropriate it creatively. The word 'palpability' captures an important element of what is necessary to realise the possibilities of pervasive computing,...
- "The Human and the Humanities" Conference, Nov. 13-15, 2008 in Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Park, NC- You are cordially invited to join us for the third and final “The Human & The Humanities” conference, November 13-15, 2008. The conference is part of the National Humanities Center’s ongoing initiative Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity which brings together humanists and scientists to examine how recent scientific discoveries and technological innovations are challenging traditional notions of "the human." Read on ...
- 080808 Digital Color: Something from Something or Nothing- We recently received the following invitation from Prof. Greg Niemeyer of UC Berkeley. Read on for more details.
- SC Education: SC08 Austin- SC Education: SC08 Austin
- CELDA 2008- CELDA 2008
- SC08 Computational Science in Engineering: Biology and Nanotechnology Workshop Announcement-
The SC08 Computational Science in Engineering: Biology and Nanotechnology Workshop will be held June 29th-July 5, 2008 at Earth University, Costa Rica. Sponsored by SC08, the Advanced Research and Technology Collaborative for the Americas (ARTCA), the Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia (CENAT), and the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), Computational Science will leverage high performance computing resources and social networks to strengthen nano and bio sciences research and education.
- Call for Graduate Student PAGE Fellows at Imagining America's 9th Annual Conference, 10/02-04/08, Los Angeles, CA- Imagining America: Artists And Scholars In Public Life
Ninth Annual National Conference
Public Engagement in a Diverse America:
Layers of Place, Movements of People
***CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS***
Thursday, October 2 – Saturday, October 4, 2008- 2nd World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium - Towards integrated knowledge for the 21st century - Sept. 10 to 13 in Crans-Montana, Sw-
2nd World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium - Towards integrated knowledge for the 21st century - Sept. 10 to 13 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland
The second World Knowledge Dialogue (WKD) Symposium will be held on September 10-13, 2008 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The biennial event is an interdisciplinary discussion forum for 300 top researchers and policy makers from all over the globe. It aims to give them a broader, shared perspective of our world so they can better contribute to resolving its problems.- Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft - May 9-11, 2008-
This is a scientific conference to be held May 9-11, 2008, inside World of Warcraft, devoted to research on WoW and on virtual worlds in general. It was proposed by John Bohannon, who creates the Gonzo Scientist feature for the AAAS journal Science. The organizer is William Sims Bainbridge, a social and information scientist, whose conference e-mail address is wsbainbridge at gmail dot com
- Register today! Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference 2008, UC Riverside- Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference 2008
CATASTROPHE AND CONVERSION
POLITICAL THINKING FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM*
*Prior Registration Required for Attendance at All Events
University of California, Riverside
June 18-22, 2008
Keynotes:
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford / Ecole Polytechnique)
René Girard (Académie Française / Stanford)
Jack Miles (UC Irvine / Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography)- Call for Papers and Digital Artwork: The Future of Writing, UC Irvine- "The Future of Writing"
University of California, Irvine
November 6-7, 2008
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS-SCHOLARLY MULTIMEDIA USING SOPHIE-
CALL FORPROPOSALS
SCHOLARLYMULTIMEDIA USING SOPHIE
Deadlinefor proposals: May 12, 2008
TheInstitute for Multimedia Literacy is pleased to announce a workshop for facultyand graduate students to create multimedia projects with Sophie, an easy-to-usefree software application developed by the Institute for the Future of the Bookand presented by USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Sophie allows users to designinteractive texts that incorporate images, video and sound, and it deployscreative formats for analysis, annotation and citation.
- "Working with the SHOAH Visual History Archive" hosted by the RENCI Center at Duke University-
Please join us on Thursday, May 1, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m, to discover how to
use the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute Visual
History Archive (VHA) for personal and professional research. Sponsored by the
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), this "Renaissance Bistro" will take
place at the new RENCI Center at Duke, located on the first floor of the
OIT-Telecommunications Building (390 Science Drive Extension).
Food and beverages provided.
- RENCI "bistro session" on Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, May 1-
RENCI Offers “Food for the Mind” at Informational ‘Bistro’
CHAPEL HILL, NC, April 9, 2008 – The public is invited to feed their minds—as well as their stomachs—at the Renaissance Computing Institute’s (RENCI) Renaissance Bistro. RENCI’s informal informational bistro session will focus on the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive (VHA) and how to use it for personal and professional research.
The VHA is a video archive of testimonials from Holocaust survivors and witnesses offered through the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. The archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators collected in 32 languages and from 56 countries.
The Renaissance Bistro will be held from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in the OIT-Telecommunications Building on the West Campus of Duke University. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch is included.
- Let the Games Begin: 101 Workshop on Making Social Issue Games- Based on feedback we've received over the past few years, we've created a one-of-a-kind workshop for non-profits new to the field of social issue games at the start of the 2008 G4C Festival. This workshop is a soup-to-nuts tutorial on the fundamentals of social issue games. The workshop will feature leading experts on topics including game design, fundraising, evaluation, youth participation, distribution, and press strategies, and will be extended for the rest of the year through an online community dedicated to learning about social issue games.
- Nebraska Digital Workshop Call for Proposals- The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the 3rd annual Nebraska Digital Workshop from Oct. 10-11, 2008. We are seeking proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in digital humanities.
- Digital 2008: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning-
<span style="font-family:arial;">The 2nd IEEE <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/">International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning </a>will be in Banff, Canada, from November 17-19, 2008.The call for papers is in process.
- SYMPOSIUM ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM-
UCHRI and the UCI Humanities Center are pleased to announce a day-long symposium on the topic of Academic Freedom.
SYMPOSIUM ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Thursday, April 24, 2008
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
(followed by reception)
338 Aldrich Hall
UC Irvine
SCHEDULE
9:00 am
Breakfast
9:30 am
Welcoming Remarks - David Theo Goldberg, Catherine Liu
10:00 am- 5th Annual Southeast Information & Communication Technology Symposium, April 16-17, 2008 in Durham, NC- The 5th Annual Southeast ICT will feature remarks from Jane Smith Patterson of the e-NC Authority, State Rep. Earl Jones, and Alan Blatecky of the Renaissance Computing Institute, in addition to panels on net neutrality, broadband policy, and much more. Read on ...
- 2008 International Conference on Information Technology in Education (CITE 2008)-
CALL FOR PAPERS
Education Track within CSSE:
2008 International Conference
on Information Technology in Education- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education-
Just recieved this via email and thought I'd share. Mechelle : )
- Imagining America National Conference: CFP-
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Ninth Annual National Conference
Public Engagement in a Diverse America: Layers of Place, Movements of People
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
October 2-4, 2008
Conference Theme- American Association for History and Computing- Deadline Extended
- SC08 News- SC08 News
- "The Transnational Turn in American Studies" Call for Papers- Deadline for Inaugural Issue: June 1, 2008
- Play - Towards a Critical Concept, UC Irvine, April 4-5 2008-
Call for Papers: Deadline February 15th, 2008.
The graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine invite submissions for its annual conference, "Play: Towards a Critical Concept."
- Announcement: MetaverseU at Stanford- Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University
WHERE: Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford University
WHEN: Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of February 2008
WEBSITE: http://metaverseu.stanford.edu
- Call for Posters and Demonstrations - Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference-
Call for Posters and Demonstrations
Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference
University of Maryland, College Park May 2-3, 2008
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008
- THATCamp Conference - The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University-
May 31 - June 1, 2008
The Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
- Call for Papers: Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millenium-
CALL for PAPERS: Deadline for submission of paper proposals: January 18, 2008
- The American Association for History and Computing-
Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together
The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)
2008 Annual Conference
Access via Internet
April 20-22, 2008
“The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence.” – Tim O’Reilly, 2005
- University of California, Irvine Presents NGUGI Decolonizing the Mind: a celebration-
University of California, Irvine Presents NGUGI Decolonizing the Mind: a celebration
Diverse conference featuring dynamic speakers, presentations, poetry
Thursday, March 10, 2005
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
University of California, Irvine
Humanities Hall
various locations- REMINDER: Call for application VISU Vienna International Summer University-
The Vienna International Summer University will be holding a two-week session, June 30-July 11, 2007 on "History and Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences."
- Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University- ANNOUNCEMENT: Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University
- Reminder: Summer Seminar in Experimental Theory (SECT): Creative Societies/Cultural Industries/New Humanities-
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites applications from scholars--faculty of all ranks and graduate students--wishing to participate in the fifth annual
- CFP: International Journal of Learning and Media (new!)- The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides a forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine the changing relationships between learning and media across a wide range of forms and settings. Our focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and we understand learning in broad terms to include informal and everyday contexts as well as institutions such as schools. We are especially interested in the broader social and cultural dimensions of these issues and in new and emerging media technologies, forms, and practices.
- North Carolina Science Blogging Conference - Jan. 18-19, 2008, Research Triangle Park, NC-
The 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference is a free forum organized by BlogTogether, a community of bloggers in North Carolina who gather together to explore online communication and personal expression.
Join us Sat, Jan 19, 2008 for the second annual science blogging conference.
- CFP: The social - online, mobile and unplugged social networks-
- CiSE Special Issue on SC/HPC Education- CiSE Special Issue on SC/HPC Education
- International Conference on Teaching Computational Science- International Conference on TEACHING Computational Science
- Writing Matters: An Exploration of the Diverse Nature of the Composition Classroom - Call for Papers- The English Department at Baton Rouge Community College invites submissions from faculty and graduate students to its annual spring writing conference, "Writing Matters: An Exploration of the Diverse Nature of the Composition Classroom," April 24-26, 2008, on the BRCC campus.
Papers and panel discussions are welcome in all areas relating to the composition classroom, including technology, cultural diversity, teaching methodology, interdisciplinary approaches, and writing across the curriculum.
- SOIC 2008: The 4th International Conference on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics- Announcement
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December 18th is the new deadline for papers/abstracts submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals for SOIC 2008: The 4th International Conference on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics (Orlando, Florida, USA, on June 29th to July 2nd, 2008) http://www.socioinfocyber.org/soic2008
Authors Notification: February 6th, 2008
Camera ready, full papers: March 5th, 2008- Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning-
Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning
A PUBLIC FORUM on how digital media is changing how young people learn and play, featuring:
Henry Jenkins, Professor, MIT, and author of Convergence Culture, will talk about his latest work on media literacy and skills young people need for the 21st Century.
- Call for applications: VISU 2008 "History and Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences"-
The Vienna International Summer University will be holding a two-week session, June 30-July 11, 2007 on "History and Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences."
- Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery-
Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery
7th - 11th April 2008, London, UK
- Call for Papers--the Education Summit-
Center for Internet Research (TCFIR), in concert with Colorado State University is hosting "21st Century Education – The Real and the Ideal", a conference focused on "what's next" in the social/cultural, methodological, and technological dimensions of education. The conference theme speaks to the need for a realistic appraisal of the state of education and reform efforts, and what present realities indicate for the future, coupled with constructive and well-informed speculation about how change in education can be better managed to serve the need of students, educators, parents, industry, and society as a whole; the real and the ideal.- Call for papers for the eHumanities track of the IEEE DEST 2008-
IEEE DEST 2008
IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
26th-29th February 2008
Phitsanulok Thailand
Track on eHumanities
Deadline for full paper submissions: October 14th, 2007
http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/tracks.php#trackE-humanities
eHumanities -- Track Chairs: Marc Wilhelm Küster and Matthew Allen
- 2nd World Knowledge Dialogue Symposium - Towards integrated knowledge for the 21st century - Sept. 10 to 13 in Crans-Montana, Sw-
