Dolores' List of CFPs

Storytelling, Self, Society Journal: Call for Papers Due: September 2008

Storytelling, Self, Society (SSS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to storytelling as interpersonal, performance, or public discourse. Papers may represent disciplines including but not limited to storytelling, folklore, cultural studies, communication, English, education, library science, health care, business, peace studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture, theatre and performance studies. Short stories, poetry and works of literary criticism will not be considered for publication. However, a variety of items, including print publications, recordings and performances, may be considered for review. Contact Karen Dietz, reviews editor, at dietz.karen@gmail.com to indicate interest and for additional information. Completed manuscripts are requested. All manuscripts must be submitted in electronic format, using Microsoft Word, and must conform to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003, sixth edition or later, Modern Language Association of America). Each submission should include an abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page, preceding the manuscript. For consideration in the Fall, 2008, issue, please e-mail a completed manuscript by January 7, 2008, to: Caren S. Neile, managing editor, at cneile@fau.edu. Prior to submission, we invite submitters to visit our web site: http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/SSS/SSS_Journal.htm.

Elizabeth Figa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty Senator Group II
University of North Texas / School of Library and Information Sciences
SLIS Toll-free phone: 877-275-7547 / Office Phone 940-565-2187
Associate Editor, Storytelling, Self, Society Journal
Contact information: http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/Figa/

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational
Synergy (http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html) will examine
structure, organization, technology tools and leadership practices that
characterize successful collaboration in and across the fields of education,
public and social sectors. See the call for chapters
(http://www.vision2lead.com/Call.pdf) or contact us at
synergy@vision2lead.com. We are reviewing proposals as they are submitted.

The first call for chapters formally closed April 30, 2007. We have been
extremely pleased with both the quantity and quality of the submissions.
Please see the list of invited authors and chapter topics:
http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy2.html.

At this time we are requesting additional proposals targeting specified
areas in order to ensure a comprehensive and balanced view of collaboration
in education, business, social sector organizations and government. We are
particularly interested in contributions that consider electronic
collaboration within a governmental or social sector organization, including
non-profit or Non-Governmental Organizations. Topics could include
collaborative efforts of teams or cross-functional groups, or collaborative
efforts between international/national organizations and their local
affiliates. We are also interested in interdisciplinary collaboration within
educational institutions or instructional practices within the classroom.

If your proposal falls outside of the listed categories but within the scope
of the original call for chapters and you wish to submit for consideration,
we still welcome your proposal as a competitive entry in categories with a
significant number of submissions.

Editors Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D. will draw on their
respective scholarly and practical experience with inter-organizational and
intra-organizational collaborations in the fields covered in the handbook.
Information Science Reference, (an imprint of IGI Publishing), has
tentatively scheduled publication of print and electronic editions of the
book in 2008.

THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)

New York City, New York (New York University) May 22-24, 2008

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Sixth
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

The conference this year will feature plenary sessions on New York and
Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Law and Minorities. Plenarists include,

Arlene Davila, New York University, author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans,
Latinos and the Neoliberal City, and Latinos, Inc., The Marketing and Making
of a People

Rosemary Coombe, Law, Communications and Cultural Studies, York University,
author of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, and "Legal Claims to
Culture in and Against the Market"

Janet Jacobsen, Columbia, author of Working Alliances and the Politics of
Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics, and Love the Sin: Sexual
Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance

Jasbir Puar, Women's and Gender Studies and Geography, Rutgers University,
author of "On Torture: Abu Ghraib," and "Queer Times, Queer Assemblages."

Neil Smith, CUNY Graduate Center, author of American Empire: Roosevelt's
Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, and The Endgame of
Globalization.

The conference will continue to host last year's highly successful "salon"
panels by major cultural studies journals. Thus far, the following journals
plan on hosting a journal salon:

Theory & Event
South Atlantic Quarterly
Boundary 2
Callaloo (special issue on Katrina and New Orleans)
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique
Rethinking Marxism
Women & Performance
Radical History Review
Signs (special issue on race/gendered logics of war and terror)
Public Culture
Critical Inquiry
Social Text

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
April 15, 2008, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of the CSA conference website for details about fees at
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu .
If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other
concerns, please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the
following four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due November 10, 2007.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online below on the conference website:
>. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been "successfully submitted," which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due November 10, 2007.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to with the words ''Session Proposal'' in the
subject line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least
two business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS

A list of divisions is available at >. Calls for papers and procedures for
submission to divisions may be posted on that site. Proposals for divisions
should NOT be submitted here or to csaus@pitt.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due November 10, 2007.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position papers''
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA's various public e-mail lists on November 1.
Participants will contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then
inform the Program Committee who will participate in the seminar after
November 20.

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.
Seminar proposals should be sent to:

Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences, University of Washington Bothell

Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at <http://www.csaus.pitt.edu< after November 20, 2007. Deadline
to sign up will be December 15, 2007.

ISKO 2008 — Montréal. Call for Papers

10th biennial ISKO Conference
Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization

Official Call is OPEN

The 10th biennial International Conference of the International
Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is organised and hosted by
the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information,
Université de Montréal.

Previous ISKO conferences took place in Darmstadt (1990), Madras
(1992), Copenhagen (1994), Washington (1996), Lille (1998), Toronto
(2000), Granada (2002), London (2004) and Vienna (2006).

Time and Place of ISKO 2008: Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 of August 2008, at
the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada).

Website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization.
The proposed research topics for this edition include:
­ Epistemological Foundations in KO
­ Models and Methods
­ Systems and Tools ­ Ethics
­ KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
­ Non-Textual Materials
­ KO in Multilingual Environments
­ Users and Social Context
­ Discourse Communities and KO
­ KO for Information Management and Retrieval
­ Evaluation

Types of Contributions Accepted to ISKO 2008
Research papers, posters, and workshop proposals are accepted for
this conference.

The authors should clearly outline the central objective or
hypothesis of the research, and present preliminary or intermediary
results. If authors intend to present their most recent findings (not
yet available at the submission date) at the conference, they should
clearly indicate their potential significance. Research-in-progress
papers may also be submitted but may not be retained if underdeveloped.

Research Papers
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 1500 words for full and research-in-progress papers by
November 9th, 2007. Full papers that are not accepted might be
retained as posters.

Posters
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 500 words for posters by November 9th, 2007.

Workshop Proposals
Submission for workshops are also invited.

Review of Contributions
The international programme committee will review the abstracts, and
authors will be notified of decisions by December 14th 2007. The
deadlines for submission of papers for the printed conference
proceedings are below. All abstracts should be submitted through
email (isko2008@gmail.com) by November 9th 2007. Late submission will
not be eligible for consideration.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstract
First page should include the following information (copy&paste in
your document):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tenth International ISKO Conference
Montréal, August 5­8, 2008

Author name(s): {fill in}
Affiliation(s): {fill in}
Full contact information: {fill in}
Title: {fill in}
Conference topic: {fill in}
Type of submission: {Paper / Poster / Workshop}
Number of words: {fill in}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The abstract should follow on the second page (no name should appear
on this page).

Format: Word or RTF.

Conference Chair
Dr. Clément Arsenault, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: clement.arsenault@umontreal.ca

Programme Chair
Dr. Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor,
The Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
E-mail: jtennis@u.washington.edu

Poster Session Chair
Dr. Michèle Hudon, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: michele.hudon@umontreal.ca

Programme Committee
To be announced soon (please check the website).

Authors will be requested to submit their final accepted
contributions using the ISKO 2008 formatting guidelines.

Valid Document Formats: Microsoft Word (.doc) and Rich Text Format
(.rtf).

Submission for Accepted Papers and Posters
­ Papers — max. 7 pages (~3500 word). Papers will be published in
the printed proceedings.
­ Posters — max. 2 pages (~1000 words). Posters will be published
on the website.
­ To prepare your camera ready manuscript you must use and conform
to the ISKO 2008 paper template or to the ISKO 2008 poster template.
The templates and guidelines will be posted on the website at a later
date.
­ Failure to conform to templates will lead to paper rejection from
Proceedings and Conference.
­ The working language of the conference is English.

Important Dates
­ Abstract submission, deadline: November 9th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of paper submissions: December 14th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of posters: January 18th 2008.
­ Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format: 1st March 2008.

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

Conference Theme: Opening the Information Economy

Conference Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Conference Dates: July 13-16, 2008

The information economy is based on the collection and the exchange of data and ideas. We all either contribute to or use materials from the information economy in most aspects of our everyday lives. As a result, the information economy exists as an environment in which we are all contributors and consumers. Within this system, effective communication is essential to success, allowing individuals to contribute ideas and information effectively and to make efficient use of the goods and services. Few of us, however, understand all of the nuances of the information economy or the communication factors that affect its operations.

This conference seeks to examine or to "open" this economic model by examining the connections between communication practices and the products, practices, and services that constitute the information economy. The objective of such an examination will be to help attendees better understand and participate in the information economy as both contributors and consumers.

The conference will take place on the campus of Concordia University in Montréal, Canada and will consist of paper presentations and panel discussions that focus on various communication, design, social, and cultural aspects of the information economy.

POSSIBLE TOPIC AREAS
Suggested topic areas include but are not limited to the following:

• Establishing and assessing the value of knowledge work and knowledge products

• Information design, usability, and accessibility

• Virtual teams, online collaboration, and distributed models of work

• Cross-cultural communication, globalization, outsourcing, translation, and localization

• Legal policies and social issues related to the information economy

• Media selection and multimodality

• The role of and perspectives on teaching and training within the information economy

• Content management, open source software, single sourcing, and XML

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCESS AND SUBMISSION DATES
Send 1-2 page (250-500 word) proposals to IPCC2008@gmail.com by

• 15 October 2007 (deadline for submissions to be considered for early acceptance)

• 15 December 2007 (deadline for regular submissions)

For conference- or proposal-related questions contact: IPCC2008@gmail.com

The Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
Madison, Wisconsin

September 12-13, 2008

The conference will include papers focusing on the dynamic intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) and print culture. Papers might address ways in which STEM-its histories and materials, its theories and practices, its economics, and its practitioners-affects or is affected by print culture. These approaches might include: innovations in the production and circulation of print; patterns of authorship and reading; publication, and dissemination of knowledge in the history of STEM. Alternatively, taking the various theories and methodologies that have grown out of half-a-century of historical and social studies of STEM, papers could investigate the social construction of STEM knowledge through print; technologies of experimentation and inscription as a print culture of the laboratory; and the social networks of readership in the production of scientific consensus or conflict. Though our emphasis is on the United States scene, we welcome submissions from other areas of the globe as well.
The keynote speaker will be Professor Jim Secord, of Cambridge University, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, and author of many publications, including the award-winning Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Proposals for individual papers or complete sessions (up to three papers) should include a 250-word abstract and a one-page c.v. for each presenter. If possible, submissions should be made via email. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008. Notifications of acceptance will be made by early March.

Further information about the conference will shortly be available at the Center's web site at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/

As with previous conferences, we anticipate producing a volume of papers from the conference for publication in a volume in the Center's series, "Print Culture History in Modern America," published by the University of Wisconsin Press. A list of books the Center has produced, available on the Center's web site (http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/), offers a guide to prospective authors.

For information, contact:
Christine Pawley, Director,
Center for the History of Print Culture
4234 Helen C. White Hall,
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706

phone: 608 263-2945/608 263-2900
fax: (608) 263-4849
email: cpawley@wisc.edu

Co-sponsors: School of Library and Information Studies, the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the departments of the History of Science, the History of Medicine and Bioethics, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Christine Pawley Ph.D.

Professor, School of Library and Information Studies
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~cpawley/

Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/

University of Wisconsin-Madison
4234 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706

phone: 608 263-2945/608 263-2900
fax: (608) 263-4849
email: cpawley@wisc.edu

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
?Cosmopolitan? Disability Studies Crips the City?
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2007

As Disability Studies becomes more aware of the boundaries of its own
discourses, we want to explore critically the lands of its origins,
the limits of its imagination, and the challenges of experiencing
wider space. Bodies, ideas, and words travel across borders, negotiate
restricted space and resistance, and become transformed as they
journey. How do notions of disability, Disability Studies, and
disability culture shift in these travels? Who participates in these
travels and who is denied entrance? How is space produced, enacted,
and lived in by disabled people? How are local life worlds configured
in space? What is at stake in seeing ourselves as citizens of a more
complex world in which multiple, simultaneous identities are engaged
in transit and dialogue?

New York, this city of immigrants, is the staging ground for the 2008
SDS conference. Thus, many cherished American ideas are up for grabs:
melting pots and assimilation, the energy of new beginnings, the
emergence of undergrounds and renaissances, beliefs in rugged
individualism and transnational capitalism, mechanisms of control and
security, and architectures of access. As we imagine disability and
disability studies in this iconic location, we ask, What are our Ellis
Islands, our Statues of Liberty, our Grand Central Stations, our
Stonewalls? Where are our Christopher Streets, our Broadways, our
Greenwich Villages?

How might New York City, a site both global and local, guide our
understandings of disability and Disability Studies from international
and transnational perspectives? How might such multiple locations in
turn illuminate, enrich, and challenge disability experiences and
Disability Studies within the United States? What are the assumptions
at work in casting New York as a cosmopolitan city, and to what
effect? What does it mean to imagine cosmopolitanism?evoking the city
without borders, people as citizens of the world?from disability
perspectives? How might notions of the city, cosmopolitanism, and the
urban produce Disability Studies scholarship that speaks to applied
disciplines and theoretical examinations of identity, citizenship,
space, and authenticity?

We invite proposals from any field that examine the ways in which
disability and urban issues intersect; engage the mobility of metaphor
and the refiguration of space; and/or explore the ways in which
Disability Studies shifts and translates in application to specific
sites and communities. Potential topics include:

? Public Health
? Violence, War, and Terror
? Mobility and Metaphor
? Housing, Home, and Homelessness
? Access and Spatiality
? Immigration and Translation
? Education
? Globalization and Transnational Critique
? Artistic Practices, Cultural Production, and Crip Culture
? History and Memory
? Categorization and Citizenship
? Public Policy in the Global City
? Bodies and Borders
? Surveillance and Security, Visibility and Invisibility
? Activist Communities, Strategies, and Identities
? Architectural Mappings and Geographical Textures
? Pollution, Garbage, and Environmental Devastation

SDS invites activists, artists, and scholars to submit proposals for
all work in progress in Disability Studies. We welcome
interdisciplinary proposals that bring together scholars in different
fields or using different methodologies, embodying the kinds of
translation and movement evoked in this year?s theme. Work can be
submitted in a variety of formats, including workshops, paper
presentations, poster sessions, performances, video/DVD recordings,
etc. For the 2008 conference, we also would like to introduce new
seminar slots for the discussion of shared readings, pre-circulated
papers, or other focused topics.

Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS.
Presenters should explore ways to make physical, sensory, and
intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. All
presenters are required to, at minimum, provide e-text versions of
papers in advance of the conference (for open captioning), large-print
hard copies (18 point font or larger) of all handouts, hard copies or
outlines of their talks in 12 point and 18 point fonts, audio
description of visual images, charts, and video/DVDs, and open or
closed captioning of films and video clips. Presentations should also
be planned so that their delivery will accommodate open-captioning and
ASL translation. In order to facilitate ASL interpretation and open
captioning, drafts of accepted presentations will be due by 1 May
2008. If you have questions about making your presentation accessible,
please contact Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra
Kuppers at petra@umich.edu. Please note: English and ASL are the two
main languages in use at SDS; if you have other language needs, please
indicate such on your proposal and we will try to assist you in
obtaining accommodations.

For details on submission, please visit the SDS website
www.disstudies.org. Questions about the conference program or
submission process should be directed to Alison Kafer at
kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra Kuppers at petra@umich.edu.

International Journal of Doctoral Studies (IJDS) (http://ijds.org/) is an academically peer reviewed journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. Papers accepted for publication by IJ! DS appear online as accepted. Papers published online at http://ijds.org/, are available to colleagues around the world without charge and without regard to membership. Papers are also printed annually in print and on CD.
IJDS, an official publication of the Informing Science Institute (ISI), is now accepting submissions for Volume 3 (2008). !

Mission:

The mission of the IJDS is to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a wide variety of issues in doctoral studies using the Informing Science (IS) framework. The editorial objective of IJDS is the facilitation of knowledge enhancement related to doctoral studies in areas ! such as (but not limited to): informing science, information systems, information technology, information science, information security, and IT education. IJDS especially encourages publications authored by faculty members who actively supervise doctoral students. Joint publications between faculty members and their doctoral students are also encouraged.

Coverage:

IJDS is an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, and research that cover all aspects of doctoral studies. Book reviews are also welcome. Authors may use body of knowledge from business, information systems, computer science, education, psychology, engineering, anthropology, and such. Reviews of book related to the IJDS missions are also of interest. In additio! ns to the topics mentioned above, other topics of interest to IJDS include (but not limited) to the following:

Admissions Criteria
Online Doctoral Programs
Advisement
Oral Defense
Attrition and Persistence
Outcomes Assessment
Career Path and Employment
Practitioner Doctorate
Climate and Support for Doctoral Study
Public Policy and Doc Studies
Comparative Studies (e.g. U.S. versus EU models)
Research Assistant
Comprehensive Exams
Research Competence
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Research Doctorate
Dissertation Committee
Research Ethics
Diversity
Research Grants
Doctoral Faculty Qualifications
Research Methods and Traditions
Family Support
Residency Requirement
Historical and Philosophical Foundations of DS
Structure of Doctoral Programs
Innovative Doctoral Programs
Writing Skills
Statistical Skills, and Computer Skills

Please consider submitting a well-developed paper to IJDS. To view the author’s guidelines, references style, and paper submission process, please visit http://www.ijds.org/submit.html.

Museums and the Web

April 9-12,2008
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world: Museums and the Web.

Call for Participation Closes September 30, 2007.

Demonstration Proposals will be accepted through December 31, 2007.

For more information go to: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/

Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, senior speakers with extensive experience in Web development review and analyze the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Together, we are transforming communities and organizations.

The MW Program
MW features plenary sessions, parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, commercial exhibits, mini-workshops, professional forums, a usability lab, a design 'Crit Room,' and the Best of the Web awards. The primary language of the conference has always been English, but in 2008, the sessions will be simultaneously translated English/French and /French/English to encourage a wide francophone participation.

Prior to the conference, there are full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops and a day of pre-conference tours, including one to the museums of Ottawa, Canada's national capital.
Social events include receptions each evening, a Birds-of-a-Feather Breakfast, and plenty of refreshment breaks to provide hours of discovery and debate among hundreds of colleagues from around the world.

The MW2008 Program will be selected through peer-review by an International Program Committee based on proposals due September 30, 2007.

Who Attends MW?
Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives join the professionals, companies, foundations and governments that support them and attend Museums and the Web every year.

Scholarships and Volunteers
Archives & Museum Informatics awards MW Scholarships to museum professionals from small institutions and developing countries. For MW2008, The Department of Canadian Heritage has sponsored Scholarships for Canadian Professionals. Scholarship applications are due December 31, 2007.

Students are invited to volunteer at MW; they may attend the conference in exchange for helping out. Preference in 2008 will be given to fully bilingual volunteers. Volunteer applications are accepted until all spaces are filled.

Can't Make It? Get the Book.
MW2008 Presenters will be required to submit written papers; the best will appear in print in Museums and the Web 2008: Selected papers from an international conference. All papers are also published on-line and on CD-ROM. Discounted advance orders of the Selected Papers and CD-ROM Proceedings are now being taken.

Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences – since 1997 – are on-line. Printed volumes of Selected Papers from MW97 – MW2007 are also available to order.

Conference Co-Chairs
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman
Archives & Museum Informatics
158 Lee Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4E 2P3 Canada

Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks

Continuing a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation about empire, California State University Stanislaus will host a third conference on Empire in March 2008, this time exploring Migrations, Diasporas, and Networks.

Date:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 13-15 March 2008.

Plenary Speakers:

Mikhail Alexseev-- Mikhail A. Alexseev is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. A former Kremlin correspondent of the News from Ukraine weekly, Alexseev was the first Soviet citizen to receive a Reuters’ Fellowship at the University of Oxford and the NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship in 1990. He is the author of Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (1997) and the editor of Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (1999). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Communication, The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and The Seattle Times.

Katynka Martinez-- Recent USC Annenberg Fellow, now Assistant Professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University. She has published in numerous anthologies including "The Deterritorialized Telenovela in a Neo-network Era: Finding an online home for MyNetwork Soaps" in Millennial TV: Media Convergence, Viral Networking, and a Wired Audience; "Digital Media and New Technology" and "Quinceañera" in Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia; "Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex" in Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Her work has also appeared in Latino Studies, Communication Review, and in The Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States.

Scope:

We seek papers, panels, workshops, and artistic works that examine the connections/disconnections between enactments and perceptions of empire with migrations, diasporas and/or networks. We hope that participants will address the issues of empire from antiquity to postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures. We also hope to look at a variety of empires such as national, media, corporate, and technological. To situate these topics in as broad a context as possible, we seek presentations by scholars working in such disciplines as Anthropology, Architecture & Art History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Computing, Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies, Geography, History, Literature, New Media, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy, and the Natural and Physical Sciences.

Please use the link to the upper left to submit a single paper. We also welcome panel proposals which should a title, and include abstracts for all papers; these maybe emailed directly to Kim De Vries. If you wish to solicit proposals for a panel through our website, please contact Kim at the email address given on the left; we are happy to add sub-calls to our pages. We also welcome submission of creative work; for information on submitting sample images, video, etc, again please contact Kim De Vries.

Themes
Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
Diasporas and Migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, rhetorical, technological or other.
Sustainability & the Political Ecology of diasporic communities, migrations, and networks.
Reverse Colonization of place, of media, of technologies.
Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, & Assimilation.
Images of Empire in Popular Culture.
Teaching/Subverting Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, & Resistant Pedagogy.
Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection, Separation, and Entanglement.
>From Hollywood and Microsoft to DIY Videos and the Open Source Movement: Media Empires, Rebellions, and Collaborations.
Home: Migration, Place, & Identity.
Constructing/Constricting Identities.
Imperialism & Visual and Musical Culture.
Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, & Aesthetic.
The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, & Poetry.
Networks of Resistance: Feminist, Ecological, Ethnic, Technological, etc.
Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, & Linguistic Minorities.
Technological Migrations: Empire, Film, TV, and the Web.
Gender & Migration, Diaspora, and/or Networks.
Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.

For more information and proposal submissions, visit http://web.csustan.edu/CHSS/Empire/

Betsy Eudey, PhD
Director/Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies
California State University Stanislaus
801 W Monte Vista Ave
Turlock, CA 95382
BEudey@csustan.edu
209.664.6673

Call for Papers

"Libraries from Human Rights Perspective"
International Conference
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS)
Ramallah (Palestine)
31 March - 2 April 2008

Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS) in
cooperation with IFLA will arrange an international
conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective in
Ramallah 31 March - 2 April 2008. The Center invites
interested writers and researchers to submit abstracts for
their papers in either English or Arabic in the following
topics:

Libraries and Human Rights:
- Relationship between libraries and human rights
- Violations in human rights in library environment
- Libraries and rights of less advantaged groups
- Women and children rights related to library work
- Minorities and libraries from human rights perspective
- Disabled
- Cultural rights and libraries

Libraries and freedom of expression, freedom of access to
information, academic freedom and libraries/ academic
libraries:
- Freedom of expression/ role of libraries in forming people's opinions
- Freedom of access to information
- Introduction to IFLA/ FAIFE
- Academic freedom
- Right to information
- Governance and libraries
- E-publishing and right to information
- Freedom of expression in digital age
- Case studies

Libraries and diversity, libraries and tolerance/ acceptance
of the other:
- Diversity and libraries (collections, librarians and
thoughts)
- Tolerance in library environment (religious, cultural,
political and ideology-based tolerance)
- Acceptance of the other in library environment
- Model libraries for all
- Case studies from other countries
- Case studies in violations and intolerance in library
environment

Abstracts are due by 30/11/2007. The Center will notify
researchers whose papers have been accepted by 10/1/2008;
full papers are due by 1/3/2008. The center will cover
participation expenses of researchers whose papers are
accepted with a symbolic cash award, in addition to
publishing all papers in Arabic and English in the
conference proceedings book.

Contact:
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
P.O Box 2425 Ramallah, Palestine
Ramallah
Palestine
Tel: +970 2 2423001
Fax: +970 2 2413002
Email: dweikat@rchrs.org
Web: http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

Toni Samek, PhD
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
-- Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mailing Address: SLIS, 3-15 Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6G 2J4
Phone: (780) 492-0179
Fax: (780) 492-2430
E-mail: toni.samek@ualberta.ca
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~asamek/toni.htm

Call for Papers
American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference

Dates: May 22-25, 2008

Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94111

Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2008

Proposals from individuals and program information from author societies should be sent to Professor Maria Karafilis via email (mkarafi@calstatela.edu)
by January 30, 2008 according to the instructions at www.americanliterature.org

Fellowships Now Available

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
Apply by January 1, 2008 to begin study in Fall 2008

Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu

Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/

As the number of academic studies utilizing qualitative research methods on internet data has increased, so have the questions and issues surrounding how one does research in/on online sites. Experienced researchers and novices grapple with multiple issues as they adapt, modify, and develop various research methods to online venues including chatrooms, instant messaging, blogs, social utilities, webpages, games, and 3-D virtual worlds such as Second Life. How does one identify sites for one's study? What sampling procedures work
best? What software is to be used in internet research? What are the benefits
and weaknesses of using particular methods? What issues arise when adapting a particular qualitative method for use in/on an online site?

We call for abstracts and papers that address these issues for a panel or series of panels, at The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2008) - Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice (http://www.icqi.org/) that will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from May 14-17, 2008. In particular, we are interested in presentations that look at qualitative methods and the difficulties researchers encounter as they do or have done internet research. Our focus is not on results; rather we are looking for colleagues interested in sharing knowledge and discussing challenges of
the "nuts and bolts" of internet research.

The list of qualitative methods to consider includes but is not
limited to:
-- Discourse analysis
-- Ethnography
-- Interviews and surveys
-- Narratives and biographies

Interested parties should email 1000 character (approximately 150 words) abstracts for each paper or presentation by November 15, 2007 to the organizers.

Please include the following information for each author with your
submission: Author's Name, Department, University, Address including City, State/Province, ZIP/Post Code, Country (if not US, please specify
if you need a visa for travel), Telephone/Fax, E-mail.

Lois Ann Scheidt and Inna Kouper (Organizers)
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
lscheidt at indiana dot edu
inkouper at indiana dot edu

Call for Chapters for the
Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility
Editor: Dr. Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy

Introduction: People usually communicate using all the five senses in parallel. They communicate and interact based on a set of key-concepts that can be expressed with different modalities and/or by means of more than one modality simultaneously. The effectiveness and naturalness of communication is particularly relevant for services. The great diffusion of mobile devices, along with the development of multimodal interaction, presents a new challenge for telecommunication companies and all organizations that can be involved in providing new services using mobile devices. One requirement for these services is that they and their information have to be accessible to every mobile situation.

In the last twenty years, a significant amount of work in human-computer interaction has focused on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and only in recent years has multimodality on mobile devices allowed an implicit and natural interaction between end-users and devices. In fact, the growing development and interest in mobile devices, which now give users the ability to effectively interact anywhere and anytime, has changed this scenario. In particular, mobile multimodal applications must now be able to adapt themselves to the users’ needs and to the context (where the context contains knowledge of the environment and the device) and one or more modalities can be involved in the user-system interaction according to “where” and “when” s/he is.

Multimodal interaction systems combine information provided visually (involving images, text, sketches and so on) by voice, by gestures, and so on according to flexible and powerful dialogue approaches, enabling users to choose one or more interaction modalities. The use of multimodality combined with mobile devices allows a simple, intuitive communication approach and generates new and pervasive services for users. In developing multimodal services it is essential to consider perceptual speech, audio, and video quality for optimum communication system design and effective transmission planning and management in order to satisfy customer requirements. Due to the naturalness of multimodal interaction, interpretation algorithms and technologies must manage uncertainty and ambiguities connected to sequential and simultaneous inputs.

This handbook will collect significant contribution on the theories, techniques and methods on multimodality and mobile devices for pervasive services.

Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility will provide complete and original theoretical and practical scenarios about concepts, methodologies, definitions, algorithms and applications used to design and develop multimodal systems. These systems make information and services accessible according to the natural manner provided by multimodal interaction and the use of mobile devices. The handbook will discuss many challenges of multimodal systems with a particular focus on mobile devices. It will give an overview of the existing works in this sector, discussing the different strategies adopted in the fusion process, optimization processes on mobile devices, ambiguity and error handling related to one or more modalities, user modeling and context modeling for enhancing adaptation and context-awareness of multimodal mobile services, which will make them more and more accessible and usable. Moreover, the handbook will contain some significant examples of pervasive multimodal mobile services.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Multimodal interaction and pervasive services
Multimodal interaction on mobile devices
Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction languages.
Methods of multimodal integration and algorithms.
Inputs fusion algorithms and approaches.
Fission algorithms and approaches.
Interpretation of multimodal interaction.
Ambiguities and error handling in multimodal interaction.
Computational aspects and optimization for multimodal interaction on mobile devices.
Evaluation of multimodal interfaces.
Adaptivity for multimodal mobile systems: user and context modeling.
Usability evaluation methodologies for pervasive application.
Accessibility evaluation methods for a multimodal and mobile pervasive application.
Applications and services connected to the personal communication, assistive and home market, location based services, e-commerce, online banking, mobile learning etc..

Submission: Individuals interested in submitting chapters (8,000-10,000 words) on the above-suggested topics or other related topics in their area of interest should submit via e-mail a 2-3 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter by December 18, 2007. We strongly encourage other topics that have not been listed in our suggested list, particularly if the topic is related to the research area in which you have expertise. Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will have until April 30, 2008, to prepare your chapter of 8,000-10,000 words and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and definitions will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal.

Please forward your e-mail of interest including your name, affiliation and a list of topics (5-7) on which you are interested in writing a chapter to Patrizia Grifoni, editor, at patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it, no later than December 18, 2007. You will be notified about the status of your proposed topics by January 10, 2008. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), www.info-sci-ref. com, an imprint of IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.) in 2009

The 24th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in
Higher Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, invites
submission of papers, projects, posters, artistic works, and
works-in-progress that highlight research by women and/or about women's
or gendered issues. Submissions from all fields of study are invited.
The conference will be held on February 29, 2008. Invited speakers
include Dr. Alice Hogan, National Science Foundation, and Dr. Kimberlee
Kearfott, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan.
Registration is required of all presenters: the fee is $10 for students
and $45 for faculty, staff, administrators, and professionals, and lunch
is included with paid registration. Proposals should include a cover
page with name and contact information, an abstract not exceeding 100
words, and a summary of 1000 words, sent as an attachment via e-mail to
all.university.conference@ttu.edu; type "WS Submission" in the subject
line. Cash awards for best student papers. Deadline for submissions is
January 14, 2008. If you have questions, please contact Texas Tech's
Women's Studies Program, 806-742-4335.

Dear Colleague,

The International Conference on the Arts in Society is pleased to announce its 3rd annual Conference, to be held at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK, 28-31 July 2008.

This year's Arts Conference will feature arts educators, artists, practitioners, researchers and theorists in all forms of disciplinary practice through paper presentations, workshops and colloquia. Submissions are invited for papers, workshops and alternative presentation formats for consideration in the Conference program. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of Journal. While submissions in all areas of the arts will be considered, we especially welcome presentations in keeping with this year's conference theme: Art and Communication.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 February 2008. Proposals are reviewed within three weeks of submission.

Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.Arts-Conference.com

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. Mario Minichiello
Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birmingham City University
United Kingdom

Call for Panelist, Performing Feminist Motherhood:
Outlaw Mothers in Music, Media, Arts and Cultural Expression
May 16, 2008 in New York City

We have two papers, seeking a third.

In exploring change and continuity in women's communities, it is essential
to explore and interrogate the world of the internet. The emerging
scholarship thus far has privileged blogs over online communities. Our
papers deal with groups of women in various phases of motherhood on the
internet. One paper explores the use of the internet by expectant mothers
by following a group of women on the public website babycenter.com. The
second paper suggests a new way to understand motherhood culture, one that
recognizes the strong role of the internet in certain women's everyday lives
while concurrently recognizing the role of friendship in the experience of
motherhood. I will introduce one small, private, group of online friends and
mothers and discuss how, for this group, motherhood is a lived experience
not only in real-life interactions between mothers and their children, but
also, intriguingly, between online friends.

We are seeking a third paper that explores other uses of internet
communities by mothers.

Interested panelists should contact mmoravec@rosemont.edu by February 1.
The CFP deadline is 2/15.

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D.
Project Director, House and Home
National Building Museum

For more information about the conference, see
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/PerformingFeministMotherhood.html

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
mmoravec@rosemont.edu

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on "Drug use and the health consequences for urban women", edited by Dr. Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Donna Bulman, Faculty of Nursing both of Memorial University. Manuscripts may address the full range of health issues of the journal as they relate to drug use (see below). Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women who inject drugs or for the women who care for those who do. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, healthy public policy, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban areas.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in November 2008.

For more information or to submit a manuscript, send an e-copy followed by four copies of your manuscript to:

Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
HSC 2834, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
e-mail: diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca

Women's Health &Urban Life is located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. The journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women's and girls' health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women's health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy; and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages including all references, tables and appendices. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers. For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of this journal, please contact:

Professor Aysan Sev'er, General Editor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Fax: 416-287-7296; e-mail: sever@utsc.utoronto.ca

or visit: http://utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever

Call for Papers
The Avant-Garde as Critical Practice
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 15 August 2008

In this special issue, we are looking for contributions that acknowledge the legacies of various avant-garde movements as they have affected the genre known, for better or worse, as "criticism." From Walter Benjamin's use of montage effects in The Arcades Project, to Roland Barthes' radical experiments with form in his post-semiotic work, to Jacques Derrida's exploration of a "science of chance" in his use of the signature in works like Glas and Signsponge, there has been an ongoing, if intermittent, tradition of exploring the idea that the historical avant-garde's interest in art as a form of knowledge and research, its dedication to using methods whose outcomes are unpredictable in advance (Surrealist games, Oulipian constraints), its openness to the utopian potentials of new communications technologies (particularly photography and cinema), all have the potential to not only become an object of criticism, but to challenge the very division between artistic production and critical discourse. Likewise, artists have responded to the demands of criticism in their own right by transforming them into manifestos and artist's statements which challenge genre on a textual level, by creating hybrid forms such as the essay film, and by making use of both language and image in the forms of video art, installations, and a proliferation of cyber-art genres.

This special issue of Reconstruction seeks to engage this tradition and its proliferations both geographical (where else has the avant-garde destabilized the binary between art and criticism) and conceptual (the combinations of "theory" and art in Language poetry, feminist explorations of autobiographical inquiry as a research strategy, to name just two prominent examples) on the level of practice. While there has been much discussion of how various philosophers and cultural critics have broken the frames of their respective disciplines, academia has been relatively slow to take their experiments seriously enough to allow a proliferation of such research practices and potential variants. With a few notable exceptions, the Enlightenment binary between "knowledge" and "art" has held fast.

We therefore invite submissions that engage the legacies of the "critical avant-garde" on the level of practice, that are willing to take chances with genre. Submissions that combine text and image in new ways are especially welcome from both "artists" and "critics," as are contributions that take seriously the possibilities that come with combining poetic, expository, and narrative modes of discourse. We are looking for art that is critical, criticism that is revelatory, caprice that is methodical and method that is "more or less capricious." Since this special issue seeks to encourage the critical avant-garde on the level of performance, there are no constraints as to subject matter. The "objects" of criticism may come from any discipline or, as Gregory Ulmer has encouraged, the "object" of criticism itself may be put into question.

Please send proposals, abstracts, completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Alan Clinton (alanclinton_at_earthlink.net) and John Sundholm (john.sundholm_at_kau.se) by August 15, 2008. Publication is expected in the second quarter of 2009.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform you of the:

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 5-8 August 2008
http://www.ManagementConference.com

The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in information and communications technologies, this change has been characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a global knowledge-based economy.

The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within three weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.ManagementConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Cambridge in August 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Martin Laycock
The University of Greenwich, London and Managing Transitions
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce (GST) plans to sponsor one or more organized panels at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 53rd annual meeting to be held October 25-28, 2008, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Interested scholars should submit proposals directly to the GST that relate both to the GST's mission and the conference themes (see below); we seek both
(1) organized panels of three or four papers
(2) individual papers that we can group into organized panels

SEM's submission deadline is March 15, 2008; in order to meet that submission deadline, GST should receive proposals for GST-sponsored panels by March 1, 2008. Please email your proposals to Henry Spiller (hjspiller@ucdavis.edu).

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce is an SEM Section devoted to encouraging the study of music, gender, and sexuality, and to exploring issues of gender and sexuality as they impact the professional lives of ethnomusicologists. We welcome the participation of scholars conducting research in music and sexualities cross-culturally as well as within their own societies. Our goals include promoting communication and diversity within SEM with special
regard to the concerns of scholars, students, and public sector advocates identifying variously as, but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirited, homosexual, and transgendered. We are concerned about widely diverse issues, including increased life chances and professional advancement, for members of these constituencies across lines of nation, religion, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. For more information, see the GST's website at
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/SEM/SEM_Home.html

The conference theme for the 2008 meeting will be "Ethnomusicology
Beyond Disciplines." Specific themes are:

Ethnomusicology and Advocacy
Musical Innovation and Experimentation
De-Centering the Western Art Music Canon
The Ethnomusicology of Film
Music and Spirituality
Overlooked Musical Traditions

The conference themes intersect well with GST's interests; topics for GST-sponsored panels might include
- advocating for gender/sexualities justice
- queer composers as Others
- gay/lesbian musical subcultures

Abstracts should conform to SEM's guidelines (one paragraph of no more than 250 words, devoid of names or other identifying information).

SEM's complete call for papers and submission instructions and guidelines are available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/documents/SEM2008_call_for_presentations_12_19_07.pdf

GL10 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature
Designing the Grey Grid for Informational Society
Science Park Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 8-9, 2008

Call for Papers can be found at:http://www.textrelease.com/callforpapers.html

ABOUT GL10 http://www.textrelease.com

The needs and demands of Information Society are in constant state of change and flux. Information overload, information loss, information-on-demand are among just a few of the many factors confronting information professionals, practitioners, and net-users on a daily basis.

To a great extent, grey literature is the cause of all this. For the past two decades grey literature has grown exponentially in relation to commercially published literature. The grey literature community realizes that while the challenges faced at the First International Conference on Grey Literature in 1993 may not have all been resolved, solutions today lay in a whole new order, on yet another scale and magnitude than ever before. GL10 seeks to address the challenges to grey literature that still remain, while dealing with even newer challenges and an infrastructure that can effectively integrate all.

The title of this year's conference, 'Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society' invokes an infrastructure, which must take into account social, political, and organizational factors. For these also impact system-to-system performance when dealing with the scale and diversity of information, data, document types, collections, and subject areas linked to grey literature. As such, interoperability becomes de facto a requirement in the design of the grey grid i.e. an infrastructure that can model and withstand the test of an ever changing Information Society.

PROPOSED SESSION THEMES:

* Born digital and web-based grey: Challenges for library systems and collections
* Interoperability in the Grey Grid: Data, metadata, datasets, and databanks
* Non-text and multimedia grey literature, Signs of our times
* Grey Life Cycle: Uses, applications, and impact of GL on Information Society
* Towards Grey Scholarship: Research, education, and other policy driven programmes

FOR MORE ON GL10

The GL-Conference Series is based on a Call-for-Papers that will follow shortly upon this announcement. Likewise, a monthly conference memorandum will be issued by the Program and Conference Bureau in order to keep delegates, authors, participants, and other information professionals informed on the progress of the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature. If you would like to receive a free copy of this monthly publication, please let us know.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

TextRelease
GL10 Program and Conference Bureau
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel/Fax: +31(0)20-331.2420
Email: conference@textrelease.com
http://www.textrelease.com
http://www.greynet.org

Call for Chapters
Foundations of Informing Science:
Volume I
Nominations, including self-nominations, due April 30

Over the past decade, the informing science transdiscipline has made enormous as an intellectual endeavor. Membership in the Informing Science Institute (ISI) has continued to grow during a period when many information-related disciplines have experienced contractions. ISI's growing number of journal publications, which include Informing Science and Journal of IT Education, have increased in stature and size and its initial forays into book publishing have led to extremely promising results. The Institute’s InSITE conferences continue to flourish despite cutbacks in travel budgets at many institutions. All of these indicators provide clear evidence of the value of the research being conducted in the informing science area.

As informing science continues to mature as a transdiscipline, it is useful to reflect upon what has been achieved, how these achievements relate to the initial objectives set forth for the transdiscipline, and where it might develop. As part of this reflection, we are announcing a new book, Foundations of the Informing Sciences: Volume I, which will serve as a celebration of the first decade of the informing science transdiscipline, and—much more importantly—will act as a an archive of ideas and priorities for new and existing researchers in the field.

The Book
Foundations of Informing Science: Volume I, edited by Eli Cohen and Grandon Gill, will consist of a collection of both previously published and original works that will help its readers develop a clear sense of the scope and purpose of the informing science transdiscipline. It will be organized into 5 parts, as follows:

Part I: What is Informing Science?

Beginning with Cohen's seminal work, which launched the field, this part will contain chapters that explain, to the reader unfamiliar with the transdiscipline, the nature, objectives and scope of informing science.

· Eli Cohen, (1999) Reconceptualizing Information Systems as a Field of the Transdiscipline Informing Science: From Ugly Duckling to Swan, Journal of Computing and Information Technology. 7 (3) 213-219, http://inform.nu/WhatsIS.htm

Part II: Elements of Informing Systems

A second part consists of chapters that examine the individual elements of informing systems, such as client, sender, channel, technologies and task. In addition to their contributions to informing science research, chapters in this part also serves an important tutorial function. Being inherently multidisciplinary means that concepts widely understood by one group of researchers in the field may be entirely novel to another, for example:

· Gill, T.G. and Hicks, R.C., (2006) Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. 9 1-30. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol9/v9p001-030Gill46.pdf

Part III: Reference Disciplines for Informing Science

Many different fields, including information systems, computer science, business, education, library science and philosophy, provide important contributions to informing science. This part will consist of chapters that focus on showing how concepts developed in other disciplines are being applied to informing science, for example:

· Nissen, H., (2007) Using Double Helix Relationships to Understand and Change Informing Systems. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 10 Monograph: Use and Redesign in IS: Double Helix Relationships?1-19 http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol10/DblHelix001-019.pdf

Part IV: Applied Informing Science

A complement to Part III, this part will focus on the application of informing science concepts to other disciplines, as well as their use by practitioners. These chapters should both identify what concepts from informing science are being applied and how they can, demonstrably or potentially, add value to the reader, for example:

· Gackowski, Z.J., (2006) Informing Systems in Business Environments: A Purpose-Focused View, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 8 101-122. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol8/v8p101-122Gack.pdf

Part V: Future Directions

What exciting problems should we be tackling in the coming decade? In this part, chapters will focus on identifying possible directions for the field and on proposing priorities for future research areas and activities, for example:

· Gill, G. and Bhattacherjee, A., (2007) The Informing Sciences at a Crossroads: The Role of the Client, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. 10 17-39. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol10/ISJv10p017-039Gill317.pdf

Nomination Process
All chapters in Foundations of Informing Science: Volume I will be based upon peer reviewed articles appearing in refereed journals. To be considered for inclusion in the book, an article must be nominated through an email sent to the book's editor ggill@coba.usf.edu by 30 April 2008, with self-nominations being encouraged. That nomination email should include:

· What part the chapter would appear in

· The chapter's expected contribution to the book

· A statement of the nominator's willingness to review one or more completed chapters as the book nears publication, scheduled for late fall 2008 or early spring 2009. (Volunteering in this manner is not a prerequisite for inclusion, but would be greatly appreciated.)

Previously Published Works

Most contributions will be based upon previously published articles, typically in ISI journals, although other sources will be considered provided that copyright issues can be addressed. After examining the nominated article, the editors will decide if it is consistent with the objectives and structure of the book. If appropriate, the editors will invite the author(s) to submit a chapter.

Included with each invitation to submit a chapter will be a list of specific changes desired prior to publication in chapter form. We anticipate that nearly all chapters will require some rewriting since the book is intended to be a tightly integrated work, rather than being a loose collection of minimally related reprints. For example, it would be entirely unnecessary to have an explanation of the informing science framework in every chapter, even though many articles necessarily include such an introduction. The editors will work with authors to achieve some degree of consistency in form and tone throughout the book. A web site containing a table of contents for the book and current chapter drafts will be maintained to assist in this effort.

Original Works

In some cases, a researcher may be working on a concept that has not yet been published, but which closely ties in with the objectives and structure of the book. In such cases, the nominating author should also include a synopsis (of 1000 words or fewer) of the research in question, along with an expected date of journal submission—which must be no later than 30 June 2008—plus a brief biography of the intended author(s). If the potential contribution looks appropriate, the editors will notify the authors of their willingness to consider it as a chapter. Then:

· Upon completion of the manuscript, the author will inform the book's editors and submit it to the most appropriate ISI journal for review (typically Informing Science Journal, but others—such as JITE—are also possible).

· The book editors will request that the journal editors expedite review of the submission.

· Upon acceptance (or provisional acceptance) by the journal, the authors will immediately submit their chapter draft to the editors, after which time both authors and editors will attempt to follow the "existing works" schedule as closely as possible.

Key Dates (Subject to Change)
30 April 2008: Deadline for nominations
31 May 2008: All chapter invitations sent
30 June 2008: Original works submitted to appropriate ISI journal
31 August 2008: Revised chapters returned to editors
31 October 2008: Review of chapters completed
31 December 2008: Publication in electronic form
31 January 2009: Publication in print form

*THEME: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2008

Prizes of $500 for 1st place, $300 for 2nd place, and $200 for 3rd place, will
be awarded for poems, creative non-fiction, and photography on the theme of
Mother and Daughters. The winning works in all categories, as well as a
selection of honorable mention contest entries, will be published in JARM,
Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering, special issue on Mother
and Daughters in October 2008. All works will be considered for publication in
the journal and subsequently in a literary anthology to be published by Demeter
Press in honor of Mother’s Day, May 2009. Prizes in each category will be
announced in August 2008 and awarded at the ARM Conference, October 24-26,
2008.

Poets whose works are included in the issue will celebrate the launch of the
issue with readings at a Literary Gala Event as part of the conference.

Guidelines:

Poetry: Submit up to three unpublished poems with $20.00 CAD entry fee ($3 for
each additional poem).

<>Creative Non-Fiction: Entries should be short literary memoir, autobiography,
lyric essay 300-1,000 words max. One submission only with $20.00 ($3 for each
additional entry).
Photography: Black and white photographs should be submitted as 8” x 10” prints
and mailed in hard copy to the ARM/Demeter Press office. *Contest participants
outside of Canada and the U.S may email an electronic photo submission to
arm@yorku.ca. Please be sure to include all required information with your
submission. Submit up to three submissions ($3.00 for each additional entry).

Do not include name or identification on entries; this information should be
provided on the entry form. Send entries for poetry and creative non-fiction by
email to arm@yorku.ca. Photography submissions should be sent be regular mail to
the ARM/Demeter Press office (address and payment information below). Clearly
identify your entry with a subject heading: Poetry Contest or Creative
Non-Fiction Contest or Photography Contest. All submissions (Poetry, Creative
Non-Fiction, Photography) must be accompanied by an entry form. For prose and
poetry entries, send in one word attachment. Entries that include separate
files for each poem or prose entry will not be considered. Once your payment
and entry has been filed, acknowledgment of your contest entry will be made by
email.

Deadline:

Deadline: May 15, 2008 Judges TBA

Additional Photo Contest Rules and Regulations:

*By submitting the photo(s) you confirm that you are the exclusive rights holder
of the photo(s). Model releases (i.e., permission of people in the photograph)
are the responsibility of the entrant and must be available in the event that
the photo is a winner.

Photographers of selected photos will retain their rights after publication with
the understanding that ARM and Demeter Press can reprint in future publications
without payment or royalty fees. ARM/Demeter Press will hold first time North
American publication rights. Selected photos may be included in a future
ARM/Demeter Press publication, promotional materials, and/or exhibitions.

Photos that have been previously published or won an award are not eligible.

Submitted photos and entries cannot be returned.

Demeter Press and ARM are not responsible for lost or delayed entries, or
entries damaged in transit.

Photographs will be judged on creativity and excellence and how they best
capture the contest theme. Judging decisions are final.
Payment Information:

Payment can be made by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) using forms available on
our website at: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/creditcard.html

Please fax form to 416-736-5766 or email to arm@yorku.ca.

Alternately you can send your forms and payment by cheque or money order to our
offices at

ARM/Demeter Press
Rm 726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3.

**Entry form and payment must accompany all submissions.

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Demeter Press
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON,
Canada, M3J 1P3
416-736-2100 x60366 (fax) 416-736-5766
arm@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Tomorrow: Future Scholarship” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Submissions welcome on new avenues for exploration, new arenas in which the concepts can be applied, and the future of the field. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Internationally” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Age Studies Internationally. Submissions welcome on contemporary age studies applications and theories around the globe and/or across political, geographic, and cultural borders. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

October 17 & 18, 2008 What does it mean to be a girl? Who defines girlhood in an age when puberty and sexualization are happening at younger ages? How do girls assert their own identity in an increasingly mediated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why do U.S. girls who are told that they can do anything feel like they have to do everything, and perfectly? What challenges do girls across races, classes, religions, nations, and cultures face in an ever more globalized world? What is the relationship between girls and feminism? What effect can feminism have on constructions of boyhood and masculinity and how in turn can this effect girls? In the 18th annual SCSU Women's Studies conference, we will take a close look at girls' culture and girls' studies, among the most vibrant areas in women's studies. We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all, to submit proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address topics including the following:

Girls and Pop Culture
Construction of Girlhood Media and Girls' Culture
Girls & Cutting/Self-Mutilation Politics of Girls Studies
Girls & Leadership Women's Studies & Girls' Studies
Girls & Child Labor Race & Class in Girls' Studies
Girls & Performance Coming of Age Glocally
Gender Research & Girls Body Image and Girls
Girls & Disabilities Girls & Sexuality
Girls & Ink. Human Trafficking & Girls
Girls & Religion Indigenous Women and Girls
Human Rights of Girls Chick Lit
Globalization and Girlhood Girls & Sports Construction of Tween Agers/Girls Girls & Resistance
Girls & Gangs Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Girls Studies
Transnational Adoption of Girls Violence against Girls & Women
Girl Power & Feminism/Anti-Feminism Girl Power and Politics
American Girls and Beyond Girls' Studies in Academe
Girls and Grassroots Activism Reviving Ophelia, Surviving Ophelia, Resisting Ophelia Growing up Incarcerated Girls across/between Worlds Parenting/Raising Girls Representations of Girls
Girls as Parents

We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to construct feminist renditions of girls' cultures, histories, and representations. Expect fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power. Send submissions electronically by June 12, 2008, to womenstudies@southernct.edu. Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Timonium (Baltimore), MD

How in the World? Getting Students to Think Critically

Practical approaches and successful practices

**Call for Presenters**

On this United Nations Day we ask the question, “How in the World … do we get our students to think critically?” College faculty and librarians interested in the goal of improving students’ critical thinking skills will have an opportunity to share their best practices and learn from colleagues about this aspect of pedagogy central to all teaching and learning. Presenters at the MILEX Conference 2008 will share techniques, lead exercises, and illustrate classroom applications.

MILEX (Maryland Information Literacy Exchange), a new and growing organization of academic and instruction librarians, invites proposals from those interested in presenting at this conference. The MILEX Conference Committee is striving to construct an experience for academics that will be heavy on specific models and practical information for instructors to use in sparking their students’ critical faculties. Proposals that address opportunities to integrate critical thinking skills into lessons are of particular interest. Collaborative projects between faculty and librarians are especially welcome.

Do you have a special idea or technique to share? Why not submit a proposal to present at this special conference?

Submit proposals to Susan Cooperstein at cooperstein@loyola.edu by April 30, 2008 (For questions or additional information, call 410-617-6832).

Presenters whose proposals have been accepted will be notified by email by June 1, 2008.

For a copy of the form for presenter proposals and more information about MILEX, please visit www.milexmd.org.

In honor of James P. Danky's long service to print culture scholarship, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, is offering an annual short-term research fellowship.

The Danky Fellowship provides $1000 in funds for one individual planning a trip to carry out research using the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society (please see details of the collections at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org). Grant money may be used for travel to the WHS, costs of copying pertinent archival resources, and living expenses while pursuing research here. If in residence during the semester, the recipient will be expected to give a presentation as part of the colloquium series of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/).

Preference will be given to:
proposals undertaking research in print culture history
researchers from outside Madison
research likely to lead to publication
We strongly encourage applicants to speak with the Reference Archivist at the WHS (phone: 608-264-6460; email: askarchives@wisconsinhistory.org) before applying for a grant. We are happy to help identify potential collections of which you may not otherwise be aware.

There is no application form. Applicants must submit:

1) A cover sheet with name, telephone, permanent address and e-mail, current employer/affiliation, title of project, and proposed dates of residency.

2) A letter of two single-spaced pages maximum describing the project and its relation to specifically cited collections at the society and to previous work on the same theme, and describing the projected outcome of the work, including publication plans. If residents of the Madison area are applying, they must explain their financial need for the stipend.

3) Curriculum vitae.

4) Two confidential letters of reference. Graduate students must include their thesis advisor.

Applications are due by May 1st. The recipient will be notified by May 31st.

Please email applications to:

Christine Pawley Ph.D.
Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4234 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706

Registration and Call for Posters - now available!

Thinking Qualitatively 2008 ­ June 23-27, 2008

The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is pleased to
announce that online registration & submission of poster abstracts for
the 8th Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series (June 23-27, 2008 at
the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) is now available.

Thinking Qualitatively 2008 includes a conference keynote address by
Dr. Lynne McKechnie (University of Western Ontario), opportunities for
networking with colleagues from around the world, and an interactive
poster session for participants to receive feedback on
works-in-progress. The complete schedule of workshops, including a
call for poster presentations, is available on our website at
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/thinking.cfm

This interdisciplinary educational series allows participants to
engage with experts in qualitative inquiry and learn about specific
methods, techniques and approaches to qualitative research. The
academic program consists of five days of hands-on workshops on such
topics as qualitative coding and categorization, participatory action
research, discourse analysis, literature reviews, arts-based methods,
poststructuralism in qualitative research, and much more! On Saturday
June 28, TQ2008 participants may also register for a separate NVivo
Software training session.

This week-long event is aimed at participants from all academic
disciplines and for individuals at all stages of their research
career. Individuals conducting research in universities and colleges
and/or professional settings (e.g., libraries; hospitals; government
agencies) are welcome to attend. Some workshops are introductory
sessions, while others will appeal to more experienced researchers. I
hope to see you there!

Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for the 2nd Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2008 (http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008/AG08.asp)

Deadlines:
Papers/Abstracts submissions and invited sessions or panels proposals: April 24th, 2008.
Acceptance notification: A maximum of 10 days after submission's date.
Camera-ready for the pre-conference proceedings: May 22nd, 2008
Camera-ready for the Post-Conference volume of the Proceedings: July 2nd.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.

Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal.

The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems" and 2) a second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6-hours tutorial titled "Cybernetic Management". The market price of each of these packages is US $ 295.

For submissions of Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the menu's option "Invited Sessions > Invited Session Organizers" of the conference web site, where you can fill the respective form.

Effective Invited sessions organizers will be co-editors of printed version of the proceedings volume where their session or symposia paper were included, and the CD version of the proceedings.

Best regards,
AG 2008 Secretariat

Call for Abstracts: 2008 GSIS – GSA Topical Session
Submission Deadline: June 3, 2008

Abstracts are currently being accepted for the Geoscience Information Society's (GSIS) oral and poster topical sessions of this year’s Geological Society of America meeting in Houston, Texas October 5-9, 2008. https://www.acsmeetings.org/2008/
Abstracts for oral, poster, or both can be submitted online at http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/index.epl

2008 Oral Session Theme:

T198: “Libraries in Transformation: Exploring Topics of Changing Practices and New Technologies"

How Geoscience information is created, disseminated, organized, accessed, used and archived is rapidly changing. This session will discuss the practical, theoretical and technological way in which libraries have “transformed” in response to this change?

Questions to consider:

How are data issues in the Geosciences being addressed?
What new technologies will help libraries organize data better?
How are print archives of books, maps, and journals being preserved and made accessible in new ways?
Do electronic databases and digital sources change the teaching, learning, and understanding of information?
How are researchers and information seekers adapting to the changing practices of the Geoscience library?
How has your library transformed itself to stay in touch with your users needs?

2008 Posters Session Theme:

T199: “Moving Mountains: Data Mining and Digital Repositories in the Geosciences”

Researchers in the Geosciences are continuously uncovering important discoveries in their quest toward understanding our planet. We address the issues of storing and accessing the vast amounts of information from the past, present, and future.

Examples of efforts include the creation of an institutional repository; the digitization of archives and journals, books, maps; the management of data sets and/or GIS information; the mining of digital libraries, databases and web pages; or the reuse/recycling of Geoscience data for new research and learning.

The Second International Conference on Religion and Media will be held in Tehran and Qom, Iran, from November 9th to 12th, 2008. We cordially invite all media researchers and scholars, representatives from diverse religious traditions, professionals and students involved with the subjects of the conference to attend and submit a paper. Further information could be found at conference website: http://www.religion-media.ir/

A few scholarships are available to partially subsidize the costs of participants with selected papers.

Sincerely,
Mahdiye Tavakol
Conference Coordinator

IRIB University,
Niyayesh Highway, Vali-e-Asr Street,
Tehran, Iran.
Tel: +98 21 22652238
Fax: +98 21 22652238
rm2008@religion-media.ir

2009 Emerging Leaders Application Process Now Open

The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting applications for the 2009 class of Emerging Leaders. Applications can be found at http://cs.ala.org/hrdr/emergingleaders/

The deadline to apply is July 31.

The program is designed to enable more than 100 new librarians to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership. Participants are given the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, network with peers and get an inside look into ALA structure and activities.

An ALA division, round table, ethnic affiliate, state chapter or AASL Affiliate will sponsor approximately one-third of the selected applicants. Each sponsor will contribute $1000 towards expenses ($500 for each conference). To be sponsored, apply directly to your division, chapter or round table on the application. A list of sponsoring units is included as part of the online application. You can also check with your state association and/or state chapter to find out how to apply for their sponsorship.

Sponsorship is not required for participation in the program. In order to be eligible for participation in the program, those selected must meet the following criteria:

Be under 35 years of age or be a new librarian of any age with fewer than 5 years post-MLS experience, and
Have a recent MLS degree from an ALA or NCATE accredited program or be in an MLS program currently, and
Be able to attend both ALA conferences and work virtually in between each,
Be prepared to commit to serve on an ALA, Division, Chapter or Round Table committee, taskforce or workgroup upon completion of program, and
Be an ALA member or join upon selection if not already a member.
Program information will be available and updated at: wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders. For questions or more information regarding the program, contact Beatrice Calvin at bcalvin@ala.org.

Call for papers

HeartTech 08

http://hearttech08.unitec.ac.nz/

Papers due 19th July 08

Beyond Sustainability : A conference for people interested in technologies and education to improve the environment, humanity and equity.

This conference is for those who believe that we need to make serious changes in what we value and how we measure and call “ Success” “ Advanced” or “ Developed Society”. Its aim is to share with and support people who care about our footprint on this earth.

If your field touches on: Computing, Development, Ethics, Morality, Business, Technology, Education or Philosophy ….. and you are active in increasing global consciousness on human impact and responsibility on this earth , then please visit the website and consider contributing to this conference. We can no longer be content with sustaining the environment, our technologies and living philosophies must be focussed on IMPROVING it.

Conference Philosophy

This conference is one where people who are prepared to think and act outside the normal doctrines of first world prevalence can come and safely share their thoughts, work and experiences.

It is being held in Thailand near the Laos border because this region is predominantly Buddhist where the importance of spirituality and connectedness with nature form the foundations of all practices, including those of teaching technology at tertiary level.

This conference is a chance to make links with a wonderfully peaceful people from a unique part of the world. It is an opportunity to give and to receive and to share. Our hope is part of your heart will stay here and part of the experience will travel with you always.

Bring your research, your case studies, your desire to learn and share, your humbleness and love and hope of providing a safer cleaner world for our children and future generations.

http://hearttech08.unitec.ac.nz/

Papers will all be blind peer reviewed and selected papers published in the ACM SIGCAS special edition in early 2009 and/or the Journal of the Asia Pacific Technology Management for Sustainability Assoc.

Papers due 19th July 08

Want to help or become part of the Heart Tech move then contact us hearttech08@unitec.ac.nz or lmuller@unitec.ac.nz

40th Annual Meeting
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Abstract Deadline: July 11, 2008

The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will hold its 40th annual conference at the recently restored Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 15-18, 2008.

This event will be held in conjunction with the Eastern Historical Geographers Association (EHGA) meeting and will be hosted by the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Louisiana State University.

The 2008 Conference theme is: Landscapes at Risk.

There will be two field trips. The Thursday River Road tour will be led by cultural geographer, Craig Colten, through landscapes that face non-weather-related risks. The tour will include stops in Carville, Donaldsonville, and Plaquemine, LA. Risks from sprawling chemical complexes and the emissions that rift from them present many challenges to communities and landscape preservation. The Saturday tour, led by cultural anthropologist, Jay Edwards, will travel through the extensive areas of weather-related devastation and renewal in New Orleans. Creole cottages, shotguns, and doubles will be staple fare for the day.

The conference committee is now accepting proposals for papers, special sessions, and panel discussions. The meeting organizers encourage papers and sessions that reflect the conference theme, Landscapes at Risk, but they welcome papers that will be of interest to
members of either organization.

Presenters must be members of PAS: APAL. Individual memberships are $50 per year, while student memberships are $25 per year.

Abstracts must be of no more than 200 words, which includes the authors’ names, affiliations, and title of the paper. You may submit as an email attachment in Word or WordPerfect. The deadline for abstract submissions is: July 11, 2008.

Abstract Format

Fred Kniffen
Louisiana State University-Celestial Campus

Diffusion in Heaven

Body of the abstract: This should include a problem statement, a statement about methods, and a brief description of the conclusions.

Please send abstracts to:

Craig E. Colten
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Telephone: 225/578-6180
Email: ccolten@lsu.edu

Audio-Visual Needs

Please mark audio-visual needs on the conference

registration form. (Conference registration forms are

available for download on the PAS: APAL website,

http://www.pioneeramerica.org.)

All rooms will have a digital projector; presenters

will be expected to bring laptops or coordinate with

others in their session to share a laptop if they wish

to make a digital presentation.

Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

Expected plenary speakers include:
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
Orit Halpern, New School for Social Research
Michele Janette, Kansas State University
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Karim Murji, Open University (U.K.)
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois
Amit Rai, Florida State University
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Porillo, New York University
Jeff Williams, Carnegie Mellon University

Also, the popular Journal Salon feature will continue. Journals expected
are:
Cultural Critique
Cultural Studies/ Critical Methodologies
Dialectical Anthropology
Flow
Genders
Mediations

Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2008.
This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public
Knowledge Project http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ , enables participants to submit
abstracts online at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.php?cf=5. The
website for submissions will open August 15, 2008.

Call for Papers and Sessions

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
March 16, 2009, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of this website for details about fees.
**If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other
concerns, please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the
following four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due September 15, 2008.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online on the conference website. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been ''successfully submitted,'' which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due September 15, 2008.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to csaus@pitt.edu with the words ''Session Proposal'' in the subject
line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least two
business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS
Division sessions are due September 15, 2008.

A list of divisions is available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu site for papers and procedures for submission to division sessions or handle
the creation of their two division sessions by other means. Division chairs
will submit their two panels/workshops/roundtables directly to the program
committee by September 15, 2008 (directions will be sent to the division
chairs). Proposals for divisions should NOT be submitted on the website or
to csaus@pitt.edu.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due September 15, 2008.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position papers''
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA's various public e-mail lists. Participants will
contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then inform the Program
Committee who will participate in the seminar. Seminars will be marked in
the conference programs as either closed to non-participants or open to
other conference attendees as auditors (or in other roles). Examples of
successful seminar proposals from previous years are linked in here (if you
are reading this on the website).

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.

Seminar proposals should be sent to:
Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
burgett@u.washington.edu
and
Colin Danby, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences,
University of Washington Bothell
danby@u.washington.edu
Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at http://www.csaus.pitt.edu after
October 15, 2008. Deadline to sign up will be November 14, 2008. Deadline
for seminar leaders to submit final lists of participants (minimum 8
individuals, in addition to the seminar leader or leaders) will be November
21, 2008.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2008
Full Chapter Deadline: February 15, 2009

Book: “Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management”
A book edited by: Elisabeth Pankl, Danielle Theiss-White, and Mary C. Bushing

Introduction
With the projected retirement openings in the field of information science and management and the ever growing need for knowledge management, the need for a viable workforce is more pressing than ever before. Our handbook will provide both information professionals and their organizations with the skills and knowledge necessary to strengthen and develop the profession.

Objectives of the book

Our objective is to inform and to expand the current literature on the career development of information professionals by bringing together the expertise of practicing information professionals in the 21st century. This handbook will bring together this disparate yet exciting and vibrant profession by sharing how various information professionals encourage the recruitment, retention and career development of individuals within their organizations whether at a single workplace or on a regional, state, or national level. Thus, this handbook will provide a toolkit for employers, new information professionals, and information organizations.

The target audience

The prospective audience of our proposed text is composed of several distinct groups. Perhaps the most important group is the future information professionals. This group will benefit immensely from the information, real-life experiences, advice, and future developments detailed in the book. Another important group is the employers of information professionals. Employers will be able to use the information in the book to design and implement recruitment, development, and retention policies and procedures that further both the success and longevity of the profession and their own organizations. A third, but not final, group is the teachers and trainers of information professionals. All quality professional training incorporates not only the technical skills required for employment and advancement, but also the myriad of affective elements that shape one’s professional career.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Retention and/or recruitment research and/or practices and the information professional

· Retention and/or recruitment research and/or practices and diversity in the workplace or profession

· Mentoring policies, programs, procedures, and outcomes from an individual, organizational, regional, state, or national level

· Mentor/mentee relationships

· Mentoring in the professions/peer mentoring

· State, Regional, National leadership programs and outcomes

· Succession leadership planning

· Trends in Human Resources and the information professional/personnel management

· Career development guidance

· Organizational culture/group dynamics

· Orientation programs

· Continuing education/training/in-service education

· Librarianship as a profession

· MLS/MLIS/Library Media Specialist/Library Certification education programs

· Regional, state, and/or national information professional associations and their involvement with career development, recruitment to the profession, and retention

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 2-5 page proposal clearly explaining the objectives and concerns of the proposed chapter by October 30, 2008. The status of submitted proposals will be communicated by November 15, 2008. At that time, the authors of accepted proposals will be provided with chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.), www.igi-global.com, publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formally Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints.

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

recruitment-development-retention@googlegroups.com

Elisabeth Pankl

Humanities Librarian and Assistant Professor

K-State Libraries

epankl@ksu.edu

Danielle Theiss-White

General Reference Coordinator and Assistant Professor

K-State Libraries

dtheiss@ksu.edu

Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law

Proposals Due September 25, 2008

The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals for contributions to a special book review issue to be published in Winter 2008. We welcome contributions from those without formal training in law. We seeks proposals for reviews of any book published in 2008, 2007 or 2006 that contributes to the understanding of women’s experiences with the law.

Pace Law School has a longstanding commitment to both the study of women and the law and the development of women as lawyers and leaders. The Pace Women’s Justice Center was founded in 1991 as the first academic legal center in the country devoted to training attorneys and others in the community about domestic violence issues. Pace is a vibrant and intellectual community that contains several nationally-recognized scholars of women’s, children’s and LGBT rights.

A law review volume devoted to books concerning women and the law promotes an ongoing discourse on women and the law, justice and feminist jurisprudence.

Please submit book review proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr@law.pace.edu by September 25, 2008. Proposals should include (a) the intended reviewer’s name, title, institutional affiliation and contact information; (b) the title and publication date of the book proposed for review; (c) a description of the importance of the book to the general topic; and (d) any other information relevant to the book or proposed review (e.g., the proposed reviewer’s expertise or any relationship with the author). Authors are welcome, but not required, to submit a CV as well. We expect to make publication offers by October 1, 2008.

Complete manuscripts from authors of accepted proposals will be due November 1, 2008. Completed book reviews should not exceed 8,500 words.

For more information, please contact the Pace Law Review: plr@law.pace.edu.

Call for Papers
(Apologies for duplicate and/or cross postings)
http://www.ijds.org/

IJDS is seeking submissions of well-developed papers in the area of doctoral studies (see
full list below) for Volume 4, 2009.

PLEASE SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES

International Journal of Doctoral Studies (IJDS) (http://ijds.org/) is an
academically peer reviewed journal. All submissions are blind refereed by
three or more peers. Papers accepted for publication by IJDS appear online
as accepted. Papers published online at http://ijds.org/, are available to
colleagues around the world without charge and without regard to
membership. Papers are also printed annually in print and on CD.

IJDS, an official publication of the Informing Science Institute (ISI)
(http://informingscience.org/), is now accepting submissions for Volume 4, 2009.

MISSION:
The mission of the IJDS is to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a wide variety of issues in doctoral studies using the Informing Science framework. The editorial objective of IJDS is the facilitation of knowledge enhancement related to doctoral studies in areas such as (but not limited to): informing science, information systems, information technology, information science, information security, and information technology/systems education. IJDS especially encourages publications authored by faculty members who actively supervise doctoral students. Joint publications between faculty members and their doctoral students are also encouraged.

COVERAGE:
IJDS is an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, meta-analysis and research that cover all aspects of doctoral studies. Book reviews are also welcome, if applicable to the mission of IJDS. Authors may use body of knowledge from business, information systems, computer science, education,
psychology, engineering, anthropology, and such. Papers that essentially cover "teaching tips", "best practices" or unstructured anecdotal data are not considered for publication. In additions to the topics mentioned above, other topics of interest to IJDS include (but not limited) to the following:

* Admissions Criteria
* Advisement
* Attrition and Persistence
* Career Path and Employment
* Climate and Support for Doctoral Study
* Comparative Studies (e.g. U.S. versus EU models)
* Comprehensive Exams
* Copyright and Intellectual Property
* Dissertation Committee
* Diversity
* Doctoral Faculty Qualifications
* Family Support
* Historical and Philosophical Foundations of DS
* Innovative Doctoral Programs
* Statistical Skills, and Computer Skills
* Online Doctoral Programs
* Oral Defense
* Outcomes Assessment
* Practitioner Doctorate
* Public Policy and Doc Studies
* Research Assistant
* Research Competence
* Research Doctorate
* Research Ethics
* Research Grants
* Research Methods and Traditions
* Residency Requirement
* Structure of Doctoral Programs
* Writing Skills

Please consider submitting a well-developed paper to IJDS. To view the
author’s guidelines, references style, and paper submission process,
please visit http://www.ijds.org/.

For additional information contact:
Yair Levy, Editor-in-Chief (editor@ijds.org)
IJDS is an official publication of the Informing Science Institute (ISI)
HTML version of the call for papers is available via: http://www.ijds.org/

Sincerely,
Yair Levy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
************************************************************************
Nova Southeastern University
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences
The DeSantis Building - Room 4058
3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
Tel.: 954-262-2006 Fax: 954-262-3915
E-mail: levyy@nova.edu URL: http://scis.nova.edu/~levyy/

Call for papers:

The journal wishes to publish papers that offer a detailed analysis and discussion on sociotechnical philosophy and practices which underpin successful organizational change thus building a more promising future for today’s societies and organisations.

The OVERALL MISSION of this journal:

is to provide a practical and comprehensive forum for exchanging research ideas and down-to-earth practices which bridge the social and technical gap within organisations and society at large.

At the same time it will provide a forum for considering the ethical issues linked to organisational change and development.

It will encourage interdisciplinary texts that discuss current practices as well as demonstrating how the advances of - and changes within - technology affect the growth of society (and vice versa).

The aim of the journal is to bring together the expertise of people who have worked practically in a changing society across the world, for people in the field of organisational development and technology studies, including information systems development and implementation.

We look to:

To support sociotechnical philosophies for organizational change and development;

To advance the development and evolution of sociotechnical approaches in the context of changing technologies and organizations;

To provide an interdisciplinary outlet for information systems and organisational development papers;

To provide an outlet for qualitative and reflective papers;

To provide an overview of the developing field by publishing reviews of important books and papers.

To accomplish this goal, the journal encourages:

The exploration of social and technical artefacts as they apply to change and development;

Qualitative analyses of change and technical practices;

Interdisciplinary approaches;

Articles which describe new developments in sociotechnical thinking and practice;

Debate by publishing contentious articles and articles which wish to argue, or disagree with themes from prior issues.

POSSIBLE TOPICS to be covered by this journal

Subject Coverage

This journal will look for practical sociotechnical approaches that can assist practitioners, academics, researchers, and students. A particular focus will be on new ideas and approaches including studies of their practical implementation.

Appropriate themes might thus include (but are not restricted to), a sociotechnical perspective
on:

Knowledge management systems;

Systems failures;

Implementation issues of change and technology;

Design and technology development issues including requirements and stakeholder participation;

Innovation;

Knowledge sharing;

HRM issues for innovation and knowledge sharing;

Sociotechnical approaches in the context of complexity;

Technology and its role in society and organisations;

Culture and trust within organisations and their relevance to technological artefacts;

Critical success factors (and key performance indicators) for organisations and technological implementation;

Organisational change;

Performance and quality of working life;

Information systems development;

The influence of human factors on operational efficiency;

The relevance of the worker’s perspective;

Empowerment and team development;

Managing organizational knowledge as a strategic asset;

Using knowledge management principles to solve organizational performance problems;

Learning organizations;

Humanistic redesign and technological politics in organisations;

Ethical issues for the researcher and practitioner;

Quality assessment of computer information systems;

Social aspects of automation;

Sociotechnical systems;

Technological Forecasting and Social Change;

Technology in Society;

E-government and democracy as affected by technological change;

Applied Ergonomics.

This journal will normally be published Quarterly; but additional Special Editions may be added - if you have an idea for this please contact the Special Editions Editor:

Dr Jose Abdelnour-Nocera - Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera@tvu.ac.uk

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW

A submission should first go to the Editor-in-Chief, who would then allocate an Associate Editor to handle processes and the review.

According to topic it would be allocated to 3 members of the Editorial Board for double blind peer review.

For further detail on how to submit please go to the Journal Website: www.igi-global.com/ijskd

Editor in Chief

Dr Elayne Coakes

Westminster Business School

University of Westminster

35 Marylebone Road

London

NW1 5LS

+44(0) 207 911 5000 x 3338

+44(0) 207 911 5

coakese@westminster.ac.uk

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2008

Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies:
Discourse Norms, Language Structures and Cultural Variables

A book edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University

Introduction
Through an interdisciplinary perspective, this book will explore
interpersonal discourse realized in computer-mediated communication (CMC).
Interpersonal discourse concerns communication with another person in a
dyadic, public or small-group context. Human interaction in a dyadic,
public or group context through networked computers constitutes
computer-mediated communication. The development of communication
technologies enables dynamic social interaction through the CMC channel.
Accordingly, there has been rapid growth in multiple genres of social
interaction and online learning through the CMC channel. There exists a
need to explore the impact of interpersonal discourse in carrying
effective online learning and information seeking. This book will address
such an impact by applying conceptual fundamentals of interpersonal
discourse and online language usage to CMC contexts.

Objective of the Book
The rapid growth of CMC genres demands new perspectives, frameworks and
tools for research and practice. Also necessitated is an understanding of
online social interaction and an analysis of online discourse. This book
will aim to, through an interdisciplinary perspective, explore three
fundamental components of CMC: language, interpersonal
relations/communication and information technology. It will aim to provide
relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings
in the area. It also aims to address the impact of interpersonal discourse
in the building of online communities and in the design of interaction
systems and social technology.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and
researchers working in the field of information and communication in
various disciplines, e.g. library, information and communication sciences,
linguistics, computer science, information technology, education, and
management. Moreover, this book will provide advanced undergraduates and
graduate students in the above mentioned fields with an understanding of
the online social interaction and applications of interpersonal discourse
for effective online interaction across CMC channels.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Interpersonal relations in CMC a conceptual framework
Social and affective aspects of communication in the CMC
Communication norms for social interaction through CMC (e.g., netiquette)
Online language usage and discourse structure
Face, self, identity in online communication
Verbal and non-verbal signals for interpersonal communication in CMC
Meaning seeking and negotiation in CMC
Applications of interpersonal discourse to CMC contexts
Building online communities and interpersonal communication skills
Group interaction and virtual teams
Interpersonal relations in online learning and education
Digital information service and interpersonal relations
Interaction system design, social technology, social interface
Online interaction across languages and cultures

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October
30, 2008, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the objective and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals
will be notified by November 30, 2008 about the status of their proposals
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters (7000+ words) are expected to
be submitted by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed
on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by
IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information
Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical
Information Science Reference imprints. For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)
or by mail at:
Dr. Jung-ran Park
College of Information Science and Technology
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Tel.: +1 215 895 1669 Fax: + 1 215 895 2494
E-mail: jung-ran.park@ischool.drexel.edu

MW2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline September 30, 2008.

Museums and the Web 2009
the international conference for culture and heritage on-line
April 15-18, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/

Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, the MW program reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.

Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, on-line presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation.

The bibliography of past MW papers (all on-line since 1997) can be searched at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/

* PROPOSAL FORM *
On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/mw2009.proposalForm.html

Please co-ordinate your proposals with your collaborators. Multiple proposals about the same project will not be accepted.

Proposals are peer-reviewed individually by an International Program Committee; full sessions are rarely accepted. Proposals for sessions should be submitted as individual papers with a covering note. The committee may choose to accept some papers and not others.

* DEADLINES *
Proposals due September 30, 2008
- for papers, workshops, mini-workshops + professional forums (written paper required by Jan. 31, 2009)

Proposals due December 31, 2008
- for demonstrations (written paper optional)

* PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS *
The Museums and the Web program is built from the ground up, from your proposals. Add your ideas to the on-line discussion at
http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2009_ideas

* NEED FURTHER DETAILS? *
Review the MW2009 Call for Participation on-line at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/call.html

Contact the MW2009 Conference Co-Chairs
David Bearman + Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics
mw2009@archimuse.com