August 2008 Archives

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:

Library Materials and Services for Children and Young Adults: Historical Perspectives
Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum, July 2009
Co-Sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks papers for its Research Forum at the 2009 ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, July 9-15, 2009. The theme of the Forum will be the history of library materials and services for children and young adults. This program is co-sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including students, faculty, and practitioners. Proposals are due on November 28, 2008. Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the scholar's one-page vita. Also, please indicate whether the research is in-progress or completed. It is desirable that the abstract include a problem or thesis, as well as a statement of significance, objectives, methods/primary sources used for the research, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for works in progress).

From the submissions, the LHRT Research Committee will select several authors to present their completed work at the Forum. The program will be publicized in January 2009. So that the Forum's facilitator may introduce and react to each author, completed papers are due June 19, 2009. The Research Forum will likely occur on Sunday, July 12, 2009. All presenters must register to attend the conference. For registration options, see ALA's events and conferences page at http://www.ala.org/ .

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 28, 2008
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETED PAPERS: June 19, 2009

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to:

Bernadette A. Lear
LHRT Vice-Chair/Research Committee Chair
Penn State Harrisburg Library
351 Olmsted Dr.
Middletown, PA 17057
Telephone: (717) 948-6360
E-mail: BAL19@PSU.EDU

Call for Proposals

"Showcasing Solutions, Producing Results"

85th WASC Academic Resource Conference (ARC)

April 15-18, 2009, Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood , CA

Sponsored by the WASC Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and
Universities, in cooperation with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior
Colleges

When we're talking about learning, process is important but results are what
count - especially in uncertain times. The 2009 ARC is dedicated to supporting
institutions of higher education as they define their challenges, develop
solutions, and demonstrate results. WASC invites 2-year and 4-year colleges and
universities to share their work at what has become a major higher education
conference in the western US.

Our setting is Hollywood - a great place to think creatively about student
learning, institutional effectiveness, and the relationship between higher
education and society. Our venue is a microcosm of contradictions and tensions
that educators also face: innovation and tradition, high culture and popular
taste, technology and craft, new influences and sometimes sluggish responses.
It's the place where the local meets the global, where highly visible ratings
and reviews coexist with plenty of skepticism about their meaning. We and our
students have been challenged by the society and the media that Hollywood
represents; at the same time there may be lessons, literal and metaphorical, we
can learn from them. This conference is a chance to talk about that learning
and how to apply it to improvement and student success.

We invite you to submit a proposal for a presentation at the 2009 WASC Academic
Resource Conference (ARC). Share with your colleagues the ways in which your
campus has learned about learning, improved results, and strengthened your
institution. Discuss your experience, tell your stories, offer your advice -
and present your findings. Help us all to understand better what educational
quality and accountability mean, how academic quality can best be documented
and communicated, and how accreditation can help. And this year, let's not just
talk about engagement or active learning - let's do it. Let's make this the
most interactive WASC conference ever.

You are encouraged to submit a proposal that fits into one of the tracks below.
Remember, the questions listed under each track are merely suggestive, and
you're free to submit on other topics, as well. Just remember that findings or
results, not only process, should be a key part of your presentation, whatever
your topic.

Track 1: How Do Students and Institutions Learn -- and How Do We Know?

What is the effect of popular culture on students' learning and development?

How do new technologies affect students' reading, visual literacy, thinking,
problem solving, and other intellectual skills?

What works - or doesn't - in the classroom, co-curriculum, community?

What is "good enough" in college-level learning? How can we set shared
standards? Who's done it? And how can we close achievement gaps?

What do millennials, adults, non-traditional and international students need to
succeed? What about graduate students?

What special challenges do junior and community colleges face? What about
research universities and graduate programs?

How does diversity enhance learning, and how can we maximize the effect?

How can we promote "ineffables" like spiritual development, curiosity or
global awareness? How can we assess them?

What do faculty and other campus educators need in order to succeed in an
outcomes-based environment?

Track 2: Challenges for Administrators and Trustees

How can institutions strengthen their finances in a tough economy?

How can risks such as campus violence, extreme weather, or contagious disease
be managed?

What are alternative approaches to data collection on part-time, transfer, and
"swirling" students?

How can strategic planning, budgeting, and educational effectiveness be linked?
How are data and evidence best used to support improvement?

What kinds of development do boards and administrative leadership need to
succeed?

What are the implications of the new HEA? The new administration in DC?

What are effective approaches to accountability and transparency?

Going green - what does it mean and how much does it cost?

What can we learn from the Bologna process? From foreign institutions?

What are the barriers to institutional change and how can they be overcome?

Track 3: Collaborations that Work - across the Campus and Beyond

How can faculty and other educators on campus - student affairs personnel,
librarians, tutors, advisors, administrators, institutional researchers -- work
together most effectively?

What models are there for 2-year/4-year collaboration on transfer, retention,
assessment, student success? What about the transition to graduate school?

What's happening in state-wide and multi-campus systems to support learning?

How are service learning and community collaborations affecting institutions?

What are national organizations (e.g., AAC&U, AASCU, AACC, NASULGC, ACE, NAICU)
contributing to campus and cross-campus work? What about smaller groups like
the League for Innovation, CCLC, POD or ACAD?

What's the role of listservs, wikis, and new technologies in supporting
collaborations - regionally, nationally, and globally?

Track 4: Higher Education and our Audience beyond the Campus

What are the expectations of students, parents, the public? What does
"transparency" mean to them? What information should institutions make
available?

Where are the disconnects between policy makers and the academy? How can we
overcome them?

How can we best communicate with state, federal, or lay critics? What is the
story we want them to hear?

What is the appropriate role of standardized tests and surveys? What are we
learning from/about the NSSE, UCUES, CLA, MAPP and other instruments, and how
can we tell the story?

How do ranking and rating systems work? What need do they fill, and what are
responsible alternatives to existing schemes?

Track 5: WASC Accreditation Processes

How can we - ACCJC as well as ACSCU - move from demonstrating that students
learn to how well?

How are WASC Standards and process affecting campuses? What does WASC expect
from campuses regarding program review? Retention and completion rates?

What makes for a strong Institutional Proposal? Strong CPR and EER reports?

How can institutions prepare for team visits?

How should institutions respond to team findings and Commission actions?

What role might WASC play in national (and international) conversations about
educational quality and accountability?

Details

You can propose a 60-minute session; a 30-minute session (in this case you will
be paired with another presenter on a related topic and share a 60-minute
slot); or a poster. Sixty- and 30-minute sessions should strive for a variety
of perspectives and speakers from different institutions. If you don't want to
be placed in a combined session, be sure that your own proposal includes
representatives from at least two institutions. We especially encourage
partnering between 2-year and 4-year institutions. The poster session offers an
opportunity to present your work, particularly work in progress, in an informal
setting that encourages one-on-one conversation and networking.

The standard format - panel with presentations, slides, and discussion - is
still welcome. But this year we are also encouraging alternatives. For example,
you may want to demonstrate a pedagogy (e.g., case study or problem-based),
lead the audience through the nuts and bolts of an assessment technique (e.g.,
creating a rubric, conducting a focus group); show a video, then have
participants analyze it; or get everyone working on a wiki.

Proposals will be selected based on 1) overall quality (thoughtfulness,
soundness of method, tangible results, etc.); 2) transferability to other
institutions and situations; 3) relevance to the conference theme; 4)
innovative, interactive format; and 5) appeal to the diverse interests of
conference attendees. Preference will be given to proposals that include
representatives from different institutions.

Presenters will be responsible for registering in advance for the meeting,
paying the full conference registration fee, and covering their own travel and
lodging.

Presenters who wish to use PowerPoint slides or to connect to the web will need
to bring their own laptop; an LCD projector and screen will be available in the
meeting room. Presenters are encouraged to provide handouts either
electronically or in hard copy; however, WASC cannot reimburse the cost of
duplication. Further details will be provided in communications closer to the
time of the conference.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

Proposals must be submitted online. The proposal form can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=p-wwQfWGkbLunGvkkeCg3Gw

For technical questions about the online submission, contact Julie Kotovsky at
510 748-9001, ext. 307, or jkotovsky@wascsenior.org. For questions about
content or format, contact Barbara Wright at bwright@wascsenior.org. Presenters
will be notified of the status of their proposal on or around December 1.

MP Journal, a peer-reviewed, feminist, interdisciplinary and
international journal indexed by EBSCO is seeking submissions on activism,
politics and voice in a changing world. Some of the subjects welcomed would
include, but are not limited to: environmentalism and gender, poverty,
climate change, international feminist activism, spotlights on activist
women world-wide, and the development of voice as an activist or political
being.

Submissions are accepted until December 1, 2008 via email to
lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com. Include a current CV and 50 word bio. For more
information including submission format guidelines, visit
http://www.academinist.org/mp.

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

Three Special Issues of Library Quarterly, Archival Science, and
Museum Management and Curatorship

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The editors of Library Quarterly, Archival Science, and Museum
Management and Curatorship are pleased to announce plans for three
special issues exploring the shared information needs and challenges
facing libraries, archives, and museums in the information age; the
overlapping educational goals of library and information science,
archival studies, and museum studies programs; and areas of
convergence for educators and professionals working to meet user needs
in libraries, archives, and museums.

The resulting three separate issues of Library Quarterly, Archival
Science, and Museum Management and Curatorship will be published at
approximately the same time (end of 2009), and all three issues will
be Guest Edited by Dr. Paul F. Marty, College of Information, Florida
State University.

The impetus for this project stems from a recent conference, sponsored
by the IMLS, on the need for information professionals who can
transcend the traditional boundaries between libraries, archives, and
museums to meet user needs in the information age (see: http://chips.ci.fsu.edu ).

The increased use of and reliance on digital resources has blurred
traditional distinctions between information organizations, leading to
a digital convergence of libraries, archives, and museums. In light of
this convergence, there is a need for more research examining how
libraries, archives, and museums can collaborate and combine forces to
better serve their users, many of whom do not clearly distinguish
among different institutions or the information resources they manage.

We are looking for papers addressing one or more of the following
three broad questions in ways that cut across the traditional
distinctions between libraries, archives, and museums:

1. What are the information needs of libraries, archives, and museums
in the information age, both internally (staff and other
professionals) and externally (public services)? How can new
information technologies support information professionals as they
adapt to meet these needs?

2. What are the roles and responsibilities of information
professionals in libraries, archives, and museums in the information
age? What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to
succeed at their jobs (e.g. intellectual property, information
management, digital preservation, etc.)?

3. What kinds of educational programs best prepare information
professionals to meet the needs of libraries, archives, and museums in
the information age, including degree and non-degree programs? How are
these programs currently preparing their students, and what potential
is there for sharing expertise across programs?

While authors may choose to focus primarily on libraries, archives, or
museums (depending on their interests and expertise), each article
should attempt to explore issues of convergence across libraries,
archives, and museums.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Optional Abstract: September 1, 2008

* Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008

* Review Decisions: February 1, 2009

* Final Versions Due: June 1, 2009

* Publication: End of 2009

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

If you wish, you may submit an optional abstract (by email to Paul
Marty at marty@fsu.edu) for feedback by September 1, 2008 (please
indicate the journal to which you plan to submit).

Please direct your submission to the journal that most closely matches
the particular focus of your article, research, or discipline, as
follows:

* Library Quarterly, follow submission instructions at http://www.editorialmanager.com/lq/

* Archival Science, follow submission instructions at http://www.editorialmanager.com/arcs/
(When specifying "Article type" please select the "Special Issue
on Digital Convergence")

* Museum Management and Curatorship, please email submissions
directly to Paul Marty at marty@fsu.edu.
(Please see instructions for authors at www.informaworld.com/rmmc)

Please mark your submission as being intended for the special issue on
digital convergence.

If you have any questions about the special issues, please contact
Paul Marty at marty@fsu.edu.

A PDF version of this CFP is available at: http://marty.ci.fsu.edu/misc/cfp_digitalconvergence.pdf

Call for Submissions:The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.
The Code4Lib Journal is now accepting proposals for publication in its 5th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences in an issue that marks the first full year of publication for this new journal. To be included in the 5th issue, scheduled for publication in December 2008, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals to
c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com by Friday, September 12. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the message.

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical)
* Technology projects (failed, successful, proposed, or in-progress), including how they were done and challenges faced
* Case studies
* Best practices
* Reviews
* Comparisons of third party software or libraries
* Analyses of library metadata for use with technology
* Project management and communication within the library environment
* Assessment and user studies

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 3 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org. The 4th issue will be available in September.

Remember, for consideration for the 5th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com no later than Friday, September 12.
Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

edited by Mary Celeste Kearney, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Proposal deadline: October 15, 2008

This collection--currently proposed as part of Peter Lang's "Mediated Youth" series, edited by Sharon Mazzarella--will include new work on girls' media culture that broadens and enriches the field.

Of particular interest are chapters that expand scholarship on girls' media and popular culture beyond its conventional white, middle-class, heterosexual, Western, consumerist, and presentist framework.

Possible topics:

- girls' media production
- girls' media made prior to the 1990s
- non-white girlhood in media and popular culture
- non-Western girlhood in media and popular culture
- queer girlhood in media and popular culture
- working-class girlhood in media and popular culture
- girlhood in documentary film
- girlhood in reality TV shows
- girls' media reception/fan practices
- girls and video gaming
- girls and cyberculture
- girlhood and music culture
- girls and mobile technologies
- girls and conglomerated media culture.

Please send a 250-word proposal, short bibliography, brief author's bio, and contact information to Mary Celeste Kearney at mkearney@mail.utexas.edu by October 15, 2008.

Notification of accepted proposals will be made by December 1, 2008. First chapter drafts of 5000 to 8000 words will be due in late spring 2009.

For further information, please contact Mary Celeste Kearney at mkearney@mail.utexas.edu.

The website for RAILS 5 is now live at:

http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/conferences/rails/

RAILS5 is being organised by the Information & Knowledge Management Program, University of Technology, Sydney with the support of the Australian Library and Information Association as a satellite event to ALIA Information Online 2009 on January 23, 2009.

RAILS5 continues and builds upon the theme of Linking Research with Practice, which has become an ongoing focus of the seminar series. This theme has the aim to build partnerships among educators, researchers and practitioners to ensure that a culture of research-led, theoretically-informed, innovative practice is nurtured in the fields of librarianship, information and knowledge management.

The seminar aims to bring together practitioners, educators and researchers in the fields of librarianship, information management and knowledge management. New researchers are encouraged to attend the seminar, and to submit papers or abstracts for short presentations.

As with past seminars, RAILS5 will continue to raise the profile of research in the information and knowledge professions by:

making educators and researchers aware of practice-based research that is currently underway and encourage debate about it identifying research required by Australian practitioners and educators making practitioners aware of university-based research that is currently underway and encourage debate about it promoting the research agenda of Australian LIS peak bodies
showcasing emergent trends and important developments in information/knowledge research and practice. RAILS5 will offer the option of either full peer-reviewed papers, to be published in a special issue of the Australian Library Journal, or short presentations.

Key Dates
1 September Submission of papers due

1 October Submission of posters due

31 October Notice of acceptance – papers and posters

1 December Revised final papers due

Any enquiries should be directed to Dr Michael Olsson, the Conference Convenor, at Michael.Olsson@uts.edu.au.

--

Dr Michael Olsson

Graduate Advisor

Lecturer, Information and Knowledge Management

University of Technology, Sydney

Ph: +61 2 9514 2722

Fax: +61 2 9514 2723

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ March 5-7, 2009

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008

The Executive Committee of the Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on
Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The
Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s
Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 5-7, 2009.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and
gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any
institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome
individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender
history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually.
Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last
year’s Symposium.

This year’s theme, “Transforming Power,” seeks to interrogate a
variety of trends shaping the field of women’s and gender history. The
Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a
geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting
proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, analysis of
whether and to what extent power—as both a force in the world and an
analytical scaffold—has been transformed over the past decades of
feminist scholarship and activism. Of related interest, as well, would
be proposals that engage the issue of difference in women’s and gender
studies and history, especially the benefits and difficulties of using
difference as a scholarly and political frame of reference. These
questions are purposefully broad, inviting perspectives and reflections
from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary
perspectives. Additionally, in order to celebrate the Symposium's
tenth anniversary and in keeping with our theme's focus on gender, power and the politics of
location, we hope to assemble a specifically historiographic panel
addressing the state of the field.We are, then, particularly interested
in paper proposals that problematize the history of feminist history or
suggest new historiographic avenues of inquiry for our futures.

For the Tenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work:

• Roderick A. Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the
best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference
presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the
on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize
travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with
limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on
the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send
only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word
abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter,
commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com .

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five
(5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming
Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory
Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, David Greenstein or Laura Duros at gendersymp@gmail.com .

February 9-12, 2009
Los Angeles, CA

Call for Proposals

ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2009 Conference to be held February 10-12, 2009 with pre-conferences on February 9th. The conference location will be the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, CA.

View Track Descriptions:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009/schedConf/trackPolicies

Proposal Deadline: Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early. The Proposal Deadline is October 15, 2008.

Proposal Evaluation: The committee will evaluate each proposal on the basis of subject matter (including, but not limited to, the issues listed in the topic descriptions), clarity, and timeliness. We will also hold a period of open voting to allow potential attendees to help shape the program. Proposals should be for original work that has not been published. We may request that some presenters combine sessions with complementary subject matter.

Compensation: Presenters receive 50% off the cost of registration.

More info: ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services. The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment.

More information about the Call for Proposals is available at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009/schedConf/schedConf/cfp

Questions: Please direct questions about the Call for Proposals to Elizabeth Winter (elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu). Please direct questions related to preconferences to Xan Arch (xanadu@stanford.edu).

ER&L '09 conference details are online at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2009

Check out the ER&L Forum blog for up-to-date conference announcements:
http://electroniclibrarian.org/forum/

In conjunction with iiWAS-2008 and MoMM-2008 http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conferences/bwcca2008/

Theme:

Communication networks of today are going through a rapid evolution. Different kinds of networks with different characteristics are emerging and they are integrating in heterogeneous networks. For these reasons, there are many interconnection problems which may occur at different levels in the hardware and software design of communicating entities and communication networks. These kinds of networks need to manage an increasing usage demand, provide support for a significant number of services, guarantee their QoS, and optimize the utilization of network resources. Therefore, architectures and algorithms in these networks become very complex and it seems imperative to focus on new models and methods as well as mechanisms, which can enable the network to perform adaptive behaviours.

The success of all-IP networking and wireless technology has changed the ways of living for the people around the world. The progress of electronic integration and wireless communications is going to pave the way to offer people the access to the wireless networks on the fly, based on which all electronic devices will be able to exchange the information with each other whenever necessary. Also, ubiquitous computing is an emerging field of research for computing paradigms in the 21st century. This emergence is the natural result of research and technological advances mainly in wireless communications, mobile computing and agent technologies. Supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations, ad-hoc networks and sensor networks are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that enable novel, low cost, high volume applications such as nuclear, biological and chemical attack detection and protection, home automation, battlefield surveillance and environmental monitoring.

The aim of this workshop is to present the innovative researches, and technologies as well as developments related to broadband networking, mobile networking and wireless communications. The workshop seeks original contributions in all relevant areas, including but not limited to the following topics.

Topics:

· Broadband Networks Applications
· High-speed Network Protocols
· Routing Algorithms
· Congestion Control
· Multimedia Communication and Applications
· WDM Networks
· Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
· P2P Systems
· Wireless Communication Protocols
· Wireless Communication Systems and Applications
· Wireless Networks Modelling
· Wireless Positioning and Tracking Systems
· Ubiquitous Computing Applications
· Lower Power Mobile Devices
· Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
· Mobile Agent Framework
· Mobility and Location Management
· Mobile Networking Applications
· Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
· Wireless Sensor Networks
· Wireless Ubiquitous Networks
· Network Security and Privacy
· Web Applications

Important Dates:

Submission due date: September 5, 2008

Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2008 Camera-ready paper due date: October 15, 2008 Workshop Dates: December 24-26, 2008

Submission Guidelines

Proceedings

The proceedings of the BWCCA-2008 workshop will be published together with iiWAS-2008 and MoMM-2008 proceedings by ACM digital library and indexed in major indexes properly.

Styles

The papers submitted to BWCCA-2008 International Workshop should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Authors using Latex need to choose the LateX2e. The maximum number of pages is 6 pages (or 5000 Words).

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

The papers should be submitted to Workshop Co-Chair Leonard Barolli (barolli@fit.ac.jp).

Submissions are only accepted in PostScript or PDF format.

Camera Ready Submission

The camera ready submission of your accepted paper has to be sent by October 15, 2008. Papers not sent in time won't be published in the proceedings.

Some of selected papers from BWCCA-2008 International Workshop will be considered for publication in the Special Issues organized by iiWAS-2008/MoMM-2008 International Conferences.

For any further questions or inquiries please contact Workshop Co-Chairs or PC-Chair:

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Leonard Barolli
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Faculty of Information Engineering
Fukuoka Institute of technology (FIT)
3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295 Japan
Tel: +81-92-606-4970
Fax: +81-92-606-0758
Email: barolli@fit.ac.jp

Arjan Durresi,
Department of Computer and Information Science Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
723 W. Michigan St., SL 280M
Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Tel: +1-317-274-8942
Fax: +1 317-274-9742
E-mail: durresi@cs.iupui.edu

Fatos Xhafa,
Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Polytechnic University of Catalonia Campus Nord, Ed. Omega, C/Jordi Girona 1-3
08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Tel: +34 93 413-7880
Fax: +34 93-413-7833
E-mail: fatos@lsi.upc.edu

PC Members:
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Bhed Bahadur Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia Univiversity, Canada
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Timothy Shih, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan
Bijay Karki, Louisiana State University, USA
Hsiao-Chun Wu, Louisiana State University, USA
Vamsi Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA
Mukul Goyal, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Markus Aleksy, University of Mannheim, Germany
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Takuo Suganuma, Tohoku University, Japan
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Fabio Postiglione, University of Salerno
Salvatore Loreto, Ericsson Research, Finland
Antonio Pescape', University of Naples, Italy
Maurizio Longo, University of Salerno, Italy
Giuseppe De Marco, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

Web Chair:
Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Call for Papers
Deadline for Submissions: August 22, 2008

Dear Colleagues,

ITVirtualizationLive, the premier conference addressing the business and technology drivers behind the adoption of virtualization technologies, has officially opened up its Call for Papers and will be accepting speaking proposals until August 22, 2008.

Taking place in Orlando, Florida on December 9th - 11th, we are expecting an impressive audience of business and IT executives to be in attendance. Conference attendees will be looking to understand the business benefits that virtualization has to offer and the technical challenges facing IT organizations looking to implement these new technologies.

I am honored to serve as the conference chairperson for ITVirtualizationLive. We are committed to providing in-depth, unbiased technical content to our attendees. To that end, I am asking you and your colleagues to submit proposals that achieve that goal. The topics listed below are suggestions, broken down into three broad categories. If you have another topic that fits into one of the categories and would like to submit it for consideration, feel free to do so.

Thank you for submitting your speaking proposal for consideration. I hope to see you in Orlando in December.

Sincerely,

Keith Ward
ITVirtualizationLive Conference Chairman

Topics of Interest :
TOPIC 1: Virtualization Planning and Implementation
This track covers the basics of virtualization – how to lay the groundwork for getting the most out of your virtual infrastructure. Suggested topics include:

Understanding the layers of virtualization and how they affect your planning
Capacity planning
Performance benchmarking
Security architecting
Understanding the different virtualization architectures
Why go with Microsoft vs. Citrix vs. VMware
Installation issues
Choosing the right hardware for virtualization
Implementation gotchas
Virtual desktop infrastructure planning – thin client/fat client/zero client considerations
TOPIC 2: Management
Once your virtual infrastructure’s in place, you need to manage it. Virtualization brings unique management challenges, and we’ll help you get a handle on them. Suggested topics include:

Differing management frameworks
Managing the physical vs. the virtual
Is a single pane of management glass best?
Management tools – what’s out there? What works best? Free vs. commercial
Virtual storage management
Virtual network management
Virtual I/O management
Virtual desktop infrastructure management
TCO/ROI considerations
TOPIC 3: Best Practices
Your virtualization infrastructure is humming along, but you need to keep it running smoothly and efficiently. Here’s how. Suggested topics include:

Optimizing your network for virtualization
Improve your disaster recovery system
Backup tips and tricks
What you need to know about licensing to save money and stay in compliance
Top tips for application virtualization
Best practices for: VMware/Microsoft/Citrix/Virtual Iron/Parallels
Security best practices
Lifecycle management best practices
Submission Guidelines
Please include the following information with your submission:

Speaker’s Name
Speaker’s Title
Speaker’s Company
Title of presentation
100-word description of presentation
3-5 bullets explaining what the attendee will learn from presentation
Speaker’s color photo (hi-resolution)
Speaker’s Bio, including previous conference speaking/presentation experience

How to Submit Your Proposal
Submit your speaking proposals by going to: www.itvirtualizationlive.com/speak.aspx

For more information on ITVirtualizationLive
Please visit: www.ITVirtualizationLive.com

To all Librarians, Entrepreneurs, and Innovators:

We seek pioneers, adventurers and inventors to tell their stories. The libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wake Forest University are organizing a conference entitled, "Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: an Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians". We strive to provide a forum for you to share your path to change.

Conference dates: June 3rd and 4th, 2009 in the Elliott University Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The mission for this conference is threefold:
1) To share and celebrate entrepreneurial accomplishments in libraries
2) To inspire each other to innovate in our libraries
3) To create a community of interested librarians who will perpetuate the discussion beyond the conference

Entrepreneurial activity may have taken place in areas such as: instruction, services, processes, facilities or resources, but this list is not exhaustive. We're interested in hearing about your process and the successful presentation could include the following:

Identification of an unmet need or development of an innovative approach that extends the scope of service
A non-traditional approach to fulfilling our mission as libraries
A description of how a solution was designed and implemented including any obstacles that were encountered (financial, structural, human...)
A discussion of lessons learned or what you would do differently next time and the project's current status
A description of the keys to success
A tone that inspires us all to become more entrepreneurial in our libraries, however small the project

Format:

Sessions should be one hour in length to include 45 minute presentation with 15 minutes for Q&A.
We will accept panel discussions

Timing:

If interested, submit a letter of intent - a one paragraph description of your presentation - immediately. Those who submit a letter of intent by September 1st will receive priority consideration.
Please submit your final proposal by 5:00 pm on Monday 1 November 2008; it should include a detailed outline of the presentation with a textual description of the entrepreneurial project.
Photos, drawings or other multi-media aids are welcome; display space will be available at the conference.
Invitations to present will be delivered by mid-December

Send your submission to:
Rosann Bazirjian
Dean of University Libraries
The University of North Carolina - Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
E-mail: Rosann_Bazirjian@uncg.edu
Phone: (336) 334-3418
Fax: (336) 334-5399

Conference Steering Committee: Rosann Bazirjian, Wanda Brown, Michael Crumpton, Mary Krautter, Mary Beth Lock, Barry Miller, Mary Scanlon

The first issue of the quarterly peer-review journal /Collection Management/ under the Editorship of ALCTS member Faye Chadwell is now off-press, and welcomes the submission of papers for review and possible publication. Ms. Chadwell is Head of Collection Development and Acquisition, Oregon State University. She has taken over the editorial reins from long-time editor, Ed Shreeves, Associate University Librarian and Director, Collections & Content Development at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Interested authors may correspond with the Editor for instructions for authors and upcoming deadlines by sending an email to faye.chadwell@oregonstate.edu.

Call for manuscripts: New Literacies (Peter Lang Publishing)

One of the premier education publishing groups, Peter Lang Publishing is
looking for works that understand how new literacies and new ways of seeing
education are being invented -- as people from all walks of life, in diverse
sites, wrestle with new technologies, shifting values, changing
institutional forms and processes, and emerging structures characteristic of
postmodernity/New Times/the Global Informational Age. These texts aim to
explore these emerging domains and to create awareness of key trends and
features, translating them into educational consciousness and practice.
These texts should explore in depth and from a range of perspectives the
extent, nature, and implications of new literacies in global context,
challenging familiar ways of framing education, and what it means for
education to be powerful, effective, and enabling under current and
foreseeable conditions.

We wish to encourage and support new, early-career authors as well as
established scholars.

We welcome single-author manuscripts as well as edited collections which
examine and engage with the current concerns of education, educators,
students, learning, especially how technology has impacted education.

Topics of particular interest are:

* critical pedagogy/ies
* literacy/ies and technology/ies
* education and disability
* the history of schools and schooling, particularly institutional histories
* education and innovation
* education psychology
* multiculturalism, urban schooling
* environmental education

* theory of play
* gender and education, particularly masculinity and adolescents

Thank you. To send proposals or for more information and a full list of
guidelines, please email:

Rebecca.Shapiro@plang.com
Rebecca Shapiro, Ph. D.
Acquisitions Editor
Peter Lang Publishing
29 Broadway, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10006
212.647.7700, ex. 3006

The ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group invites proposals for presentations for our meeting at Midwinter in Denver. The group will be meeting on Saturday, January 24th, from 1:30-3:30. Our theme is Cataloging Born-Digital Materials. Proposals are due by October 31, 2008.

The charge of the Catalog Management Discussion Group is as follows: to discuss the various issues involved with cataloging, classification, and authority control after the initial cataloging has been performed. In this respect, catalog management is defined as the continuous upgrading and updating of a catalog, regardless of its format, be it card, microform, book or on-line. The group will provide a forum for exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and problems in managing the bibliographic integrity of library catalogs.

For questions, contact:

Melissa De Fino
Chair, ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group, 2009
Special Collections Catalog Librarian and Acting Coordinator of Gifts Cataloging
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
47 Davidson Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
mdefino@rci.rutgers.edu

AECT is now accepting requests to present in Second Life for the up-coming months of September, October and December. If you would like to present an educational based event or suggest an AECT sponsored event in Second Life in the coming months, please contact Cheryl Comstock at cheryl@c-idesign.com to set your date.

Best,
Cheryl/Ize Mesmer

AECT, Second Life Events Coordinator
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/119/177/23
For more information about SecondLife go to: www.aect.org/SecondLife

THE 36TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THEME: Evidence Found!!!@your library

April 30 - May 2, 2009
Penn Stater Conference Center
215 Innovation Boulevard
State College, PA 16803
Toll-Free 800-233-7505
Phone 814-863-5000
FAX 814-863-5002

Proposal deadline is November 1, 2008

For more information go to: http://www.psla.org/conferences/Conference2009/conferenceprop2009.pdf

Call for Papers
Deadline: September 20, 2008*

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition for the 2009 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of /Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society/, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

The Catharine Stimpson Prize is awarded biannually to the best paper in an international competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner. The prize-winning paper will be published in /Signs/, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in /Signs/.

/Eligibility: / Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (less than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls within the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Papers submitted for the prize must be no longer than 10,000 words and must conform to the guidelines for /Signs/ contributors. Guidelines for submission are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/instruct.html.

/Deadline for Submissions:/ The deadline for submissions for the next Catharine Stimpson Prize is September 20, 2008.

Please submit papers online at http://signs.edmgr.com . Be sure to indicate submission for consideration for the Catharine Stimpson Prize in the cover letter. The honorarium will be awarded upon publication of the prize-winning article.

Papers may also be submitted by post to:

The Catharine Stimpson Prize Selection Committee

/Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society/

Rutgers University

8 Voorhees Chapel

5 Chapel Drive

New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

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http://docrea.org/jise/

Whether it's a social networking site like Facebook, a video stream delivered via YouTube, or collaborative discussion and document sharing via Google Apps, more people are using Web 2.0 technologies to communicate, express ideas, and form relationships centered around topical interests.

Virtual Worlds immerse participants even deeper in technological realms rife with interaction. Instead of simply building information, people create entire communities comprised of self-built worlds and avatars centered around common interests, learning, or socialization in order to promote information exchange.

Holding business meetings in Second Life is becoming commonplace, MMORPGs are becoming the entertainment venue of choice, and upcoming generations of students may find the traditional academic means of information exchange--lectures and discussions--less appealing than most, instead opting for a rich multimedia experience infused with information.

With classrooms quickly filling with the Google generation accustomed to being connected to information and social networks all the time in many forms, how can we best use these technologies to transform, supplement, or even supplant current pedagogical practices? Will holding office hours in chat rooms make a difference? What about streaming classroom discussions via iTunes? How about demonstrations of complex concepts in a Virtual World so students can experiment endlessly?

In this JISE special issue, we will explore these questions and more. We are looking for research studies, instructional cases, teaching tips, and other discussions that examine the role Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds should--or perhaps should not--play within our physical, virtual, or mixed classroom environment. How can these technological tools be best used in our pedagogical toolbox? Are there instances where they are a good fit or perhaps merely an instructional band-aid?

Please consider sharing your insights, research, or teaching tips as we examine the promises presented, and the perils posed, by these ever-growing innovative, immersive (perhaps invasive), and pervasive technologies.

http://docrea.org/jise/

Call for Papers, SLAECE 2009

The second event on "Social and Legal Aspects Under Emerging Computing Environments", SLAECE 2009, will be held within the The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009, in Venice, Italy, on May 24-28.

General site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

Submission details: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

SLAECE 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library together with ICIW 2009.

IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Submissions

Submission deadline: December 20, 2008

We welcome technical papers presenting research, practical results and case studies, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the topics of interest, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.

Industrial presentations and legal case studies are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial/legal position and status.

Topics
The age
of information and communication has revolutionized the way companies do business, especially in providing competitive and innovative services. Business processes not only integrates departments and subsidiaries of enterprises but also are extended across organizations and to interact with governments.

On the other hand, wireless technologies and peer-to-peer networks enable ubiquitous access to services and information systems with scalability. This results in the removal of barriers of market expansion and new business opportunities as well as threats. In this new global and ubiquitous environment, it is of increasing importance to consider legal and social aspects in business activities and information systems that will provide some level of certainty.

There is a broad spectrum of vertical domains where legal and social issues influence the design and development of information systems, such as web personalization and protection of users privacy in service provision, intellectual property rights protection when designing and implementing virtual works and multiplayer digital games, copyright protection in collaborative environments, automation of contracting and contract monitoring on the web, protection of privacy in location-based computing, etc.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together computer science researchers, engineers, policy makers and practitioners working at the state of the art on information and related fields such as legal domain, social sciences, and marketing. This event will also outline the major challenges and future perspectives on incorporating legal and social aspects at the design, deployment, evaluation of information systems under emerging computing environments, such as, but not limited to, (i) service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service computing, (ii) Mobile, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing, (iii) Web security and privacy,

(iv) Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, (v) Agent and autonomous computing, (vi) Grid computing, (vi) Virtual communities, or (vii) Inter-, intra-organizational integration.

Topics of legal and social aspects of information systems include but are not limited to:

Principles, theories, and challenges of legal and social aspects Strategies, modeling, and requirements engineering of legal and social aspects Architectures, implementations, and deployment consideration of legal and social aspects Cyber threats, emerging risks, systemic concerns, and emergency preparedness Social computing and lifestyle computing Service marketing and customer relationship management Market structures and emerging business models Emerging legal issues due to new computing environment File / information sharing networks and user behavior Knowledge modeling, management, and application Negotiation and contracting as well as contract monitoring and enforcement E-democracy, e-policy, and governance Legal and social ontologies Privacy and copyright in collaborative environments and social networks Intellectual property rights Trust, security, and privacy Counterfeit forensic Identity management and access control Security and privacy in location-based services

Committee
Call for Papers, SLAECE 2009

The second event on "Social and Legal Aspects Under Emerging Computing Environments", SLAECE 2009, will be held within the The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009, in Venice, Italy, on May 24-28.

General site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

Submission details: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

SLAECE 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library together with ICIW 2009.

IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Submissions

-------------------

Submission deadline: December 20, 2008

We welcome technical papers presenting research, practical results and case studies, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the topics of interest, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.

Industrial presentations and legal case studies are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial/legal position and status.

Topics

----------

The age of information and communication has revolutionized the way companies do business, especially in providing competitive and innovative services. Business processes not only integrates departments and subsidiaries of enterprises but also are extended across organizations and to interact with governments.

On the other hand, wireless technologies and peer-to-peer networks enable ubiquitous access to services and information systems with scalability. This results in the removal of barriers of market expansion and new business opportunities as well as threats. In this new global and ubiquitous environment, it is of increasing importance to consider legal and social aspects in business activities and information systems that will provide some level of certainty.

There is a broad spectrum of vertical domains where legal and social issues influence the design and development of information systems, such as web personalization and protection of users privacy in service provision, intellectual property rights protection when designing and implementing virtual works and multiplayer digital games, copyright protection in collaborative environments, automation of contracting and contract monitoring on the web, protection of privacy in location-based computing, etc.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together computer science researchers, engineers, policy makers and practitioners working at the state of the art on information and related fields such as legal domain, social sciences, and marketing. This event will also outline the major challenges and future perspectives on incorporating legal and social aspects at the design, deployment, evaluation of information systems under emerging computing environments, such as, but not limited to, (i) service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service computing, (ii) Mobile, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing, (iii) Web security and privacy,

(iv) Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, (v) Agent and autonomous computing, (vi) Grid computing, (vi) Virtual communities, or (vii) Inter-, intra-organizational integration.

Topics of legal and social aspects of information systems include but are not limited to:

Principles, theories, and challenges of legal and social aspects Strategies, modeling, and requirements engineering of legal and social aspects Architectures, implementations, and deployment consideration of legal and social aspects Cyber threats, emerging risks, systemic concerns, and emergency preparedness Social computing and lifestyle computing Service marketing and customer relationship management Market structures and emerging business models Emerging legal issues due to new computing environment File / information sharing networks and user behavior Knowledge modeling, management, and application Negotiation and contracting as well as contract monitoring and enforcement E-democracy, e-policy, and governance Legal and social ontologies Privacy and copyright in collaborative environments and social networks Intellectual property rights Trust, security, and privacy Counterfeit forensic Identity management and access control Security and privacy in location-based services

Committee

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SLAECE Chairs

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA

Committee members

Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University - Bucharest, Romania / Danish Technical University, The Netherlands Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Luis Borges Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa - Porto, Portugal Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet -Saint-Etienne, France Edward Hung, Honk Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irene Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huiye Ma, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA Konstantina Zerva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Looking for your contributions,

SLAECE Chairs:

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA
Chairs

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA

Committee members

Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University - Bucharest, Romania / Danish Technical University, The Netherlands Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Luis Borges Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa - Porto, Portugal Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet -Saint-Etienne, France Edward Hung, Honk Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irene Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huiye Ma, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA Konstantina Zerva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Looking for your contributions,

SLAECE Chairs:

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA

Call for Presenters

Taxonomy CoP: Search Analytics Case Studies

On September 3rd, 2008

Deadline August 18th, 2008

Earley & Associates, Inc. sponsors monthly Webinars organized for the Taxonomy Community of Practice.

These are open to any practitioner interested in learning more about taxonomy development, content management, search, and a variety of other related topics.

We are currently seeking subject matter experts and practitioners working in the field of Search Analytics Case Studies who may be interested in delivering a 20 to 25 minute presentation offering up a compelling viewpoint on our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 1pm Eastern Time.

Participation in these events is a fantastic opportunity to promote your company, showcase your talents to current clients and to reach out to new ones.

We ask that anyone interested in participating submit a brief abstract with name, title, company, session title and short overview outlining the presentation content by noon on Monday, August 18th, 2008 to Sachie Kelly Hayashi at sachie@earley.com.

Should you be interested in participating in any of our future webinars, a list of topics and dates follows below. We would be very happy to receive submissions for any of the following. All webinars take place at 1pm EST.

September 3rd, 2008 Search Analytics Case Studies

October 8th, 2008 Content Strategies

November 5th, 2008 Search Integration

December 3rd, 2008 BI and Search Applications

Should you have any questions please feel free to contact Sachie Kelly Hayashi at (617)-650-6689 or at sachie@earley.com.

The College Libraries Section of ACRL invites you to submit a presentation
proposal for a program tentatively scheduled for Sunday, July 12, 2009 from
10:30 until noon at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The title of the
program is Our Town, Common Ground: Academic Libraries' Collaboration with
Public Libraries.

This session is co-sponsored in name only by the Public Library Association
(PLA) and the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS).

We would like the program to provide real-world examples of academic and
public libraries cooperating with one another. Experiences and reflections
may be presented by individual librarians or co-presenters who represent
academic and/or public libraries. Examples of cooperative endeavors include
but are not limited to shared systems, buildings, or programming;
cooperative digitization projects; services for distance learners; and
consortial relationships. The collaborations may be short-term endeavors or
permanent partnerships.

Four presentations of 15 minutes each will be selected through a blind
review process. This will permit time for dialog between the presenters and
questions from the audience within the 90 minutes allocated for our meeting.
This presentation may be recorded as a web cast, and made available on the
ALA website.

If you are interested in presenting, please send a proposal of 500 words or
less to Ruth Connell at ruth.connell@valpo.edu by October 1, 2008. Please
send questions to the same e-mail address. Notification of acceptance will
be made by November 1, 2008.

February 18-20, 2009
New Learning Technologies 2009
Ramada Orlando Celebration Hotel and Convention Center
Orlando, Florida

Abstracts for presentations from knowledgeable professionals in industry, government, military, and academia are solicited to provide presentations which would be part of a comprehensive conference program on the latest learning technologies as they are being applied to training, education and job performance improvement, including ways to implement technology, descriptions of education and technical skills applications, e-Learning, enterprise management, and instructional systems design, together with Knowledge Management systems.

The submissions should be in the form of individual presentations, panel discussions, and preconference tutorials. Topics of interest include:

Mobile Computing, Handhelds & PDAs
· Handhelds, PDAs, Smartphones, Tablet PCS

· Using Effective elearning and engaging distance learning for the enterprise

· Mobile-optimized Web Applications

· Pervasive computing devices and other ubiquitous computing technologies

· Virtualization, Process Migration, Thin-client Computing, Network Mobility

· Security Issues involved in interactions with Mobile Computing

· Mobile Computing’s Impact on Workforce Productivity

· Mobile Enterprise Asset Management Systems

Knowledge Management Systems
· Integrating EPSS

· Knowledge Management (KM) systems for operations improvement

· Purchasing KM systems vs outsourcing (ASPs)

· Learning Management Systems (LMS)

· Learning Content Managements Systems (LCMS)

· LMS Interaction with other Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

· LMS Interoperability standards (SCORM, AICC, IMS, IEEE)

Gaming and Simulation for Training and Job Performance Improvement

· Online Games

· Military Applications

· Massively Multiplayer Simulation (MMP)

· Agent-Based gaming, Avatars, and Distributed environments

· Game-based Learning

· Simulations and Games for Strategy and Policy Planning

· Business Gaming Using Expert Systems

· Simulations Utilizing Problem Solving Tools

· Customizable, Computer-based Interactive Simulations

· Simulation gaming for Management Training

New Technologies & the Marketplace
· Defining the Learning Marketplace

· Social Networks & Net Communities

· Virtual Learning Environments

· Criteria for instructional design & delivery methods

· Return on Investment (ROI) and Improved Productivity

· Integrated Enterprise Learning and Performance Improvement

· Content and Technology Interoperability Issues

· Corporate Learning Portals vs. Application Service Providers (ASPs)

Instructional Systems Design
· Blended Learning strategies

· Strategies to address remote learners

· Implementing Accessibility into e-Learning

· Authoring tools and their effectiveness

· Evaluation processes and assessment techniques

· ISD for the Enterprise and Performance Improvement

· Prototyping in the development process

· Business cases for learning measurement

· Acquiring metrics and developing budgets

Presenters and Attendees would include the following:

· Academic Professionals

· Chief Learning Officers

· Directors of E-Learning

· Directors of Training and Development

· E-learning Project Managers

· Military and Industrial Trainers

· Government Professionals and Managers

· Performance Support Professionals

· Managers of Training

· Management and Training Consultants

· Compliance Training Managers

· Hardware and Software Systems Manufacturers

· Education/Training Facilitators

· Human Performance Technology Professionals

· Instructional Designers

· Instructional Systems Developers

· Curriculum Developers

· Content Developers

· E-Learning Developers

· Application Development Managers

Please submit abstract(s) of your proposed presentation(s) (up to 100 words per topic suggested). Abstracts will be considered for an individual presentation, or as a participant in a panel discussion. We are also seeking proposals for 1/2 day preconference tutorials related to the foregoing. A proceedings will be prepared and you should indicate whether you will provide a paper prior to the conference for inclusion in the proceedings. Abstract submissions should be received by September 15, 2008. If your abstract is accepted, papers should be submitted by January 23, 2009 in order to be included in the Conference Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference, present their work to their peers, and transfer copyright. Primary speakers receive a complimentary registration to the conference. All other speakers will be required to pay a discounted conference registration fee. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your ideas for a presentation, please call John Fox at (540) 347-0055.

Accepted speakers will have their biographies included on the SALT® conference web site as well as a photo if this material is provided to SALT®. Submit on-line at www.salt.org or send to SALT, 50 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, VA 20186. Phone: 540-347-0055 / Fax: 540-349-3169 / email: OrlandoProgram09@salt.org. The program schedule will consist of preconference tutorials on Tuesday, February 17, and the main conference presentation sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 18-20.

Author’s Information

Be sure to include the author’s name, title, organization, address, phone number, and email address. In addition, relevant biographical information about the author(s) should be included with the abstract submission so it can be posted on the SALT web site.

Key Dates to note

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: September 15, 2008

Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2008

Submission of Papers: January 23, 2009

Conference Dates: February 18-20, 2009

For more information go to: http://www.salt.org/fl/orlandoP.asp?pn=orlando&ss=l or
http://www.salt.org/docs/call.pdf


Society for Applied Learning Technology

50 Culpeper Street

Warrenton, Va 20186

Ph: (540) 347-0055 Fax: (540) 349-3169 Web: http://www.salt.org

Call for Participation Deadline: October 17 <<

** Join with 1,200+ Colleagues from 50 Countries **

* Please forward to a colleague *

http://site.aace.org/conf/
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SITE 2009

Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
International Conference

March 2-6, 2009 * Charleston, South Carolina

(Embassy Suites Hotel/Convention Center)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

** Submissions Due: Oct. 17, 2008 **

Organized by
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
http://site.aace.org/
and
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
http://www.aace.org/
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** What are your colleagues saying about SITE conferences? **
http://site.aace.org/conf/testimonials.htm

COLOR POSTER--SITE 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://site.aace.org/conf/pdf/SITE09poster.pdf

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** NEW FOR SITE 2009 **
Submit Your Full Paper for Publication in the Book--
"Research Highlights in Teacher Education 2009"

SITE 2009 will offer for the first time an alternative Full Paper submission category.
"Full Papers (Edited Book Candidates)" are Full Paper submissions submitted in
their final by Oct. 17th. These will be reviewed for publication in
"Research Highlights in Teacher Education 2009" as well as a presentation.
http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm#FullPapersBook
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>> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) <<

1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Oct. 17th:
http://site.aace.org/conf/call.htm
http://site.aace.org/conf/submitguide.htm
http://site.aace.org/conf/PresenterLounge

2. Scope & Major Topics: http://site.aace.org/conf/topics.htm

4. Presentation Categories: http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm
5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://site.aace.org/pubs/

6. Corporate Participation: http://site.aace.org/conf/corporate.htm
7. For Budgeting Purposes: http://site.aace.org/conf/rates.htm

8. Charleston, South Carolina: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Charleston
9. Deadlines: http://site.aace.org/conf/deadlines.htm

INVITATION:
SITE 2009 is the 20th annual conference of the Society for Information
Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual
teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all
disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of
knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and
faculty/staff development. SITE is a society of AACE.

You are invited to participate in this international forum which offers
numerous opportunities to explore the research, development, and applications
in this important field. All proposals are peer reviewed.

SITE is the premiere international conference in this field and annually
attracts more than 1,200 leaders in the field from over 50 countries.

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To submit a proposal, complete the online form at:
http://site.aace.org/conf/submitguide.htm

For Presentation and AV guidelines, see:
http://site.aace.org/conf/PresenterLounge
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PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:

* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers (Full & Brief)
* Posters/Demonstrations
* Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
* Tutorials/Workshops
* Roundtables
* Symposia

SCOPE:
The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced level
on all topics related to:

(1) the use of information technology in teacher education, and
(2) instruction about information technology in
* Preservice
* Inservice
* Graduate Teacher Education
* Faculty & Staff Development

Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as
describe innovative projects are encouraged.

MAJOR TOPICS

GENERAL TOPICS:
* Assessment and E-folios
* Corporate
* Development of Future Faculty
* Digital Video
* Distance/Flexible Education
* Electronic Playground
* Equity and Social Justice
* Evaluation and Research
* Games and Simulations
* Graduate Education and Faculty Development
* Information Literacy
* Information Technology Diffusion/Integration
* International Education
* Latino/Spanish Speaking Community
* Leadership
* New Possibilities with Information Technologies
* Web/Learning Communities
* Workforce Education

CONTENT AREA TOPICS:
* Art Education
* Assistive Technologies
* Early Childhood Education
* English Education
* Human Languages Education
* Information Technology Education
* NSF ITEST: Innovative Technology Experiences for Teachers and Students (US Gov. Funded Projects)
* Mathematics Education
* Middle School Education
* Science Education
* Social Studies Education
* Special Education/Assistive Technology
* Technological, Pedagogical, And Content Knowledge (TPACK)

PT3:
US Dept. of Ed. PT3: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (US Gov. Funded Projects)

Submissions in each of these areas will be blind reviewed primarily by the members of the SIG (Special Interest Group) corresponding to the topic chosen. For information on each SITE SIG, see: http://site.aace.org/sigs/

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm
The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful
activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. These include
keynote and invited talks, paper presentations, roundtables,
poster/demonstrations, tutorials/workshops, panels, and corporate showcases.

PROCEEDINGS:
http://www.EdITLib.org
Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Technology and Teacher
Education Annual proceedings series. Books in this series serve as major
source documents indicating the current state of teacher education and
information technology. This proceedings will be published as a searchable
electronic book on CD-ROM.

The Annuals are internationally distributed through and archived in the
Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org.

First and second paper authors are limited to two papers published in the
Annual.

PAPER AWARDS:
http://site.aace.org/pubs/
All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within
several categories.

Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the:
- Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE) (http://site.aace.org/pubs/jtate/) or
- Online journal, Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education (CITE) (http://www.citejournal.org/),

Highlighted in the:
- AACE online periodical AACE Journal (http://www.aace.org/pubs/aacej/), and
= Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org.

CORPORATE PARTICIPATION:
http://site.aace.org/conf/corporate.htm
A variety of opportunities are available to present research-oriented
papers, or to showcase and market your products and services. For information about Corporate
Showcases (30 minutes) and Corporate Demonstrations (2-hours, scheduled with the Poster/Demos),
click here.

FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://site.aace.org/conf/rates.htm
http://site.aace.org/conf/hotel.htm
The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
approximately $295 (members); $340 (non-members). Registration includes Proceedings on
CD, receptions, and all sessions except tutorials.

The conference hotel (Embassy Suites Hotel/Convention Center) specially discounted
guest room rate is $155 (single/double). http://site.aace.org/conf/hotel.htm

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Where History Lives--Indulge, Play, and Explore!
http://site.aace.org/conf/cities/charleston

For more information about Charleston, South Carolina, USA
see: http://www.charlestoncvb.com/

DEADLINES:

Proposals Due: Oct. 17, 2008
Authors Notified: Nov. 26, 2008
Proceedings File Due: Jan. 21, 2009
Early Registration: Jan. 21, 2009
Hotel Reservation: Jan. 29, 2009
Conference: Mar. 2-6, 2009

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To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link
to http://www.aace.org/info.htm

If you have a question about SITE, please send an e-mail to
SITE/AACE Conference Services, conf@aace.org

Contact:
SITE--Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
P.O. Box 1545
Chesapeake, Virginia 23327 USA
Phone: 757-366-5606 * Fax: 703-997-8760
E-mail: conf@aace.org * http://site.AACE.org

Call for Papers:
Deadline: September 15, 2008

Location/Date:
40th Anniversary Convention,
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Feb. 26-March 1, 2009 Hyatt
Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Description:
Seeking papers for a roundtable on the theme of marginal spaces in the
works of Carmen Martín Gaite. How does marginality empower or
debilitate? How does it figure in Martín Gaite’s ideas about history and
feminism, aesthetics and politics? How does it link her to a feminist
canon from which she has been mostly excluded? How can Martín Gaite’s
works be repositioned within the Women’s Studies canon, graduate and
undergraduate? Range of critical/theoretical approaches welcome. Send
abstracts (500 word limit) for 15 minute papers to
Elizabeth.Huergo@montgomerycollege.edu. (Requests for a more detailed
description are also welcome.)

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will be posted in
June: www.nemla.org.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel;
however, panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants
may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.

C A L L F O R S H O R T P A P E R S

@WAS Emerging Research Projects and Work in Progress Symposium (ERPAS)

10th @WAS International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008)

Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/

6th @WAS International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

(MoMM2008)

Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/

24-26 November, 2008

Linz, Austria

email: erpas@iiwas.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

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August 21, 2008 : Symposium papers submission

September 15, 2008 : Acceptance Notification

October 15, 2008 : Camera-Ready Papers

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iWAS2008 and MoMM2008 invite researchers to present, discuss and defend their work-in-progress or projects preliminary results in front of an international and renowned audience of researchers and developers. The symposium will be organized in parallel to iiWAS2008 and MoMM2008 conferences, which are going to take place 24-26 November 2008 in Linz, Austria.

Researchers at all stages in the process are invited to submit a position paper. The paper should not exceed 5 pages length, and should contain a problem statement, an overview of related work in the area, research methodology, current stage of the project and the expected contribution to the topics of interest supported by iiWAS2008 (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/about.html) and MoMM2008 (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/about.html).

Publication

We are happy to announce that the accepted papers will be published together with iiWAS 2008 and MoMM 2008 proceedings by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library and indexed in major indexes.

Authors of outstanding papers will be invited to submit an extended paper to distinguished journals.

Review Process

Submitted short papers will be blind peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Templates

Papers should be formatted according to the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) guidelines(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Authors using LaTex need to choose the LaTeX2e - Tighter alternative style.

If you have already formatted your paper according to the OCG (Austrian Computer Society) style, it is not necessary to upload an ACM formatted version right now, but you will be asked to reformat your paper upon notice of acceptance.

Submission Process

Submissions and queries should be forwarded by email to the symposium chair: erpas@iiwas.org

For further information, please contact

Dr. Ismail Khalil

iiWAS2008 Steering committee chair

Institute of Telecooperation

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Altenberger Strasse 69

A-4040 Linz, Austria

Tel: +43 732 2468 9888

Fax: +43 732 2468 9829

Email: ismail@iiwas.org

We are soliciting academic papers for an anthology on feminism and
fashion. Fashion is a powerful way we express our politics,
personalities, and preferences for whom and how we love. Yet fashion
can also repress freedom and sexual expression. Fashion encourages
profound creativity, rebellion, and defiant self-definition while
simultaneously controlling and disciplining the body. Fashion signals
resistance to sexual morés and it can also promote a problematic
consumer culture. Fashion creates collective identity, but also
constrains individual voice. In other words, fashion contains the
paradoxical potential for pleasure and subjugation, expression and
conformity.

This book explores the productive tensions generated by fashion and
style. We are interested in essays that take up fashion, style, and
gender with special attention to race, class, sexuality, age, and
ethnicity. This collection blends theory and pop culture analysis in
exciting ways, focusing on contemporary trends and controversies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Theories of agency, style, and the presentation of self
Performing identity: race, class, gender and sexuality through style
Consumerist pleasure and anxiety
Fashion production in the context of global capital and trade
Bois, grrls, trannies and styles of queerness
Hardcore, metro, punk, khakis: constructing masculinities through
fashion
Body art and ethnic appropriations
Debates in plastic surgery and re-fashioning the body
Class identity and decorating domestic space
Feminist fashion: debates over style and politics
The ethics of green production and marketing
Everyday pornography and fashion fetish
Virtual style and online identities
Material culture and craft in a postmodern world
Slumming and radical chic: tensions of authenticity and irony
Vintage and thrift fashion: nostalgia and class signifiers
DIY Style: fashion off the corporate grid

Deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2008.

Format for abstracts: Word document, double-spaced, between 300 and
500 words. Include contact information and short bio.

Send abstracts, bios and questions to: FashionBook1@yahoo.com

Shira Tarrant
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Department
California State University, Long Beach

and

Marjorie Jolles
Assistant Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Roosevelt University