First Chess Interactions Conference

University of SASKATCHEWAN - CANADA
August 17-21, 2009

https://ocs.usask.ca/chess

The first Computer Science, Humanities, Engineering/education/economics, ScienceS (chess) interactions conference is a truly interdisciplinary conference which brings together experts from computer science, the humanities, engineering, education, economics and the social and natural sciences. the main objective of the conference consists in exploring common themes and methodologies among the diverse disciplines.

This is a three university collaborative effort as colleagues from the Universits of Saskatchewan(Canada), Leicester (UK), and Vaxjo(Sweden) are putting it together with speakers from three continents.
We invite contributions from participants, which will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee and oral presentations will be selected. The proceedings will be published. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 27, 2009.

Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu
Professor and Head,
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N5E2
+1-306-966-6412
Email: chary.r@usask.ca
Visit the website at http://https://ocs.usask.ca/chess

 

European/Asian/ Middle Eastern History

Come, reach the stars and partake in an enlightening conference in the Mile High City, Denver CO., April 8-11, 2009. Faculty, students, independent scholars, and public historians are invited to submit their proposals in European/Asian/ Middle Eastern History section of the SWSSA Conference. The SWSSA is the oldest social science association in the U.S. and is composed of academics and practicing professionals for seven disciplines. The European/Asian section organizes a plethora of both faculty and graduate panels each year. We host academicians from colleges and universities around the nation and even the world: E.G., last year we had scholars coming in from Cairo Egypt, England and more!

Please visit our website at www.sssaonline.org for further information. Moreover, please forward this message on to your colleagues and graduate students who might be interested in coming to the meeting and submitting a paper for presentation. The deadline for panel and paper submissions is November 14, 2008.

Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Ph.D.
SLU 10895
Department of History
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond LA., 70402
Email: jfai-podlipnik@selu.edu
Visit the website at http://sssaonline.org

 

CFP: “Popular Movements in World History” (Graduate Workshop in World History, University of Oxford, 3 Dec 2008)

The Graduate Workshop in World History invites papers from postgraduate students on the theme of “Popular Movements in World History” for our termly workshop to be held on 3 December 2008.

2009 will see the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The workshop will take that anniversary as a starting point to look more broadly at popular movements throughout world history. These can range from the social, cultural, ideological and religious aspects of political mobilisation, to broader themes examining concepts such as democracy, liberty, or justice and their role in revolutions. We are particularly interested in papers which focus on trans-national and cross-border movements.

There is no limit on the time period or scope of the paper. Paper presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes. The Graduate Workshop in World History is a postgraduate seminar held at the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, UK, and aims to be a forum for the free exchange of ideas between postgraduate students. We strongly encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their studies. We regret travel grants are not available.

Please submit a short abstract of no more than 300 words to M. Ali Raza at muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk by November 15, 2008. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and other contact information.

M. Ali Raza
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Email: muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk

 

Teaching: W. McKeachie

“Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples,” (W. McKeachie: Quotations on Teaching, Learning and Education).

 

W.H. Auden: Prayer

“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than yourself.  Whenever a man so concentrates on his attention — on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God — that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying (W.H. Auden: Quoteland).

 

Albert Einstein: Books

“Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.  Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,” (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955: The Quotations Page).

 

Theodore Roosevelt Symposium

Plan to join us at the third annual symposium as renowned historians and scholars explore Roosevelt’s reading in conservation literature, his field observations, his writings about conservation, and the friendships he developed in the course of his life that helped shaped his conservation ethic and legislative activity. The two-day symposium includes a field trip to Medora, North Dakota, where Roosevelt built two ranches in the late 1800’s and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Ronald Treacy
Dickinson State University
291 Campus Drive
Dickinson, ND 58601
701-483-2560
Visit the website at http://www.dickinsonstate.edu

 

” Kosovo and Ottoman Empire in Archive Documents” 03-05 November 2008 Pristina-Kosovo

Archive of Kosovo in cooperation with Turkish Administration for Cooperation and Development Agency(TIKA)will organize a scientific symposium “Kosovo and Ottoman Empire in Archive Documents International Symposium”.  It will be held in Grand Hotel (Sheshi Nene Tereza) Pristina-Kosovo from 03-05 November 2008.

Main Titles

I-Political and Administrative Structure in Kosovo during period of Ottoman Administration

II- Population in Kosovo during period of Ottoman Administration

III- Economy in Kosovo during period of Ottoman Administration

IV- Culture and Civilization in Kosovo during period of Ottoman Administration

Prof.Dr.Jusuf Osmani
REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO/GOVERNMENT OF KOSOVA/OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER/ARCHIVE OF KOSOVO
tel. ++381838512-310,++377-44-133-225. tel./fax. ++38138512499,
Email: arkkosoves@hotmail.com

 

Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century

This three-day symposium (5-7 December 2008) to be held at the University of Bristol will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the ways in which the Tudor period, its monarchs (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I), its artistic expressions, and its cultural heroes (for example, Holbein, Shakespeare, and Byrd) have been appropriated by later generations. Its focus is thus ‘Tudorism’, which may be defined as the modern reception of the history, literature, art, architecture, design and music of the Tudor age. The modern cultural imagination has often derived a substantial, sometimes even predominant, portion of its ideas and images of the past from the sixteenth century, inspiring architects, artists, designers, musicians and writers. Tudorism is a topic with enormous potential for fertile inter- and cross-disciplinary exchange, and the symposium will be the first forum for the study of this remarkable phenomenon, its express purpose being to set the agenda for future research. The timing of the event anticipates the quincentenary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne in 1509. There will be numerous types of commemorations of the anniversary, but this timely symposium will concentrate on the long-term impact of this monarch and his family. Dr David Starkey will deliver a public lecture on 6 December. The symposium is sponsored by the Colston Research Society and the British Academy.

Directors: Professor Marcus Bull and Dr Tatiana C. String

Dr Tatiana C. String
Department of History of Art
University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UU
U.K.
44-117-954-6050
Email: t.string@bris.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/colstonresearchsociety

 

Technologies of Globalization

International Conference: 30-31 October, 2008
Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany)

Presently (re-)shaping social life as well as economics and science, globalization is in manifold ways related to and in fact highly dependent on technology.

The first international conference of the post-graduate school “Topologies of Technology” seeks to explore in greater detail and from a deliberately interdisciplinary angle the role(s) and function(s) of world-embracing information and communication technologies, transport, and computing facilities in the global age.

In plenary discussions and a variety of interdisciplinary streams, the conference
- inspects the novel ways in which global(ized) technologies enable mobility (and require new modes of managing these)
- attempts to clarify how newly developed technologies contribute to and assist the currently observable developments in the particular field of engineering and, more generally, in labor distribution and organization
- traces their influence on the re-definition of “the local” against the backdrop of “the global
- gives space to historical considerations aiming at the disclosure of precursors of technology-enhanced globalizing tendencies
- discusses the world-wide efforts of controlling and improving body movement(s) for the target group of old-age people, in sport science / kinesiology and perceptual computing

Keynotes by
- Thomas Sattelberger (Chief Human Resources Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG)
- Johann Dietrich Wörner (CEO of German Aerospace Center DLR)
- Reinhard Blomert (Chief Editor‚ Leviathan’)
- Jyoti Hosagrahar (Columbia University)
- Ruper Deger (Parametric Technology Corporation)

Streams:
- Managing Mobility
- Informatized Work: Towards a New Division of Labor?
- Glocalization in the Production of Built Environment
- Globalization Revisited: World-Embracing Technologies in a Historical Perspective
- Aging as a Global Issue – A Challenge for Technology and Society

Conference Venue:
Maritim Rhein Main Hotel Darmstadt, Am Kavalleriesand 6, D-64295 Darmstadt
http://www.tog08.org
e-mail: info@tog08.org
phone: + 49 6151 16-2006

Important Dates
Registration: 15 October, 2008
Early Bird registration: 31 August, 2008

This event as well as the post-graduate school “Topology of Technology” is primarily financed by the German Research Council (DFG).

“Topology of Technology”
Karolinenplatz 5 (Fach 1404)
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany
Email: info@tog08.org
Visit the website at http://www.tog08.org