http://hastac.org/forums/future-museums

The topic of museums and technology is a timely one – as museums of all sizes and types rush to embrace technologies – and also a challenging one, as these institutions attempt to embrace a participatory culture facilitated by new digital technologies, while at the same time retain their expertise and authority as guardians of our culture and heritage.

http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/2012/index
Film-Philosophy Conference 2012

King’s College London; Queen Mary, UoL; Kingston University
September 12, 2012 – September 14, 2012

Film-philosophy continues to grow as an important discipline within the fields of both Film Studies and Philosophy. The Film-Philosophy Conference brings together scholars from all over the world to present their research on a broad range of topics within the subject area.

The 2012 conference will take place September 12-14, and will be jointly hosted by King’s College London, Queen Mary, University of London and Kingston University.

Keynote Speakers:

Bernard Stiegler (Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Technology of Compiègne)
Francesco Casetti (Yale University)
Ken McMullen (Director of Ghost Dance)
Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Damian Sutton (Middlesex University)
This year’s event will feature a special screening and workshop at the BFI Southbank, to coincide with their Hitchcock Retrospective.

We are open to any topics on the subject but would particularly welcome papers relating to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Abstracts should be 200 – 300 words long and papers, including clips – which we strongly encourage – should not exceed 25 minutes. We accept panel submissions with a maximum of three speakers and a length of 90 minutes.

Fees will be announced shortly.

Submission deadline: 31 May 2012

You must register a free account with the conference website in order to submit a proposal.

Both individual and panel proposals must be submitted through the conference website (no initial cost involved): http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/2012/about/submissions

http://www.caa2013.org/drupal/

The 41st CAA conference will be held at the University Club of Western Australia from 26th – 28th March 2013, with pre-conference workshops on 25th.

A call for sessions will be issued around April 2012 with an acceptance in May/June 2012.

A call for papers will be issued around May/June 2012 with an acceptance in September to allow plenty of lead time for travel grant applications and early travel bookings.

http://www.researchgate.net/conference/Early_Modernity_and_Video_Games/
We cannot think of modern society without also thinking of video games. And we also cannot think of video games without thinking of history. The number of games featuring historical content is enormous and growing on a daily basis. This also includes top-selling titles of the games industry. For the science of history this automatically means that the presentation of historical content in those games has to be questioned as well as the conceptions of history they embody. The conference aims at providing grounded perspectives in this field by the study of concrete examples from a clearly defined sample from the range of video games with historical background. Early modern history is to be the epochal focus. Unfortunately the findings in this field so far are somewhat abstract because some problems regarding video games have not been satisfactorily solved up until now. Under this come the difficulties to correctly cite from nonlinear sources that are exemplified by video games. Because this kind of sources is growing fast due to the increasing spread of nonlinear internet content historians as well as other scholars of the humanities are challenged to develop adequate methodologies to deal with the complexities involved. Video games could turn out to be a prime lever here. The – compared to the popularity of the medium – relatively few studies so far have mostly shown the medium to restrict its contents, and subsequently not to present a conception of history that historical academia would like to find there.
But also questions relating to the presentation of basal categories as space, time and people in video games with historical backgrounds are to be answered here. We see early modernity in a structurally and process-oriented way rather than strictly chronologically and Eurocentric and pursue a flexible, globally and locally oriented approach to early modernity that makes room for non-simultaneities. The strategies and staging mechanisms video games use to integrate history shall thus be clearly illustrated by examples as concrete as possible. This shall help to disclose the programs, mechanisms, and strategies video games use to integrate history and to construct recognisable historicity – and: if and why gamers accept them.
The scope of possible methods of citation and presentation shall be wide – creativity is encouraged.
We do not want to to describe video games as deficient from the perspectives of established research agendas. We instead will try to respect the video game as a medium in its own right and to look into its momentums and intrinsic logics in a creative, innovative and constructive way but without relativising our scientific positions and methods, holding an open-minded yet critical distance.
The conference explicitly addresses not only historians but wants to reach out across all disciplinary boundaries. Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz (Siegen University) and Prof. Dr. Rolf Nohr (HBK Braunschweig) are going to speak at the conference.
Proposal relating to the following questions are accepted:
1. How can video games, being a nonlinear type of sources, be adequately cited and described as exactly as it is possible with linear sources?
2. How are space and time as basal categories of experience presented in video games connected to Early Modernity?
3. Which functions do separate landscape elements have in regard to the overall construction of particular game titles?
4. How are people presented in exemplary titles?
5. Which special markers are used to demarcate the epoch of Early Modernity clearly in particular games?
6. Which relation exists between the integration of the player in the game and the grand narratives of particular titles?
7. Which codes are used to inscribe stereotypical patterns of behaviour into particular games?
8. How does a medium as keyed to suspense as the video game handle the actual long-term development of historical events?
Proposals for 20-minute-presentations consisting of an one-page abstract, short CV and list of publications should be sent to Florian Kerschbaumer [florian.kerschbaumer] und Tobias Winnerling [winnerling] until May 15th, 2012. Conference languages are German and English. Publication of the proceedings is intended.

http://www.dariah.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190:joint-clarin-ddariah-workshop-at-digital-humanities-conference-2012-call-for-papers&catid=3:dariah&Itemid=197

Service‐oriented Architectures (SOAs) for the Humanities: Solutions and Impact

Large research infrastructure projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences such as Bamboo, CLARIN, DARIAH, eAqua, Metanet and Panacea increasingly offer their resources and tools as web applications or web services via the internet. Such web‐based access has a number of crucial advantages over traditional means of service provision via downloadable resources or desktop applications. Since web applications can be invoked from any browser, downloading, installation, and configuration of individual tools on the user’s local computer is avoided.
The paradigm of service‐oriented architectures (SOA) is often used as a possible architecture for bundling web applications and web services. While the use of web services and SOAs is quickly gaining in popularity, there are still a number of open technology and research questions which await more principal answers. The purpose of this joint CLARIN/DARIAH workshop is to provide a forum to address these issues.

We especially encourage submissions on one or more of the following topics: integration of multimodal resources, standardization of workflows and data formats, interactivity and collaborative research in a SOA, impacts of emerging web technologies on future SOAs, the pros and cons of web-based versus desktop applications.

Submitted abstracts of papers for oral or demo presentations should consist of 1500-2000 words. Abstracts will be submitted electronically using the conference tool ConfTool. Further detail will be given in the second call for paper.

The accepted papers will be published as electronically available workshop proceedings.

Invited Speaker

Eric Nyburg (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), title to be announced

Program Committee

Nuria Bel ((Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Projects CLARIN, MetaNet4U, PANACEA), Tobias Blanke (Centre for e‐Research, Kings College London, Project DARIAH), Travis Brown (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; Project Bamboo), Matej Durco (University of Vienna, Projects CLARIN and DARIAH), Erhard Hinrichs (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Project CLARIN), Heike Neuroth (SUB, University of Göttingen, Project DARIAH), Laurent Romary (INRIA/CNRS, Project DARIAH), Eric Nyburg (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen), Martin Wynne (Oxford University, Projects CLARIN and DARIAH), Thomas Zastrow (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Project CLARIN)

Workshop Organizers

– Erhard Hinrichs
– Heike Neuroth
– Peter Wittenburg
– Thomas Zastrow

Workshop venue

http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/venue/university-of-hamburg/

Important Dates

– April 02: Second Call for Papers
– April 15: Final Call for Papers
– April 23: *Deadline* for Submission
– May 15: Notification of Acceptance
– June 26: Deadline for Proceedings Papers
– July 16 or 17: Workshop

Workshop homepage

http://clarin-d.de/index.php/de/news/veranstaltungen-2/workshops/104-workshopdh2012

Post Digital Art, Third Computer Art Congress (CAC.3)
http://postdigital.eu
Conference/Workshops/Exhibitions/Performances

November 26-28, 2012, Le CENTQUATRE
5 rue Curial, 75019 Paris

About
CAC.3 invites artists, intellectuals, engineers and scientists to share their imaginations, creations, inventions and visions of the post digital art.
The world has never appropriated technology in the same way that digital. This technology has penetrated and dominated almost, different facets of our everyday life: cognitive, cultural, economic, psychological, social,…
CAC.3 could be considered as intellectual therapy that challenge actors of the society to rethink their innovation approaches and the way they perceive the world, to explore new dimensions of our space, to go forward, to trace their own path, to be followed CAC.3 count on the abilities of artists to explore digital and extra digital spaces in order to anticipate new technological issues that can influence our post digital world.

Check out the list of participants (http://postdigital.eu/participants) to see who else is coming.
CAC.3 is under the auspices of CiTu Paragraphe (University Paris 8), le cenquatre and Europia.org, organized by Prof. Khaldoun Zreik with assistance of Robin Gareus.
Committee members and authors can be found under Delegates (http://postdigital.eu/speakers)

Call for papers, art, installations and workshops
. Deadline for submissions: June 4th, 2012
. Notification of acceptance: July 17th, 2012
. Camera-ready papers: Sept 3rd, 2012
digital.eu/submission/author/contact.php)