[SDH/SEMI Members] INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference

[Inke Conference]

As a partner of INKE or a related discussion list I am forwarding to you our
call for papers for a Birds of a Feather conference to be held at the
University of Victoria on October 24 and 25. Please note that the
submissions deadline for abstracts is June 1 to inke.conference at gmail.com.
Thank you!

Call for Papers: INKE 2009 Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research
Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age 23 and 24
October 2009, University of Victoria (http://www.uvic.ca)
Proposals by 1 June 2009 to inke.conference at gmail.com

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing,
reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a
gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and
writing environments and the new kinds of digital artifacts--electronic
books, being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now
and into the future.

This conference explores research foundations pertinent to understanding
those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work
leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and
post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience
information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces
and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the
issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and
communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team
research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and
other issues pertinent to research in the area to INKE 2009, to be held at
the University of Victoria, 23-24 October 2009. Proposals should contain a
title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited,
and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers
will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal.

Some funding is available to assist in graduate student travel to this
event; if you wish to apply for this, please indicate this when submitting
your proposal.

*Please send your proposals before 1 June 2009 to inke.conference at gmail.com.
* Proposals will be reviewed and participants contacted by 1 July 2009, and
papers for publication in the conference volume will be due 15 August 2009.
Conference details will be posted as they are available to
http://www.inke.ca/inke2009, beginning 1 May 2009.

Programme Committee: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta),
Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C
London), Tassie Gniady (U Victoria, Coordinator).


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Tassie Gniady
INKE Project Manager
University of Victoria
tassieg at gmail.com
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