Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, İstanbul Technical University and the Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University in İstanbul, Turkey on May 25-29, 2011. http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com/ Keynote Speakers: Ian Hodder (Stanford University) Richard Handler (University of Virginia) Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University) Charles Stewart (University College London) We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory, materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We invite papers that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites, monuments and objects at…

Dear Colleague, The EuroMov center at Montpellier-1 University in the south of France organizes a special conference in December 2011: SKILLS is the international conference of the SKILLS European Project (IST, Multimodal Interfaces, 2007-2011). It addresses fundamental and translational issues related to the acquisition, storage, maintenance and transfer of human skills using multimodal technologies such as virtual and augmented realities, human-machine interfaces, interaction design, and robotic systems. SKILLS aims at introducing a novel approach to technology-assisted skill acquisition or rehabilitation based on enactive and direct interaction between learner and technology. Perception-action and cognitive accelerators embedded in specific training protocols are…

October 21, 2010 News Release WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The role of gender in technology, especially robots, will be highlighted during a one-day symposium, art exhibition and film screening at Purdue University. “Robots and Representation: Emerging Issues in Gender, Technology, Design and Culture” is Nov. 5 in the Discovery Learning Research Center. “As engineering and technological advancements make humanoid robots in our everyday lives a reality, rather than science fiction, we want to better understand the role that gender plays in the design of actual robots,” said Shannon C. McMullen, an assistant professor of visual and performing arts and one…

FESTIVAL AS LAB European Cities of Advanced Sound (ECAS) CALL FOR ENTRIES Call for Entries Deadline:  24 October 2010 http://submit.futureeverything.org/ecas-festival-as-lab To launch the new ECAS European festivals network, a Euro 10,000 Commission is available for a new project responding to the theme Festival as Lab. This call for proposals seeks projects which take the form of an experiment, a prototype or a trial in a new type of art object, technology or form of participation. The commissioned project will receive a Euro 5,000 fee, up to Euro 5,000 production costs, plus additional limited staging costs and support. The deadline for…

“Directions of Realism” – Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference – February 18-19, 2011 A graduate conference sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, Baltimore, Maryland Is realism a coherent category, or was it ever? Can realism stake out its identity independent of rival categories like naturalism, idealism and expressionism? This conference seeks to explore the various meanings that the term “realism” takes on within and among disciplines like art history, philosophy, literature and film studies, to understand the issues involved in identifying a work or theory as “realist,” and to map out the various trajectories along which realist conceptions have developed…

SimTecT 2011 Asia-Pacific Simulation and Training Conference and Exhibition Call for Abstracts SimTecT 2011 will be held from Monday 30 May to Thursday 2 June, 2011 at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The major theme of SimTecT 2011 is “Achieving Excellence in Training and Decision Support through Simulation”. Download the SimTecT 2011 Call For Abstracts / Papers Brochure (607 KB PDF). Topics We are seeking papers specifically addressing your experience in delivering positive outcomes through simulation in two main areas: Training Decision Support We want to explore the extent of what is possible, and what enablers and…