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18/8/2009

2nd Conference Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage SCCH 2009 November 16th-18th 2009, Heidelberg, Germany http://scch09.uni-hd.de/

18/8/2009

ACE 2009: 5th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2009 (4th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference) Athens, Greece, October 29-31, 2009 http://www.ace2009.org/ ======================================================================= ACE has become the leading academic forum for dissemination of novel research results in the area of entertainment computing. This year for the first time it incorporates DIMEA which has established itself over the last three years as a strong conference on interactive entertainment arts. Together the conference forms an exciting new step blending deeply the latest research in art and technology. The focus of ACE 2009 is to gather researchers from academia and industry -researchers who are working in multi-disciplinary areas within the arts, psychology, computer science, and design- to discuss, present, and demonstrate their new contributions. The goal of ACE is to stimulate discussion in the development and advancement of interactive art and entertainment applications. It, thus, strides to balance several interdisciplinary areas and seeks representation in all these areas, including, but not limited to: * Accessibility * Aesthetics * Affective Computing * Ambient Intelligence * Animation Techniques * Attention * Augmented / Mixed Reality * Avatars and Virtual Community * Community * Cultural Computing * Digital Entertainment and Sports * Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting * Digital Cinema * Elderly Entertainment * Empathy * Entertainment Design Theory * Experience Design * Funology * Graphics Techniques * Human-Robots Interaction * Interaction Design * Interactive Computer Graphics * Interactive Theatre * Internet Networking Media * Learning and Children * Location-Based Entertainment * Metaverse * Mixed Media * Mobile Entertainment * Multimodal Interaction * Narratives / Digital Storytelling * New Gaming Audiences * Novel interfaces * Pervasive and Online Games * Physical Computing * Robotic Love and Affection * Simplicity * Situativity * Smart Gadgets and Toys * Social Impact * Social Networking * Sound and Music * Synesthetic Entertainment * Tangible Interfaces * User Interfaces * Visual Effects * Virtual Reality

18/8/2009

2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 09-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt Extended Submission Deadline: July 6th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS is the premier international conference on interactive digital storytelling. Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to: · Interactive Storytelling Theory · Virtual Characters and Agents · Environments and Graphical Effects · Interactive Cinematography · Design of Sound Interactivity · Story Generation and Drama Management · New Authoring Modes · Narrativity in Digital Games · Mixed Realities and Mobiles · Tools for Interactive Storytelling · Emotion Design for Interactive Storytelling · Non-Visual Senses for Interactive Storytelling · Social and Cognitive Approaches for Interactive Storytelling · Semantic knowledge for Interactive Storytelling · Real-time techniques for Interactive Storytelling · Collaborative environments for Interactive Storytelling · Evaluation and user experience reports · Case studies and demonstrations

18/8/2009

Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'09) http://iva09.dfki.de/ September 14-16, 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands ********************************************************************** The IVA'09 Program is now available on the Web: http://iva09.dfki.de/

18/8/2009

ADAPTIVE 2009: The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications November 15-20, 2009 - Athens, Greece General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ADAPTIVE09.html The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. 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 to, topic areas. - Fundamentals and design of adaptive systems - Adaptive entities - Adaptive mechanisms - Adaptive applications - Self-adaptation - Self-adaptation applications - Metrics for adaptive and self-adaptive systems

18/8/2009

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - ICIDS 2009 - INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING Proposals are solicited for full-day or half-day workshops to be held on December 12, 2009, the Saturday that follows the main ICIDS 2009 Interactive Storytelling conference. ICIDS workshops shall provide a platform for presenting or developing novel ideas in a less formal or more hands-on way than the main conference itself. Workshops may be oriented towards theoretical topics, but also address practical issues. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers. It is expected that they reserve ample time for general discussion and involvement of the participants, especially integrating students and novices to our research area. Researchers and practitioners from all segments of the interactive digital storytelling community are invited to submit proposals. The organizers of approved workshops are expected to define and manage the call for contributions, and to take an active role in gathering the participants. The organizers will have to provide an 1-2 pages article for the ICIDS 2009 proceedings (Springer LNCS), describing the motivation, aims and format of the event. This summary must comply with the formatting rules for final camera-ready papers (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and be submitted by September 20, 2009. Organizers are also expected to provide a summary of the actual outcome and derived future activities, after the event. Submissions describing proposed workshops (up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goals of the workshop, planned activities, the maximum number of participants, and a description of the participants recruitment and selection process, along with a clear and complete specification of the practical requirements, concerning room size, equipment, etc. Submissions should also include a one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer. The workshop will be held at the CCG Computer Graphics Center (http://www.ccg.pt), at a walking distance of approximately 20 minutes (1.7 km or about 1 mile) from the main conference venue. A bus transfer service will be provided. Workshop proposals must be sent by email to the chairs of ICIDS 2009 (icids2009@ofai.at) by September 10, 2009. For more information on ICIDS 2009, please visit http://www.icids2009.ccg.pt.

18/8/2009

CONTENT 2009: November 15-20, 2009 - Athens, Greece General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CONTENT09.html

18/8/2009

The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR2011. The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval is a merger of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) and the Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) series. The ICMR conference series exists primarily to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia retrieval. Toward that goal, ICMR aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of multimedia retrieval. It is essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. Submission Deadline: 25 September 2009 Details are available at http://press.liacs.nl/icmr/icmr2011.cfo.final.pdf

18/8/2009

Second Workshop on Serious Games in Cultural Heritage (SGCH) In conjunction with VSMM 2009: 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia Vienna, Austria, September 9-12, 2009. The “Serious Games in Cultural Heritage” (SGCH) workshop is intended to be a forum for the areas related with Serious Games applied to the Cultural Heritage (CH). The main objective of the workshop is the exploration of “engage yourself with the heritage” concept, in order to investigate new, compelling modalities of interacting with faithful representations of the CH and propose new areas of applications for Serious Games. The idea is to explore how to conveniently apply leading-the-edge entertainment technologies to the promotion and wide dissemination of contents and experiences related to the CH. The workshop areas of interest includes (but are not limited to): - Promotion of the cultural heritage through entertainment technologies - Serious games to promote knowledge and interaction with the cultural heritage - Virtual worlds with a cultural-heritage value - Living worlds - Online interaction with 3D reconstructions of the heritage - Serious games programming and design - Narrative related to cultural heritage (especially non-linear story-telling and interactive narrative) - Digital tools for increasing the interaction of the general public with the cultural heritage - Game Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage - Cultural Computing - Cultural Knowledge Engineering - Cultural Heritage applications-games in mobile devices - Interactive Digital TV and Cultural Heritage - New interaction modalities with digital representations of the cultural heritage - Validation of the cultural appropriateness and usefulness of systems based on digital entertainment - Evaluation and assessment methodologies - User-centred design of cultural entertainment applications - Business models for serious games and, more generally, for cultural entertainment - Definition of user needs and stakeholder requirements for cultural entertainment projects - Tools, methodologies and practices to support participatory and contextual design of multidisciplinary teams in projects for the digital heritage

20/4/2009

WWW2009
18th International World Wide Web Conference
April 20 - 24, 2009, Madrid, Spain
http://www2009.org

WWW2009 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers may be submitted to the following tracks: * Data Mining * Internet Monetization * Performance and Scalability * Rich Media * Search * Security and Privacy * Semantic / Data Web * Social Networks and Web 2.0 * User Interfaces and Mobile Web * Web Engineering * XML and Web Data In addition, the conference solicits original research papers to the following alternate tracks: * Industrial Practice and Experience * WWW in Ibero-America IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Refereed papers due: November 3, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii Time; no extensions will be granted) Acceptance Notification: January 20, 2009 Conference dates: April 20 - 24, 2009 OTHER SUBMISSION DEADLINES -------------------------- Workshops: October 10th, 2008 Tutorials: November 30th, 2008 Panels: December 21st, 2008 Posters: January 11th, 2009 Developers track: February 2nd, 2009 Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in online proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference's web site. The Program Committee will select a small number of excellent papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM Transactions on the Web. Authors of accepted papers will retain proprietary rights to their work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form to IW3C2. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2009.org/submission.html. The WWW2009 program will also include Tutorials and Workshops, Panels, a W3C track, a Developers track, Posters, and Exhibitions. See http://www2009.org/calls.html for details. General Chairs: * Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) * Gonzalo Leon, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) Program Chairs * Yoelle Maarek, Google Inc. (Israel) * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and Hannover University (Germany) Local Organizing Committee Chair * Joan Vinyes, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

30/3/2009

EUROGRAPHICS 2009:
30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics
March 30 - April 4, 2009
Munich, Germany

Conference Chairs: Rüdiger Westermann, TU Munich, Germany David Kirk, NVIDIA, US Information: http://www.eurographics2009.de Papers Chairs: Marc Stamminger, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Philip Dutre, K.U.Leuven, Belgium News: Papers program starts Tuesday and ends Friday at noon Deadlines (http://www.eurographics2009.de/calls/): Full papers abstract: September 25, 2008 Full papers: September 30, 2008 Eurographics 2009, the 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, will take place from March 30 to April 3, 2009, in Munich, Germany. It will be organized on the Research Campus Garching of the Technische Universität München. Eurographics 2009 will provide a unique platform for the computer graphics community to showcase latest techniques and educational work, and to explore new trends and ideas, and it will also offer the opportunity to demonstrate products and services to this community. Authors are invited to submit original work presenting fundamental research, practice and experience, or novel applications in all areas of computer graphics, and related topics thereof.

22/3/2009

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUNDTABLES
at the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA)

The 37th annual conference on Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) will take place at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia from March 22 to 26, 2009. The conference will bring together students and scholars to explore current theory and applications of quantitative methods and information technology in the field of archaeology. CAA members come from a diverse range of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, art and architectural history, computer science, geography, geomatics, historic preservation, museum studies, and urban history. For full information, please see the conference web site at www.caa2009.org .

The annual meetings of CAA are normally devoted to topics such as: agent-based models, bioarchaeology, CIDOC and other digital standards, databases, 3D data capture and modeling, data management systems and other field applications, GIS, predictive modeling, open source software in archaeology, photogrammetry and imaging, prospection and remote sensing, quantitative methods, high precision surveying, virtual museums, and virtual reality.

Submissions of proposals for sessions, round tables, and workshops will be due by *October 15, 2008*. The online submission system, which will be posted at http://www.caa2009.org/PapersCall.cfm, will open September 3, 2008. Submitters will be notified of the results by mid-November, when the call for individual papers and posters will be open. Abstracts for individual papers and posters will be due by *December 15, 2008*.

Sessions

Session organizers should provide a session invitation of 300 to 500 words relating to a well-defined theme. You should define the topic, explain its importance, and suggest the specific themes or issues that might be appropriately addressed by your contributors. A session can consist of two or three 90-minute blocks of time punctuated by a 15-minute break. It typically consists of six, but no more than nine, presentations and should include time for debate and discussion as well as an introduction and a wrap-up. Session proposals may include one or more abstracts of papers that will be presented, but will normally leave open the possibility for members of CAA to apply to participate in the proposed session. All session proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance. This review will take into account any paper abstracts you include with your session proposal. Once a proposal has been accepted, it is placed on the conference web page, and an invitation is issued for additional paper abstracts to be submitted to your session. The session organizer will advise the Scientific Committee on which papers should be accepted or rejected for their session. The organizer will also be responsible for scheduling the order of presentations, presiding over the session, and for nominating two or three of the papers for publication in the printed acts of the conference.

Round Tables and Workshops

Round table and workshop organizers should provide an invitation of 300 to 500 words introducing the discussion topic. A /round table/ proposal includes a list of four to eight panel members (names and affiliations) from at least two different countries. It should address a topic of general interest to the CAA community. The round table organizer must ensure that the panel members agree to attend the conference and take part in the round table. A round table organizer is the chairperson and acts as moderator. A time slot of 90 minutes will be allocated to each round table discussion. All round table proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee for their quality and relevance.

A /workshop/ typically consists of a software and/or hardware demonstration in which the audience can actively participate. The proposal must include information on the duration (not to exceed 135 minutes), experience level, and prerequisites of the targeted audience as well as the maximum number of participants. Along with the proposal, a list of the presenters and their affiliations is required.

14/3/2009

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2009
March 14-15, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
(in conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2009) 3DUI 2009 - Call for Papers http://conferences.computer.org/3dui The IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2009 is the fourth international symposium focused on the topic of 3D UIs and will be held to provide an intensive exchange between industrial and academic researchers working in various 3DUI research areas and to trigger discussions among participants. It builds on successful 3DUI workshops in 2004 and 2005, as well as the IEEE 3DUI Symposiums in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The symposium will last for two days, and will be followed immediately by the IEEE VR conference. The theme of the Symposium will cover all areas of 3D UI research. The Symposium themes include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * 3D input devices * 3D display devices * 3D interaction techniques * 3D user interface metaphors * 3D UIs for games * 3D UIs for CAD * Applications of 3D UI techniques * Biologically inspired 3D UIs * Collaborative 3D interaction * Desktop 3D UIs * Evaluation methods for 3D UIs The Symposium solicits high quality papers and tech-notes within the scope of 3DUI (see the double-submission policy on the 3DUI www server). Papers (up to 8 pages) should describe original and mature research results and will typically include some evidence of the validity of the presented research. Examples of such evidence may include, but are not limited to, a user evaluation, formal proof, or well substantiated argumentation. Tech-notes (up to 4 pages) should contain unpublished preliminary results of research or design work. Papers and Tech-notes should be prepared in IEEE VGTC format (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html) submitted through the submission web site in PDF format, and will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers. Reviewing is double-blind. Accepted papers and tech-notes will be published by IEEE in the official Symposium proceedings. An International Award Committee will also award Best Paper and Best Tech-notes awards, and authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the a journal. For further information and for a detailed statement on double publication, please see the Symposium website: Important Dates ============ * Papers, Tech-notes abstract submission due: October 24, 2008 * Papers, Tech-notes full-version submission due: October 31, 2008 * Posters, Demos submission due: November 14, 2008 * Papers, Tech-notes, Posters and Demos notification: December 19, 2008 * Final camera-ready Papers, Tech-notes, Posters: January 05, 2009 Please understand that the Papers and Tech-notes abstract submission due (October 24) is BEFORE the review decision of the IEEE VR 2009 (November 12) this year, due mainly to a tight reviewing schedule. Keynote Speaker ============ Gordon Kurtenbach, Autodesk Symposium Chairs ============ Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Canada Program Committee ============== TBD Posters Chairs ========== Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, Germany Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia Raphael Grasset, HITLabNZ, New Zealand Demo Chair ========== TBD

2/2/2009

W S C G ' 2009
http://wscg.zcu.cz
(formerly the Winter School of Computer Graphics)

17-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2009
in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS
to be held at University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic close to Prague - the Golden European City February 2-5, 2009

Program Co-chairs ------------------- Min Chen, Swansea University, U.K Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Keynote speakers ------------------ Min Chen: Visualization in Flatland, Swansea University, U.K. Eduard Groeller: Visualization with Knowledge and Style, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Information for authors =============== Paper and files uploads: October 15, 2008 13:00 GMT (London time) ================================================= Up to 8 pages of A4 format PDF, additional material (video as MPEG, AVI, color plates etc.) can be submitted up to 5 MB Topics included ---------------- Computer graphics and visualization, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, fundamental algorithms, GPU computation, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modeling, computer aided geometric design, computational geometry, rendering and virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, parallel and distributed graphics, WWW technologies, CAD and GIS systems and others. Selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG, Vol.17. ISSN 1213-6972 Accepted and presented papers and posters will be published in the WSCG proceedings with ISBN and all papers will be available on-line on WSCG WEB site Organizer and conference office Prof. Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Computer Science Department Univerzitni 8, Box 314, CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz Subject: INFO WSCG 2009 http://wscg.zcu.cz Fax: +420-37 78 22 578 Tel./Fax: +420-37-763-2457

2/12/2008

VAST 2008
December, 2 to 6
Braga, Portugal

9th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
6th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
http://www.vast2008.org/

20/10/2008

VSMM 2008
Conference on Virtual System and Multimedia Dedicated to Digital Heritage
http://www.vsmm2008.org/

13/10/2008

Workshop on Hyper-media 3D Internet
Supported by the INTERMEDIA NoE and the NEM Initiative

13-14th October 2008
Palais du Grand Large, Saint-Malo, France
http://hypermedia3d.miralab.unige.ch/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent research challenges have been identified in order to define the Future 3D Internet in a worldwide perspective. 3D Internet contains three aspects: 3D content, interface and networking. The target outcome of such a challenge has been envisaged to lead to: Novel networking schemes incorporating content capabilities within the network. 3D Internet aims at offering real-time natural interaction, ubiquitous connectivity capabilities so as to support seamless and creative collaboration. 3D Internet architectures and technologies are envisaged to ensure that 3D augmented worlds are tightly coupled to the physical world, for games, commercial or social networking and contribute in defining a new form of 3D hyper-media as opposed to hypertext of current 2D Internet.

A special thematic issue containing the best papers will appear in the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, published by J. Wiley. All full and short papers will be provided in a CD form with ISBN during the workshop.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following research topics:
• Hyper-3D media concepts and standards
• Applications for networked virtual and augmented reality worlds
• Platforms and middleware for 3D networked applications
• Real-time and interactive networked media in mobile mixed reality
• 3D multimodal interactions for Internet applications
• Measurement and tracking of user experiences
• Creation of cooperative and participative future networked media
• Emotional interaction and communication
• 3D static and dynamic content adaptation
• Social networking
• User generated 3D content and search
• 3D sensors and localization
• Dynamic networking
• Security and DRM
• Creative 3D Internet and performance art applications

Full (10 pages, single space) and Short (4 pages, single space) papers must be submitted electronically via the instructions found in:
http://hypermedia3d.miralab.unige.ch/

Deadlines
• Full and Short Paper Submission deadline:
July 25th 2008 (CET 23:45)
• Notification to authors: September 10th 2008

Workshop Co-chairs
• Mingyu Lim, University of Geneva
• Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras
• Daniel Thalmann, EPFL

Programme Co-chairs
• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva
• Petros Daras, CERTH
• Raffaele Bolla, University of Genova

Short papers Co-Chair
• George Papagiannakis, University of Geneva

About the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds:

With the advent of very powerful PCs and high-end graphics cards, there has been an incredible development in Virtual Worlds, real-time computer animation and simulation, games. But at the same time, new and cheaper Virtual Reality devices have appeared allowing an interaction with these real-time Virtual Worlds and even with real worlds through Augmented Reality. Three-dimensional characters, especially Virtual Humans are now of an exceptional quality, which allows to use them in the movie industry. But this is only a beginning, as with the development of Artificial Intelligence and Agent technology, these characters will become more and more autonomous and even intelligent. They will inhabit networked Virtual Worlds in a Virtual Life together with animals and plants. Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds is the first journal to address this global thematic of the Virtual Worlds.
This thematic has been subdivided into 6 areas:
• Computer animation
• Embodied agents
• Networked Virtual Environments
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual Life
• Visualization

More information about the journal can be retrieved at:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-CAV.html

8/10/2008

PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2008 CONFERENCE
October 8-10, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.pg08.com

The Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics) is an annual international conference on computer graphics and applications. As the 16th in the highly successful series, Pacific Graphics 2008 will continue to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners in the Pacific Rim and around the world to present and discuss new problems, solutions, and technologies in computer graphics and related areas. This year, we will have four distinguished invited speakers from around the world: Marc Alexa, Ken Anjyo, and Henrik Wann Jensen. Invited talks; Marc Alexa: Over-sketching as human video out. Henrik Wann Jensen: Simulating the Appearance of Nature. Ken Anjyo : Exploring Directability, Regular papers will be presented in oral sessions and published as journal papers in *** Computer Graphics Forum ***. Poster papers will be printed in a separate poster proceedings. Topics * Geometric Modeling * Computational Photography * Physically Based Modeling * Point Based Graphics * Geometry Processing * Animation * Interaction Techniques and HCI * Visualization * Volume Rendering * Rendering and Illumination * Image Based Rendering and Modeling * Image and Video Processing * Virtual and Augmented Reality * Web Graphics and Computer Games * Graphics Systems and Hardware * Graphics Applications For further details about PG'08 in Tokyo, see http://www.pg08.com and for registration, see https://act.jtbgmt.com/gmt/ssl/pg2008.asp Conference Co-chairs: Tomoyuki Nishita, The University of Tokyo, Japan Masayuki Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Organization Co-Chairs: Yasushi Yamaguchi ,The University of Tokyo, Japan IsseiFujishiro ,Tohoku University Takafumi Saito ,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Program Co-chairs Takeo Igarashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Nelson Max, University of California, Davis, USA Francois Sillion, INRIA, France

16/9/2008

2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
(VL/HCC'08)

Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 16-20 September 2008 - http://vlhcc08.cs.unibw.de/

From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing Practitioners have sought ways to make interactions with computers more human-oriented. For example, visual languages have long been used to provide effective communication between humans and computers. Visual languages have been successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, and rapid prototyping; they have supported design activities by people of many disciplines and backgrounds including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual languages and technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through Internet/Web technology and electronic mobile devices.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the theory, applications and evaluation of technologies, visual and otherwise, that enhance the role of humans in the computing process.

Established in 1984, the mission of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing ("VL/HCC") is to support the design, formalization, implementation, and evaluation of computing languages that are easier to learn, easier to use, and easier to understand by a broader group of people.

This includes all research aimed at the above mission, regardless of whether it uses entirely visual technology, text, or instead uses sound, taste, virtual reality, the web, or any other technologies. Examples of research addressing this problem include, but are not limited to, language/environmental design aspects, theory that supports the many media used toward this goal, implementation aspects, empirical work, software comprehension aspects (including software visualization), and software modeling and/or software engineering aspects.

VL/HCC 2008 is an event in the Visual Week, running from September 15th to September 21st, 2008, being colocated with Diagrams 2008 and SoftVis 2008.

1/9/2008

HCI2008 Culture, Creativity, Interaction, the 22nd Annual British HCI conference

Liverpool, 1-5th September 2008

Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 The Final Programme for the HCI2008 conference can be downloaded from the conference website http://www.hci2008.org

25/8/2008

EVA Vienna 2008

"Digital Cultural Heritage -Essential for Tourism"

Vienna, Austria August 25th - August 28th, 2008

Following the successful 1st EVA conference in Vienna in 2006, the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Group of the Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) invites authors and guests to the 2nd EVA conference in Vienna.

The main aim of this EVA Event in Vienna is to create a forum for discussions between the cultural heritage research community, technology researchers and cultural institutions. Our mission is to establish new technical tools for experts in the cultural heritage field. The accompanying motto of this conference is "Digital Cultural Heritage – Essential for Tourism". The conference will focus on image analysis, cultural tourism, speech and communication in cultural heritage, archaeography, and museum and archaeological applications. The focus will be on both applied work as well as theoretical advances.

More info at http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/eva08/

22/7/2008

IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
(MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008 (http://www.mccsis.org)
The IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008) aims to address two main subjects: Computer Science and Information Systems. The multi conference has different conferences according to several themes. Conferences part of the MCCSIS 2008 multi-conference:
e-Learning 2008 - EL2008 (http://www.elearning-conf.org/)
Intelligent Systems and Agents 2008 - ISA2008 (http://www.isa-conf.org/)
Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 - WAC2008 (http://www.wac-conf.org/)
Gaming 2008: Design for Engaging Experience and Social Interaction - G2008 (http://www.gaming-conf.org/)
Visual Communication 2008: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture - VC2008 (http://www.vc-conf.org/)
ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008 - ICT2008 (http://www.ict-conf.org/)
Web Based Communication 2008 - WBC2008 (http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/)
Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 - IHCI2008 (http://www.ihci-conf.org/)
Data Mining 2008 - DM2008 (http://www.datamining-conf.org/)
Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 - TNS2008 ( http://www.tns-conf.org/)
Informatics 2008 - I2008 (http://www.informatics-conf.org/)
e-Commerce 2008 - EC2008 (http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/)
Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 - CGV2008 (http://www.cgv-conf.org/)

22/7/2008

EVA 2008 London

Electronic Imaging and Visual Arts Conference,
Training and Workshops
22 - 25 July 2008, London

Website: http://www.eva-conferences.com

The EVA London conference is a forum for communicating the uses and implications of electronic visualisation in culture and the arts, an invaluable information and exchange forum for all those interested in, using or working with the new technologies in the cultural sector.
Moreover, the conference:
• has a focus on visualisation for the arts and culture - interpreted broadly to include its impications, effects, and consequent strategies and policies;
• covers the burgeoning creative uses of digital media for works of art and creative productions;
• is a forum for European projects to disseminate the results of EC investment in technology for culture and the arts, and to publicise and explain funding opportunities;
• is a networking event for other groups and projects;
includes a free-of-charge Research Workshop for MA, MSc and PhD students, and others, to share their research in a friendly and informal setting.

Call for paper: deadline = Summary: 31 January, 2008; Full paper: 31st May, 2008.

2/7/2008

6th Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference 2008 (EG_IT_08)

Salerno, 2nd - 4th July 2008

Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M. Capocelli" - Via Ponte Don Melillo - Fisciano (SA), Italy

CALL FOR PAPER
EG_IT (EUROGRAPHICS Italian Chapter http://svg.dmi.unict.it/EG_IT/) is the Italian chapter of the EUROGRAPHICS Association, and its mission is to promote the Computer Graphics in Italy.

EG_IT has scientific and educational aims, and through the organization of an annual conference, meetings and discussion forums, it is the reference point in Italy for researchers, students and professionals that are interested in research and development of computer graphics.

The annual event of the Association will be the 6th Conference, which follows up the success of the previous editions:
- 1st Edition: 2002, hosted by Facoltà di Disegno Industriale del Politecnico di Milano
- 2nd Edition: 2003, hosted by Dipartimento di Meccanica del Politecnico di Milano - Bovisa
- 3rd Edition: 2005, organized by Scuola Invernale sulla grafica interattiva, ISTI - CNR Pisa
- 4th Edition: 2006, hosted by Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università di Catania
- 5th Edition 2007, hosted by Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali dell'Università di Trento

EG_IT_08 will offer a panoramic view on the state of the art of research and its application in topics concerning computer graphics and on systems-oriented research and novel applications of computer graphics across domains such as medicine, industry, media and arts to name but a few. The final goal is to strengthen and to widen the Italian community of top practitioners, users and researchers working in the field.

EG_IT_08 aims at easing communication within the scientific community and circulation of ideas and innovative methods, which will hopefully inspire further collaboration between participants particularly between academia and industry. This will be encouraged hosting international peakers, who will present overviews about recent results in relevant application areas, and by organizing technical tutorials.

EG_IT_08 intends to provide a stimulating arena for young researchers and Ph.D. students. They will have the possibility to show research results, and to get feedbacks by the scientific community, in a friendly and constructive environment.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Interactive graphics
- Serious Games
- Visualization and Realistic Rendering
- Non photorealistic rendering
- Image based modeling and image based rendering
- Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Shape modeling
- Physics based modeling
- Cultural Heritage
- 3D GIS
- Semantic web & Graphics
- Visual Analytics

The paper must be written in English. At least one author per accepted paper is requested to attend the Conference.

Proceedings will be published by Eurographics.

More information and details are going to be published at http://isis.dia.unisa.it/eg_it_08

Scientific Committee
Sebastiano Battiato (Università di Catania)
Francesco Beltrame (Università di Genova)
Eleonora Bilotta (Università della Calabria)
Monica Bordegoni (Politecnico di Milano)
Giulio Casciola (Università di Bologna)
Giuseppe Conti (GraphiTech, Trento)
Guido Maria Cortellazzo (Università di Padova)
Raffaele De Amicis (GraphiTech, Trento)
Rosario De Chiara (Università di Salerno)
Leila De Floriani (Università di Genova)
Giuseppe Di Gironimo (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Ugo Erra (Università della Basilicata)
Bianca Falcidieno (IMATICNR)
Andrea Fusiello (Universita’ di Verona)
Giovanni Gallo (Università di Catania)
Silvia Biasotti(IMATICNR)
Enrico Gobbetti (CRS4)
Antonella Guidazzoli (Cineca)
Paola Magillo (Università di Genova)
Daniele Marini (Università di Milano)
Laura Moltedo (IACCNR)
Maurizio Muzzupappa (Università della Calabria)
Pietro Pantano (Università della Calabria)
Alberto Paoluzzi (Università di Roma)
Piero Pili (CRS4)
Domenico Prattichizzo (Università di Siena)
Maurizio Rossi (Politecnico di Milano)
Vittorio Scarano (Università di Salerno)
Riccardo Scateni (Università di Cagliari)
Roberto Scopigno (ISTICNR)
Giuliana Ucelli (GraphiTech, Trento)
Antonello Uva (Politecnico di Bari)

Local Committee
Vittorio Scarano (vitsca@dia.unisa.it, Università di Salerno)
Rosario De Chiara (rosdec@dia.unisa.it, Università di Salerno)
Ugo Erra (ugoerr@dia.unisa.it, Università della Basilicata)
Riccardo Prinzi (ricpri@dia.unisa.it, Università di Salerno)
Gennaro Cordasco (cordasco@dia.unisa.it, Università di Salerno)

Important Dates
March 3rd, 2008 - Full paper submission
April 8th, 2008 - Notification of acceptance
May 8th, 2008 - Camera Ready Copy
July 2nd - 4th, 2008 - Conference

Conference Fees
Senior non Eurographics Member € 230
Senior Eurographics Member € 150
Students non Eurographics Member € 180
Students Eurographics Member € 120

Sponsors (preliminary)
Eurographics Association
Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M.Capocelli"
ISISLab

29/6/2008

The World Archaeological Congress (WAC)

June 29 - July 4, 2008
Dublin, Ireland

WAC is the only representative, fully international organization of practicing archaeologists. Founded in 1986, WAC encourages open dialogue among all people genuinely concerned about the past, including scholars from under-represented parts of the world, First Nations people, and descendent communities whose pasts are told by archaeologists. One of WAC’s primary functions is to hold an international congress every four to five years to offer discussion of new archaeological research as well as archaeological policy, practice and politics. Previous congresses were held in the United States, South Africa, India, Venezuela and England.

Ireland has the honour of hosting the SIXTH WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, to be held in Dublin.

Please click here to join WAC
http://worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/join.php

25/6/2008

Edutainment 2008

(http://edutainment2008.
eegame.cn/) will be held at Nanjing Normal University (China) in June 25-27, 2008.

It is an international forum for researchers to share their latest research output on the development and application of e-learning and digital entertainment systems. The conference will include plenary invited talks, workshops, tutorials, paper presentation tracks and panel discussions. Edutainment 2008 will cover a range of topics including:
Digital Heritage;
Digital Museum;
Virtual Reality in Education.

Papers accepted in the conference will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. Selected papers of high quality will be published by some international journals (IEEE CiSE, The International Journal of Virtual Reality, et al.). The conference will have tutorial and workshop sessions conducted by international researchers.

Call for paper: deadline = 10 December, 2007

18/6/2008

Landscape Evolution & GeoArchaeology, Porto Heli, Peloponnese, Greece, 18 to 21 June 2008

More info at: http://www.geoarch2008.gr

28/5/2008

Following the conference of 2007, the second 3DTV Conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey in May, 2008. The aim of 3DTV-Con is to bring researchers from different locations together and provide an opportunity for them to share research results, discuss the current problems and exchange ideas. The conference involves a wide range of research fields such as capturing 3D scenery, 3D image processing, data transmission and 3D displays. One of the conference topics will be 3D Applications - 3D imaging in virtual heritage and virtual archaeology. The complete list of topics can be downloaded at: http://www.3dtv-con.org/

23/5/2008

Theoretical Archaeology Group

May 23rd to 25th 2008 at Columbia University in the City of New York

TAG aims to be inclusive, informal, and low cost. It is run entirely by volunteers from the sponsoring department and it welcomes and encourages participation from students and archaeologists working outside of academic settings.

As such there is no membership fee; participants pay a registration fee that covers the cost of the conference, the conference program, the reception on the opening night and the famous TAG quiz and party on the last night. A great deal!

More information at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/conference/tag/abouttag.htm

1/5/2008

Eurasian Archaeology Conference

Regimes and Revolutions:
Power, Violence, and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the Modern May 1 - May 4, 2008

Our goals for the conference are:

• To examine the instruments of power, the semiotics of legitimation, and the mobilization of labor in the constitution of politics from prehistory to today.
• To explore the work of power without subsuming it to the domain of governmental institutions.
• To understand what the picture of authority over the longue durée looks like across Eurasia.

We encourage the attendance of scholars whose research is in regions that have been historically linked to Eurasia: Eastern Europe, the Near East, and East Asia. Most importantly, we strongly urge graduate students to participate.

The University of Chicago Conferences on Eurasian Archaeology bring together graduate students and senior researchers from institutions across North America, Europe, and Asia. Organized and run by the graduate students of the University of Chicago, each conference centers on a theme that is intended to encapsulate a broad set of pressing issues in the field. But the conferences also provide a forum for sharing new data, testing original ideas, and developing cross-cultural conversations that will forward the next decade of research in Eurasia.

More information at
http://acc.spc.uchicago.edu/eurasianconference/

28/4/2008

Location Intelligence Conference

April 28-30, 2008 -- Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, California

Enabling the Location Intelligent Enterprise

Our featured speakers will share their solutions and offer insights that will help you get more from your GIS, GPS, LBS and other location-related systems and solutions. You'll hear from executives representing these organizations:

more information at: http://www.locationintelligence.net/

24/4/2008

CONTESTED CULTURAL HERITAGE IN A GLOBAL WORLD

Thursday and Friday, April 24-25, 2008 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Program

Spurlock Museum and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices (CHAMP) have organized a major conference on "Contested Cultural Heritage" to be held at the Museum on Friday, April 25, 2008. Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, former Director of the Iraq National Museum and now Visiting Professor at the State University of New York-Stony Brook, will deliver the keynote address of the conference ("Mayhem in Mesopotamia" on April 24).

The conference brings together an international group of scholars to discuss how forces of religion and nationalism may act to heighten inter-group tension around heritage claims, even to the point of causing the destruction of ancient and historic sites. Among the cases to be considered are the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan; Christian and Muslim conflict resolution at a major mosque in Cordoba, Spain; different views and practices toward the indigenous past among Native Americans and the archaeologists who study their ancestors; the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles debate; Egypt's demand for the return of the Bust of Nefertiti; heritage frictions implicated in the recent Balkans War; Peru's attempt to repatriate the Machu Picchu collections from Yale University; and the aggressive marking of Protestant and Catholic identities in Belfast, Northern Ireland through wall art. A roundtable discussion at the end of the conference seeks to chart new directions for implementing policies that lessen the negative dimensions of cultural heritage and further awareness of its value for a larger public, thereby promoting site preservation as well as social/political harmony.

Registration for this conference is required. The cost is $15 and includes a box lunch on the day of the conference, April 25, 2008. Please fill out the form indicating lunch choice and send the form and your check (made out to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to:

CHAMP
Department of Landscape Architecture
101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820

The deadline for registration is February 15, 2008.

More info at http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/champ/5608

16/4/2008

EVA 2008 Florence

Electronic Imaging and Visual Arts Conference,
Training and Workshops
PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI, 16 – 18 April 2008,
Florence

Conference Languages: Italian & English

Website: http://www.eva-conferences.com

Among the Main Topics:
• Mediterranean Initiatives in Technology for Cultural Heritage:
Synergy with European & International Programmes;
• The Impact of New Mobile Communications (GPRS, UMTS) on Cultural Heritage and Modern Arts Area;
• Human - computer Interaction for Cultural Heritage Applications;
• 3D Developments and Applications in Archaeology & History;
• Cultural Tourism & Travel Applications.

Call for paper: deadline expired.

4/4/2008

Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks?
Future Directions for the Archaeological Study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland University of Leicester, April 4-6, 2008

The conference aims to bring together representatives from the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology, the Association for Industrial Archaeology, the Contemporary Historical Archaeology and Theory list, the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group, and the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland to consider the commonalties between approaches as well as the unique contributions made by members of each organisation towards the study of the material heritage of the post-1550 period. The impetus for this meeting lies in the expansion of interest in the period in both university, commercial, and voluntary sectors. We seek to avoid fragmentation of a still small discipline into subfields such as pre-1750 post-medieval archaeology, post- 1750 industrial archaeology, or the incorporation of theory as somehow outside of the purview of the work of the older organisations. Through this discussion-focused conference, we hope to foster enhanced understanding and cooperation between the organisations and their approaches, with in-depth consideration of the future of the broader field of historical archaeology.

We envision the conference as an opportunity for participants to explore differing perspectives on a series of broad themes impacting upon our shared discipline and its practice in Britain and in Ireland. Session themes include THEORY and PRACTICE to address interpretative issues as well as considering the perceived divide between academic, development-driven, and amateur approaches; MANAGING and INTERPRETING to consider what our role as practitioners is or could be in relation to legal frameworks for heritage; LANDSCAPES and INDUSTRY to consider urban and rural connections, to highlight ignored landscapes of industry, and to consider the merits of landscape approaches more generally; THINGS, PEOPLE or BOTH? an opportunity to take a stand for what you see as the core of archaeological inquiry; PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION, to take a fresh look at the relative importance of models of consumption and production, and to also consider the role of scientific analysis in post-medieval and industrial archaeology; BROADENING PARTICIPATION to address the role of avocational practitioners, our responsibilities in terms of public interpretation and participation, and the future of formal education in the archaeology of the period; and THE WAY FORWARD? discussion of the future for industrial, post-medieval, and historical archaeologies.

Paper abstracts should be no more than 150 words in length, and submitted by 1 September, 2007. If you are interested in participating as a presenter or discussant, please contact the organisers:

Professor Marilyn Palmer Dr. Audrey Horning mai@le.ac.uk ajh64@le.ac.uk School of Archaeology & Ancient History University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH

3/4/2008

Performing Heritage: Research and Practice International Conference

Manchester, UK April 3 - 5, 2008

PLEASE NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL: OCTOBER 15, 2007.

We are pleased to announce that the Performance, Learning and Heritage project will be hosting an international conference in April 2008. The conference will take place at the University of Manchester, and will provide a forum for discussing how research and practice in the field of museum performance/live interpretation can inform one another.

The Performance, Learning and Heritage project is an AHRC funded investigation into the uses and impact of performance as a medium for learning in museums and at heritage sites. The scope of the project is international, and since 2005, the team have been researching case study sites and carrying out a detailed mapping of practice. (For further details visit http://www.plh.manchester.ac.uk/.) 2008 marks the final year of the project, and presents a timely opportunity for debate and knowledge exchange in this fast developing area of performance and interpretive practice.

Areas to be covered by the conference include (but are not limited to):

Making connections : the intersection of performance/performativity, site specific practice and notions of heritage; Gauging impact : audience response and longer-term impact, the place of interactivity, and community outreach; Reports from the field : accounts and findings from research and evaluation projects in the UK and abroad. Some sessions at the conference will be devoted to the emerging findings of the PL&H research and the implications for future practice and policy making; but we are keen to hear about, and compare notes with, other research projects across the globe; Developing practice : examples of practice – live and recorded – to illustrate the range of performance practice and provide opportuni ties to interrogate that practice; workshops from practitioners and academics are invited as a means of exploring how research and practice interconnect; ‘research at the heart of practice’ – the focus will be on research as it informs practice, practice as it informs research and (not least) practice as a means of research in the museum/heritage sector.
We warmly invite proposals for papers (20 min. max.), performances, workshops and panel or round table discussions from practitioners, academics, policy makers and others working in the cultural heritage sector.
Contributions will be especially welcome from those around the world engaged in research, evaluation and development in this field. (Further details of the types of presentation envisaged can be found on the conference webpage at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/plh/conference.)

Proposals or expressions of interest (300 words maximum) should be sent to ruth.daniel@manchester.ac.uk by October 15th, 2007. Ensure you provide your name; your organisation or company if applicable (including position held); your postal and email addresses; the type of presentation you are offering; and your A/V or other technical or space requirements.

Updates on the conference – including registration details – will be posted to the project website over the summer months at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/plh/conference.

More info at http://www.imtal.org/Manchester2008.php

2/4/2008

36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
On the Road to Reconstructing the Past
Budapest, 2-6 April 2008

Invitation
The 36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology will be held on 2-6 April 2008 in Budapest, Hungary. The conference is organized by the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Hungarian National Museum, the Budapest Historical Museum, the Central European University, Archaeolingua Foundation, and the Research Institute for Visualisation, Architecture and Archaeology.

The conference is held under the auspices of the Directorate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture.

The main theme of the conference is the use of computer applications and quantitative methods in two fields: at large-scale (rescue) excavations that usually precede infrastructural investments and construction works, and during processing and analyzing the huge amounts of data from such excavations.

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for sessions, individual papers, poster presentations, workshops and round-table discussions in the main theme as well as in other CAA related topics.

Similar conferences
We would like to draw attention to upcoming conferences on similar topics as well as to sessions and workshops dealing with IT applications in cultural heritage management at conferences with a wider thematic reach.
> www.Vast2007.org
> www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org
> www.ucd.ie/wac-6/

more information at: http://www.caa2008.org/

26/3/2008

Society for American Archeology
Annual Meeting SAA 73rd Annual Meeting Vancouver, BC Canada
March 26 - March 30, 2008

http://www.saa.org/meetings/index.html

26/3/2008

3rd International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry.
Mediterraneo occidentale ed orientale a confronto.
Parma e Pisa (Italia), 26-30 March 2008

3rd International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry. Mediterraneo occidentale ed orientale a confronto. Parma e Pisa (Italia), 26-30 Marzo 2008 LRCW Conferences constitute an international event of high scientific level.
The previous editions, held in Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona, ERAUB, 2002) and Aix-en-Provence (Centre Camille Jullian e Laboratoire d’Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, 2005), drew a large number of European and extra-European participants who exposed and discussed the latest development of research concerning ceramic productions of the Mediterranean basin during Late Antiquity. The volume of the Barcelona Conference was published in 2005 (LRCW I. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean:
Archaeology and Archaeometry, Gurt i Esparraguera J. Ma., Buxeda i Garrigós J., Cau Ontiveros M. A. eds., BAR, Int. Ser. 1340, Oxford 2005), the one about the Aix-en-Provence Conference in forthcoming.
The next LRCW Conference will be in Parma and Pisa (Italy) from the 26 to the 30 March 2008. The organizers are: Sara Santoro (Dipartimento di Storia, Università di Parma), Marinella Pasquinucci and Simonetta Menchelli (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, Università di Pisa).
The specific theme is 'Comparison between the Western and the Eastern Mediterranean'.
The Conference will include lectures and poster sessions, visits to archaeological areas and museums. As in the previous editions, pottery from several italian archaeological context will be displayed; moreover, some microscopes will be at disposal in order to permit an useful exchange of ideas between archaeologists and archaeometrists.

More information at: http://lrcw3.humnet.unipi.it/home_it.html

11/3/2008

TECHA2008, International Forum and Brokerage Event on Technologies for the Cultural Heritage Advancement

Start Date: 11-Mar-2008
End Date: 11-Mar-2008
City: Rome
Country: Italy

Description:
On the occasion of the International Forum TECHA2008 - TECHNOLOGIES EXPLOITATION FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE ADVANCEMENT the IRCs CIRCE, IRIDE and IRENE organise a brokerage event focusing on technologies applied to Cultural Heritage. The event is supported by the IRC Thematic Group Environment (and in particular, by the Cultural heritage Sub-Group). TECHA2008 intends to represent a reliable window on the most excellent innovations in the sector of heritage conservation and valorisation with the purpose of encouraging meetings and co-operations projects between European research groups and centres of excellence that carry on research in this sector and companies interested in applied cutting-edge technologies.
The brokerage event will allow experts coming from the European countries to meet each other to exchange expertise, know-how and needs, and to start international cooperation. During the International Forum, companies selected by the Scientific Committee will also have the opportunity to expose their innovative products in a permanent exhibition.
The event will be focused on technologies applied to cultural heritage and in particular on:
• Survey, diagnostic and monitoring
• Materials and techniques of intervention
• ICT for the Cultural Heritage
• Sustainable energy for cultural heritage
Deadlines:
- Registration and submission of profiles: 15 February 2008
- Requesting meetings: 22 February 2008

For further infomation contact:
Mrs Sara Di Marcello and Ms Vania Virgili
Phone: +39 0649932538
E-mail: sara.dimarcello@cnr.it - vania.virgili@irccirce.it
Mr Salvatore Amico Roxas and Mr Fulvio Miraglia
Phone: +39 081 7723330 - 371
Email: salvatore.amicoroxas@portici.enea.it – fulvio.miraglia@portici.enea.it

EC Programmes:
Industrial Sectors: Construction technology
Materials technology
Chemical industry
Information processing, information systems
ENERGY
Environment protection
Measurement methods
Reference materials

7/3/2008

HERITAGE CITIES

A workshop sponsored by the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices March 7-8, 2008

Heritage is a concept to which most people assign a positive value. The preservation of material and intangible culture is typically presented as a shared common good in which everyone benefits. But heritage is also intertwined with identity and territory, where individuals and communities may compete. This aspect of heritage is particularly problematic in UNESCO World Heritage Cities and in other cities across the globe that market themselves specifically as “heritage cities.” One of the critical issues in dealing with cities is the enormity of their scale. A city is so large that multiple claims from diverse inhabitants are inevitable and more than one of these may claim the right to interpret or possess an individual site or building. Historically, residents have often divided according to ethnicity, laboring class, or language groups, congregating in neighborhoods – the barrio, quarter, or madina -- that express the identity of the residents through architecture, spatial organization, cuisine, and other external signs. As the demographic composition of a neighborhood changes, the older communities may leave but the memory will not necessarily be erased. In that case, does the historic urban fabric belong to the current or past residents? What is the role of memory in preserving cultural identity?

This workshop brings together representatives from various sectors (historians, urban planners, archaeologists, geographers, anthropologists, and tourism experts) who are concerned with the management of cultural heritage in the fascinating but almost uniformly endangered heritage cities.
The workshop is sponsored by the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices (CHAMP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will be held on our campus.

As an example of the workshop concerns we may turn to Latin America whose heritage cities face threats to their prehispanic architectural cores (e.g., Cusco, Peru), elite civic and ecclesiastical colonial architecture (throughout the region), and modern vernacular architecture (e.g., Havana, Cuba) due to economic development and/or neglect. Buildings and entire neighborhoods in these cities are in varying states of decay or face imminent physical destruction through the interaction of several factors such as deterioration of the urban core; loss of the traditional residents due to gentrification prompted by construction activities of the tourism industry; ill-conceived restoration and reconstruction; awkward shift in function to service tourism; pollution and traffic; and antiquated infrastructure. At the same time, the social life of these cities (specifically in their historic central districts) is being radically altered with the influx of tourists eager to “consume” heritage. Traditional residents now compete with tourists (and the service sector that supports them) for access to and use of their historic central districts.

In contrast, at Champaner-Pavagadh, India, which received UNESCO World Heritage status in 2004, there is virtually no entertainment tourism; yet each year two million pilgrims climb the sacred mountain to visit the shrine of the goddess on its summit. The economy of Champaner depends on this pilgrimage traffic, and the pilgrimage route is lined with small shops selling ritual paraphernalia, souvenirs, water, and food. The economy of Champaner depends on this pilgrimage traffic, and the pilgrimage route is lined with small shops selling ritual paraphernalia, souvenirs, water and food. Addressing the heritage management of such a site requires not only attention to the pilgrims and their needs, but sensitivity to the needs of the resident community for basic amenities. In such cases, community development can go hand in hand with investments in tourism.

Whereas national tourism boards and assorted ministries represent and “manufacture” these heritage cities as signs of the “museum quality” identity of their countries (i.e., rich in indigenous, folkloric essence), in fact, history is being deployed in an aggressively modern project of economic development and engagement with the globalized world. The challenges and contradictions of these important population centers should be comprehensively addressed at the start of the 21st century with the goal of generating productive international dialogue and spearheading creative solutions for the preservation and revitalization of heritage cities.

The workshop will be held in Christopher Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It begins with a full day of presentations on Friday, March 7, followed by a reception in the evening, and continues with a half day of presentations on Saturday, March 8. The complete program will be posted on this site in December.

Participants include:
Irene Bierman (UCLA), Sharon Haar (University of Illinois, Chicago), Zeynep Kezer (Newcastle University, UK), Susan Miller (Harvard University), D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Clare Sammells (University of Chicago), Joseph Scarpaci (Virginia Technical University), and Helaine Silverman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

The workshop is free and open to the public.

More info at http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/champ/4560

7/3/2008

20/2/2008

Cultural Heritage and Lifelong Learning

Children, young adults, adults, senior citizens

The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning’s Spring Conference 2008

February 20–21, 2008
Östersund, Sweden

Cultural heritage learning is a joint concept of the four activities:
archive learning, cultural environment learning, art learning and museum learning. One of the most important questions related to cultural heritage learning regarding lifelong learning is how the cultural heritage learning relates to the aims, the means and the target groups of the pedagogy?
It is furthermore important for the development of the work with cultural heritage learning that questions regarding both theory and practise are discussed regularly. An important part of this consists of a continuous study of the conceptual framework.

As a part of the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning’s (NCK) spring conference on 20-21 February 2008 in Östersund Sweden is arranged a seminar on the topic of cultural heritage learning aimed at the age groups of children, young adults, adults and senior citizens. At the seminar teachers, educators, researches, cultural entrepreneurs, students and others with an interest in cultural heritage learning will be given the possibility to discuss the aims and the means of cultural heritage learning with regard to defined age groups. The seminar is organised as four round table discussions with presentations of selected papers.

The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning invites you to participate by submitting an abstract (max. 200 words) and after a selection process a paper. Abstracts and papers should be in Danish, English, Norwegian or Swedish. The abstract should be sent no later than 1 October 2007.

The seminar organizers intend to publish a selection of the papers in a joint publication after the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning’s spring conference 2008.

Paper proposals should be sent or emailed to

Lasse Sonne
The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning (NCK)
Arkivvägen 1
SE-831 31 Östersund, Sverige
Tel: +46 (0) 63 776 426
Fax: +46 (0) 63 121 824
E-mail: lasse.sonne at jamtli.com
http://www.nckultur.org

1/2/2008

The second issue of the NetConnect newsletter is available for download from the project website at: http://www.netconnect-project.eu/issue2.htm

9/1/2008

SHA 2008 Conference
Albuquerque, NM, USA
New Mexico
January 9-12, 2008

How does the public benefit from historical archaeology? What are the consequences of not engaging the public or demonstrating a public benefit?
How do we effectively engage the public? How can “public benefit” be one of the primary goals of our efforts in historical archaeology? The 2008 conference program will feature symposiums, sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and forums that will address these and related questions about the public benefit of historical archaeology. Proposed sessions and forums include “Historical Archaeology and Civic Engagement,” “Heritage Matters in the 21st Century,” and “Academia, Cultural Resource Management, and the Public.” We are also looking for sessions and papers on such topics as “Diaspora Studies,” “Labor Studies in Historical Archaeology,” “Archaeology of the Working Class,” “Gender Studies in Historical Archaeology,” “Rewriting Documentary History,” “Modernization and Globalization,” “Colonialism,” and “Using Historical Archeology to Reveal Painful Pasts.”

As the 2008 conference will be in Albuquerque, there will also be several special sessions on the historical archaeology of New Mexico and the Southwest. Proposed sessions will examine the Spanish entrada, the impact of European contact on indigenous peoples, military sites in New Mexico, mining, and homesteading throughout the Southwest.

Conference participants will have opportunities to explore and enjoy New Mexico’s past through tours to Chaco Canyon; Acoma Pueblo; the state’s historic capital, Santa Fe; and other historical and archaeological sites in the region.
Conference participants will get to sample the special cuisine of New Mexico, and will learn the answer to the official state question: “Red or green?”

More information at http://www.sha.org/about/conferences/2008.htm

26/11/2007

VAST 2007, Brighton, UK 26-30 November 2007

More info at: http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2007/

15/11/2007

The X edition of the " Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico" (Mediterranean Award for the Archaeological Tourism) will take place from the 15th to the 18th of November, 2007 (www.borsaturismo.com) at the Ariston Exhibition Centre of Paestum ( Salerno, Italy). This exhibition promotes the tourism in Mediterranean archaeological areas, and the integration of different cultures, offering the opportunity to communicate the territorial image to a wide public of experts and visitors. This edition foresees the presence of 200 exhibitors (on an area of 15.000 mq.), 8.500 visitors, 254 journalists, 35 conferences, and 300 lectures. In the Paestum hall, in the same stand of Region Calabria and the local authority for Culture, the Evolutionary Systems Group (ESG) of the University of Calabria will present its work in the field of Cultural Heritage. In particular, there will be a poster (90x120 cm.) of NetConnect project, presented also in a brochure.

1/10/2007

Regional course on archaeological conservation in Southeast Europe 2007:
Diagnosis and conservation With a focus on the context analysis, diagnosis, and conservation treatments used in situ in archaeological sites

Start Date 01-10-2007 5:00 pm -
End Date 26-10-2007 5:00 pm -
Event Type Course
Event Location Butrint National Park, Albania

As a follow-up to the courses in archaeological conservation held in Belgrade in 2004, at Diana-Karatas in 2005, and at Sirmium in 2006, this fourth Regional course on archaeological conservation in Southeast Europe 2007: Diagnosis and conservation to be held from 1-26 October will focus on the context analysis, diagnosis, and conservation treatments used in situ in archaeological sites. Using the Butrint National Park as a reference, the course will initially provide an overview of principles of archaeological conservation and management. Using four specific case-studies within the site, the course will then focus on the characteristics of archaeological materials (specifically brick, stone and decorative elements) and their alteration and decay. The case studies will be used to propose methods and practical interdisciplinary tools for conservation. These methods and tools will then be applied in a limited scope within the case studies.

Objective By the end of the course, the participants will have a better understanding of the methods and techniques available for specific diagnosis stone, brick and related materials within archaeological sites, and the elements required to propose conservation treatments, based on ethical and practical considerations.

Course methodology The course has an intensive programme including a combination of lectures, discussions, practical work on site, and study visits to other heritage sites in the region on the weekends. The participants will have direct hands-on practice on specific treatments, which will be useful for conservation in other sites. At the end of the course, the participants will produce small reports of their case-studies.

Participants The course is open to a maximum of 16 participants actively involved in the conservation and preservation of archaeological heritage in South-East Europe. Participants will be selected from among the following professional backgrounds: archaeologists, architects, conservator-restorers, and site managers. Applications will be accepted from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Working language English

Scholarships Participants from the following countries may be eligible for scholarships, covering accommodation, meals and local transportation depending on need: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The cost of travel from the participant’s home country to Tirana or Sarande is the responsibility of the participant. Participants not from countries eligible for scholarships will be expected to cover their own expenses.

More information at: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39505&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION= 201.html

26/9/2007

NEWSLETTER: Here you can download the issue N#1 of the NetConnect Project newsletter (Download)

21/8/2007

GIS in Historical Research: Conference University of Essex: 21-22 August, 2008 A two-day conference on historical GIS part of the Historical Geographical Information Systems Research Network sponsored by the ESRC’s Research Seminars Competition will take place in the Spring of 2008. This will be the first major conference on historical GIS to take place in Europe and follows on from the success of the 2004 conference "History and Geography: Assessing the role of Geographical Information in Historical Scholarship" held at the Newberry Library, Chicago in 2004. Further details about the conference will be made available here shortly. For informal enquiries please contact Ian Gregory at Lancaster University.

5/7/2007

EVA LONDON - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts(EVA) conferences have been held since 1994 in over 25 cities and countries. They are a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, local & global set of events for people interested in new technologies in the cultural sector. The main four annual EVA conferences are held in Florence (March), London (July), Berlin (November), Moscow (December).