Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 463.
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[1] From: "Bobley, Brett" <BBobley_at_neh.gov> (21)
Subject: JISC/NEH Kickoff Event on International Digitization
[2] From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman_at_bi.no> (57)
Subject: CFP --- New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in
Graphic Design
[3] From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman_at_bi.no> (167)
Subject: CFP --- Changing the Change Conference -- Reminder
[4] From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu> (59)
Subject: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:52:34 +0000
From: "Bobley, Brett" <BBobley_at_neh.gov>
Subject: JISC/NEH Kickoff Event on International Digitization
Announcement from the NEH and JISC
JISC/NEH Kickoff Event on International Digitization (or Digitisation,
if you prefer!).
If you are in London on January 21, please do attend the JISC/NEH event
being held at King's College. We will be celebrating the launch of our
new joint digitization initiative and we have some great speakers lined
up. For details, please see:
thanks,
Brett
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Brett Bobley
Chief Information Officer
Director, Digital Humanities Initiative
National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html
(202) 606-8401
bbobley_at_neh.gov
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:14 +0000
From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
Subject: CFP --- New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in
Graphic Design
Second Call for Papers/Posters
Web site now online!
New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design
An international symposium defining graphic design for the future
9-11 July 2008
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
United Kingdom
New Views 2 seeks to look in depth at the broader
questions that graphic designers are facing today
in terms of the profession and educational
practices. At the same time, the symposium is
meant to generate debate and to identify what new
challenges might lay ahead for practitioners,
academics, industry and the profession overall.
Themes to be addressed might include:
-- Who are we? Problems of defining terminology:
visual communication, communication design,
graphic design, information environments
-- the role of graphic design for the 'real world'
-- graphic design and interdisciplinarity
-- graphic design and research methods
-- design writing/criticism and repositioning debates
-- practice-led PhD research in the field of graphic design
-- responsive curriculums and shifting paradigms
-- research, innovation and new critical thinking
An accompanying exhibition of posters from
designers, students and academics opens in London
9th - 21st July, 2008 and then travels to RMIT,
Australia. A digital exhibition will also be
presented via the conference website.
Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 1 February 2008
Deadline for intention to submit posters: 1 March 2008
For full details:
Or, contact the co-organisers:
Professor Teal Triggs
Head of Research, School of Graphic Design,
London College of Communication
Co-Director,
University of the Arts London Research Unit for Information Environments,
London, UK
<mailto:t.triggs_at_lcc.arts.ac.uk>t.triggs_at_lcc.arts.ac.uk
Dr. Laurene Vaughan
Director of Research and Innovation, School of Applied Communication,
RMIT
Executive Member
RMIT Design Institute
Melbourne, Australia
laurene.vaughan_at_rmit.edu.au
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:59 +0000
From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
Subject: CFP --- Changing the Change Conference -- Reminder
10-12 July 2008
CHANGING THE CHANGE: DESIGN VISIONS, PROPOSALS AND TOOLS
An international conference on the role and potential of design
research in the transition towards sustainability
Torino, Italy
http://www.changingthechange.org
-- Organised by Co-ordination of Italian Design Research Doctorates in cooperation with the Conference of Italian Design Faculty Deans and Programme Heads In the framework of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL TORINO 2008 An ICSID initiative of the IDA -- Endorsed by the Design Research Society -- The conference "Changing the Change" seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. At the heart of the conference, design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off. -- AIMS The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to the twofold transformation underway. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of vision, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that we refer to as "changing the change." The conference has a double aim: - to consolidate a design research culture and practice oriented towards a constructive critical attitude able to reach all design disciplines. The conference intends to focus on the way in which the question of "changing the change" is present and widespread throughout the research community and in relation to all design fields: from product design to communication design; from interior design to interaction, service and strategic design; from social design to fashion design. - to outline the state-of-the-art of contributions that design research is today able to bring to social conversation about the future. The conference seeks to bring visibility to significant results. This with particular attention to visions of the future, to feasible solutions and to tools to help bring them into being. It will also enable us to make of the conference and its published output a tool for communication with the outside world; a tool able to demonstrate what design research can offer today to help re-orientate the transformation underway. In view of these aims, the conference will centre on the presentation of research results that could make a positive contribution to 'changing the change'. It will welcome contributions that take as their starting point transformations that have already taken place and those underway, and the necessity to re-orient them towards more sustainable outcomes. It hopes to present the widest range of possible world visions, feasible proposals and the design tools that could bring them into being. -- THEMES The field of interest of the conference is vast and will be divided into various specific themes within which more precise, focused discussion will be possible. This organisation into specific themes will be undertaken after contributions have been selected, so as to take into account what will actually be proposed. For the moment we only indicate an initial, general division into the three themes already introduced: visions, proposals and tools. Visions: this section will present research results that lead us to imagine possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds. It includes the results of activities in the field of scenario design and more general visions produced by research into specific products, communications and services. It also includes a comparative analysis of visions emerging from design history and from a comparison of different cultures. Proposals: this section presents results of design research that give rise to concrete solutions containing elements of systemic innovation. They are also legible as concrete steps towards a new generation of sustainable products, services and systems. So, products, services and product and service systems are proposed along with the communicative artefacts that link several actors and artefacts together. It also proposes places for a new everyday life, the activities that take place within them and the new production and consumption networks that emerge from them. Tools: this section presents the results of research that aims to redefine and develop conceptual and operational tools which enable designers to operate within change and influence its direction. Such tools enable them to participate constructively in new design networks, and deal with emerging problems. Tools may be proposed for conceptualisation and representation, for calculation and appraisal of results or for stimulation and prototype making. -- AUDIENCE The conference will mainly be a meeting point for academics, researchers and research students in the field of design theory and practice. However, in uniting a high academic level with the effort to present concrete results of activities carried out, it will also be of considerable interest to the wider design community and to those economic and social operators who recognise the potential of design practice and design research. -- CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts should be between 500 and 700 words long, excluding the bibliography. The deadline for the reception of abstracts is January 21, 2008. Reception of abstracts will be acknowledged and notices of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 3, 2008. The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Full papers are limited to 6000 words. The deadline for full papers is on May 26, 2008. Selection criteria The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Coherently with the conference aims, the Peer Review Committee will base its decisions on three major criteria: (1) relevance to the topics of "Changing the change"? as outlined below and in the website, (2) focalisation, in terms of clarity of the vision, of the proposal or the design tool and theory they present, and (3) reliability, in terms of the quality of the design research on which the paper is based. More precisely: - abstracts must be clearly defined as visions, proposals or design tools and theories (please select the proper option at the head of the abstract template and delete the others) : visions refer to scenarios of possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds; proposals present specific solutions to specific problems; tools and theories introduce conceptual and operational devices enabling designers to operate in contemporary contexts. - abstracts must clearly refer to the contemporary context and to its on-going transformations (considering the different ways they are taking place in different regions of the world). In this framework, they should present design research results that, moving from a deep understanding of these transformations, propose a design contribution involving a re-orientation towards more sustainable directions. - abstracts must present design research results and clearly indicate the specific research programme they are based on (with its aims, methodology and main actors). Given these three pre-requisites, abstracts (and the papers that will follow) can deal with any topics in any design fields: from product to communication; from interior to interaction; from service to strategy; from social design to fashion. -- CALL FOR VISUALISATIONS Special consideration will be dedicated to abstracts/papers presenting design research projects with highly communicative visual results. Therefore, together with the abstract/paper, a visualisation can be submitted as material for an exhibition that will be organized parallel to the Conference. The visualisations do not substitute the papers. To be accepted for evaluation they have to refer to a paper that has to be selected by the Peer review Committee. The conference will host an exhibition based on the visualisations proposed by selected papers. These visualisations are not the traditional scientific posters. They are visual presentations of design research results. They have to show visions of possible worlds and proposals for sustainable solutions. Whoever intends to deliver a visualisation must submit a first draft together with the abstract of the paper presenting the research on which the visualization is based. (Deadline: January 21, 2008) -- PUBLICATIONS All selected and presented papers will be published on line, and placed in the conference website in printable form. A special peer review jury will adjudicate the best papers submitted. The best papers and the presentations of the keynote speakers will be published in book form. http://www.changingthechange.org -- --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:20:56 +0000 From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu> Subject: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity Colleagues, Please forward this announcement to interested faculty and staff: In recent years, plagiarism and cheating have been highlighted in the news. Whether discussing high-profile cases like Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Godwin or reviewing works on the subject by notables like Judge Richard Posner, the public appears keenly interested in plagiarism. Plagiarism detection devices, once all the rage are, with greater intensity, being challenged legally and ethically as inappropriate vehicles for detecting plagiarism. Most recently, Turnitin.com is in the middle of litigation challenging its business practices as violations of copyright law. Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we attempt to address the plagiarism and cheating issues on college campuses and try to build communities that value academic integrity. ----------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ ----------- Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland -- College Park & Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College Studies show that establishing a community of shared academic values fosters academic integrity in the classroom. However, establishing that community may be more difficult when students adopt the values of a digital "remix" culture that challenges the traditional understanding of authorship. How do institutions foster academic integrity values in light of changing cultural norms? Are there special techniques and tools required? Are the best tools to use in preventing academic dishonesty "technical" like Turnitin.com? And are there additional legal and ethical issues involved when using technical measures to prevent academic dishonesty? Please see site for detailed course objectives- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI ------------------------------- ALSO, EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JAN 11TH FOR: Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What Will They Think of Next? Moderator: Georgia Harper, J.D., Scholarly Communications Advisor, University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin January 28 - February 8, 2008 SIGN UP NOW: Early Bird Rates $150 http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 ofrancois_at_umuc.eduReceived on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 09:47:43 EST
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