Conferences & Workshops

Workshop Social Technology
Amsterdam, 2 October 2009
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Nick Jankowski participates in World Class University project in Korea
During his participation in the World Class University project at YeungNam University in the Republic of Korea, Nick Jankowski will be engaged in various activities. (Schedule of activities)
During his stay in Korea, 17-29 September, he will be contributing regularly to the group blog of the WCU Project; check this URL for postings: http://yeungnam.edublogs.org/2009/07/11/welcome-to-the-wcu-project-group-blog/

Clement Levallois at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Illinois.

Clement Levallois will attend the annual conference of the Society for Neuroeconomics in Evanston, Illinois (25 – 27 Sept 2009). The main purpose of this trip is to widely advertise a survey on interdisciplinarity in neuroeconomics among the core members of the profession. This survey will be used to visualize the social network of neuroeconomics and map with precision the multi-disciplinary identity of the field.

Human Technologies: Techniques and Practices from the Social Sciences

You are cordially invited to join us for an afternoon of discussions around the theme of ‘human technologies’. Human technologies are a significant social form in contemporary culture, and as such, deserving of attention from artists as well as scientists. On this occasion, we will consider recent and ongoing artistic and scholarly explorations of the following questions: How can we understand human technologies as a distinct form? How do human technologies rely on and create particular kinds of subjectivities? What roles are played by the human sciences in the creation and deployment of these technologies?

Tuesday 7 October 2008, room 320, at the Department of Theory & History of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen.
Contact: M.Derksen@rug.nl
Read also the project page

Golven en massa’s – 1e seminar Erasmus Studio (EUR/KNAW)
Vrijdag 3 oktober 2008: 15.00 – 17.00

Further details on the Erasmus studio website

Workshop on “Evolution and physics” January 2008

The Simulation collaboratory and the CREEN project announce a multidisciplinary workshop on evolutionary perspectives on complex phenomena in nature and society. The 401. Heraeus workshop brings together scholars from physics, information and communication sciences, economics and sociology.

The deadline for applications is November 20, 2007.

CoLIS 6 ; “Featuring the Future”
Paul Wouters delivered a keynote speech titled: The informational turn: the implications of digital research objects for the humanities and social sciences on Tuesday 14 August at this conference that took place in Borås, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007
CoLIS 6 was organised by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science.

CoLIS is a series of international conferences for which the general aim is to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of library and information science (LIS). To be examined at CoLIS 6 are theoretical and empirical research trends in LIS, together with sociocultural and technical issues relating to our understanding of the various roles, natures, uses and associated relationships of information, information systems, information processes, and information networks. As in previous conferences in the series, this one, too, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to research.

The CoLIS 6 had 110 attendees from 16 countries and the main conference programme included 31 papers and two panels.

Accepted research papers are to be published by the electronic journal Information Research as a supplement to the October 2007 issue.

Link to CoLIS 6 website: http://www.hb.se/colis/

Summerschool Final Conference.

The Summerschool final conference was a great success with lively presentations and discussions for over 60 participants.

Summerschool Final Conference.
“Pragmatic Tolerance and urban Culture in Amsterdam: International research with the use of e-Research practices”
Thursday, August 23, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Prins Hendrikkade 189

The conference is a product of international collaboration between the Honors Program of the University of Washington (Seattle), the Virtual Knowledge Studio (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), and the International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Amsterdam).
Participating Institutions include:

o University of Washington, Honors in Amsterdam Program
o Virtual Knowledge Studio
o Universiteit van Amsterdam ISHSS
o Universiteit van Amsterdam ISHSS – Research Methods Crash Course
o Universiteit van Amsterdam Digital Methods Initiative

The conference will utilize a plenary format with three thematic
clusters:
1) Urban Native
2) Digital Native

3) The intersection of Digital and Urban

You will find the programme with speaker information and directions on the conference site of the Honors in Amsterdam Research Wiki:

http://courses.washington.edu/uwvks/wiki/index.php?

title=International_Student_Research_Conference_-_23_August_2007

More information on the Honors in Amsterdam Program Research can be found on the program wiki and blog sites:
http://courses.washington.edu/uwvks/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Working papers in virtual ethnography

Virtual Ethnography & Co
22 June 2007

The title of this working day is meant to invoke multiple associations.

First, ‘& co’ can be read as ‘and company’ so that this term signals the inclusiveness of what we mean by virtual ethnography. This event
is the opportunity to exchange with other scholars about your work on and around social and cultural phenomena that are bound up with
technologies. Virtual ethnography is posited as a network of methods, not as a purist mode of fieldwork.

Second, ‘co’ can also be read as a prefix. The themes of co- construction of the field and of technologies and the motif of co-
presence were also manifest in the Virtual Ethnography Workshop of September 2006.

Please find more information following this link:
http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/conferences/virtual-ethnography/

GIRCOM

From 9 to 11 May, Anne Beaulieu and Johannes von Engelhardt will visit GIRCOM [http://www.uoc.edu/in3/gircom/], an interdisciplinary research group that studies social interaction, computer mediated communication and sociotechnological processes. GIRCOM is part of the Internet Interdiciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). The visit will focus on Virtual Ethnography, specifically on the potential of hyperlinks to analyze web practices. Two lectures and a number of seminars and working sessions are planned. Some of the material prepared for this visit will address the coordination of formal and interpretive approaches to hyperlink analysis, and will be available on the VKS website shortly.

Science Fiction, Science Faction
An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world.

Organized by the Waag Society, Internet provider XS4ALL and the Cyberspace Salvations Research Team (University of Leiden, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Sally Wyatt (VKS) will be moderating a discussion between Bruce Sterling (science fiction writer & design visionary) and Peter Pels (Professor of Anthropology, University of Leiden) on 21 March, 19.45u, at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam. Further information available at: www.cyberspacesalvations.nl

CREEN Workshop

The CREEN consortium (Critical events and evolving networks) organizes an international workshop at the Foundation Universitaire in Brussels on January 17, 2007. The workshop aims at an inter- disciplinary audience, interested in the various ways to apprehend social networks; modeling of social group dynamics, gathering and analysis of web-data and visualization of network structures. For more details please consult www.creen.org.

You can download the Workshop poster

Lecture by Stuart Dunn

Thursday 7 December 2006, at the International Institute of Social History – Souvarine zaal, 15:00 hrs.

The Arts, Humanities and E-Science: Common themes and mutual opportunities for new research

As researchers in
the physical, medical and life sciences move towards more computational ways of working across national and international
grids, many opportunities are emerging for social scientists, humanists and performance-led artists to deal with their own data
deluges, and to exploit new tools and methods for collaboration.

For more information about the lecture and Stuart Dunn, click here

Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science

Workshop, Amsterdam, 27-29 September 2006
At VKS, located in the International Institute of Social History

This workshop aims to focus attention on challenges posed to ethnographic methods by the new digital and electronic media. It will be of interest to scholars engaged in ethnographic research which touches on digital media as well as other social scientists studying globalization and cultural change, digital communication, or cultures of digital media. The workshop forms part of the ongoing programme of the Virtual Knowledge Studio to study and stimulate new research practices in the humanities and social sciences. The organising committee is made up of Christine Hine (U. of Surrey), Marjolein van Asselt (U. of Maastricht), Anne Beaulieu and Ernst Thoutenhoofd (VKS-KNAW). This event is funded by a conference grant from the KNAW and by the VKS.

For more information on the workshop click here

Web Archiving

Meeting on the use of Web Archiving for research – a discussion from the point of view of the social scientist and humanities scholar
26 September 2006 – at 13.30 o’clock – at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam. In the Nicolaevsky Room

Please click here for the full invitation text

Web Archiving Meeting Invitation [application/msword] (27 KB)

Lecture by Philip Thurtle

Monday 12 june 2006, at the International Institute of Social History – Nicolaevsky zaal, 16.00

Embodying Information 1900/2000: Information Processing and Genetic Knowledge at the Turn of Two Centuries

For more information about the lecture and Philip Thurtle, click here.