INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE     
University of California, Los Angles, USA     
2-3 December 2010     
http://imageconference.com/

The Image Conference is a forum at which participants will interrogate the nature and functions of image-making and images. The conference has a cross-disciplinary focus, bringing together researchers, teachers and practitioners from areas of interest including: architecture, art, cognitive science, communications, computer science, cultural studies, design, education, film studies, history, linguistics, management, marketing, media studies, museum studies, philosophy, photography, psychology, religious studies, semiotics, and more.

We are pleased to hold the 2010 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

This year's conference features the following plenary speakers:    
* Howard Besser, Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, New York City, USA   
* Sean Cubitt, Director, Media and Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia    
* Douglas Kellner, George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA    
* Emanuel Levy, Professor and Critic, Columbia University, New York City, USA    
* Becky Smith, Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles, USA    

For more information about these speakers, please visit the conference website:    
http://ontheimage.com/conference-2010/plenary-speakers/ .

In addition to plenary presentations, The Image Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may submit their written papers for publication in the refereed 'International Journal of The Image'. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal.

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at the conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 18 November 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://imageconference.com/ .

We also invite you to subscribe to our free, monthly email newsletter, and to our Facebook, RSS or Twitter feeds at http://imageconference.com/ .

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Los Angeles in December.

Yours Sincerely,

Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Tamsyn Gilbert     
The New School For Social Research, New York City, USA       
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on the Image and The International Journal of the Image

Call for participation: THIRD UBIQUITOUS LEARNING CONFERENCE

THIRD UBIQUITOUS LEARNING CONFERENCE
University of British Columbia, Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada
10-11 December 2010
http://www.ULConference.com

The Ubiquitous Learning Conference is an interdisciplinary forum that
investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with
sophisticated computing and networking capacities that are now pervasively
part of our everyday lives - from laptops to mobile phones, games, digital
music players, personal digital assistants and cameras. The conference
explores the possibilities of new forms of learning using these devices not
only in the classroom, but in a wider range of places and times than was
conventionally the case for education. Ubiquitous learning is made possible
in part by the affordances of the new, digital media. What's new about it?
What's not so new? What are the main challenges of access to these new
learning opportunities? These are among the key themes and concerns of the
conference.

The Ubiquitous Learning Conference evolved from e-Learning Symposia held in
Australia at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2007.
It is affiliated with the International Conference on Learning and is
connected to the Ubiquitous Learning Institute at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. The Ubiquitous Learning Conference was inaugurated in
2008 at the University of Illinois' Illini Center in Chicago and in 2009 at
Northeastern University in Boston. We are happy to be hosting this year's
conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The conference will include presentations by the following plenary speakers:
* Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia, Canada
* Tabitha McKenzie, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
* Gary Poole, University of British Columbia, Canada
* Catherine Wangeci K-Thuo, African Virtual University, Kenya

Please visit the conference website at
http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2010/plenary-speakers/ for more information
on these speakers and for additional speakers as they are posted.

In addition to plenary presentations, the conference also includes parallel
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would like to
invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may
choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed Ubiquitous
Learning: An International Journal. If you are unable to attend the
conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow
you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the
Journal.

The deadline for the next round in the Call-for-Papers (a title and short
abstract) is 2 November 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the
conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks
of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal
submission form, may be found at the conference website
http://www.ULConference.com.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join
us in Vancouver in December.

Best regards,     
Garett Gietzen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the Advisory Board Ubiquitous Learning Conference and Ubiquitous
Learning Journal

Visualizing Human Rights Anti-Conference (from Safia Swimelar)

This is an early announcement about the third annual Visualizing Human Rights Anti-Conference taking place at UNC-Chapel Hill on Nov. 5-6.  SAVE THE DATE!

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The third annual Visualizing Human Rights (VHR) Anti-Conference will take place on November 6, 2010 from 10am-3pm with a Special Film Screening the evening of November 5.  All activities will take place at the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. In an unconventional forum, “Visualizing Human Rights” brings together painters, photographers, writers, poets, filmmakers, and printmakers to put a human face on human rights in an effort to reach beyond traditional academic approaches. The day will start with an intimate interview by WUNC’s Dick Gordon (“The Story”) followed by interactive studios and discussion salons.  You can sign-up to be notified as soon as the schedule is released and registration is open by visiting the VHR website. We also seek proposals (Due Oct. 1) for break-out studios and salons and welcome t-shirt design submissions which will be printed “on-demand” the day of VHR.  

Learn more: http://unc.edu/vhr.      

Conference opportunity for "Image-Driven scholarship"

VISUALIZING ASIA IN THE MODERN WORLD:
A CONFERENCE ON IMAGE-DRIVEN SCHOLARSHIP
Harvard University
May 20 & 21, 2011

Jointly sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures project at M.I.T. and the following programs at Harvard: Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. 

This two-day conference will consist of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.

The conference will be open to the public. Contributors will be provided lodging, but should be prepared to cover their travel expenses. “Visualizing Asia in the Modern World” follows a lively conference on this same subject held at Yale in the spring of 2010, and we again look forward to international participation in opening these new windows of perception and understanding.

The presentations themselves will be relatively brief, no more than 20 minutes in length. Proposals for presentations, up to 3 pages double spaced, plus a small number of representative images, should be submitted by December 1, 2010 to Scott Shunk, Program Director of Visualizing Cultures at shunk@mit.edu.

For a suggestive sense of possible topical and thematic approaches, including innovative formatting of online scholarship and pedagogy, see visualizingcultures.mit.edu as well as the list of presentations made at the Yale conference http://www.visualizingasia.com.  Priority will be given to those who did not present at the previous conference.