[Air-L] The 5th International Confererence on e-Social Science - Registration now open

Yuwei Lin yuwei at ylin.org
Fri Apr 10 03:08:17 PDT 2009


Apologies for cross-posting

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5th International Conference on e-Social Science
24 - 26 June 2009
Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:  http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/registration/

Early bird registration rates are available until 26 April.  For full
details on fees, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/conferencefees/ .
Special Conference rates on accommodation at selected hotels are also
available until 24 April.  Details of these offers can be found at
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/accommodation/

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The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to
bring together leading representatives of the social science,
e-Infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in
order to improve mutual awareness and promote coordinated activities to
accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new methods
and tools for the social sciences and beyond.

This years Keynotes include Ian Foster, a pioneer in developing advanced
distributed computer technologies and author of The Grid: Blueprint for
a New Computing Infrastructure; Mario Campolargo, Director of the
"Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" Directorate  of DG-INFSO in
charge of Future and Emerging Technologies, ICT based infrastructures
for science as well as ICT trust and security, experimental facilities
and experimentally driven research for Future Internet; and David Theo
Goldberg, author of several books including The Threat of Race:
Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (Wiley- Blackwell 2009)
(http://www.threatofrace.org/), The Racial State (Basil Blackwell, 2002)
and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Basil
Blackwell, 1993).

The full programme for the conference will be announced shortly.

For further information on the conference, and to register, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/




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