[Air-L] German Summer School on Virtual Worlds Research

[Christopher Wong]

All,

For those of you interested in this, also consider checking out this year's State of Play conference, happening at the same time.  

The formal announcement is attached, but in short, there will be a range of interesting people speaking, and we will have birds of feather panel sessions on a range of topics, such as law, economics, security, quantitive vs qualitative methodologies in VWs, kids and games, mixed reality (aka ARGS and PMOGs), inter alia.  

There will also be a graduate  students symposium the day before (June 18), with a number of scholarships available to get PhD students to NYC for serious conversation.  For details on this, please contact:

Dan Hunter
Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy,  
New York Law School
Adjunct Associate Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School,  
University of Pennsylvania
Research: http://ssrn.com/author=243354
dhunter at nyls.edu

Hope to see you in at our place in June.

Kind regards,
Chris

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Christopher Wong
Project Manager, Peer-to-Patent
Fellow, Center for Patent Innovations
@ New York Law School
e: christopher.wong at law.nyls.edu
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From: Kerstin Radde <kerstin.radde at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de>


Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Subject: [Air-L] German Summer School on Virtual Worlds Research
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org



HOW VIRTUAL IS REALITY?



We would like to call your attention to this year's Summer School "How Virtual is reality?" (http://how-virtual-is-reality.eu/)
held in Bremen (Germany) from July 10 to July 19. The course is mainly
addressed to graduate and postgraduate students like Master students
and PhD candidates, but undergraduates with experience in the field are
also very welcome to apply!





As a cooperation of the University of Bremen, the University of
Oldenburg and the Jacobs-University (Bremen) the Summer course will
broach the issue of the relevance of new environments like "Second
Life" or "World of Warcraft" for nowadays culture and social life with
special focus on rituals and religions.





Instructed by more than 15 international teachers, the participants of
the Summer School will engage into the interdisciplinary study of
practical methods and theoretical approaches for the scientific
handling of ritual and media. The media will not only be subject to
methodological, theoretical and practical research and discussion but
will also serve as platform for academic exchange and teaching. After
this Summer School participants will be able to design and perform
research projects on religion in and within Virtual Worlds.





Please forward this information to everyone who might be interested in
the course! A banner and a poster will soon be available on the "Media"
section of the website.

We are looking forward to many interesting applications!



The organizers

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

Simone Heidbrink



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