CFP: 5th Global Conference - The Idea of Education

CFP: 5th Global Conference - The Idea of Education

Thursday 8th May - Saturday 10th May 2008
Budapest, Hungary

URL: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/ioe/ioe.htm

Deadline: January 18, 2008

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to provide a vigorous forum for the examination and evaluation of higher education and the contexts where higher education is delivered. The project is committed to the tradition of liberal education, the inherent value of the pursuit of learning and the principle that knowledge must be an end in itself. In particular, the project will explore the nature and aims of higher education, its guiding principles, its
practical functions, and its role in society.

This fifth instalment of the Global Conference on the Idea of Education continues within the
tradition of critical debate of and engaged reflection on Higher Education that started in 2002 with the first two conferences, held at Mansfield College (Oxford), and the follow-up conferences held in Prague. Over the years, the conferences have proven to be a creative hub for those who are committed to Higher Education (HE) and who are willing to critically think through the
key issues in and fundamental challenges of Higher Education in the 21st century. The project is
committed to the tradition of liberal education and the value of the pursuit of learning.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following conference streams:

1. The Nature, Purpose and Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

1. What are the nature and aims of the historical traditions which shape HE?
2. Which possible roles of liberal arts education remain viable in an era in which ‘instruction’, ‘training’ and ‘vocational training’ seems to redefine the nature of HE?
3. From ‘students’ to ‘customers’ and ‘professors’ to ‘knowledge-managers’: How may the changing relationships and partners in education transform the agents within HE?
4. What are the costs and benefits of commodification and the rise of managerialism in HE?
5. From ‘basic research’ to ‘Mode Two,’ from ‘basic funding’ to ‘fourth stream funding’: What is
the impact of the changing landscapes of research, research types and research funding on HE?
6. ‘Mind your own business:’ but what, precisely, is the ‘business’ of the university?

2. Society, Culture and the of Places of Higher Education

1. What is the role of places of HE in the 21st Century?
2. What are the social and institutional contexts of the university and the college?
3. What are ‘the needs of society’ in relation to HE?
4. What visions are there for reconceiving the place and work of HE institutions?
5. What visions exist for the future of multicultural and intercultural HE?
6. How to cope with linguistic and cultural diversity in HE?
7. Which anthropologies, sociologies and philosophies of HE for the 21st century?
8. How do knowledge economies and lifelong learning transform HE?

3. The Internet, Virtual Learning and Higher Education

1. Emerging technologies within HE;
2. International technology challenges and experiences;
3. Organizational issues/strategies in Virtual HE;
4. Best virtual teaching practice;
5. Case studies of experimental projects;
6. Blended Learning approaches;
7. Professional development and support structures
8. Intellectual Property issues

4. Globalisation, Democracy and Higher Education

1. Can there be a ‘Global University’? What does/should it look like?
2. Where’s the ‘place’ of the university in a globalised world? (Coalitions, branches, networks,
ICT & virtuality, Bricks vs Clicks)
3. Who does the global university ‘relate’ to? (Local communities, Nation states, Governments,
International organizations?)
4. What can HE ‘service to society’ mean in a globalised world?
5. Which relations (should) exist between HE and international development & capital?
6. Global HE and knowledge production matters and intellectual property issues
7. HE in the context of political and economical ideologies.
8. Issues of Citizenship, social justice and HE.
9. Power, participation, access and inequality in globalised HE.

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 18th April 2008.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may
be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation,
email address, title of abstract, body of abstract. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Tom Claes
CEVI-Global Ethics
Department of Philosophy
Ghent University
Belgium
E-mail: tom.claes@ugent.be

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-Mail: ioe5@inter-disciplinary.net

David Seth Preston
School of Computing and Technology
University of East London
London, United Kingdom
E-mail: d.preston@uel.ac.uk

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

Multiple eBooks and volumes of themed papers have been published or are in press from the previous conference meetings of this project. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and
presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/ioe/ioe.htm

CFP: ECDL 2007 (11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries)

CFP: ECDL 2007 (11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries)

September 16-21, 2007, Budapest, Hungary

http://www.ecdl2007.org

CALL for PARTICIPATION

This unique and well-established series brings together researchers,
developers and practitioners working in various disciplines and related
areas of digital libraries all over the world, providing a meeting point for
the library, Web and DL communities. The conference will consist of a three
days technical programme, preceded by a tutorial day and followed by
workshops. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations,
plenary sessions, panels and poster sessions.

ECDL 2007 will be devoted to discussions about hot issues and applications
and will primarily provide a forum to reinforce the collaboration of
researchers and practitioners in the following topics: Ontologies, Digital libraries and
the Web, Models, Multimedia and Multilingual Digital Libraries, Grid and
Peer-to-Peer, Preservation, User Interfaces, Document Linking, Information
Retrieval, Personal Information Management, New DL Applications, and User
Studies.

The keynote talk by Prof. Seamus Ross (Humanities Computing & Information
Management (HATII), University of Glasgow) will address the questions of
preservation, while the keynote talk by Prof. Arne Solvgerg (Dept. of
Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU)) will focus on WiFi-Trondheim - an experiment in providing Broadband
Everywhere for All.

Panels will address timely and important topics, namely, experiences of DL
projects in panel „On the move towards the European Digital Library: BRICKS,
TEL, MICHAEL and DELOS converging experiences” in synergy with the European
Commission`s initiatives and the special challenges of digital library
research and development in the host region of the conference in panel
„Digital Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe: Infrastructure Challenges
for the New Europe”

The corresponding tutorials will provide further in-depth looks at areas of
current interest, including Thesauri and Ontologies, DL Education, Large
Scale Digital Library Infrastructures, Sharing Content, Services and
Computing Resources.

The Workshops, covering wide areas of interest, to be held in conjunction
with ECDL2007, on September 20-21, are still open for contributions.

* CLEF 2007 - Cross language Evaluation Forum

* Workshop on “Foundations of Digital Libraries”

* DLSci 2007 - Digital Library Goes e-Science

* LADL 2007 - Cross-Media and Personalized Learning Applications on top of
Digital Libraries

* Curriculum Development in Digital Libraries: An Exercise in Developing
Lesson Plans

* Towards an European repository ecology: conceptualising interactions
between networks of repositories and services

* Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services

* Libraries in the Digital Age: What If …?


Registration and program details are available at http://www.ecdl2007.org

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Venue
Budapest, one of the most beautiful historical capitals in Europe, is
situated on the banks of the Danube. Buda lies in the hills on the western
bank, famous for its historic Castle Hill and beautiful residential area,
and bustling Pest with its shopping, government and commercial districts
lies on the flat plain of the east bank.

The architectural beauty with its monuments from neo-classic through baroque
to eclectic art nouveau is prevalent in the city. Budapest is also world
famous for its artistic abundance of concerts, operas, recitals, galas and
exhibitions.

The Europa Congress Center, the conference site, providing a modern plenary
room and several session rooms with state-of-the-art technology, will be a
unique venue to organize the event.

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Organization Committee

General Chair: Dr. Laszlo Kovacs, Department of Distributed Systems,
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Hungary

Programme Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr, Information Systems Faculty
of Engineering Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Programme Co-Chair: Dr. Carlo Meghini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy

Local Arrangements Chair: Dr. Gusztav Hencsey, Computer and Automation
Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Workshops Chairs:
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, State and University Library, Denmark

Poster & Demo Chairs:
Dr. Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Germany
José Borbinha, DEI/IST/UTL and INESC-ID, Portugal

Tutorials Chair:
Rudi Schmiede, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Publicity and Exhibit Chairs:
Yuzuru Tanaka for Asia, Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Japan
Jane Hunter for Australia, School of ITEE, Australia
Hussein Suleman for Africa, University of Cape Town, South-Africa

Panel Chairs:
Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech / Dept of Computer Science, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Tiziana Catarci, University of Roma 1, Italy
Nicolas Spyratos, University de Paris-Sud, France

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Contact: office@ecdl2007.org
Home: http://www.ecdl2007.org