Conferences

We (organizer committee)  would like to inform you about the deadlines for this Final Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 8th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2010, to be held on June 29-July 2, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

* Conference background and goals
This conference aims to encourage and foster efforts of researchers and practitioners by sharing cutting-edge research, innovations, models, theories and strategies that address issues and challenges related to cultivating online communities for grassroots democracy, equity and social justice.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Digital Asylum-seekers: The Clash of
Cultures

22-24 June 2010 - Sibiu, Romania

An international conference hosted by a consortium of eight institutions,
including University of Bucharest, University of Ankara, Free University
Brussels, and Polytechnical Institute of Porto - running DIGITAS, a
Grundtvig Multilateral Partnership (2008 ­ 2010)

Digital media and the internet have transformed the way young people learn,
play, socialize, and even participate in civic life. Children today have

*Spreadable Media, Social Media and the Viral/Virtual Witness *

This panel invites explorations of how spreadable media, social media, and
viral/virtual witnessing both continue traditional documentary debates and
open up new challenges in the areas of theories, aesthetic forms, open space
formations, ethics and human rights. New circulatory networks of media, new
participants in documentation and documentary and ubiquitous tools for
film-making are impacting on the possibilities for creating human rights

Please see below for a cfp for a panel I (Bella Honess Roe) am chairing on animated documentary at this year's Visible Evidence conference (9th - 12th August in Istanbul - http://visibleevidence.org/)

Extended deadline: 19 March 2010
Connect/ Reconnect/ Disconnect
Political and popular culture, new media and the future of civic engagement

4th Annual PhD Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK,
June 29th, 2010 ­ 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

We frequently divide civil culture and popular culture, but new media thrives on the
creation of relationships. The civil and the popular are no exception. The conference
looks to explore how new media spaces connect/reconnect/disconnect across all

Contemporary Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Bilingual Conference (English and Italian)
The American University of Rome
26-27 November 2010

Keynote Speaker: Michael Herzfeld

The city of Rome, the Caput Mundi of Antiquity, has been studied
predominantly as a historical monument. But what of contemporary Rome; its
people, its politics and economy, its environment, the challenges of
globalization? The fast-changing urban realities of Italy's biggest city