[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./CFP- Congress of Cultural Atlases III: Time & Space in Eurasia, Moscow

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CONF./CFP- Congress of Cultural Atlases III: Time & Space in Eurasia, Moscow

Posted by: Alexander A. Stolyarov <astol at orc.ru>

Call for Papers  - 2nd notice
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative - ECAI
Congress of Cultural Atlases III: Time & Space in Eurasia

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
May 29 - June 1, 2007

ECAI invites you to participate in the 3rd Congress of Cultural
Atlases: Time & Space in Eurasia.  The congress will be held at the
Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in conjunction
with the 7th International Conference of the Historical Sources of
Eurasian and North African Civilisations: Computer Approaches.  The
conference will include workshops on Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) and Virtual Reality (VR) applied to the study of culture and
history, Humanities Computing in the 21st Century and sessions on the
development of cultural atlases.

We invite submissions for papers, sessions and posters on:
  - Digital Cultural Atlases: projects and prototypes
  - Cultural Atlas Components: gazetteers, time-periods, biography and
    social networks, thesauri, technical infrastructure, content sources
    and display models
  - Humanities GIS
  - Visualization in the Humanities
  - Digital deluge: Humanities e-Science and e-resource management

Abstracts for individual papers and poster/demo presentations should
be 250-300 words. Panel proposals should include 3-4 papers, and the
name of a chair, discussant, and contact person. Please submit ECAI
proposals directly to Kimberly Carl - kcarl at berkeley.edu. The deadline
for submitting is 10 March, 2007.

A conference website is available at: http://ecai.ras.ru
The registration cost is 80Euro, or approximately 100USD
The absolute deadline to register is 23 March, 2007.

Travel to Russia requires an entry visa.  All visa applications must
be supported by an official letter of invitation.  For this
conference, the letters will be coming from the Russian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.   In addition to registering for the conference at
the above website, you will be required to fill out an additional
online form requesting an invitation letter.  That form is also
available from the conference web site.

The registration deadline reflects the time taken for the Russian
authorities to process visa applications.  Information about obtaining
a travel visa in the U.S. can be found at:
http://www.ruscon.org/

We look forward to seeing many of you in Moscow.

Best wishes,

Paul Ell, Chair, ECAI Program Committee
paul.ell at qub.ac.uk



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