The 18th National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation will be held October 19-22, 2008 in Omaha, Nebraska.

"Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs"

The culminating event of the 2007-2008 DCC Faculty Series is the first annual DCC Conference, to be held May 9th, 2008, in the Bodek Lounge of Penn's Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street.

May 9, 2008 Annual Conference Schedule:

Second-hand Cities

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Oct 12 - 4:00pm - 5:45pm Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 414

Session Participants:

Rags to Riches: Junk Dealers in the Nineteenth-Century American City
*Wendy Woloson (Library Company of Philadelphia)

Second-hand Cities: Race and Region in the Philadelphia Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s
*Alison Isenberg (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

Culture of Thrift: Modern Second-hand Consumerism in Orlando, Florida, 1940-1990
*Jennifer Le Zotte (University of Virginia (VA))

Commentator: Helen Sheumaker (Miami University of Ohio (OH))
Commentator: Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow (United Kingdom))

Jane Jacobs and Our Urban Myths

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Oct 12 - 8:00am - 9:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 403
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Jane Jacobs and Our Urban Myths

Session Participants:

"Here, But Also There: Jane Jacobs's Hudson Street Doppelganger and Our Urban Myths"
*Peter L. Laurence (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

"The Feminine Mystique: Gender and the Myth of Jane Jacobs"
*Jennifer Hock (Harvard University (MA))

"The Nature of Diversity: Jane Jacobs's Urban Ecology"
*Jamin Creed Rowan (Boston College (MA))

"Elementary Republics and Little Platoons: Jacobs's Localism, White Ethnic Revival and the 1970s Neighborhoods Movement"
*Benjamin Mark Looker (Yale University (CT))

Commentator: Christopher Klemek (George Washington University (DC))

 

Seeing in Color: Visual Culture and Racial Politics in Philadelphia (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Oct 11 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 404
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Seeing in color: visual culture and racial politics in Philadelphia

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

Chair: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

"If this war is to be forgotten, ...what shall men remember?": The African American presence at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
*Susanna W. Gold (Temple University (PA))

Imprinting race: The Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop and the visual politics of race in the 1930s
*Erin Park Cohn (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

From Africa and the streets of Philadelphia: Georges Adéagbo's America in "Abraham - the Friend of God"
*Emily Hage (Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA))

Commentator: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

Living in the City of Angels

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Oct 11 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 403
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Living in the City of Angels

Session Participants:
Session Organizer: ASA Staff (ASA)
Chair: Jose Manuel Alamillo (Washington State University, Spokane (WA))

A Ban on a Noisy Existence: The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Ban, Spatialized Whiteness and the Gardeners' Struggle for Dignity
*Daniel Olmos (University of California, Santa Barbara (CA))

Gay Mexican Immigrants Arriving and Surviving in Los Angeles: Intersecting Identities and Transnational Social Networks
*James Paul Thing (University of Southern California (CA))

Photodocumenting Cultural Landscapes: The (Re)production of Latino Vending 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles.
*Lorena Munoz (University of Southern California (CA))

Commentator: Jose Manuel Alamillo (Washington State University, Spokane (WA))

Chinatowns: Then and Now

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 13 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 401
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Chinatowns: Then and Now

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: ASA Staff (ASA)
Chair: Lili Kim (Hampshire College (MA))
Panelist: Yong Chen (University of California, Irvine (CA))
Panelist: K Scott Wong (Williams College (MA))
Panelist: Karen J. Leong (Arizona State University (AZ))
Panelist: Rocio G. Davis (University of Navarra (Spain))

Educause:

The week-long program, led by a faculty of senior professionals with extensive experience in managing and leading IT-related organizations within higher education, has limited enrollment, resulting in a learning environment that is highly interactive and personalized.

Annenberg conference on the linking in the Digital Age.

"to explore the political, economic and social dimensions of linking and its consequences
 for sharing ideas in the world of digital media."

Paper proposals due on May 10.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania invites you to join the best minds from a variety of fields to explore the effects of digital links on people’s ability to understand and care about their larger society.

Most internet users know hyperlinks as highlighted words on a web page that take them to certain other sites. But hyperlinks today are quite complex forms of instant connection—for example, tags, API mashups, and RSS feeds. Moreover, media convergence has led to increased instant linking among desktop computers, cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, digital video recorders, and even billboards.

This brand-new, all-online event aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the leading players who are transforming academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web.

All presentations will be made available on the event website at no charge to participants (with the exception of the live, web/audio CASE Online Speaker Series events).

Proposals due January 23.

Create digital maps that display a wide range of cultural material by using place and time as a common element.

ECAI technical infrastructure illustrates the vision of sharing distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.

GIS technology is proving itself to be a valuable tool for organizing data for both the public and private sectors -- for municipal infrastructure maintenance and record-keeping, regional planning, real estate, land use, and tourism. At the same time, scholars are using the technology in disciplines that embrace the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences, and medicine.

Now, PACSCL invites current and potential GIS users to gather to think about new uses for a geographic based resource, new users from a range of disciplines, and new ranges of contributors and contributions. The purpose of this symposium is to focus less on the "how" of building a GIS and more on the "why." We will concentrate on finding ways that data from all of these sectors -- when organized with a sense of place and time -- can offer new insights into connections across these disciplines.

Panel discussions in the mornings will be followed by facilitated small group discussions and information sharing in the afternoons. Participants will be grouped according to potential GIS uses (history, social sciences, city/regional planning, human services, public health, etc.) and users (professional affinity groups) for the small group discussions. PACSCL's objectives in hosting this event are to foster increased cooperation among a widened range of current and potential GIS users and to give participants the opportunity to consider issues of how best to work together in the presence of a lively and informed group of colleagues. The results of this symposium will be used to further shape the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network.

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Wierd. When I click on the link to penntext screen from Penntags, it looks like we don't have te article online fulltext, but the screen I tagged provided a link to the ACM journal that has it. We do have the fulltext. Hmm. A little troubling.

Apparently, there's something in here about video games teaching spatial literacy. Reccomended by David Seaman from DLF.

The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

In this study, Fahy analyzed written texts from on online conference of graduate students in a distance learning exercise.  He and his team hypothesized that the women's speech would be more "epistolary" in participation style as previously described by other researchers, and would most likely contain more hedges, qualifiers, first and second person pronouns, and parenthetical constructions with the intent of reducing any potential conflict and sustaining ongoing dialog.  He likewise hypothesized that the men's speech would be more "expository", using less of the aforementioned forms as well as being more declarative.  They also predicted that the men would use a greater number of linguistic intensifiers and would be more prone to flaming and/or rudeness.  While their results were not overwhelmingly strong, the numbers did support the base hypotheses of inherent differences in men's and women's discourse.  Fahy goes on to discuss what the potential effect upon distance learning may be if professors do not take into account the differences between epistolary and expository styles regardless of the participants' gender.

Hmmm. Conference on web 2.0 and libraries with some presentations by the big vendors...