Chris Joseph

Submissions are invited from poets in the region for Issue 3 of Poetry in the Waiting Room, a poetry pamphlet distributed in hospital waiting rooms in Derby. The aim of the pamphlet is to make the experience of waiting for an appointment a more pleasant one and to give people the opportunity to enjoy poetry in an unlikely setting.

Poems should meet the following criteria:

- Poems should be positive in tone, and not refer to serious illness or death.
- Poems should be aimed primarily at adult audiences but may also be read by younger people. As such poems containing violence, strong language or sexual content will not be accepted. Poems should be no longer than 20 lines.
- Poems should have the title and author of the poem stated clearly.

No correspondence on the selection of the poetry will be entered into. The decisions on content (made between Derby Literature Development and Derby NHS) will be final. Successful applicants will receive 5 copies of the pamphlet. No other cash prizes will be given for accepted poets. If the poems are unsuccessful for this issue they may be selected for future issues. Poetry should be e-mailed either as an attachment in Word or within the body text to catherine.rogers@derby.gov.uk or posted to Catherine Rogers, Derby City Council, Regeneration & Community, Roman House, Friar Gate, Derby DE1 1XB. Deadline for submissions will be January 31st 2008.

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Information, Communication & Society

on
ICTs & SD
Information and Communication Technologies and Sustainable Development

Guest Editors: Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg
Assistant Editor: Robert Bichler, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg

Deadline for Submission: March 1, 2008
Tentative Publication Date: November, 2008

The objective of this special issue is to discuss current developments in the field of ICTs and Sustainable Development (SD) by providing a forum for both academic researchers and practitioners interested in broadening and deepening the understanding of the sustainability concept. In the discourse on sustainability there has been a shift from a focus on ecological issues towards the inclusion of broader societal issues. The so called ‘Agenda 21′ (1992) in the Rio ‘Earth Summit’ stated four mutually independent dimensions of sustainability: ecological, economic, social, and cultural. Such a perspective becomes especially important if one wants to formulate indicators for sustainability. How did so far, can in principle, and could in future, a more comprehensive approach like this influence the understanding of how ICTs can help foster SD? Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work, not under consideration for publication elsewhere, with a theory, research or practice focus on the relationship of ICTs and SD. Authors may submit articles up to 7,000 words in length by sending an electronic version preferably in Word to the following address only: robert.bichler@sbg.ac.at

Additional details about the submission guidelines can be found here.

Writing Industries Conference
Loughborough University, Saturday 9th February, 2008
http://writingindustries.wordpress.com

February 2008 sees the East Midlands host its first Writing Industries Conference, offering local writers an unmissable opportunity to meet professionals from the worlds of writing, publishing and live literature.

The conference will feature panel discussions on a wide range of subjects featuring experts in the field. Topics covered including playwriting, commercial fiction, writing for children, spoken word, poetry and many more and panels will include representatives from BBC, Hodder Headline Publishing, Arts Council England and Theatre Writing Partnership as well as a host of local and national writers and performers.

On top of this, the conference will also be offering selected writers the chance for an agent one-to-one session, giving you the chance to have your work read and assessed by leading agents from around the UK. These sessions will allow you the chance to receive advice and guidance from the people at the very heart of the publishing industry. One-to-one sessions are available with:

John Jarrold – Science Fiction and Fantasy
Melanie Abrahams – Poetry and spoken word
Lorella Belli – Fiction and general non-fiction
James Wills – Commercial and literary fiction

One-to-one sessions are extremely limited and you should apply as soon as possible for a chance to secure one.

The Writing Industries Conference takes place at Loughborough University on February 9th 2008 from 9am-6pm. Tickets are available at £32/£24 concession and are available from Loughborough Town Hall 01509 231914 or online at http://www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk/bookings

Agent one-to-one sessions will be strictly limited. Writers can apply for a one to one session after purchasing their conference ticket, and will then be sent information on how to apply for one to one sessions. Applications for one to ones will close on Friday 25th January.

The Writing Industries Conference 2008 is a Literature Network project supported by Arts Council England, Loughborough University, Creative Leicestershire, Derbyshire Arts Partnership (DAP) - DAP is the forum for joint working on arts development between local authorities in Derbyshire and Writing School Leicester.

The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts and the Art on the Net Steering Committee have announced the winner of this year’s “netarts.org” Grand Prize:

“Feral Trade”
http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/courier/courier.pl
by Kate Rich.

The winner was chosen by the selection committee (Mark Amerika, Susan Hazen, Agnese Trocchi, John Hopkins and You Minowa), and she will receive a prize of 200,000 yen.

For more information visit http://www.netarts.org/

International and Interdisciplinary Conference Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R)
Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2008

http://conferences.aoir.org

Workshops / Doctoral Colloquium: October 15th, 2008
A.o.I. R conference: October 16–18th, 2008

Deadline for paper submissions: February 8th, 2008

Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place

In the past few years, new forms of net-based communities are emerging, distributed on various websites and services, and making use of several media platforms and genres to stay connected. Now, as mobile and location-based technologies are reintroducing “place” as an important aspect in the formation of communal and social activities, it is time to consider and rethink the concept of online or virtual communities. Not forgetting the lessons we have learned from studying the early virtual communities, how do we describe, analyse, theorise and design the communities and social formations of the early 21st century? How do we address the blurring of boundaries between places and communities on- and offline.

We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that address the conference themes.

Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.

Submissions

We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written ‘paper.’

We also welcome proposals for ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme

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Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008

** Paper deadline March 10th 2008 **

The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the conference.

Call for Papers

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This conference focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and brings together top practitioners, users and researchers, thereby inspiring further collaboration between participants, particularly between academia and industry.

The Programme Committee is seeking refereed papers and work-in-progress reports in all aspects of computer graphics and its applications. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

computer animation, computer-based art and entertainment, computation geometry, display technologies, fundamental algorithms, graphics application systems, graphics architectures and acceleration hardware, fractal and natural phenomena, human computer interaction, image processing, Internet graphics and collaborative environments, medical imaging, modelling methods, rendering techniques, texture synthesis, scientific visualization, information visualization, virtual reality and virtual environments, volume graphics, web graphics.

Further details and submission categories may be found on

http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/

Send+Receive: A Festival of Sound

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Sound and media artists

Deadline: February 15, 2008

Send + Receive is an annual audio art festival showcasing current and newly emerging areas of investigation in a variety of forms including live performance, radio, web-based projects, internet streaming projects, sound poetry, installations, film and video screenings, workshops, and panel discussions.

For more information, and to download proposal form visit http://www.sendandreceive.org or contact sendandreceive@gmail.com.

The 10th anniversary edition of this festival will take place October 17 - 25, 2008