Conferences & Workshops
Refresh Tallahassee Newsletter: October 2011
Join Us At Our Upcoming Meeting! A Deep Dive into Some Core Principles of Successful Website Design The editors of UnmatchedStyle.com will be here to present a deep dive into some core principles of successful website design. We’ll look at aspects of what makes a user interface work (or not) and investigate ways to increase conversion rates. We’ll also gain insight from lessons learned reviewing thousands of websites on Unmatchedstyle.com. Symbolic Imagery in Interface Design by Giovanni DiFeterici Giovanni will discuss the...
read moreRegister Now – October 25 Culture Builds Florida Conference
The Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs urges you to register now for a one-day cultural conference in Tampa on October 25, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Floridians who support arts and culture, including arts and cultural administrators, cultural patrons, students, artists, business professionals and board members are invited to attend. The conference will provide an opportunity to network face to face and learn about advancing the message that Culture Builds Florida. Culture Builds Florida is a campaign...
read moreRefresh Tallahassee ~ save the date
Hello all. It’s been long time since Refresh Tallahassee’s last meeting, and I’m happy to announce that we’ve got something on the books for Thursday, November 3rd from 6:30 to 8:00. Here’s the scoop: The editors of UnmatchedStyle.com will be in town to do a deep dive into some core principals of successful website design subjects. What makes a UI work (or not) and investigating the user experience of the sign up and call-to-action. They’ll present on hard learned lessons from reviewing thousands of...
read moreSeptember deadlines for HASTAC Scholars applications and the HASTAC 2011 Conference CFP
The HASTAC Scholars program is comprised of graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged with innovative projects and research at the intersection of digital media & learning, 21st century education, the digital humanities, and technology in the arts, humanities and sciences. We blog, host forums, organize events and discuss new ideas, projects, experiments, and technologies that reconceive teaching, learning, research, writing and structuring knowledge. For more information and to see our discussion forums, please see the HASTAC...
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eWeek – What's Your Big Idea – FSU Celebrating the Entrepreneur
eWeek – What’s Your Big Idea – FSU Celebrating the Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Week 2011 What’s your big idea? That’s what The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at The Florida State University College of Business is asking students campus-wide. During Entrepreneurship Week (eWeek), September 16-23, students have an opportunity to show whether or not they have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. eWeek is full of fun and educational activities and challenging competitions...
read moreCall for Papers: Geography and the Arts
Association of American Geographers The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is sponsoring a special set of sessions examining Geography and the Arts at its upcoming Annual Meeting in New York, to be held February 24-28, 2012. The AAG welcomes abstracts and proposals that engage topics and methods at the crossroads of geography and the arts, broadly conceived to include the literary arts, performance and new media as well as visual art. Organized sessions and papers should address geographic perspectives or technologies and their...
read more"Think Art: Memory" An Interdisciplinary Conference
“Think Art: Memory,” an interdisciplinary conference on the arts, humanities, and science that will take place at Boston University on October 14 and 15, 2011: http://thinkartconference.com/. The deadline to submit papers and artwork is June 15, 2011.
read moreCall for Participation – Code: Emotion Studies in a contemporary art debate at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul
Overview Without doubt emotions are evolving as they are influenced by culture, context and behaviour. David Matsumoto (2007) elucidates these three influences on human emotion. Western and Eastern societies have witnessed change with the use of new technologies. Will our ability to read emotional expressions slowly change with the new communication systems? Might people soon no longer be able to read facial expressions? With the loss of the ability to read an emotion might come too the loss of the experience itself? Steven Pinker (2002, p.40)...
read moreNCECA's 46th Annual Conference – Seattle, Washington – March 28-31, 2012
http://nceca.net/static/2012programproposals.php
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