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5th International Conference on e-Social Science
24 – 26 June 2009
Maternushaus, Cologne
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-
09/registration/
Early bird registration rates are available until 26 April. For full details on fees,
please visit http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/conferencefees/ .
Special Conference rates on accommodation at selected hotels are also
available until 24 April. Details of these offers can be found at
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/accommodation/
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The aim of the annual international conference on e-Social Science is to bring
together leading representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure,
cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual
awareness and promote coordinated activities to accelerate research,
development and deployment of powerful, new methods and tools for the
social sciences and beyond.
This years Keynotes include Ian Foster, a pioneer in developing advanced
distributed computer technologies and author of The Grid: Blueprint for a New
Computing Infrastructure; Mario Campolargo, Director of the "Emerging
Technologies and Infrastructures" Directorate of DG-INFSO in charge of
Future and Emerging Technologies, ICT based infrastructures for science as
well as ICT trust and security, experimental facilities and experimentally driven
research for Future Internet; and David Theo Goldberg, author of several
books including The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (Wiley-
Blackwell 2009) (http://www.threatofrace.org/), The Racial State (Basil
Blackwell, 2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
(Basil Blackwell, 1993).
The full programme for the conference will be announced shortly.
For further information on the conference, and to register, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/
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