HELENA International Conference:
Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers – GIEE 2011
Paris, June 23-24 2011
October 15th, 2010: Deadline for abstract submission
Paris is a nice city!
The 6th European Conference on Gender and ICT: Feminist Interventions in Theories and Practices
Umeå University, Sweden
March 8th - 10th 2011
Pre-Conference Workshop on Gender and Technology Curricula
March 8th, 9.15-12.00
Read full CFP here
If you are thinking about organizing a conference this fall, please avoid mid October! Statistically we do a lot of things in certain patterns, and one of the patterns seems to be to choose mid October for conferences. Probably sounds sensible when planning it 8-10 months ahead, and I can easily imagine the discussion as if we’d had it ourselves: “We’ll have the conference next fall - mid term is probably best: after the term start and before the exams. Let’s make it mid October.”
And the result? A number of interesting conferences competing with each other.
As a participant of the Meta-analysis of gender and science research project I will be at the conference Beyond the leaky pipeline, 19-20 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.
Which means that I will miss out on HiNC3 where I’m also part of the program committee:
The Third IFIP WG 9.7 Working Conference on
History of Nordic Computing
HiNC3
18 - 20 October 2010
Stockholm, Sweden
And I will miss out on this:
NordiCHI 2010: Extending boundaries,
October 16th - 20th, 2010
Reykjavik, Iceland
(CFP Deadline April 12)
I could reach AoiR’s 11th conference, if I don’t go home in between:
Internet Research 11.0 – Sustainability, Participation
October 21-23, 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden
The extended dealine was today, but is further extended until 4th of March. That makes it even more likely that I will have time to submit a paper! 
Call for paper
Meta-analysis of gender and science research is inviting to the conference Beyond the leaky pipeline, to be heldt 19-20 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.
I have represented Norway in the Meta-analysis project. Working with this project has been really interesting, including going through research and debates on women in science and research from the early1980s until today. One of my favorites from this material is a quote from a letter from the early 1980s, written by a female researcher to the male minister of education, where she lists the first names of the newly elected members of the board of the faculty: all male, followed by ” That was all for now, Love” and her own first name: the only woman. Plain, straighforward, impossible not to see the absurdity of the situation. A lot of things have changed in Norway during the last three decades! Not only the changes, but also how we see (or don’t see) them is one of the things I’m working with at the moment, for instance in this short paper: “Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation” (presented at The 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT, in Bremen last March).
There’s already a number of reports from the META-project online that would give an idea of the project and the kinds of discussions that will be of interest for the conference audience.
The deadline for contributions to CATaC in Vancouver this June has been extended to February 18. Still time to write a paper!
Interested in computer history? This conference focus on the history of “Nordic Computing”:
The Third IFIP WG 9.7 Working Conference on
History of Nordic Computing
HiNC3
18 - 20 October 2010
Stockholm, Sweden
28 February: Deadline for contributions (extended abstracts or papers and suggestions).
Mail to hinc3pc@dsv.su.se
HiNC3 will take place in Stockholm 18 - 20 October 2010. Besides invited talks, contributed papers and panels, the conference will also honour the successful completion of a project on Swedish ICT history. Called “From Computing Machines to IT”, the Swedish Computer Society initiated the project with the support of the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the National Museum of Science and Technology.
Read more on the HiNC web page
International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, “aimed at bringing
together the wide and diverse community of people and organisations who
have an interest in gender, science and technology in their broadest sense”, as editor Clem Herman writes in the introduction to Vol 1, No 1 (2009).
And CFP for next issue
This CFP for catac: cultural attitudes towards technology and communication, sounds like it suits my work (or maybe it was the other way around?).
CATaC 2010: diffusion 2.0: computing, mobility, and the next generations
15-18 June 2010, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Deadline for full paper January 18 2010
I'm a researcher at Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, Digital Culture, Univ. of Bergen, Norway.
