3rd Congress of Cultural Atlases
Time & Space in Eurasia
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
May 29 – June 1, 2007

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ECAI invites you to participate in the 3rd Congress of Cultural Atlases: Time & Space in Eurasia. The congress will be held at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference of the Historical Sources of Eurasian and North African Civilisations: Computer Approaches. The conference will include workshops on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Virtual Reality (VR) applied to the study of culture and history, Humanities Computing in the 21st Century and sessions on the development of cultural atlases.

We invite submissions for papers, sessions and posters on:

  • Digital Cultural Atlases: projects and prototypes
  • Cultural Atlas Components: gazetteers, time-periods, biography and social networks, thesauri, technical infrastructure, content sources and display models
  • Humanities GIS
  • Visualization in the Humanities
  • Digital deluge: Humanities e-Science and e-resource management

Abstracts for individual papers and poster/demo presentations should be 250-300 words. Panel proposals should include 3-4 papers, and the name of a chair, discussant, and contact person. Please submit ECAI proposals directly to Kimberly Carl – kcarl@berkeley.edu.
The deadline for submitting is 10 March, 2007.

A conference website is available at: http://ecai.ras.ru
The registration cost is 80Euro, or approximately 100USD
The absolute deadline to register is 23 March, 2007.

Travel to Russia requires an entry visa. All visa applications must be supported by an official letter of invitation. For this conference, the letters will be coming from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to registering for the conference at the above website, you will be required to fill out an additional online form requesting an invitation letter. That form is also available from the conference web site.

The registration deadline reflects the time taken for the Russian authorities to process visa applications. Information about obtaining a travel visa in the U.S. can be found at:
http://www.ruscon.org/