Now open for registrations: ECHIC Conference 2013
The third ECIC conference will be held in the new Centre for Advanced Studies, Highfield House, on University Park, Nottingham from March 24th to 26th, 2013.
Beyond the Book? The future of academic publishing
The dominance of the scholarly monograph, subscription-based journal and the Big Book thesis is now under duress from a combination of: the growing acceptability of open access publishing; increased interest in the use of web 2.0; multimodal exhibitions and curated events; and exploration of the potential of digitized databases, visualization tools, mapping techniques, text mining and network analysis. Our conference will examine the future of scholarly publication in this emerging context. Those participating will include publishers and leading researchers working and theorising in these new spaces. All ECHIC and CIAS members are invited to attend and to present the work that their centre supports.
Programme conference 2013
A tribute to Susan Manning
As most of you will have heard the devastating news by now: On Tuesday 15 January, the founding member of our Consortium and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, Susan Manning, died soon after a stroke. Not only was Susan one of our most dynamic and inspirational members, but her intellectual brilliance was matched only by her great generosity towards students and peers alike. This is how we will remember Susan: as an esteemed colleague with a deep commitment to the civic mission of the Humanities.
It is therefore, that the Board of ECHIC has decided to dedicate the opening lecture at the annual conferences to the memory of Susan Manning, as a tribute to her work and her invaluable contribution to ECHIC: The Manning Memorial Lecture.
Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is a European Commission programme for financing European research and innovation. Horizon 2020 will start on 1 January 2014 and is the successor of the FP7 programme. In the original Horizon2020 proposal, the specific programme priority 'societal challenges', contains research topics for the social sciences and humanities among other themes like health, food security, energy, transport and climate action (shortened version of the themes) and partly in the 6th challenge 'inclusive, innovative and secure societies' and not as an apart challenge/theme like in FP7.
Early 2013 the European Commission has made preparations to split the existing sixth challenge in Horizon 2020's societal challenges pillar—inclusive, innovative and secure societies—into two, creating one challenge for humanities and social challenges and one for security research. The new sixth challenge will be called Europe in a Changing World, and will include research on "inclusive, innovative and reflective societies", according to a Commission official.
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