Im nächsten Jahr findet im belgischen Mons das 4. Kolloquium einer Kolloquiums-Reihe zur Informationsgeschichte statt, die 2002 dort auch begonnen hatte. Der Call for Paper ist unten zitiert.
- Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change, the Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, 20-21 May 2010
- Analogous Spaces: Architecture and the Space of Information, Intellect, Action, University of Ghent, Belgium 14-17 May, 2008
- European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the past, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA, May 6-8, 2005
- Architecture of Knowledge : The Mundaneum and European Antecedents of the World Wide Web, Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium 24-25 May 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change -A colloquium to be held at the Mundaneum, Mons, 20-21 May 2010
Papers for the colloquium will explore aspects of network development, information creation, organization and exchange, and related “boundary spanning” activities of individuals and institutions and the scholarly tools and techniques that this enabled them to develop during the period of the “Belle époque” in which the Western European world underwent extensive social, political and “epistemic” change from approximately 1880 to 1914.
Those interested in submitting papers for the colloquium are asked to submit an abstract of not more than 500 words by January 31, 2010. Abstracts may be in French or English and will be refereed. Authors will be notified by of the outcome of this process by February 28, 2010. Accepted papers must be delivered at the Colloquium in English.
